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FAQ NYC

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 336: The Freaks Came Out To Write

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2024/02/24

In a pre-internet world, the Village Voice was a newspaper like no other: a haven for writers about avant garde arts, Black politics, queer identity and a million things more — and that's after the pages devoted to exposing the seamy side of New York City politics. In this episode of FAQ NYC, Alyssa Katz, the executive editor of THE CITY who worked at the Voice early in her career, interviews Tricia Romano, author of the new book "The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of The Village

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Episode 335: Trump’s Trials and NYC’s Plague Year

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2024/02/21

Hosts Chrissy and Katie discuss the $364 million former President Trump was ordered to pay to New York in a fraud case, as well as his brand-new sneakers and the FBI's investigation into the FDNY. Plus, there's a Vital City interview between physician and epidemiologist Jay Varma and Sociologist Erik Klinenberg, author of the newly published book ‘2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.’

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Episode 334: Hazard NYC: The Gowanus Canal

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2024/02/14

The Gowanus Canal is a “toxic Wonderland” in the midst of a neighborhood undergoing a complicated transformation. Hear from locals, government officials and developers about the future of the area — and what challenges stand in the way of a cleaner, more resilient community. Samantha Maldonado, senior reporter at THE CITY, and independent journalist Jordan Gass-Pooré dig in on the final episode of Hazard NYC, a four-part FAQ NYC Presents limited series exploring the city’s Superfund sites.

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Episode 333: Hazard NYC: The Wolff-Alport Chemical...

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2024/02/14

A small patch of land and the buildings located on it contain radiological contamination, posing a cancer risk for workers on the site and nearby neighbors. Work is ongoing to get rid of the threat — but it hasn’t been easy to get there. Samantha Maldonado, senior reporter at THE CITY, and independent journalist Jordan Gass-Pooré dig in on episode three of Hazard NYC, a four-part FAQ NYC Presents limited series exploring the city’s Superfund sites.

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Episode 332: Hazard NYC: The Meeker Ave. Plume

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2024/02/14

An underground spill of chemicals in North Brooklyn is the latest focus of community efforts to clean up a neighborhood that’s long dealt with industrial pollution. Hear from locals who live on top of the so-called Meeker Avenue Plume and want people to remember, as one neighbor said, “It’s more than just a toxic site.” THE CITY’s senior reporter Samantha Maldonado and independent journalist Jordan Gass-Pooré dive in on episode two of Hazard NYC, a four-part FAQ NYC Presents limited series exploring

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Episode 331: Hazard NYC: Newtown Creek

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2024/02/13

Newtown Creek is one of the country’s most polluted waterways. Flooding from sea level rise and storms threatens to spread the creek’s contamination and bring pollution from outside the water into it. The feds are figuring out how to include climate change into the clean-up plan they’re developing. THE CITY’s senior reporter Samantha Maldonado and independent journalist Jordan Gass-Pooré dive in on episode one of Hazard NYC, a four-part FAQ NYC Presents limited series exploring the city’s Superfund

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Episode 330: NYC's Terrible HIV and AIDS Blindspot

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2024/02/11

Guest host Richard Kim, THE CITY's editor in chief, talks to journalists Kai Wright and Lizzy Ratner about their Blindspot podcast digging into the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and focusing on overlooked populations including intravenous drug users, incarcerated people, and the pediatric patients separated from their families "who lived and died their entire lives on the ward of Harlem Hospital" — and the individuals and communities who stepped up and stepped in where institutions

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Episode 329: Tin Cup Day

FAQ NYC ·

2024/02/05

Will Eric Adams finally have his Aaron Judge year in Albany, or at least get north of the Mendoza line? The FAQ hosts discuss that, the dark and distorted ways local New York City news is showing up nationally as the presidential election gets underway and much more.

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Episode 328: Once a Cop, Always a Cop

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2024/01/30

On the FAQ NYC podcast, Chrissy, Katie and Harry discuss the brouhaha over a police officer pulling over Public Safety Chair Yusef Salaam in the middle of an online City Council hearing, and much more. Plus, Craig Gurian of the Anti-Discrimination Center explains his group's settlement with the city that sharply cuts the share of affordable housing units that can be set aside for people inside of a given community district — and why that’s a good thing. Listen here.

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Episode 327: A Staff Walkout at the Daily News

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2024/01/25

Journalists Ellen Moynihan, Chris Sommerfeldt and Michael Sheridan talk to host Katie Honan about why almost the entire staff of New York's hometown paper is walking out of their newsroom, such as it is, on Thursday, and why that matters.

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Episode 326: Is Democracy Reemerging Inside of NYC’s...

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2024/01/22

Do old politicians ever learn new tricks? And what do they do when new politicians try and claim their spaces? The FAQ NYC crew discusses all of that, and much more.

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Episode 325: Is It a Crime, Empire State Edition

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2024/01/17

Katie Honan, Christina Greer and Harry Siegel discuss the mayor and the governor's budget proposals, Eric Adams' legal defense and campaign fundraising, and more.

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Episode 324: A Tale of Two Adamses

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2024/01/09

With his approval rating below 30%, Mayor Eric Adams has been trading personal barbs with the public advocate while his administration refuses to implement a law passed by the City Council. Hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel discuss whether there’s a method to his madness, and much more.

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Episode 323: How U.S. Cities Lost the Plot on Mass...

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2024/01/05

In his new book, “The Lost Subways of North America,” author and cartographer Jake Berman has compiled nearly two dozen historical portraits of cities from Atlanta to Washington, D.C. to show how the great and not-so-great mass transit systems of the U.S. and Canada came to be and what their history tells us about America’s future. In this episode of FAQ NYC Off Cycle, THE CITY Executive Editor Alyssa Katz interviews Berman about the art of mapmaking, the secrets to the success of the few cities

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Episode 322: Eric Adams' Deck of Jokers

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2024/01/03

What's up with the City Hall's undisciplined approach of calling reporters "clowns"? The FAQ NYC crew kicks off 2024 with a discussion of that and much more.

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Episode 321: New York Minutes for Ink-Stained Wretches

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2023/12/30

In the third and final installment of the pod's year-end mini-series of stories about a "New York minute," you'll hear from Michael Gartland and Ellen Moynihan of the Daily News, telling yarns about found beef, cops and lost cats. They’re followed by Justin Miller of New York Magazine on hearing an unsolicited tale of massages and romances. Finally, Mark Jacobson, the journalist and novelist who, among other things, wrote the articles Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet and The Return of Superfly that

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Episode 320: Another New York Minute

FAQ NYC ·

2023/12/28

In the second of three year-end episodes featuring stories about "a New York minute," natives Katie Honan and David Ray Martinez talk soap operas and families before transplants J.T. Price and Adam Levy talk about courteous robbers and courting wives.

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Episode 319: ‘A New York Minute’

FAQ NYC ·

2023/12/28

Here's the first of three off-beat, year-end episodes of stories about a New York minute, with a pair about the drug business told by Cliff Michel and Steve Lynn, and then a pair about gloom, glamor and gunmption told by Huge Perez and Flo Ankah.

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Episode 318: Adams’ Angst Is Real

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2023/12/12

The mayor's poll numbers are down and the vultures are out, but there's still a year and a half before voters are supposed to have their say again.

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Episode 317: George Santos Defines Democracy's...

FAQ NYC ·

2023/12/05

Is Eric Adams really in political trouble? Will George Santos ever really go away? Are the Mekons truly golden? Chrissy, Katie and Harry discuss all that and much more.

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