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Episode 483: Reviving the Missing Link in Queens
Geographer, cartographer and urban explorer Andrew Lynch, the chief operating officer of QueensLink, joins Lit NYC to discuss the group’s vision to t…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 482: The Local Politics of America’s War in Iran
The FAQ NYC hosts discuss the messaging from Zohran Mamdani about America’s new war, the mayor’s meeting with the president days earlier and much mor…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 481: The Other Guy Was No Joke
Joe Flaherty was a dock worker and high school dropout on the wrong side of 30 when he found an unexpected writer’s life beginning as a columnist for…
4 months ago
Episode 480: “Curb Your Dog. Don't Let Your Dog Curb You.”
One more storm, many more mountains of snow for winter-weary New Yorkers to slog through and a second chance for Zohran Mamdani to show he's up to hi…
4 months ago
Episode 479: Free Buses Won’t Make NYC More Affordable. New Trains Would.
Eric Goldwyn, an author of the new A Better Billion report from the Marron Institute of Urban Management at New York University, joins Lit NYC to exp…
4 months, 1 week ago
Episode 478: A ‘False Choice’ Between Cops and Community Workers
Brian Stettin, who spent the Adams years as the senior advisor on the severely mentally ill for the office of the mayor before the Mamdani administra…
4 months, 1 week ago
Episode 477: A Vision Zero for Homelessness in NYC
Coalition for the Homeless Executive Director Dave Giffen joins the pod to discuss the Mamdani administration’s efforts to bring unhoused people in f…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 476: A New Mayor Navigates a Frigid City
Just a month into this new era, Zohran Mamdani is trying to get his feet under him as the ground remains icy and precarious. The FAQ NYC hosts discu…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 475: Mayor Mamdani Weathers His First Storm
The new mayor appeared to clear the bar with the city’s response to the first big snow on his watch. Meanwhile, his predecessor’s people were in the …
5 months ago
Episode 474: ‘The Last Confederate Widow’ of 1960s Cruising
Arthur Tress, whose newly published photographs of gay men in Central Park’s Ramble in 1968 and 1969 are the earliest shots of outdoor cruising in a …
5 months ago