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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.

Episode Date
Episode 498: ‘Everybody Got Pepper-Sprayed’
Jun 01, 2026
Episode 497: The Knicks Are on Fire and the Mecca of Basketball Isn’t Going Anywhere
May 25, 2026
Episode 496: Listen: Who's Finding Who At the Top of the Heap?
May 18, 2026
Episode 495: Albany’s Supersized ‘Big Ugly’ Is Ridiculously Late
May 11, 2026
Episode 494: Don’t Bet Against Mamdani
May 04, 2026
Episode 493: All the Budgets Are Blending Together
Apr 27, 2026
Episode 492: The Wheels on the Spin Go Round and Round
Apr 20, 2026
Episode 491: FAQ Live: 100 Days of Mamdani
Apr 11, 2026
Episode 490: Can Mamdani Cash In His Massive Mandate?
Apr 06, 2026
Episode 489: A Full Plate for a Young New Mayor
Mar 30, 2026
Episode 488: The Readymade Art-Bomb Who Exploded in NYC
Mar 29, 2026
Episode 487: Mamdani's New York Is Starting to Take Shape
Mar 23, 2026
Episode 486: The Mecca of Basketball Is Back
Mar 16, 2026
Episode 485: The Vital Records of Mr. George Rex, ‘The Last Slave’
Mar 13, 2026
Episode 484: An Explosive Scene at Gracie Mansion
Mar 09, 2026
Episode 483: Reviving the Missing Link in Queens
Mar 07, 2026
Episode 482: The Local Politics of America’s War in Iran
Mar 02, 2026
Episode 481: The Other Guy Was No Joke
Feb 27, 2026
Episode 480: “Curb Your Dog. Don't Let Your Dog Curb You.”
Feb 23, 2026
Episode 479: Free Buses Won’t Make NYC More Affordable. New Trains Would.
Feb 18, 2026
Episode 478: A ‘False Choice’ Between Cops and Community Workers 
Feb 16, 2026
Episode 477: A Vision Zero for Homelessness in NYC
Feb 09, 2026
Episode 476: A New Mayor Navigates a Frigid City
Feb 02, 2026
Episode 475: Mayor Mamdani Weathers His First Storm
Jan 26, 2026
Episode 474: ‘The Last Confederate Widow’ of 1960s Cruising
Jan 24, 2026
Episode 473: Ex-Mayor Quit Race But Can’t Quit the Crypto Hustle
Jan 20, 2026
Episode 472: Welcome to the Big Leagues, Team Mamdani
Jan 12, 2026
Episode 471: The Resurrection of a Brooklyn Icon
Jan 10, 2026
Episode 470: The Mayor Mamdani Interview: ‘Is It Right To Hope?’
Jan 08, 2026
Episode 469: Mamdani’s Promise and Jumaane’s Potential
Jan 05, 2026
Episode 468: A Precarious Transition Begins ‘A New Era’
Dec 29, 2025
Episode 467: One Simple Secret for Pleasantly Populated Public Spaces
Dec 28, 2025
Episode 466: A Plan To Pay for Parks
Dec 22, 2025
Episode 465: Kishkes, Knishes and a Lost New York City
Dec 19, 2025
Episode 464: ‘It’s Hard To Dig a Hole in New York City’
Dec 15, 2025
Episode 463: A New Home for a New Mayor Vowing to End Homeless Sweeps
Dec 08, 2025
Episode 462: A Vision for NYC’s Deliveristas and a Battery-Powered Future
Dec 05, 2025
Episode 461: Will Zohran Mamdani Be NYC’s 111th Mayor? Maybe Not.
