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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…
7 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…
7 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…
7 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…
7 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 …
8 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 …
8 months ago
Episode 473: Ex-Mayor Quit Race But Can’t Quit the Crypto Hustle
Eric Adams said we'd miss him when he's gone as mayor, but he's still popping up — hawking an NYC cryptocoin in Times Square and taking potshots at h…
8 months ago
Episode 472: Welcome to the Big Leagues, Team Mamdani
Not even two weeks into the big job, Zohran Mamdani and his team are up and running — yet still struggling to get their footing.
Hosts Christina Gre…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 471: The Resurrection of a Brooklyn Icon
An iconic restaurant in Fulton Mall became an Arby's, before it was revived amid the pandemic.
St. John Frizell, one of the stewards of Gage and Tol…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 470: The Mayor Mamdani Interview: ‘Is It Right To Hope?’
Way back in March of 2025, when Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani was at one percent in the Democratic primary polls, he promised THE CITY's FAQ NYC his …
8 months, 2 weeks ago