Podcasts by FAQ NYC

Dark Store Days: The State of New York Real Estate from 2022-02-17T06:00

We have a real estate roundup with three of NYC's favorite reporters covering the subject: Rebecca Baird-Remba from Commercial Observer, Stefanos Chen from The New York Times, a...

Hustlers and Bureaucracy Choke the Undocumented Workers Fund from 2022-02-16T10:00

Rommel H. Ojeda talks with Harry Siegel about the sorry state of the Undocumented Workers Fund. The fund has been riddled with scams targeting workers and their debit benefit cards....

Episode 186: Paid in Full from 2022-02-09T21:00

The great Ben Max rejoins Chrissy, Katie and Harry to talk about Eric A’s first trip to Albany, "fish-gate," and much more.

Episode 185: An Island Apart from 2022-02-02T20:00

Graham Rayman of the Daily News runs down the slow-motion disaster at the city's jails, and map maestro Steve Romalewski breaks down the new maps Albany's Democratic majorit...

Episode 184: The Blueprint from 2022-01-26T22:00

Eric Adams has talked the talk about balancing public safety and justice. Now, he's got to walk the walk.

Episode 183: Every New Yorker’s Nightmare from 2022-01-19T23:00

A look back at an exceptionally busy and difficult week in New York City.

Episode 182: A Nonprofit War on Workers? from 2022-01-12T21:00

Assemblymember Ron Kim breaks down his new report accusing a prominent social service organization of stealing wages from home-care workers, with the help of 1199SEIU.

Episode 181: The Men Who Put the “P” into “Politics” from 2022-01-05T20:00

Karen Hinton, who worked for both Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio, joins the pod to discuss her new memoir, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power.

Episode 180: Speaking With the Speaker from 2022-01-01T09:00

A conversation with incoming City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams about her past and the city's future.

Episode 179: Park Wars from 2021-12-20T23:00

Katie Honan and Harry Siegel take stock of an ominous moment in New York, with big changes looming, and Alex Lynn talks with East Village resident Kirsten Theodos about the ongoing ...

Episode 178: Real Big Trouble from 2021-12-15T15:00

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Chrissy and Harry consider New York City's outgoing and incoming mayors, and Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio of DoumentedNY explains what...

Episode 177: Election Reform After Dark from 2021-12-08T17:00

State Sen. Zellnor Myrie rejoins the pod to talk about his plans to make election reform sexy. And seven minutes in heaven is kid's stuff, so listen to Katie Honan explain six ...

Episode 176: What We're In For from 2021-12-01T23:00

Is this going to be death by a thousand paper cuts, where we're constantly running after the truth with Eric Adams? Christina Greer has her concerns, and discusses them, and muc...

Episode 175: Word Around Town from 2021-11-23T22:00

Chrissy, Alex, Katie and Harry gab it up about Eric Adams, Andrew Cuomo, the Blood Center, Thanksgiving and lots more.

Episode 174: Helluva Town from 2021-11-17T23:00

We talk politics, and Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio of Documented discusses her reporting on immigration enforcement.

Episode 173: New York Forever from 2021-11-13T11:00

21 eulogies for the City of New York, in large or small part, collected for the installation “Eulogy For New York,” which ran during the month of October in the West Village.

Episode 172: A New Year for New York Focus from 2021-11-04T21:00

The co-founder and editor in chief of New York Focus, Akash Mehta, talks about the news site's first year, its big ambitions going forward and its new fundraising drive.

Episode 171: Election Night Extra from 2021-11-03T00:00

The great Ben Max breaks down what just happened with Chrissy and Harry.

Episode 170: Who Killed Eric Garner? from 2021-10-27T20:45

Alvin Bragg rejoins the pod to explain the judicial inquiry happening now and why the answer to that question can't stop with Daniel Pantaleo.

Brickhouse Bonus: What We Read When We Read Max Read from 2021-10-27T19:00

Maria Bustillos and Harry Siegel talk with Max Read about the state of the internet, his new newsletter, and lots more.

Episode 169: Issa Ibrahim, and his Eulogy for Jamaica, Queens from 2021-10-26T11:00

Artist, musician, and Queens man Issa Ibrahim talks about a song he wrote in New York's Creedmoor psychiatric facility, eulogizing the neighborhood where he grew up.

Episode 168: Suites, Elites, and Tik Tok Girls from 2021-10-21T10:00

The FAQ Gang chats about last night's mayoral debate between NYC's Democratic pick Eric Adams and GOP candidate, Curtis Sliwa.

Later in the episode, we hear ...

Episode 167: Is There Life After Politics? from 2021-10-13T22:00

New York Times city hall reporter Jeff Mays talks with Chrissy and Katie about what life after city hall could look like for Mayor Bill de Blasio, Documented engagement reporter Rom...

On and Off the Record With Gabriel Snyder from 2021-10-12T22:00

Snyder talks with the Brickhouse's Maria Bustillos and Harry Siegel about the state of New York City media companies and his new subscription newsletter about them, Off the Reco...

Brickhouse Bonus: On and Off the Record With Gabriel Snyder from 2021-10-12T22:00

Snyder talks with the Brickhouse's Maria Bustillos and Harry Siegel about the state of New York City media companies and his new subscription newsletter about them, Off the Reco...

