Episode 181: The Men Who Put the “P” into “Politics”
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.
Jan 06, 2022•1 hr 1 min
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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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Episode 180: Speaking With the Speaker
A conversation with incoming City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams about her past and the city's future.
Jan 01, 2022•57 min
Episode 179: Park Wars
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 demolition of East River Park, and community member’s fight to save it.
Dec 21, 2021•36 min
Episode 178: Real Big Trouble
🎶Someone please call 311 Chrissy and Harry consider New York City's outgoing and incoming mayors, and Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio of DoumentedNY explains what's happening now with non-citizen voting here.
Dec 15, 2021•43 min
Episode 177: Election Reform After Dark
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 minutes of grace and how she finally beat a ticket.
Dec 08, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Episode 176: What We're In For
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 much more, with Harry Siegel and Alex Brook Lynn.
Dec 02, 2021•37 min
Episode 175: Word Around Town
Chrissy, Alex, Katie and Harry gab it up about Eric Adams, Andrew Cuomo, the Blood Center, Thanksgiving and lots more.
Nov 24, 2021•34 min
Episode 174: Helluva Town
We talk politics, and Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio of Documented discusses her reporting on immigration enforcement.
Nov 18, 2021•42 min
Episode 173: New York Forever
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. Eulogists: Spencer Ackerman Gracie Bialecki Albert Fox Cahn Rory Celentano Skye Cleary Anthony Curry Daniel Genis David Gerrard Issa Ibrahim Mimi Lipson Alex Brook Lynn Stephine Matteo Evan Meszaros Annie Nocenti J.T. Price Nancy Rommelman Lucy Sante Harry Siegel Jacob Siegel John D’Ulisse Sophie Zeteo...
Nov 13, 2021•1 hr 18 min
Episode 172: A New Year for New York Focus
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.
Nov 05, 2021•29 min
Episode 171: Election Night Extra
The great Ben Max breaks down what just happened with Chrissy and Harry.
Nov 03, 2021•42 min
Episode 170: Who Killed Eric Garner?
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.
Oct 28, 2021•41 min
Brickhouse Bonus: What We Read When We Read Max Read
Maria Bustillos and Harry Siegel talk with Max Read about the state of the internet, his new newsletter, and lots more.
Oct 27, 2021•39 min
Episode 169: Issa Ibrahim, and his Eulogy for Jamaica, Queens
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.
Oct 26, 2021•30 min
Episode 168: Suites, Elites, and Tik Tok Girls
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 from comic-book writer, journalist, and fantastic New Yorker, Annie Nocenti for our October eulogy series with her piece called 'Edifice Complex.'
Oct 21, 2021•48 min
Episode 167: Is There Life After Politics?
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 Rommel H Ojeda talks with Harry about New York’s tapped-out $2.1 excluded worker fund, and “Low Life” author Lucy Sante reads an epitaph for the cities that were.
Oct 14, 2021•50 min
Brickhouse Bonus: On and Off the Record With Gabriel Snyder
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 Record.
Oct 13, 2021•38 min
Episode 166: Eulogies for New York City
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.
Oct 07, 2021•1 hr 14 min
Episode 165: Schools Scramble
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.
Sep 30, 2021•38 min
Episode 164: Rats, Us, and A Murder Most Owl
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 with the news that Central Park’s beloved owl Barry had consumed rat poison that may have made impaired her ability to fly before she was hit and killed by a Conservancy truck inside the park.
Sep 23, 2021•49 min
Episode 163: Rules and Drool, School is in Session
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.
Sep 16, 2021•38 min
Episode 162: Who by Water and Who by Fire
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 price of a construction worker's life.
Sep 08, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Episode 161: A New Day and the Same Old Problems
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 done with Andrew Cuomo yet, and David Brand of City Limits talking about the new eviction moratorium.
Sep 02, 2021•1 hr 18 min
Episode 160: ‘So Soon After 9/11’
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 York City and from the last 20 years.
Aug 26, 2021•55 min
Episode 159: Rematch?
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, rejoins the pod.
Aug 19, 2021•47 min
Episode 158: NY to Cuomo: It's Not Us, It's You
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 pols who agreed to let the governor use them as shields.
Aug 12, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Episode 157: ‘I Prayed for a James Report’
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 Comptroller Scott Stringer looks back on his mayoral campaign and forward to what's next for him and the city.
Aug 08, 2021•57 min
Episode 156: The Emperor Has No Clothes
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.
Aug 05, 2021•53 min
Episode 155: The View from Room 9
With Sally Goldenberg of Politico NY
Jul 29, 2021•44 min
Episode 154: Shooting Streets and Selling Dust
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 glimpses of that city and the sometimes alluring "generalized small-time crumminess of so much of that decade."
Jul 25, 2021•1 hr 5 min
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