

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.
Episodes
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Aug 5, 2021 • 53min
Episode 156: The Emperor Has No Clothes
Long-ago Cuomo employee and long-time Cuomo critic Alexis Grenell joins FAQ for a look at how things fell apart for our Emmy-award winning governor.

Jul 29, 2021 • 44min
Episode 155: The View from Room 9
With Sally Goldenberg of Politico NY

Jul 25, 2021 • 1h 5min
Episode 154: Shooting Streets and Selling Dust
Photographer David Godlis and writer Luc Sante talk with Alex and Harry about Godlis Streets, his new book of 1970s street photography, and what was alluring about capturing glimpses of that city and the sometimes alluring "generalized small-time crumminess of so much of that decade."

Jul 15, 2021 • 1h 20min
Episode 153: Book Club: (Low)Life
Jazz and boxing great Charles Farrell visits the pod to talk with Harry and Tim Marchman about his memoir that covers, among other things, playing with Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman, fixing fights for the mob, "the Moby Dick of boxing" and lots more. Stick around to the end to hear him play a little piano, too.

Jul 9, 2021 • 46min
Episode 152: Alvin Bragg's Bragging Rights
The Democratic nominee who's all but sure to be the next Manhattan District Attorney visits FAQ.

Jul 2, 2021 • 54min
Episode 151: Fun City Follies
Laura Nahmias joins Chrissy and Harry to talk about the BoE's RCV SNAFU and the state of the election now that it's all over but the counting.

Jun 25, 2021 • 42min
Episode 150: Book Club: Life on the Line
Chrissy has a message for the pundits "explaining" what just happened in New York, and Times reporter and researcher Emma Goldberg discusses her new book on the medical students who became doctors in the city in the midst of the pandemic and reads one incredible passage from it.

Jun 23, 2021 • 1h 6min
Episode 149: Decision Day
The votes are cast, the results are still to come, and Ben Max of Gotham Gazette joins Chrissy and Harry for a late-night break down of what we know (and what we don't yet).

Jun 18, 2021 • 43min
Episode 148: Homestretch
Christina and Harry take one last look at the mayor's race, and Alex Lynn breaks down what's really been happening at Washington Square Park.

Jun 10, 2021 • 1h 5min
Episode 147: The Gracie Bunch
Dianne Morales, Shaun Donovan, Ray McGuire and Kathryn Garcia each call in to answer two tough questions, plus an interview with Paperboy Love Prince.