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Episode 489: A Full Plate for a Young New Mayor
Zohran Mamdani has been Hizzoner for just 88 days, and he’s already navigating the “poisoned chalice” of a big budget deficit he inherited while the …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 488: The Readymade Art-Bomb Who Exploded in NYC
An epic art show at the Lexington Avenue Armory made a young Marcel Duchamp, who was back in France, one of America’s first modern celebrities even b…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 487: Mamdani's New York Is Starting to Take Shape
The new administration is cutting off the private legal support Eric Adams extended on the city’s behalf to himself and his police officer pals, and …
6 months ago
Episode 486: The Mecca of Basketball Is Back
Can former Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s fortune help his former staffer, Micah Lasher, prevail in the wide open race for a rare open NYC Congressional seat…
6 months, 1 week ago
Episode 485: The Vital Records of Mr. George Rex, ‘The Last Slave’
NYC Department of Records Associate Commissioner Kenneth Cobb and Research Associate Marcia Kirk visited Lit NYC to explain how the Municipal Archive…
6 months, 1 week ago
Episode 484: An Explosive Scene at Gracie Mansion
A police-punching Jan. 6 rioter and far-right agitator pardoned by Donald Trump showed up outside Gracie Mansion this weekend with a couple dozen sup…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
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…
6 months, 2 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…
6 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…
6 months, 4 weeks 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…
7 months ago