

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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Mar 14, 2021 • 1h 28min
Episode 130: A Remarkable Ramble With Rangel
Charles Rangel takes Chrissy and Harry on a long, fascinating stroll through his life and career and explains why he thinks a a second Reconstruction is now beginning in America.

Mar 12, 2021 • 5min
Welcome to the Quickhouse!
A tasty mini-pod — 5 minutes flat!—with a rundown from Brickhouse managing editor Emma Roller of what you'll find right now at our little cooperative of creators making ad-free, wolf-proof journalism and art by humans for humans PLUS a NYC weather review from Hmm Weekly's Tom Scocca.

Mar 8, 2021 • 39min
Episode 128: Cuomo in the Corner
Josefa Velasquez of The City talks with Chrissy and Harry about how, after a decade, the governor finally painted himself into a corner he might not be able to walk out of.

Mar 8, 2021 • 18min
Cuomo's Vaccine Passports and NYC's Shotty Shotspotter technology
Albert Fox Cahn of The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, S.T.O.P., and the podcast Surveillance and the City talks to Alex Brook Lynn about Cuomo's Vaccine Passports for sports arenas and Shotspotter the technology used to detect gunshots.
For more information on the topics disscussed in theis episode see:
Cuomo's Vaccine Passports
https://statescoop.com/new-york-pilot-mobile-covid-19-vaccine-passport-ibm/
Shotspotter lawsuit and law enforcment scandal in Rodchester, NY
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-rochester-trial/

Mar 2, 2021 • 42min
Episode 126: The Gotham Book Prize and the State of Gotham

Feb 25, 2021 • 60min
Episode 125: Ray McGuire Will Be Your Huckleberry

Feb 18, 2021 • 54min
Episode 124: City on the Verge

Feb 11, 2021 • 39min
Episode 123: Dianne Morales Doesn't Have a Poker Face

Feb 4, 2021 • 1h 8min
Episode 122: Kathryn Garcia's Not About the Razzle Dazzle

Jan 28, 2021 • 55min
Episode 121: Disaster Follows Shaun Donovan
The former housing commissioner under Mayor Bloomberg and HUD secretary and then OMB director under President Obama explains why he's running for mayor now, and what the city needs at this moment of crises.


