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Feb 1, 2023 • 36min

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

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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Jan 28, 2023 • 26min

Episode 251: The Fletcher Family on Remembering the Husband and Father They Lost to COVID

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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Jan 25, 2023 • 33min

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

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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Jan 22, 2023 • 34min

Episode 249: Building a Bigger Tent to Build More Housing

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 Director Annemarie Gray about her group’s game-changing ambitions.
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Jan 17, 2023 • 47min

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

A conversation with the authors of Rikers: An Oral History.
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Jan 12, 2023 • 30min

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

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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Jan 5, 2023 • 42min

Episode 246: 2023 Predictions Through a Hazy Crystal Ball

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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Dec 29, 2022 • 42min

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

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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Dec 25, 2022 • 40min

Episode 244: The Stories Behind the Pictures

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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Dec 22, 2022 • 32min

Episode 243: Libraries Are on the Chopping Block in Eric Adams' New York

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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