Dec 01, 2025
Episode 460: City Council Speaker Is the Next Race Up
Nov 24, 2025
Episode 459: New York's Winter of Discontent — and New Hopes
Nov 17, 2025
Episode 458: Fear, Trash and Love in a Drop Dead New York City
Nov 16, 2025
Episode 457: Transition Intrigues and Somos Speaker Speculation
Nov 10, 2025
City Hall Free For All: The Mamdani Transition Begins & Patrick Gaspard on Political Power
Nov 07, 2025
Episode 455: The Kismet and the Anxiety of Street Photography
Nov 05, 2025
City Hall Free For All: It’s Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani
Nov 05, 2025
Episode 453: A Native New Yorker’s Postcard From Paris
Nov 01, 2025
City Hall Free For All: An Affordability Election & A Housing Agenda for the Next Mayor
Oct 28, 2025
Episode 451: Live from the Past, and Looking to the Future
Oct 25, 2025
City Hall Free For All: The Race Hits Its Homestretch & Bratton Sounds Alarm About a Mayor Mamdani
Oct 21, 2025
Episode 449: The Weird, Wacky World of Drew Friedman’s Drawings
Oct 19, 2025
City Hall Free For All: Tish James Indicted & Alexa Avilés on Immigration Politics
Oct 14, 2025
City Hall Free For All: An $18B Transit Cut & Sam Schwartz on Breaking Through Gridlock
Oct 07, 2025
City Hall Free For All: Eric Adams Drops Out & Tish James on Her Legal Battles with Donald Trump
Sep 30, 2025
Episode 445: ‘The Power of the Tabloids’
Sep 26, 2025
City Hall Free For All: A Crowded Mayoral Race & Jumaane Williams on Democratic Defiance
Sep 23, 2025
Episode 443: The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made an American Icon
Sep 20, 2025
Episode 442: While the Rumor Mill Is In Overdrive, Zohran Mamdani Is Running Away with the Race
Sep 15, 2025
Episode 441: Eric Adams Amps the Absurdity Up to 11
Sep 08, 2025
Episode 440: The Home Stretch Is Here
Sep 02, 2025
Episode 439: ‘They Closed the Door and Blocked the Glass and We Heard This Man Screaming in Agony‘
Aug 30, 2025
Episode 438: ‘Chipgate’ is Small Potatoes
Aug 25, 2025
Episode 437: A Pipe Dream and ‘A Key to Everything’
Aug 22, 2025
Episode 436: The Friends of Eric Adams
Aug 18, 2025
Episode 435: ‘Andrew Cuomo Reeks of Yesterday’
Aug 11, 2025
Episode 434: Mamdani Looks Mayoral While the Centrists Seem Small
Aug 04, 2025
Episode 433: ‘These Were the Real Culture Wars’
Jul 29, 2025
Episode 432: ‘C’ is for Compliance
Jul 28, 2025
Episode 431: A Father and an Immigrant and a Criminal
Jul 24, 2025
Episode 430: The Bill’s Coming Due for NY
Jul 21, 2025
Episode 429: Cuomo Is Back and NY’s Headless Horseman Season Is Here
Jul 14, 2025
Episode 428: Mamdani Derangement Syndrome Is Real
Jul 07, 2025
Episode 427: Inside Mamdani’s Construction of a New Coalition
Jul 06, 2025
Episode 426: An Aging Establishment Is Up Against a New Populist Politics
Jun 30, 2025
Episode 425: The Humbling of Andrew Cuomo Is a Changing of the Guard
Jun 25, 2025
Episode 424: ‘New York Times, You’ve Gone Rogue’
Jun 16, 2025
Episode 423: ‘A Little Bit of Amnesia’ in Ramos Endorsing Cuomo
Jun 09, 2025
Episode 422: Is Cuomo Choking?`
Jun 02, 2025
Episode 421: Kathryn Garcia Says 2025 ‘Is Much More Topsy-Turvy”
May 31, 2025
Episode 420: ‘How Do I Get a Squirrel?’
May 27, 2025
Episode 419: Cuomo's Still Coasting
May 19, 2025
Episode 418: Are the Moderates Riding 'The Silent Wave’?
May 12, 2025
Episode 417: Mamdani Momentum Hits Cuomo Cliff
May 05, 2025
Episode 416: A Different Path to Public Safety
Apr 28, 2025
Episode 415: Is Randy Running the Show While Eric Runs for Reelection?
Apr 21, 2025
Episode 414: Does Cuomo Want a Wedding or a Marriage?
