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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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44:22

Episode 258: ‘Crazy’ Eddie Antar Was the Original...

FAQ NYC ·

2023/02/26

Gary Weiss joins the pod to discuss "The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie" and his book about that.

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Episode 257: Where Eric Adams and Ron DeSantis See...

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2023/02/22

A discussion of just some of the news from another jam-packed week in New York City with hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel.

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42:03

Episode 256: A Portrait of the (Free) Portrait Artist

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2023/02/19

Rusty Zimmerman is spending the year making oil paintings of and collecting oral histories from 200 people living in South Brooklyn. That includes FAQ NYC's own Harry Siegel, who joined Rusty for a conversation about the project, how people can support it and see it, and why he's giving the portraits away for free to their subjects.

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36:55

Episode 255: George Santos Is Real-Life George Costanza

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2023/02/15

And there’s really nothing funny about it.

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Episode 254: ‘It Was Very Easy to Survive, Except You...

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2023/02/10

Leonard Abrams, the founder and editor of the late, great East Village Eye (1979-1987) and Julie Golia, curator at the New York Public Library, which just acquired the paper’s archives, talk about chronicling, and preserving, the paper’s coverage of a time when “you go down to the Lower East Side [and] it’s very easy to survive except you might get killed—but probably not. So that was enough for a lot of people who really wanted… to do something meaningful with their lives. And they were able

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Episode 253: ‘Horn Maintenance’

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2023/02/05

Trumpeter Greg Glassman sits down with saxophonist Stacy Dillard for a conversation — along with the two of them improvising on their instruments — about what it means, and what it takes, to make it as a jazz musician in New York City.

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35:46

Episode 252: A ‘High-Risk’ Shell Game from Eric...

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2023/02/01

A new grand jury for Donald Trump, a new podcast by Eric Adams about Eric Adams, a perfect sample for Jay-Z and only Jay-Z and much more.

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25:58

Episode 251: The Fletcher Family on Remembering the...

FAQ NYC ·

2023/01/28

Joshua, Ziggy, Maddie and their mother Veronica open up to reporter Liz Donovan about how much Joseph Trevor Fletcher was loved, how loving he was, and how they’re navigating grief and carrying on in his absence.

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Episode 250: Eric Adams: "I Am the Colgate"

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2023/01/25

John Lennon said “I am the Walrus.” Eric Adams says “I am the Colgate,” and that he’s starting his own newsletter to spread the word about all the stuff he says he’s getting done that the press won’t fairly report. Okay, then…

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Episode 249: Building a Bigger Tent to Build More...

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2023/01/22

Open New York is an organization advocating to make it easier to build and manage housing in New York City — and now it’s broadening its agenda to also support advances in tenants’ rights. Will that be enough to change state laws and neighborhood politics to get more housing built — and will building more housing really bring down rents for the masses? For the latest installment in her series asking the big question, What Is New York For?, The City Deputy Editor Alyssa Katz talks with Open New York

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46:56

Episode 248: Rikers and the ‘World‘ Tour to Nowhere

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2023/01/17

A conversation with the authors of Rikers: An Oral History.

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29:36

Episode 247: A State of the State for an Unsettled State

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2023/01/12

Professor Christina Greer and Harry Siegel break down Kathy Hochul's first state of the state as New York's elected governor.

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42:26

Episode 246: 2023 Predictions Through a Hazy Crystal...

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2023/01/05

A look back at Eric Adams' first year as mayor, and ahead to the even bigger challenges looming for New York City.

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Episode 245: The View From the Broken End of the Bottle

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2022/12/29

Anthony Almojera, lieutenant paramedic with the FDNY EMS, explains what Eric Adams’ new plan for bringing more severely mentally ill street into hospitals can’t accomplish, how that population has changed over his two decades on the job as violence against, and what those encounters are actually like for the medical first responders regularly interacting with the city’s street population.

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Episode 244: The Stories Behind the Pictures

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2022/12/25

Daily News legend Susan Watts and THE CITY's Ben Fractenberg talk with Alex Brook Lynn about the art of shooting the news in New York, and share the stories behind some of their most powerful photographs.

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32:13

Episode 243: Libraries Are on the Chopping Block in...

FAQ NYC ·

2022/12/22

Christina Greer and Harry Siegel reflect on the mayor's first year, which was anything but boring. and what's to come.

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Episode 242: ‘A Typical Kid’

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2022/12/18

Alex Brook Lynn talks about her brother Zack's schizophrenia and her family's efforts to navigate New York's broken systems. WARNING: This episode contains a discussion of suicide.

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Episode 241: Fear and Felonies

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2022/12/14

A conversation about fear, crime, Al Sharpton and what, if anything changed in New York's political dynamics after Democrats mostly survived this year's election.

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Episode 240: Get Intimate With the City You Only...

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2022/12/11

Michael Kimmelman, author of The Intimate City: Walking New York, joins THE CITY's Alyssa Katz in the latest installment of her series asking the big question: What Is New York For?

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Episode 239: ‘Not on Miss New York’s Watch’

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2022/12/07

Taryn Delanie Smith, AKA Miss New York 2022, joins the pod just ahead of her bid to become Miss America 2023, to discuss “the advocacy role, the immense philanthropy that goes into the job” and to discuss using social media to make the most of her position: “It's really just me being a friend, a New Yorker, and saying ‘here’s something that you didn't know about social services. Here's what you didn't know about transitional housing programs in your community. And here's why they need your

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