Episode 166: Eulogies for New York City from 2021-10-07T10:00

New York Is Dead. Long live New York City. The FAQ crew discusses, and then has a conversation with New York Times city correspondent turned obituary writer Alex Vadukul.

Episode 165: Schools Scramble from 2021-09-29T23:00

A conversation with Mark Cannizzaro, the president of the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, about the coming vaccine mandate for school workers and much more.

Episode 164: Rats, Us, and A Murder Most Owl from 2021-09-22T20:00

We talked with Robert Sullivan, the author of Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants, for a wide-ranging conversation that began...

Episode 163: Rules and Drool, School is in Session from 2021-09-16T05:00

This week we talk with Christina Veiga, a reporter for Chalkbeat New York on the chaotic first week of school from unvaccinated teachers to the challenges for a new Chancellor. Listen

Episode 162: Who by Water and Who by Fire from 2021-09-08T18:00

Katie Honan and Harry Siegel talk with George Joseph of WNYC about the spate of deaths at Rikers, and with Maurizio Guerrero about his reporting for Documented NY on the secret pric...

Episode 161: A New Day and the Same Old Problems from 2021-09-01T21:00

A huge holiday weekend show with Reuven Blau of the City talking about Rikers, Assemblyman Ron Kim talking about Albany's extraordinary session, rent relief and why he's not...

Episode 160: ‘So Soon After 9/11’ from 2021-08-25T21:00

Documentarians Steven Rosenbaum and Pamela Yoder discuss their new film, The Outsider, about the construction of the 9/11 Museum and Memorial and why it feels so cut off from New Yo...

Episode 159: Rematch? from 2021-08-18T23:00

New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, who ran a tough race for lieutenant governor against Kathy Hochul in 2018 and says he might run against her for governor in 2022, rej...

Episode 158: NY to Cuomo: It's Not Us, It's You from 2021-08-11T22:00

It's a yuge week for New York with new guest host Katie Honan joining the pod and, oh yeah, Andrew Cuomo announcing his resignation. Plus, Afua Atta-Mensah considers the Black p...

Episode 157: ‘I Prayed for a James Report’ from 2021-08-08T06:00

As the walls close in on Andrew Cuomo, The City's Josefa Velasquez looks at how the governor got here and how this is likely to end (spoiler: it won't be pretty) and Comptro...

Episode 156: The Emperor Has No Clothes from 2021-08-04T22:00

Long-ago Cuomo employee and long-time Cuomo critic Alexis Grenell joins FAQ for a look at how things fell apart for our Emmy-award winning governor.

Episode 155: The View from Room 9 from 2021-07-29T06:00

With Sally Goldenberg of Politico NY

Episode 154: Shooting Streets and Selling Dust from 2021-07-25T09:00

Photographer David Godlis and writer Luc Sante talk with Alex and Harry about Godlis Streets, his new book of 1970s street photography, and what was alluring about capturing glimpse...

Episode 153: Book Club: (Low)Life from 2021-07-14T23:00

Jazz and boxing great Charles Farrell visits the pod to talk with Harry and Tim Marchman about his memoir that covers, among other things, playing with Sonny Rollins and Ornette Col...

Episode 152: Alvin Bragg's Bragging Rights from 2021-07-09T09:00

The Democratic nominee who's all but sure to be the next Manhattan District Attorney visits FAQ.

Episode 151: Fun City Follies from 2021-07-01T22:00

Laura Nahmias joins Chrissy and Harry to talk about the BoE's RCV SNAFU and the state of the election now that it's all over but the counting.

Episode 150: Book Club: Life on the Line from 2021-06-25T11:30

Chrissy has a message for the pundits "explaining" what just happened in New York, and Times reporter and researcher Emma Goldberg discusses her new book on the medical st...

Episode 149: Decision Day from 2021-06-23T03:00

The votes are cast, the results are still to come, and Ben Max of Gotham Gazette joins Chrissy and Harry for a late-night break down of what we know (and what we don't yet). Listen

Episode 148: Homestretch from 2021-06-18T07:00

Christina and Harry take one last look at the mayor's race, and Alex Lynn breaks down what's really been happening at Washington Square Park.

Episode 147: The Gracie Bunch from 2021-06-09T22:00

Dianne Morales, Shaun Donovan, Ray McGuire and Kathryn Garcia each call in to answer two tough questions, plus an interview with Paperboy Love Prince.

Episode 146: The End Is Near from 2021-06-03T00:00

Less than three weeks out, and after a "pivotal" second debate in which not much pivoted, Chrissy, Harry and the Wall Street Journal's Katie Honan talk about the mayor...

Episode 145: Down and Out in New York City from 2021-05-27T09:00

We talk about homelessness in in New York City with David Brand of City Limits and Shams DaBaron AKA Da Homeless Hero.

Episode 144: Book Club: Last Call from 2021-05-19T22:00

Author Elon Green joins Nolan Hicks and Harry Siegel to talk about Lost Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York and how a city crew including Rudy Giuliani...

Episode 143: Thomas Kenniff, The 'Boots on the Ground' District Attorney Candidate from 2021-05-16T10:00

Episode 142: Who DA FAQ II from 2021-05-13T08:00

Episode 141: Who DA FAQ? (Part I) from 2021-05-07T00:00

Manhattan District Attorney candidates Tahanie Aboushi, Liz Crotty, Diana Florence and Dan Quart talk to Chrissy, Harry and Alex, and each other about what the prosecutor's offi...