Apr 14, 2025
Episode 413: Brad Lander Says NYC Can Do Better Than ‘A Bully Who’s Also a Chicken’
Apr 12, 2025
Episode 412: Adrienne Adams Says ‘I’m the Change the City Needs’
Apr 09, 2025
Episode 411: A High-Stakes Casino Contest
Mar 31, 2025
Episode 410: Andrew Cuomo Muscles Into Adrienne Adams’ Turf
Mar 24, 2025
Episode 409: A Plan to Make Subways Feel Safe Again
Mar 17, 2025
Episode 408: Jessica Ramos Says NYC Can Do Better Than Another ‘Megalomaniac Mayor’
Mar 15, 2025
Episode 407: ‘The Great Wound’ of a Self-Exiled Brooklyn Basketball Legend
Mar 12, 2025
Episode 406: Running Hard or Hardly Running?
Mar 10, 2025
Episode 405: 'Inshallah Mayor’ Zohran Mamdani Says It's All About Making NYC More Affordable
Mar 07, 2025
Episode 404: ‘Sometimes People Just Get Beaten to Death’
Mar 05, 2025
Episode 403: Cometh the Hour, Cuomo the Man?
Mar 04, 2025
Episode 402: Whitney Tilson Says NYC ‘Needs To Make Crime Illegal Again’
Feb 25, 2025
Episode 401: Two Adamses, Two Tis(c)hes and Much Too Much Tumult
Feb 25, 2025
Episode 400: Michael Blake Has ‘A Very Different Vision of What Can Be for NYC’
Feb 19, 2025
Episode 399: Time-Tunneling Into a Different Brooklyn with Jonathan Lethem
Feb 15, 2025
Episode 398: NYC Was in a Different Place on Monday Morning
Feb 11, 2025
Episode 397: Zellnor Myrie Says ‘We Cannot Cower in This Moment’
Feb 06, 2025
Episode 396: The Mayor Who Cried Wolf?
Jan 28, 2025
Episode 395: Scott Stringer Says ‘The Greatest City in the World Is Broken Now’
Jan 22, 2025
Episode 394: Adams is Sinking and Cuomo Is Looming
Jan 13, 2025
Episode 393: A New Year and a New Toll
Jan 07, 2025
Episode 392: Scenes from NYC's Long War to Take Back Its Streets from Cars
Dec 28, 2024
Episode 391: A Grim End to a Brutal Year for Eric Adams
Dec 24, 2024
Episode 390: How a Gilded Age Anti-Sex Law Bred the Modern State’s Criminalization of ‘Dangerous’ Speech
Dec 20, 2024
Episode 389: Ingrid Out
Dec 16, 2024
Episode 388: What a Diff’rence a Day Makes
Dec 09, 2024
Episode 387: Are We All Centrists Now?
Dec 02, 2024
Episode 386: A New Police Commissioner, Again
Nov 26, 2024
Episode 385: Is ‘Urban Supremacy’ Killing New York City?
Nov 23, 2024
Episode 384: The Mayor Meets the Donald at the Fights
Nov 18, 2024
Episode 383: New York Leaders Are Scrambling to Respond to Trump’s Foreseeable Win
Nov 11, 2024
Episode 382: Blood in the Water
Nov 07, 2024
Episode 381: Two Cops, One Photo
Nov 04, 2024
Episode 380: Adams and Trump Are Singing from the Same Hymnbook
Oct 28, 2024
Episode 379: The Case for Voting "Yes" to the Big Question on the Back of Your Ballot
Oct 21, 2024
Episode 378: Adams Attempts an Admin Reboot
Oct 14, 2024
Episode 377: The City Hall Soap Opera Is Suddenly Killing Off Its Cast
Oct 07, 2024
Episode 376: How A Wild New Supreme Court Decision About a Small Time Mayor’s $13,000 Tip Could Bail Out Eric Adams
Sep 30, 2024
Episode 375: Hizzoner is a Defendant Now and ‘It's Going to Get Weirder’
Sep 26, 2024
Episode 374: Could This One Simple Fix Save American Democracy?
Sep 23, 2024
Episode 373: Adams Tries To Turn the Corruption Probes Page and ‘Write My Own Story’
Sep 16, 2024
Episode 372: Adams Tries to Keep Grinding as the Feds Chip Away
Sep 09, 2024
Episode 371: Is Eric Adams Hitting the Limits of His Political Prowess?
