

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 6, 2021 • 41min
Episode 118: Down Ballot Doings
City and State's Jeff Coltin gives a bird's eye view of all the other races on New York City's very crowded ballot.

Dec 30, 2020 • 30min
Episode 117: Rent Relief
State Senator Zellnor Myrie returns to explain what New York's new evictions moratorium does, and doesn't do, for tenants and landlords.

Dec 24, 2020 • 37min
Episode 116: Smack Talk Special
Professor Greer has some words to share with several of the guys running to be mayor, and much more as the gang gabs.

Dec 17, 2020 • 44min
Episode 115: New York’s New Choice/s
Susan Lerner of Common Cause New York and Sean Dugar of Rank the Vote NYC explain the genius of ranked choice voting. Plus a cartoon, read aloud, in our first-ever Brickhouse crossover with brand-new comics site Awry, and Alex Brook Lynn mourns her lemon of a classic Cadillac no longer worth the squeeze.

Dec 10, 2020 • 50min
Episode 114: Confessions of a Psycho News Guy
“Going to a job, going to a fire is almost as good as an orgasm. Going to a shooting is almost like a heroin fix to me.” Newly retired multimedia journalist Todd Maisel looks back on 38 years shooting and covering New York City.

Dec 2, 2020 • 34min
Episode 113: Schoolhouse Whiplash
Professor David Bloomfield runs down Mayor de Blasio's unsteady approach to the schools, and much more.

Nov 25, 2020 • 1h 37min
Episode 112: The David Dinkins Interview
David Dinkins, the city's first and so far only black mayor, sat down for nearly two hours last year with Chrissy and Harry to talk about his life and career. Here's that interview, very lightly edited.

Nov 19, 2020 • 46min
Episode 111: An 'Obnoxious and Offensive' Schools Closure
What the hell are de Blasio and Cuomo doing here, and why can't they get on the same page? Plus, Steven Romalewski of the CUNY Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research at CUNY'S Graduate Center returns to the pod.

Nov 13, 2020 • 37min
Episode 110: A Bridge in Brooklyn to Toll You
Councilmembers Joe Borelli (R, Staten Island) and Justin Brannan (D, Brooklyn) talk about how the return of two-way tolls to the Verrazzano looks from each side of the bridge, the second wave of the virus that’s looming, and more.

Nov 6, 2020 • 58min
Episode 109: Election 2020
Harry, Chrissy, and Alex talk with Ben Max of Gotham Gazette & The Max & Murphy Show about what the election means for NYC and what election New Yorkers have to look forward to in 2021.
We also talk Cuomo, a COVID vaccine, and privacy law with Albert Fox Cahn of The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project.