

FAQ NYC
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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Jan 20, 2022 • 30min
Episode 183: Every New Yorker’s Nightmare
A look back at an exceptionally busy and difficult week in New York City.

Jan 13, 2022 • 1h 1min
Episode 182: A Nonprofit War on Workers?
Assemblymember Ron Kim breaks down his new report accusing a prominent social service organization of stealing wages from home-care workers, with the help of 1199SEIU.

Jan 6, 2022 • 1h 1min
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 1, 2022 • 57min
Episode 180: Speaking With the Speaker
A conversation with incoming City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams about her past and the city's future.

Dec 21, 2021 • 36min
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 15, 2021 • 43min
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 8, 2021 • 1h 2min
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 2, 2021 • 37min
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.

Nov 24, 2021 • 34min
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 18, 2021 • 42min
Episode 174: Helluva Town
We talk politics, and Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio of Documented discusses her reporting on immigration enforcement.