Sep 03, 2024
Episode 370: It's All Coming Up Central Park Somehow
Aug 26, 2024
Episode 369: High Tide in New York City
Aug 19, 2024
Episode 368: Introducing Lit NYC — All Roads Lead to Language City
Aug 17, 2024
Episode 367: ‘Turn Out to Vote or Get Left to the Wolves’
Aug 12, 2024
Episode 366: Jumaane Williams on Eric Adams and ‘The Politics of Fear’
Aug 05, 2024
Episode 365: City Hall Heats Up Cold War with City Council
Jul 29, 2024
Episode 364: The Democratic Party Bites Back
Jul 22, 2024
Episode 363: The City’s Elections Are Sneaking Up Fast
Jul 15, 2024
Episode 362: ‘A Rallying Cry’ for Eric Adams
Jul 09, 2024
Episode 361: The Manhattan That Was
Jul 05, 2024
Episode 360: ‘A Good Lifeguard Never Gets Wet’
Jul 01, 2024
Episode 359: Election Night Extra: The Wright Stuff
Jun 26, 2024
Episode 358: Real Life Funnies and Sidewalk Epiphanies
Jun 22, 2024
Episode 357: The New Pride Agenda
Jun 17, 2024
Episode 356: What Happens After the Governor Pulls the Emergency Brake on Congestion Pricing?
Jun 10, 2024
Episode 355: ‘The Answer Is Always Money’
Jun 03, 2024
Episode 354: A Place That Women Ruled
Jun 01, 2024
Episode 353: The Past of New York’s Past, with Harvey Wang
May 26, 2024
Episode 352: Reign of the Summer Mayor
May 20, 2024
Episode 351: NYC’s Students Take a Seat at the Table
May 18, 2024
Episode 350: Hizzoner Meets His Holiness
May 14, 2024
Episode 349: One Video to Rule Them All
May 06, 2024
Episode 348: Is It Giuliani Time Again?
Apr 29, 2024
Episode 347: ‘Don't Fudge It in the Budget’
Apr 22, 2024
Episode 346: The Trump Trial Circus Is Here
Apr 16, 2024
Episode 345: Investigating the Detective
Apr 13, 2024
Episode 344: 'From a Concerned New Yorker’
Apr 08, 2024
Episode 343: The Power of Magical Thinking
Apr 03, 2024
Episode 342: Lucy Sante Reflects on Writing the Story of Her Life, and Her Transition
Mar 29, 2024
Episode 341: The Harassment Tax on Women
Mar 25, 2024
Episode 340: Another Death Spiral for a Manhattan Hospital
Mar 18, 2024
Episode 339: The Guard is Underground and the Vibes Are Grim
Mar 11, 2024
Episode 338: An FBI Raid and a 3-K Pickle
Mar 04, 2024
Episode 337: ‘The Whole Point of Government’
Feb 26, 2024
Episode 336: The Freaks Came Out To Write
Feb 24, 2024
Episode 335: Trump’s Trials and NYC’s Plague Year
Feb 21, 2024
Episode 334: Hazard NYC: The Gowanus Canal
Feb 14, 2024
Episode 333: Hazard NYC: The Wolff-Alport Chemical Company
Feb 14, 2024
Episode 332: Hazard NYC: The Meeker Ave. Plume
Feb 14, 2024
Episode 331: Hazard NYC: Newtown Creek
Feb 13, 2024
Episode 330: NYC's Terrible HIV and AIDS Blindspot
Feb 11, 2024
Episode 329: Tin Cup Day
Feb 05, 2024
Episode 328: Once a Cop, Always a Cop
Jan 30, 2024
Episode 327: A Staff Walkout at the Daily News
Jan 25, 2024
Episode 326: Is Democracy Reemerging Inside of NYC’s Dominant Democratic Party?