Episode 140: The Manhattan DA Race that just hits different. from 2021-05-04T22:00

Rachel Holiday Smith, Manhattan reporter for The City, breaks down the Manhattan DA race with us.

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Episode 139: Book Club: The Limits of Fulfillment from 2021-04-28T20:00

A conversation with Alec MacGillis, the author of Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America, about Amazon and, among many other things, its expansion in New York City AFT...

Episode 138: The Woke Up Show from 2021-04-22T00:00

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams rejoins the pod to discuss, among other things, the state of policing here, the citywide races and his experience running statewide.

FAQ.NYC Gets Dopey from 2021-04-16T09:00

Dave from the "DOPEY," podcast, shares a few stories about drug addiction and recovery in New York City.

Episode 137: The Turning Point from 2021-04-15T07:00

As we head into the elections home stretch, the great Brigid Bergin of WNYC joins FAQ to break down the race so far, consider where it may end up and explain why we may not know who...

Emma Whitford tells us what's up with the new rent relief. from 2021-04-10T10:00

Emma Whitford, reporter at Law360...

Episode 136: Scott Stringer's Dumpster Pool Vision from 2021-04-08T06:00

Episode 135: New York's Police Union Problem from 2021-03-31T21:00

Farah Stockman of the New York Times looks at Suffolk County, where cops call the shots, and Jake Pearson of ProPublica digs into the little known contract clause that means New Yor...

Episode 134: Quickhouse 3: Just Off the Purest Blue from 2021-03-25T17:00

Weather, reviewed, and much more of all the goodness you'll find at the Brickhouse in 5 minutes flat.

Quickhouse 3: Just Off the Purest Blue from 2021-03-25T16:00

Weather, reviewed, and much more of all the goodness you'll find at the Brickhouse in 5 minutes flat.

Episode 133: Nursing Homes are Just the Tip of Cuomo’s Coronavirus Iceberg from 2021-03-24T22:00

The Empire Center's Bill Hammonds talks about the coverup we know about now, and all the things we still don't know.

Episode 132: Quickhouse 2: Shockingly White Clouds from 2021-03-18T02:00

A weather review from Tom Scocca as the last cold day approaches in New York City and a rundown of everything you'll find everything right now at thebrick.house, all in under 5 ...

Quickhouse 2: Shockingly White Clouds from 2021-03-18T01:00

A weather review from Tom Scocca as the last cold day approaches in New York City and a rundown of everything you'll find everything right now at thebrick.house, all in under 5 ...

Episode 131: Radical Ron Kim from 2021-03-18T00:00

A conversation about blackmail, politics and human beings with the Assemblyman who started the avalanche that just might bury Andrew Cuomo.

Episode 130: A Remarkable Ramble With Rangel from 2021-03-13T23:00

Charles Rangel takes Chrissy and Harry on a long, fascinating stroll through his life and career and explains why he thinks a a second Reconstruction is now beginning in America. <...

Episode 129: Welcome to the Quickhouse! from 2021-03-12T11:00

A tasty mini-pod — 5 minutes flat!—with a rundown from Brickhouse managing editor Emma Roller of what you'll find right now at our little cooperative of creators making ad-free,...

Welcome to the Quickhouse! from 2021-03-12T10:00

A tasty mini-pod — 5 minutes flat!—with a rundown from Brickhouse managing editor Emma Roller of what you'll find right now at our little cooperative of creators making ad-free,...

Episode 128: Cuomo in the Corner from 2021-03-08T18:00

Josefa Velasquez of The City talks with Chrissy and Harry about how, after a decade, the governor finally painted himself into a corner he might not be able to walk out of.

Cuomo's Vaccine Passports and NYC's Shotty Shotspotter technology from 2021-03-08T06:00

Albert Fox Cahn of The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, S.T.O.P., and the podcast Surveillance and the City talks to Alex Brook Lynn about Cuomo's Vaccine Passports fo...

Episode 126: The Gotham Book Prize and the State of Gotham from 2021-03-02T18:00

Episode 125: Ray McGuire Will Be Your Huckleberry from 2021-02-25T08:00

Episode 124: City on the Verge from 2021-02-17T22:00

Episode 123: Dianne Morales Doesn't Have a Poker Face from 2021-02-10T21:00

Episode 122: Kathryn Garcia's Not About the Razzle Dazzle from 2021-02-03T22:00

Episode 121: Disaster Follows Shaun Donovan from 2021-01-27T20:00

The former housing commissioner under Mayor Bloomberg and HUD secretary and then OMB director under President Obama explains why he's running for mayor now, and what the city ne...

Episode 120: Andrew Yang's New York Math from 2021-01-22T00:00

The presidential candidate turned mayoral candidate joins Christina and Harry for a lively conversation about what the city needs and why he's running.

Episode 119: State Dad Always Wins from 2021-01-13T22:00

Jimmy Vielkind of the Wall Street Journal discusses New York's sorry vaccine rollout, and the state of Cuomo's State of the State.

Episode 118: Down Ballot Doings from 2021-01-05T21:00

City and State's Jeff Coltin gives a bird's eye view of all the other races on New York City's very crowded ballot.

Episode 117: Rent Relief from 2020-12-30T18:00

State Senator Zellnor Myrie returns to explain what New York's new evictions moratorium does, and doesn't do, for tenants and landlords.

