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 Coleman, fixing fights for the mob, "the Moby Dick of boxing" and lots more. Stick around to the end to hear him play a little piano, too.
The Democratic nominee who's all but sure to be the next Manhattan District Attorney visits FAQ.
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.
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 students who became doctors in the city in the midst of the pandemic and reads one incredible passage from it.
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).
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.
Dianne Morales, Shaun Donovan, Ray McGuire and Kathryn Garcia each call in to answer two tough questions, plus an interview with Paperboy Love Prince.
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's race and the future of New York City.
We talk about homelessness in in New York City with David Brand of City Limits and Shams DaBaron AKA Da Homeless Hero.
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's mom, Bernard Kerik, Robert Morgenthau, Linda Fairstein, William Bulger and Mike McAclary all tie into that story.
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 office is and what it should be.
Rachel Holiday Smith, Manhattan reporter for The City, breaks down the Manhattan DA race with us. Read Rachel's explainer in The CIty https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/1/31/22253418/what-you-need-to-know-about-new-yorks-district-attorney-races-in-2021
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 AFTER the collapse of its HQ2 plan here as the brave new pandemic economy has accelerated America's great divergence.
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.
Dave from the "DOPEY," podcast, shares a few stories about drug addiction and recovery in New York City.
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 won for days or even weeks after the June 22nd primary.
Emma Whitford, reporter at Law360. gives us a rundown of the new rent relief from the Federal Government hopfully headed toward New Yorkers this Spring.
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 York City taxpayers are on the hook to defend police officers even when the city won't.
Weather, reviewed, and much more of all the goodness you'll find at the Brickhouse in 5 minutes flat.
The Empire Center's Bill Hammonds talks about the coverup we know about now, and all the things we still don't know.
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 minutes.
A conversation about blackmail, politics and human beings with the Assemblyman who started the avalanche that just might bury Andrew Cuomo.
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.
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, wolf-proof journalism and art by humans for humans PLUS a NYC weather review from Hmm Weekly's Tom Scocca.
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.
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 for sports arenas and Shotspotter the technology used to detect gunshots. For more information on the topics disscussed in theis episode see: Cuomo's Vaccine Passports https://statescoop.com/new-york-pilot-mobile-covid-19-vaccine-passport-ibm/ Shotspotter lawsuit and law enforcment scandal in Rodchester, NY https://www.reut...