Jan 22, 2024
Episode 325: Is It a Crime, Empire State Edition
Jan 17, 2024
Episode 324: A Tale of Two Adamses
Jan 09, 2024
Episode 323: How U.S. Cities Lost the Plot on Mass Transit
Jan 05, 2024
Episode 322: Eric Adams' Deck of Jokers
Jan 03, 2024
Episode 321: New York Minutes for Ink-Stained Wretches
Dec 30, 2023
Episode 320: Another New York Minute
Dec 28, 2023
Episode 319: ‘A New York Minute’
Dec 28, 2023
Episode 318: Adams’ Angst Is Real
Dec 12, 2023
Episode 317: George Santos Defines Democracy's Deterioration
Dec 05, 2023
Episode 316: N.Y. vs. Everything
Dec 02, 2023
Episode 315: Is This ‘A City in Crisis’?
Nov 28, 2023
Episode 314: Pigeon Swag, Queens Boys and Turkey Talk
Nov 23, 2023
Episode 313: A Novel About Flying Cars Lands Right on Time
Nov 20, 2023
Episode 312: What George Santos Sees in the Mirror
Nov 18, 2023
Episode 311: A Drip Drip Drip That Eric Adams Can’t Abide
Nov 14, 2023
Episode 310: Election Extra with Ben Max
Nov 08, 2023
Episode 309: The Feds Move In and the Mayor Leans Back
Nov 06, 2023
Episode 308: The FDNY Keeps Shutting Down Migrant Shelters
Oct 30, 2023
Episode 307: NYC's New Plan for Migrant Families ‘Is Like Being a Little Bit Pregnant’
Oct 23, 2023
Episode 306: The Mayor Can't Help It
Oct 17, 2023
Episode 305: A Shrill Trump, Rude Throats and Dread Clamours
Oct 11, 2023
Episode 304: The Sign Painters’ Image Shaper
Oct 08, 2023
Episode 303: Adams Unleashes Flood of Words After Storm Silence
Oct 02, 2023
Episode 302: High Times, NYC an an Exceptional Agent of Chaos
Sep 30, 2023
Episode 301: If You Zone It, They Will Build
Sep 26, 2023
Episode 300: Three Rocks, Two Cartoonists and the Story of the Bronx Boy Behind ‘Nancy’
Sep 23, 2023
Episode 299: ‘When Does the Hard Part Start?’ This Is the Hard Part.
Sep 19, 2023
Episode 298: Why Doesn’t NYC Just Let Migrants Work?
Sep 12, 2023
Episode 297: The Mayor's Magical Thinking
Sep 06, 2023
Episode 296: New Yorkers Run Low on Sympathy for Migrants as the Feds Run Low on Sympathy for NYC
Aug 31, 2023
Episode 295: Who's in Charge Here?!
Aug 25, 2023
Episode 294: ‘The Greatest Disappointment Is the Governor’
Aug 17, 2023
Episode 293: A Different Way of Shooting Drugs
Aug 13, 2023
Episode 292: Beware of Sharks, and Drones
Aug 09, 2023
Episode 291: ‘The Radios Will Go Dark. You Will Hear Nothing.’
Aug 06, 2023
Episode 290: ‘It's Not Going to Get Any Better’
Aug 01, 2023
Episode 289: Unpacking the Eric Adams Playbook
Jul 25, 2023
Episode 288: The Three C's
Jul 19, 2023
Episode 287: A Plan for a Retail Revival
Jul 14, 2023
Episode 286: Red (Ex-Mayor) Table Talk
Jul 05, 2023
Episode 285: Big-Time Upsets in a Low Turnout Election
Jun 28, 2023
Episode 284: The Digital Revolution Is a Local NYC Story
Jun 25, 2023
Episode 283: Who By Fire, Who By Sword
Jun 21, 2023
Episode 282: The NYPD’s ‘Italian Squad’ Fought the Mob, and Mayors
Jun 16, 2023
Episode 281: The Ex-Cops Complete Their NYPD Takeover
Jun 13, 2023
Episode 280: ‘His Art Brings Joy to a Lot of People’
Jun 10, 2023
Episode 279: Gun Cops Aren’t Beat Cops, Even if Eric Adams Calls Them ‘Neighborhood Safety’ Cops
Jun 07, 2023
Episode 278: ‘This Is Why Eric Adams Makes Sense’
May 30, 2023
Episode 277: The Booksellers of Brooklyn Take Flight
May 26, 2023
Episode 276: A Retconned Origin Story
May 24, 2023
Episode 275: A Two-Trumpet Town
May 22, 2023
Episode 274: "At Best to Be Pitied, at Worst to Be Reviled"
May 13, 2023
Episode 273: City Stressed Out
May 09, 2023
Episode 272: Party City: Casinos, Weddings, and Galas, Oh My!
