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Aug 13, 2023 • 54min

Episode 293: A Different Way of Shooting Drugs

Photographer Stephen Yang joins Alex Brook Lynn and Harry Siegel for a conversation about capturing private moments in public settings, the differences between photojournalism and street photography, why tabloids have traditionally frowned on high-contrast shots (spoiler: those require too much black ink to print) and much more.
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Aug 9, 2023 • 55min

Episode 292: Beware of Sharks, and Drones

Albert Fox Cahn of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project joins hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel to dig into the problems with automated enforcement, the perils in letting police collect too much data, and more.
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Aug 6, 2023 • 33min

Episode 291: ‘The Radios Will Go Dark. You Will Hear Nothing.’

Journalist Todd Maisel spent 40 years listening to police scanners, letting the scratchy radio sounds guide him to some of the biggest news stories in New York City. He's now sounding the alarm over the NYPD's plan to encrypt these radios -- turning them off for everyone who isn't in the police. "Do we trust he police to tell the truth? I don't," he told FAQ. Silent radios "is bad for the public, it's bad for checks and balances, it is a real problem," he said. Listen to the full interview here.
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Aug 1, 2023 • 30min

Episode 290: ‘It's Not Going to Get Any Better’

Christina Greer and Harry Siegel dig into New York City's collapsing right to shelter, the unlikely companies the Adams administration is paying to provide services to migrants and much more from another jam-packed week in New York City.
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Jul 25, 2023 • 48min

Episode 289: Unpacking the Eric Adams Playbook

Jeff Coltin joins Christina Greer and Katie Honan to dig into how the mayor and his prospective 2025 challengers are positioning himself, and all the news from another jam-packed week in New York City.
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Jul 19, 2023 • 29min

Episode 288: The Three C's

Hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel talk about the new NYPD commish Eddie Caban, Crime and Corruption, and much more.
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Jul 14, 2023 • 36min

Episode 287: A Plan for a Retail Revival

Jonathan Bowles of the Center for an Urban Future lays out the group's ideas for what government can do to help new small businesses prosper.
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Jul 5, 2023 • 39min

Episode 286: Red (Ex-Mayor) Table Talk

Hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel talk about the 109th mayor of New York City’s very public separation, the 110th mayor’s press strategy, and much more.
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Jun 28, 2023 • 39min

Episode 285: Big-Time Upsets in a Low Turnout Election

Ben Max joins Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel to break down everything that happened in a contest that most New Yorkers missed.
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Jun 25, 2023 • 41min

Episode 284: The Digital Revolution Is a Local NYC Story

Ben Smith, the author of Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral, talks with Azi Paybarah about Silicon Alley, the internet of the early 2000s, and why local politics is less scalable than it used to be.

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