Episode 116: Smack Talk Special from 2020-12-23T21:00

Professor Greer has some words to share with several of the guys running to be mayor, and much more as the gang gabs.

Episode 115: New York’s New Choice/s from 2020-12-17T04:30

Susan Lerner of Common Cause New York and Sean Dugar of Rank the Vote NYC explain the genius of ranked choice voting. Plus a cartoon, read aloud, in our first-ever Brickhouse crosso...

Episode 114: Confessions of a Psycho News Guy from 2020-12-09T21:00

“Going to a job, going to a fire is almost as good as an orgasm. Going to a shooting is almost like a heroin fix to me.” Newly retired multimedia journalist Todd Maisel looks back o...

Episode 113: Schoolhouse Whiplash from 2020-12-01T22:00

Professor David Bloomfield runs down Mayor de Blasio's unsteady approach to the schools, and much more.

Episode 112: The David Dinkins Interview from 2020-11-24T21:00

David Dinkins, the city's first and so far only black mayor, sat down for nearly two hours last year with Chrissy and Harry to talk about his life and career. Here's that in...

Episode 111: An 'Obnoxious and Offensive' Schools Closure from 2020-11-19T04:00

What the hell are de Blasio and Cuomo doing here, and why can't they get on the same page? Plus, Steven Romalewski of the CUNY Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research a...

Episode 110: A Bridge in Brooklyn to Toll You from 2020-11-12T22:00

Councilmembers Joe Borelli (R, Staten Island) and Justin Brannan (D, Brooklyn) talk about how the return of two-way tolls to the Verrazzano looks from each side of the bridge, the s...

Episode 109: Election 2020 from 2020-11-05T19:00

Harry, Chrissy, and Alex talk with Ben Max of Gotham Gazette & The Max & Murphy Show about what the election means for NYC and what election New Yorkers have to look forward...

Episode 108: TRUMP ACDC from 2020-11-01T13:00

Morgan Pehme, the director of 'Get Me Roger Stone' and 'Slumlord Millionaire,' has made a film about the rise and fall of Trump's casinos in Atlantic City using ...

Episode 107: Local Focus and the National Picture from 2020-10-28T06:00

David Plotz explains City Cast, the network of local pods he's launching this winter in cities across the country to “connect you with the city you love” and, knock on wood, he...

Episode 106: A Health Crisis and a Fiscal Crisis from 2020-10-21T21:00

Jacob Kornbluh breaks down the public health picture, and the political one, inside the Orthodox community. And Columbia Professor Ester Fuchs goes deep on the fiscal crisis of 1975...

Episode 105: Imbalance of Power from 2020-10-14T22:00

State Sen. Alessandra Biaggi talks about her bill to reset the balance of budget power, and much more.

Episode 104: The Mount Vernon Tapes from 2020-10-08T22:00

A deep dive with WNYC investigative reporter George Joseph into police impunity and its consequences just north of Bronx.

Episode 103: The Relentless Trump Hunter from 2020-09-30T22:00

Eileen Markey, editor of the new Wayne Barrett collection Without Compromise, joins FAQ and guest interviewer Michael Tomasky for a look back at the muckraker's decades exposing...

Episode 102: School Daze from 2020-09-23T22:00

As parents wait for school buildings to reopen, we take a tour of New York City's public school history with CUNY professor emeritus of education Stephan F. Brumberg,

Episode 101: Supportive Housing and the Brickhouse from 2020-09-18T23:00

Episode 100: The Storefront Domino Effect from 2020-09-13T07:00

It's FAQ's 100th episode(!), and Karla Murray joins to talk about her storefront project and all the small businesses New York is losing amidst… all this.

Episode 99: School for Scandal from 2020-09-04T23:00

Ace education reporter Madina Touré explains how New York's schools plan fell short, and looks at what's coming next.

Episode 98: Drain Brammage from 2020-08-27T00:00

Chrissy runs down some ominous New York news, Harry recalls getting accidentally stoned on the job and — this week's highlight — Alex talks with musician Stefan Zeniuk about his...

Episode 97: Six Ways To Sunday from 2020-08-21T14:00

Episode 96: What Now? from 2020-08-12T23:00

With Sally Goldenberg of Politico New York on the city's shift to the left, Jake Offenhartz of Gothamist on the NYPD's cat and mouse game, and much more.

Episode 95: The Window Is Blowing, The Sky Is Falling from 2020-08-05T22:00

Episode 94: Jumaane Williams and Jawanza James Williams from 2020-07-30T09:00

Chrissy talks with New York City's public advocate, and Harry and Alex talk with Vocal New York's director of organizing.

Episode 93: The Musical Episode from 2020-07-23T20:00

Four covers and an original song about the only city worth singing about, from guest musicians Dr. Sick and Isabel Alvarez in FAQ's second musical episode, recorded outside in t...

Episode 92: City in a Corner from 2020-07-15T20:00

Opening the schools is the key to everything else, explains the Times' Eliza Shapiro, and nothing about how that's gong to work is clear or certain. Plus, Emma Whitford on t...

Episode 91: NYC on the Edge from 2020-07-08T22:00

Episode 90: Ritchie Torres on Policing the NYPD and the ‘Strength of My Own Operation’ from 2020-06-30T00:00

The councilman and likely new congressman rejoins FAQ NYC to talk about his new bill intended to police the NYPD, the "Democratic Socialist Industrial Complex" and lots mo...