May 02, 2023
Episode 271: We Need To Hold the NYPD Accountable
Apr 26, 2023
Episode 270: Digidogs Unleashed In ‘Fear City’
Apr 18, 2023
Episode 269: Budget Breakdown: Mo Money Mo Problems
Apr 12, 2023
Episode 268: Trump Got Arrested and Life Went on As Usual Around NYC
Apr 05, 2023
Episode 267: What It Takes to Build Community Power
Apr 02, 2023
Episode 266: Eric Adams' Excellent(?) Albany Adventure
Mar 29, 2023
Episode 265: What's In a (NYC).Name
Mar 25, 2023
Episode 264: Who ❤️ We ❤️ NYC.nyc?
Mar 22, 2023
Episode 263: Invisible Viruses on the Big Screen
Mar 18, 2023
Episode 262: Of Mayors and Mekons
Mar 15, 2023
Episode 261: A Bad Look for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
Mar 08, 2023
Episode 260: A Pot Seller’s Post-Prohibition Plan
Mar 05, 2023
Episode 259: Phil, Till the Next Episode
Mar 01, 2023
Episode 258: ‘Crazy’ Eddie Antar Was the Original Retail Gangster
Feb 26, 2023
Episode 257: Where Eric Adams and Ron DeSantis See Eye-to-Eye
Feb 22, 2023
Episode 256: A Portrait of the (Free) Portrait Artist
Feb 19, 2023
Episode 255: George Santos Is Real-Life George Costanza
Feb 15, 2023
Episode 254: ‘It Was Very Easy to Survive, Except You Might Killed. (Probably Not.)’
Feb 10, 2023
Episode 253: ‘Horn Maintenance’
Feb 05, 2023
Episode 252: A ‘High-Risk’ Shell Game from Eric Adams’ NYPD
Feb 01, 2023
Episode 251: The Fletcher Family on Remembering the Husband and Father They Lost to COVID
Jan 28, 2023
Episode 250: Eric Adams: "I Am the Colgate"
Jan 25, 2023
Episode 249: Building a Bigger Tent to Build More Housing
Jan 22, 2023
Episode 248: Rikers and the ‘World‘ Tour to Nowhere
Jan 17, 2023
Episode 247: A State of the State for an Unsettled State
Jan 12, 2023
Episode 246: 2023 Predictions Through a Hazy Crystal Ball
Jan 05, 2023
Episode 245: The View From the Broken End of the Bottle
Dec 29, 2022
Episode 244: The Stories Behind the Pictures
Dec 25, 2022
Episode 243: Libraries Are on the Chopping Block in Eric Adams' New York
Dec 22, 2022
Episode 242: ‘A Typical Kid’
Dec 18, 2022
Episode 241: Fear and Felonies
Dec 14, 2022
Episode 240: Get Intimate With the City You Only Thought You Knew
Dec 11, 2022
Episode 239: ‘Not on Miss New York’s Watch’
Dec 07, 2022
Episode 238: The City Wants to Help People Who Don’t Want To Be Helped
Dec 02, 2022
Episode 237: Eric Adams' New Mental Health Plan Is Less Than It Seems
Dec 01, 2022
Episode 236: NYC’s New Weed Wild West
Nov 27, 2022
Episode 235: ‘Democrats Are a Huge Part of the Problem’
Nov 22, 2022
Episode 234: Mmmm, Chaat Dogs
Nov 20, 2022
Episode 233: Bucks and Blame to Spread Around
Nov 16, 2022
Episode 232: Was COVID NYC a Better Version of Ourselves?
Nov 13, 2022
Episode 231: Hochul Makes History as Red Wave Falls Short
Nov 09, 2022
Episode 230: Andrew Cuomo Says Cities Are in Trouble in a ‘Post-Covid World’
Nov 06, 2022
Episode 229: Will Lee Zeldin Defund the MTA?
