Episode 517: 'Two Great Mayors in 400 Years'
Director Ric Burns and his writing and producing partner, James Sanders, sat down with Christina Greer, Harry Siegel and guest co-host Dave...
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A weekly dive into the big questions about this city of ours, hosted by Christina Greer, Azi Paybarah and Harry Siegel, and produced by Alex Brook Lynn.
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20 of 527 episodesEpisode 516: A Ginned-Up Scandal in a Solemn Week
Hosts Katie Honan, Christina Greer and Harry Siegel discuss the different ways New Yorkers marked the 25th anniversary of the September 11th...
Episode 515: 25 Years Later, a Mayor Finally Owns Up To 9/11’s Toxic Dust
More than three times as many people have now died of 9/11-related illnesses as were killed on that terrible day — and three-quarters of the...
Episode 514: Riots, A Knickerbocker History
In the second episode of FAQ NYC’s new three-part special series, A Knickerbocker History of America, Katie Honan, Harry Siegel and guest co...
Episode 513: The Brooklyn Dems Bring ‘Veep’ to Real Life
Katie Honan looks back on a wild scene as the Brooklyn Democratic Party bosses changed their rules in a closed door vote after losing an ope...
Episode 512: Potholes, Promenades and Power in Mamdani's New York
Hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel dig into about the mayor’s new BQE plan, his many fights with the City Council, Hakeem Jeffries’ priv...
Episode 511: In With Flynn
Chrissy, Harry and Katie sort through a week of summer news in NYC before Transportation Commissioner Mike Flynn joins Katie for an intervie...
Episode 510: Blackouts, A Knickerbocker History
at were not plugged into walls.” Things change when the lights go out, but while the blackout of 1965 was a moment that brought the city tog...
Episode 509: Big Brother in the Big Apple
FAQ NYC co-hosts Katie Honan and Harry Siegel dig into the state’s new effort to ferret out New Yorkers who want to live here but pay lower...
Episode 508: Mamdani’s Pied-a-Terre Pressure Play Is Paying Off
As the mayor's push to trumpet the collection of his new pied a terre tax and confront quiet money with loud politics got off to a bumpy sta...
Episode 507: ‘40,000 New Yorkers Lost Their Protections Today’
New York Immigration Coalition CEO Murad Awawdeh joins the podcast to discuss the Supreme Court green‑lighting the Trump administration’s mo...
Episode 506: The Tide Is Out and NY’s Old-Guard Dems Are Beached
Other than the extreme heat, smoky air, flash flooding and deaths from an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, it’s remained a lovely summer i...
Episode 505: Mamdani’s ‘Mapgate’ Is a Tempest in a Teapot
Mayor Mamdani this week blamed the previous administration for a map of immigrant enclaves that didn't include Little Italy, and said the ci...
Episode 504: A 78 Degree Meltdown About Mamdani
When Zohran Mamdani urged New Yorkers to set their air conditioners to 78 degrees, echoing what mayors before him have advised during heat w...
Episode 503: A New Test of Mamdani’s Winning Streat
A sudden City Council push to hold up the budget due Tuesday if City Hall doesn’t increase funding for the wildly popular — and thus wildly...
Episode 502: Election Night Extra: Mamdanimentum Is Real
Mayor Zohran Mamdani put a lot of his newly won political capitol on the line to try and shift the shape of the Democratic Party in New York...
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...
Episode 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...