Episode 89: Primary Shakeups as People Wake Up from 2020-06-24T15:00

A double episode, with Ben Max from Gotham Gazette breaking down Tuesday's high-stakes, mostly mail-in primary election night in New York, and ProPublica's Eric Umansky runn...

Episode 88: Things Accelerate from 2020-06-17T22:00

Maya Wiley and Albert Fox Cahn call in to talk about the past, present and future of policing in New York.

Albert Fox Cahn talks about the upcoming vote on the NYC Post Act from 2020-06-17T06:00

Albert Fox Cahn, founder of S.T.O.P, the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, talks to Alex Brook Lynn about The Post Act, a bill that will be voted on in City council this Th...

Episode 87: Something Old, Something New and Something Gone from 2020-06-11T07:00

Former New York State Chief Deputy Attorney General and candidate Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg joins the FAQ crew to talk about the "need to keep pressing."

Episode 86: ‘It Can Happen To Anyone’ from 2020-06-02T22:00

This week, we interview State Senator Zellnor Myrie, who was pepper sprayed & cuffed by the NYPD at one of this week's protests.

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Malik Wright from NY poli...

Episode 85: Cuomo, YOLO, Oh No from 2020-05-28T00:00

The FAQ crew talks with Cuomo family lip-syncher and comedian Maria DeCotis, Daily News City Hall reporter and amateur artist Anna Sanders, and Sarah Brafman of the small business g...

Episode 84: One Wave Down from 2020-05-21T07:00

Episode 83: Cor-oh-no Blues from 2020-05-14T09:00

Christina Greer talks with Jeff Mays of the New York Times, and Alex Lynn talks with Liz O'Sullivan of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. Plus the Cor-oh-no Blues as...

Episode 82: Nap Time for the City That Never Sleeps from 2020-05-07T07:00

A look at night one of the overnight train shutdown with Clayton Guse of the Daily News, and at the tough working conditions for the "other" essential workers with Michell...

Episode 81: Rat Gangs from 2020-04-30T01:00

A look at the shape New York is in and what happens after this, with Harry, Chrissy, Alex and guest Nicole Gelinas. Plus beautiful music from Namrata Tripathi and Quinn Raymond.

Episode 80: The Test from 2020-04-23T08:00

A (somewhat) optimistic look at what where New York goes after the virus, plus conversations with Wayne Ho of the Chinese-American Planning Council and Aaron Naparstek of the War o...

Episode 79: Things Fall Apart from 2020-04-16T00:00

State Senator Zellnor Myrie calls in to warn about the state of the census in New York in the midst of social isolation, publisher and editor-in-chief Elinor Tatum discusses the sta...

Professor Christina Greer interviews Elinor Tatum of the Amsterdam News from 2020-04-13T08:00

Episode 78: Stay the Fuck Home from 2020-04-08T22:00

The strange scene in NYC now, as conveyed by Gwynne Hogan of Gothamist, looking at the city's coronavirus undercount, Nikita Stewart of the New York Times, looking at how homele...

Cut down to the bone! NYC nurses issue a list of demands. from 2020-04-06T02:00

Alex Brook Lynn of FAQ.NYC interviews Sarah Dowd, a nurse at Harlem Hospital, about what healthcare workers need to pull us through this crisis.

As the world watch...

Episode 77: This Ain't Fine from 2020-04-02T00:00

New York Times media columnist Ben Smith, documentarian Akisa Omulepu and Barron’s reporter Alexandra Scaggs call in from their respective social isolations to look over what's ...

Interview: Alexandra Scaggs educated us on The Federal Reserve, Municipal Bonds, and Why it Matters. from 2020-03-30T19:00

Barron's financial journalist Alexandra Scaggs explains to Alex Brook Lynn how the stimulus bill impacts lending, what big things are changing with the federal reserve, and how ...

Episode 76: 'Unlike Anything We've Ever Experienced as New Yorkers' from 2020-03-25T23:00

Council Health Chair Mark Levine, isolated at home with a presumed case of the coronavirus, gets on the phone with Harry to survey our transformed medical system, and explain why te...

Episode 75: New (Not) Normal from 2020-03-19T06:00

Episode 74: Evictions Go Viral from 2020-03-13T03:00

Alex Brook Lynn and Adam Levy talk evictions with David Brand of The Queens Daily Eagle, and assess what the city is doing (and could be doing) to help New Yorkers that face losing ...

Episode 73: The Safe Choice? from 2020-03-04T21:00

Progressive strategist Rebecca Katz joins Chrissy, Harry and Alex for a look at the shaken state of the Democratic party following Super Tuesday.

Episode 72: Watching Weinstein: Just Another Trial from 2020-02-26T22:00

Victoria Bekiempis rejoins FAQ to run down her experience covering the Harvey Weinstein trial for Vulture.

Episode 71: Surveillance in the City: A New Podcast from 2020-02-21T07:00

Check out the pilot episode of 'Surveillance in the City,' a new podcast from some of our favorite FAQ guests, and produced by our very own Alex Brook Lynn. Join Albert Fox...

Episode 70: Stop, Frisk, Apologize, Rinse, Repeat from 2020-02-13T00:00

Chrissy and Harry discuss Mike Bloomberg's latest national apology, the very different conversation about policing in Bill de Blasio's New York, and lots more.