Nov 02, 2022
Episode 228: Lee Zeldin Is ‘That Guy’
Oct 30, 2022
Episode 227: Sandy Was Just the Start. Is New York City Building Resiliently Enough for What’s Coming Next?
Oct 26, 2022
Episode 226: The Girl From Marvel’s Boy-Club Bullpen Tells All About Old Times Square
Oct 23, 2022
Episode 225: ‘Politics is Tidal’ - Can Kathy Hochul Stand Up to the Wave?
Oct 21, 2022
Episode 224: How NYC's Suburbs Could Decide America's Future
Oct 16, 2022
Episode 223: Big Qs in Fine Print on the Back of Your Ballot
Oct 12, 2022
Episode 222: ‘Same As It Always Is’—Manny Kirchheimer’s New York, and His Pandemic Time Warp
Oct 09, 2022
Episode 221: An Open Invitation to Mayor Adams
Oct 04, 2022
Episode 220: From Emperor of the City to ‘Total Humiliation‘
Oct 02, 2022
Episode 219: The Mapmaker's Big ‘Surprise’
Sep 29, 2022
Episode 218: A Nap for the City that Never Sleeps?
Sep 21, 2022
Episode 217: The Overwhelming Seductions of New York
Sep 16, 2022
Episode 216: Arsenic and Old Apartments
Sep 07, 2022
Episode 215: Does Eric Adams Want To Be the Mayor or Just Play the Mayor?
Aug 31, 2022
Episode 214: Election Night Extra: A Lot of L's to Go Around
Aug 24, 2022
Episode 213: Bringing Honesty to the Dangerousness Debate
Aug 10, 2022
Episode 212: Dangerousness and the District Attorney
Aug 03, 2022
Episode 211: Can Old Dems Learn New Tricks?
Jul 28, 2022
Episode 210: The First Responders the FDNY Left Behind
Jul 21, 2022
Episode 209: Summer in the City
Jul 13, 2022
Episode 208: Brooklyn's Bad Machine
Jul 06, 2022
Episode 207: Election Night: The Empire Strikes Back
Jun 29, 2022
Episode 206: The One Sound You Do Not Want To Hear By the Beach
Jun 23, 2022
Episode 205: A Big Personality, Thin Skin and a Low Bar
Jun 16, 2022
Episode 204: The Swagger-Stagger Situation
Jun 10, 2022
Episode 203: The New Yorkest
Jun 02, 2022
Episode 202: Sixty-odd Candidates In Search of a District
May 25, 2022
Episode 201: Dead Souls, Brooklyn Edition
May 19, 2022
Episode 200: The Livest One
May 12, 2022
Episode 199: Albany Strangeness in the Multiverse of Map Madness
May 05, 2022
Episode 198: The Cave Cop Who Transformed New York City
Apr 26, 2022
Episode 197: Flipping the Albany Script With Eddie Gibbs
Apr 20, 2022
Episode 196: Everything At Once
Apr 13, 2022
Episode 195: The Big, Slow Ugly
Apr 06, 2022
Episode 194: The More Things Change
Mar 31, 2022
Episode 193: The Coming Home Health Care Conundrum
Mar 23, 2022
Episode 192: Shots Fired in a Vital City
Mar 16, 2022
Episode 191: Chief Shenanigan Enthusiast
Mar 09, 2022
Episode 190: ‘Ain't Gonna Change Nothing’
Mar 03, 2022
Episode 189: This week in Mayor Adams
Feb 24, 2022
Dark Store Days: The State of New York Real Estate
Feb 17, 2022
Hustlers and Bureaucracy Choke the Undocumented Workers Fund
Feb 16, 2022
Episode 186: Paid in Full
Feb 10, 2022
Episode 185: An Island Apart
Feb 03, 2022
Episode 184: The Blueprint
Jan 27, 2022
Episode 183: Every New Yorker’s Nightmare
Jan 20, 2022
Episode 182: A Nonprofit War on Workers?
