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Episode 223: Big Qs in Fine Print on the Back of Your Ballot
About these four proposals New Yorkers get to decide on, right after (mostly) guessing which judges to elect? Rachel Holliday Smith breaks down what'…
3 years, 8 months ago
Episode 222: ‘Same As It Always Is’—Manny Kirchheimer’s New York, and His Pandemic Time Warp
Alyssa Katz talks with America’s “least known great documentarian” about his 86 years living here, his work during the pandemic editing his footage o…
3 years, 8 months ago
Episode 221: An Open Invitation to Mayor Adams
Is the left somehow to blame for the tent city for asylum seekers that the Adams administration had been erecting on Orchard Beach, and that's now go…
3 years, 8 months ago
Episode 220: From Emperor of the City to ‘Total Humiliation‘
Biographer Andrew Kirtzman joins FAQ NYC’s Weekend Edition to talk about his quarter century covering “America’s mayor” and the inevitable question: …
3 years, 8 months ago
Episode 219: The Mapmaker's Big ‘Surprise’
Dennis Walcott, chair of the Districting Commission drawing new City Council lines, joins the pod to explain why he was surprised to see the commissi…
3 years, 9 months ago
Episode 218: A Nap for the City that Never Sleeps?
Dodai Stewart of the Times joins the pod to discuss her survey of New York City's formerly iconic 24-hour spots, from Wo Hop to Whitestone Lanes, tha…
3 years, 9 months ago
Episode 217: The Overwhelming Seductions of New York
Former MTA chief and NY lieutenant governor Richard Ravitch (who’s also a donor to The City) and Volcker Alliance senior director William Glasgall jo…
3 years, 9 months ago
Episode 216: Arsenic and Old Apartments
Greg Smith rejoins the pod to explain how he found out about the city tests showing arsenic in the water at NYCHA's Jacob Riis houses before anyone i…
3 years, 9 months ago
Episode 215: Does Eric Adams Want To Be the Mayor or Just Play the Mayor?
Something in the buttermilk doesn't smell right, says Professor Christina Greer, and it doesn't help that he keeps dipping his toe into political rac…
3 years, 10 months ago
Episode 214: Election Night Extra: A Lot of L's to Go Around
The great Ben Max of Gotham Gazette joins Chrissy, Katie and Harry for an early assessment of the winners and losers on a rough night for Mayor Eric …
3 years, 10 months ago