FAQ NYC

Episode 125: Ray McGuire Will Be Your Huckleberry

Episode 124: City on the Verge

Episode 123: Dianne Morales Doesn't Have a Poker Face

Episode 122: Kathryn Garcia's Not About the Razzle Dazzle

Episode 121: Disaster Follows Shaun Donovan

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 needs at this moment of crises.

Episode 120: Andrew Yang's New York Math

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

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

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

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

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

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 crossover with brand-new comics site Awry, and Alex Brook Lynn mourns her lemon of a classic Cadillac no longer worth the squeeze.

Episode 114: Confessions of a Psycho News Guy

“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 on 38 years shooting and covering New York City.

Episode 113: Schoolhouse Whiplash

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

Episode 112: The David Dinkins Interview

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 interview, very lightly edited.

Episode 111: An 'Obnoxious and Offensive' Schools Closure

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 at CUNY'S Graduate Center returns to the pod.

Episode 110: A Bridge in Brooklyn to Toll You

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 second wave of the virus that’s looming, and more.

Episode 109: Election 2020

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 to in 2021. We also talk Cuomo, a COVID vaccine, and privacy law with Albert Fox Cahn of The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project.

Episode 108: TRUMP ACDC

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 archival footage.

Episode 107: Local Focus and the National Picture

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, help listeners “stop being obsessed with the question of Trump, and instead “reengage with the questions of daily life that are played out on the streets of American cities.” And speaking of Trump, Walter Shapiro, in the midst of covering his eleventh(!) presidential campaign, talks about how campaigns and campaign coverage ...

Episode 106: A Health Crisis and a Fiscal Crisis

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 and the one New York is facing now.

Episode 105: Imbalance of Power

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

Episode 104: The Mount Vernon Tapes

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

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 the Donald and the rest of New York's endless rogues' gallery.

Episode 102: School Daze

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

Episode 100: The Storefront Domino Effect

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

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

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 (beautiful!) sonic elegy for a sewer tunnel, performed with large instruments at the entrance to a sewer tunnel in Astoria earlier this week.

Episode 97: Six Ways To Sunday

Episode 96: What Now?

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.