Episode 69: Better Late Than Never? from 2020-02-06T10:00

Episode 68: Eric Adams is Packing Heat from 2020-01-29T23:00

He isn't backing down from his complaints about new New Yorkers, his fundraising, or anything else.

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Episode 67: Talking About Pictures from 2020-01-23T22:00

Episode 66: The Frightening Future of Work from 2020-01-16T08:00

Episode 65: New York City Trash Talk Falls Short from 2020-01-09T23:00

Episode 64: The Killing of Tessa Majors from 2019-12-19T00:00

Michael Daly of the Daily Beast discusses his reporting on the killing that shocked a city, and Christina Greer talks about her time at Columbia and why this killing drew some muc...

Episode 63: Mother of Exiles from 2019-12-13T08:00

FAQ takes a field trip to Emma Lazarus' Sitting Room at the American Jewish Historical Society to talk with Executive Director Annie Polland about the poet's life and her le...

Episode 62: Penn Station's Original Sin from 2019-12-08T23:00

Marc Dunkelman delves into the history of Penn Station, and explains why the ghost of Robert Moses makes it so hard to get anything built in New York now.

Episode 61: Tears in the Rain from 2019-11-28T00:00

For the past year, FAQ has been asking New York's politicians the toughest questions, namely: “Are you a replicant?” The results of their Voight-Kampff tests have been a tightly...

Episode 60: Digital Stop and Frisk from 2019-11-20T22:00

Albert Fox Cahn of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project joins Chrissy, Alex and Harry to talk about police body cams, who's watching our (AI and facial recognition enha...

Episode 59: Civics Lessons from 2019-11-13T20:00

Political strategist, NAACP Brooklyn branch president and Sunday Civics host L. Joy Williams joins Chrissy and Harry to run down what New York's democracy looks like these days....

Episode 58: NYC's No-Contest Election from 2019-11-06T06:00

Nearly 20% of New Yorkers turned out to vote, for what? Ben Max of Gotham Gazette joined Chrissy, Harry and Alex Tuesday night to run down what just happened, and what it means. Listen

Episode 57: As Poor People Are Beaten for Seeking Help, Where's the Mayor? from 2019-10-31T21:00

New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay and researcher Emma Goldberg join Chrissy and Alex to discuss the response from the city to their disturbing story, When Poor People A...

Episode 56: Corey Johnson on "Removing an Indelible Stain" from 2019-10-23T21:00

Council Speaker Corey Johnson joins Chrissy, Harry and Alex to explain how the vote to build four new jails and the promise to close Rikers Island in 2026 fit together. Plus, he tal...

Episode 55: The Water Miracle from 2019-10-17T10:00

Turn on a tap, tune in, and listen to Ibrahim Abdul-Matin blow your mind about New York's water.

Episode 54: Border/Lines from 2019-10-10T21:00

Immigration reporter Felipe De La Hoz of the new Border/Lines newsletter joins Chrissy and Harry to explain about the Trump administration's new public charge rule, and much mo...

Episode 53: Life and Death, Porn and Potter's Fields from 2019-10-02T23:00

Katie Honan of the Wall Street Journal joins Harry and Chrissy to talk about sex shops, burying grounds and everything in between.

Episode 52: Train Pain and Gain from 2019-09-25T23:00

Jose Martinez, transportation reporter for The City, joins Chrissy, Harry and Alex to run down the MTA's new $51 billion and change capital plan.

Episode 51: Testilying, Then and Now from 2019-09-18T22:00

Investigative reporters George Joseph and Ali Winston join Chrissy and Harry to explain how New York's district attorneys do — and, more often, don't — track police officers...

Episode 50: A Verb, a Noun, and What? from 2019-09-11T22:00

Summer's done, and Chrissy, Harry and Alex are back to run down the latest and New Yorkest.

Episode 49: (No) Escape From New York from 2019-08-21T00:00

The first New York City mayor to run for president while still in City Hall since Hot John Lindsay is having a blast moonlighting in Iowa; not so much at his day job. Politico's...

Episode 48: Just Us, and No More Jeffrey Epstein from 2019-08-15T09:00

NY Cops and Cooks reporter Pervaiz Shallwani, a senior editor at the Daily Beast, joins the FAQ crew to run down the latest twists in the terribly twisted Jeffrey Epstein saga.

Episode 47: A Bike Mayor from 2019-08-08T08:00

Streetsblog's Dave Colon runs down the state of the streets in New York City, where the car remains king, and the need for a bike mayor. Plus a flashback to actual Mayor Bill de...

Episode 46: View From The Plaza from 2019-07-29T08:00

Journalist Julie Satow, author of The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel, joins Harry and Alex Lynn to share some of those secrets.

Episode 45: Fear City, ICE Edition from 2019-07-18T08:00

The safety net in our sanctuary city barely exists for undocumented immigrants. Mazin Sidahmed of Documented and Claudia Irizarry Aponte of The City come in to discuss their reporti...

Episode 44: Queens Rules from 2019-07-11T09:00

With the Queens DA race still up in the air, Nolan Hicks of the New York Post joins Chrissie and Harry to run down the state of the recount. Plus, Victoria Bekiempis goes In the Cou...

