Episode 501: A Knicks Win to Kick Off Summer
Is the Knicks win after more than 50 years a good omen for summer? Co-host Katie Honan talks with Rachel Holliday Smith, the managing editor...
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20 of 511 episodesEpisode 500: Nothing but Knicks
Bex Max joins Christina Greer and Harry Siegel for a FAQ NYC-Max Politics crossover just after game four to put down politics for once and t...
Episode 499: A New Blue and Orange Era in NYC
The New York Knickerbockers will come into Madison Square Garden Monday night for the first NBA finals game at Madison Square Garden this mi...
Episode 498: ‘Everybody Got Pepper-Sprayed’
Gwynne Hogan joins FAQ NYC to discuss The City Reporter’s big investigation of months of street arrests in and around New York City,and her...
Episode 497: The Knicks Are on Fire and the Mecca of Basketball Isn’t Going Anywhere
Hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel discuss the suddenly unstoppable Knicks, the indefatigable mayor’s efforts to tap into the city’s sur...
Episode 496: Listen: Who's Finding Who At the Top of the Heap?
Hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel join guest Jeff Coltin to look ahead to summer in the city, consider the state of politi...
Episode 495: Albany’s Supersized ‘Big Ugly’ Is Ridiculously Late
Will New York State ever pass the budget that was due more than a month ago? And how is New York City supposed to work out its own budget, w...
Episode 494: Don’t Bet Against Mamdani
Zohran Mamdani’s first political endorsement since becoming mayor predictably didn’t pan out, but Lindsey Boylan wasn’t the candidate he’s b...
Episode 493: All the Budgets Are Blending Together
Which came first, the state budget or the city’s spending plan? As the Mamdani administration pushes for new taxes and more money from Alban...
Episode 492: The Wheels on the Spin Go Round and Round
The former president with a supposedly funny name who was smeared as an African-born socialist made a surprise appearance at a Bronx pre-sch...
Episode 491: FAQ Live: 100 Days of Mamdani
FAQ NYC hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel visited the Greene Space in Soho on Thursday night for a sold-out live recording...
Episode 490: Can Mamdani Cash In His Massive Mandate?
The new mayor captured City Hall with historic support, and polling shows he’s only become more popular since then. But now the question is...
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 w...
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 celebriti...
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 p...
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 Congressi...
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 Municipa...
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...
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 vi...
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...