Episode 43: Who’s Counted, and Who Counts from 2019-07-04T09:00

Life comes at you fast: Steven Romalewski of the CUNY Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research at CUNY'S Graduate Center joined Harry Wednesday morning — when Trump'...

Episode 42: Cabán Rocks Queens from 2019-06-26T00:00

Tuesday was a YUGE night for the rising reform crowd in Queens and a YUGE defeat for the powers that be, but maybe not for much longer. Harry and Chrissy discuss, along with Emma Wh...

Episode 41: A New York City Education from 2019-06-20T06:00

New York Times Metro Deputy Editor Dodai Stewart joins Christina and Harry to discuss the papers’ reporting on the collapse in black and Latino representation at New York City’s eli...

Episode 40: The Meek Mill Interview: ‘Ate Alive in the Criminal System’ from 2019-06-13T07:00

Meek Mill, still “on probation my whole life,” talks about his justice Reform Alliance work at The McSilver Awards, and then with Christina and Harry. Plus, McSilver Institute for P...

Episode 39: Just Us, and The Queens District Attorney Debate from 2019-05-30T08:00

It’s a Queens District Attorney debate, with the first real election for the borough’s top law enforcement position since the 1970s(!) less than a month away. Candidates Tiffany Cab...

Episode 38: The Ghost of Hot John Lindsay from 2019-05-23T08:00

Azi Paybarah, who left FAQ — WTF?! — for the NYT returns to talk with Harry and Chrissy about the city’s rats, goats, and sharks, including political shark Bill de Blasio’s presiden...

Episode 37: Just Us, and Officer Daniel Pantaleo from 2019-05-16T10:00

ABC Criminal Justice reporter Christina Carrega joins Harry Siegel, Christina Greer, Victoria Bekiempis and Alex Brook Lynn to talk abut what she's seen at the disturbingly low-...

Episode 36: Black Boys, Ready to Die from 2019-05-09T02:45

Dr. Michael Lindsey, director of the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research, discusses his work leading the working group for the Congressional Black Caucus’ newly conve...

Episode 35: Legal Pot Goes Up In Smoke from 2019-05-01T23:00

This was going to be the year that pot was flat-out legalized in New York, or so said Gov. Cuomo, perhaps inspired by primary opponent Cynthia Nixon. Then three wo/men went into a s...

Episode 34: Door-to-Door War from 2019-04-25T00:00

New state Senator Zellnor Myrie walks up to Alex Lynn's rent-stabilized apartment to sit down with his constituent Christina Greer and talk about the rent-stabilized apartment h...

Episode 33: Dirty Data Dystopia from 2019-04-17T22:45

For now we see through a black box, darkly, as Albert Fox Cahn and Liz O'Sullivan of STOP - The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project — visit Bleecker Street to talk about w...

Episode 32: A Tale of Two Pre-Ks from 2019-04-11T00:00

Within Universal Pre-K, there are two groups of teachers — one that works for the city, and one that works for community groups the city contracts with — that do the same work, for ...

Episode 31: Just Us episode 1 from 2019-04-04T00:00

FAQ presents a new, highly irregular podcast about courts and the justice system with Victoria Bekiempis and Alex Brook Lynn talking with with legendary courts reporter Christina Ca...

Episode 30: Ferry Follies from 2019-04-03T23:00

Rosie Goldensohn of The City comes in to explain how the city blew $369 million to save $30 million on a niche transportation system that charges $2.75 per ride that the city pays $...

Episode 29: MacDoodle Street, or, A Pod for Visual Voluptuaries from 2019-03-28T00:00

Mark Alan Stamaty’s great visual novel MacDoodle Street—the story of dishwashing poet Malcolm Frazzle that first appeared in the pages of the Village Voice in the late 1970s—is back...

Episode 28: A New Day for the Oldest Profession? from 2019-03-22T00:00

Harry Siegel and Alex Lynn talk with state Senator Jessica Ramos about sex work and the new push to decriminalize in in New York, and much more. Plus, Emma Whitford runs down her re...

Episode 27: Prosecutor's Promise: I'll Hammer Less from 2019-03-14T00:00

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez talks with Harry and Alex about his Justice 2020 action plan, what happens when prosecutors with legal hammers stop treating people like nai...

Episode 26: The Fusion Explosion from 2019-03-06T10:00

As Cuomo's Democratic Party looks to blow up fusion voting in New York, the Post's Michael Benjamin joins Christina and Harry to discuss the state of the party here and nati...

Episode 25: Nefarious Reasons in a Special Election from 2019-02-27T02:00

New Public Advocate-elect Jumaane Williams called Christina Greer just before the polls closed to discuss his vision for the office—and why there needs to be an investigation of how...

Episode 24: Amazon's Prime Decepticon from 2019-02-14T06:00

A double-sized episode with Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer explaining to Chrissie and Harry why he isn't interested in negotiating with Amazon, or serving with Ruben Diaz Jr. Plus—...

Episode 23: No Access from 2019-02-07T07:00

With the tragic death of Malaysia Goodson reigniting New Yorkers' fears and concerns about making it into and out of the subway tunnels, we spoke to engineer and advocate Chris ...

Episode 22: ICE's Courthouse Jump Offs from 2019-01-31T07:00

We talk federal arrests inside state courts with Documented NY's Mazin Sidahmed and Felipe de la Hoz. Plus, state Sen. Gustavo Rivera talks with Christina about the blue new day...

Episode 21: El Chapo's Burgundy Burn from 2019-01-23T23:00

Chrissy and Harry talk with turncoat Azi Paybarah about door knocking Peter Parker in Queens, Timesman Alan Feuer about the madness of the El Chapo trial in Brooklyn, and courts rep...

Episode 20: New York's Californication from 2019-01-17T08:00

The state of the state is changing fast, for a change. Chris Smith joins Chrissy and Harry to discuss.

Episode 19: L-pocalypse Nah from 2019-01-10T09:00

The governor controls the train authority that planned and warned for years that the L train tunnel would need to be shut down for repairs after Hurricane Sandy ravaged it back in 2...

Episode 18: Our 2018 Kicker from 2018-12-20T11:00

We talk De Blasio, Cuomo, NYCHA, and more. Plus Alex Brook Lynn on the death of the Cornelia Street Cafe, and Victoria Bekiempis takes you in the courts.

Episode 17: Nazis and Street Fights in Victory City from 2018-12-13T13:00

White supremacists holding rallies with fascists and anti-fascists brawling outside, and war looming. Maybe that sounds like NYC in 2018, but we're talking NYC in WWII and the y...

Episode 16: Albany's Sex Crimes Horror Show from 2018-12-06T11:00

“I’m a single woman. I don't come from wealth. How do I survive this experience so I can get a job again? In politics, your loyalty and your network is your value and taking on ...

Episode 15: NYCHA's SOS from 2018-11-29T08:00

Councilman Ritchie Torres and Daily News investigative reporter Greg B. Smith discuss lead, neglect, private money and public housing. Plus Gwynne Hogan goes to the Andrew Jackson h...

Episode 14: Ugly Optical Illusion from 2018-11-15T08:00

Voting in New York is a certified disaster. Michael Benjamin joins the FAQ crew to discuss why that is, and how to fix it. Plus Chirissy Greer, on her way to Georgia, breaks down th...

Episode 13: Fresh From the Election Day Coup from 2018-11-07T07:00

Ben Max of Gotham Gazette sat down with us in the wee hours of Wednesday morning for a first look at the polls, and a new day in New York where fat cats just might get slapped back....

Episode 12: The ‘Authentically Effervescent’ Mr. Johnson from 2018-11-01T08:00

? Corey Johnson may be the City Council speaker, but we've got him singing in our first ever musical episode.

Episode 11: Molinaro, the Mooch & the State of the N.Y. GOP from 2018-10-25T08:00

We talked in person about the sad state of the Republican party here, and on the phone with the Republican who would be governor who evokes some of what the party once was and, he h...

Episode 10: November Stakes from 2018-10-11T09:00

With Democrats poised to keep holding every statewide office, FAQ talked with City and State's Rebecca C. Lewis about the high stakes fights for control of the state Senate in A...

Episode 9: Jumaane's 'No Inside Dude' from 2018-10-04T07:00

Councilman Jumaane Williams was thisclose to becoming the Lieutenant Governor Andrew Cuomo dreaded. He fell short, but his political stock has never been higher. He talked with the ...

8.2 Short: Jumaane Williams from 2018-10-03T08:00

Here's a taste of Jumaane Williams, on clearing the lieutenant governor's for the Working Families Party with a new "campaign" against state Senator Simcha Felder;...

8.1 Short: Howie Hawkins from 2018-10-02T10:00

Azi talks with the Green Party gubernatorial hopeful Howie Hawkins, who makes his case and talks some stuff about the Working Families Party.

Episode 8: STRINGER from 2018-09-27T06:00

Scott STRINGER or STRINGER Bell?

——You have any idea what I had to do to get where I am today? When I say I’m ready, you best believe it.

(The youngs...

Episode 7: IDC Heads Roll, and so Does the Cuomo Machine from 2018-09-14T09:00

New York's Democrats came out in force, to punish local incumbents even as they stood behind Cuomo and helped Tish James, his pick for attorney general, make some history.

Episode 6: How Thou Ought to Vote from 2018-09-06T07:00

A week before primary day — the moment of truth in most New York elections — we pull back the curtain on the voice of the papers in a conversation with editorial board members Mara ...

Episode 5: AG Hopefuls Talk RE & DJT from 2018-08-30T08:00

In a supersized episode 5, we ask aspiring Attorneys General Zephyr Teachout, Tish James, Sean Patrick Maloney and Leecia Eve to say whether or not Donald Trump and his crew are emb...

Episode 4: The Curse of Tom Suozzi from 2018-08-23T16:00

Are you listening, Cynthia Nixon? The original Democratic underdog has some thoughts on what it’s like to run against the party powers that be for governor of New York.

Episode 3: FAQ Meets BdB from 2018-08-17T06:00

Mayor Bill de Blasio sat down with us at Gracie Mansion to talk about his Murdoch-oriented media critique, how his progressive Democrats have already won the fight for the soul of t...

Episode 2: De Blasio’s Moon Shot Mission to Albany from 2018-08-08T21:00

New York City is the center of the universe, at least we think so. But what if it turned out that the universe didn’t revolve around us but in fact we revolved around… Albany? If th...

Episode 1: The Return of John Liu from 2018-08-01T23:00

John Liu thought he was on track to be New York City's next mayor in 2013 before a federal investigation overshadowed his run. Now, he says, things have changed and he's try...