Jan 13, 2022
Episode 181: The Men Who Put the “P” into “Politics”
Jan 06, 2022
Episode 180: Speaking With the Speaker
Jan 01, 2022
Episode 179: Park Wars
Dec 21, 2021
Episode 178: Real Big Trouble
Dec 15, 2021
Episode 177: Election Reform After Dark
Dec 08, 2021
Episode 176: What We're In For
Dec 02, 2021
Episode 175: Word Around Town
Nov 24, 2021
Episode 174: Helluva Town
Nov 18, 2021
Episode 173: New York Forever
Nov 13, 2021
Episode 172: A New Year for New York Focus
Nov 05, 2021
Episode 171: Election Night Extra
Nov 03, 2021
Episode 170: Who Killed Eric Garner?
Oct 28, 2021
Brickhouse Bonus: What We Read When We Read Max Read
Oct 27, 2021
Episode 169: Issa Ibrahim, and his Eulogy for Jamaica, Queens
Oct 26, 2021
Episode 168: Suites, Elites, and Tik Tok Girls
Oct 21, 2021
Episode 167: Is There Life After Politics?
Oct 14, 2021
Brickhouse Bonus: On and Off the Record With Gabriel Snyder
Oct 13, 2021
Episode 166: Eulogies for New York City
Oct 07, 2021
Episode 165: Schools Scramble
Sep 30, 2021
Episode 164: Rats, Us, and A Murder Most Owl
Sep 23, 2021
Episode 163: Rules and Drool, School is in Session
Sep 16, 2021
Episode 162: Who by Water and Who by Fire
Sep 08, 2021
Episode 161: A New Day and the Same Old Problems
Sep 02, 2021
Episode 160: ‘So Soon After 9/11’
Aug 26, 2021
Episode 159: Rematch?
Aug 19, 2021
Episode 158: NY to Cuomo: It's Not Us, It's You
Aug 12, 2021
Episode 157: ‘I Prayed for a James Report’
Aug 08, 2021
Episode 156: The Emperor Has No Clothes
Aug 05, 2021
Episode 155: The View from Room 9
Jul 29, 2021
Episode 154: Shooting Streets and Selling Dust
Jul 25, 2021
Episode 153: Book Club: (Low)Life
Jul 15, 2021
Episode 152: Alvin Bragg's Bragging Rights
Jul 09, 2021
Episode 151: Fun City Follies
Jul 02, 2021
Episode 150: Book Club: Life on the Line
Jun 25, 2021
Episode 149: Decision Day
Jun 23, 2021
Episode 148: Homestretch
Jun 18, 2021
Episode 147: The Gracie Bunch
Jun 10, 2021
Episode 146: The End Is Near
Jun 03, 2021
Episode 145: Down and Out in New York City
May 27, 2021
Episode 144: Book Club: Last Call
May 20, 2021
Episode 143: Thomas Kenniff, The 'Boots on the Ground' District Attorney Candidate
May 16, 2021
Episode 142: Who DA FAQ (Part II)
May 13, 2021
Episode 141: Who DA FAQ? (Part I)
May 07, 2021
Episode 140: The Manhattan DA Race that just hits different.
May 05, 2021
Episode 139: Book Club: The Limits of Fulfillment
Apr 29, 2021
Episode 138: The Woke Up Show
Apr 22, 2021
FAQ.NYC Gets Dopey
Apr 16, 2021
Episode 137: The Turning Point
Apr 15, 2021
Emma Whitford tells us what's up with the new rent relief.
Apr 10, 2021
Episode 136: Scott Stringer's Dumpster Pool Vision
Apr 08, 2021
Episode 135: New York's Police Union Problem
Apr 01, 2021
Quickhouse 3: Just Off the Purest Blue
Mar 25, 2021
Episode 133: Nursing Homes are Just the Tip of Cuomo’s Coronavirus Iceberg
Mar 25, 2021
Quickhouse 2: Shockingly White Clouds
Mar 18, 2021
Episode 131: Radical Ron Kim
Mar 18, 2021
Episode 130: A Remarkable Ramble With Rangel
Mar 14, 2021
Welcome to the Quickhouse!
Mar 12, 2021
Episode 128: Cuomo in the Corner
Mar 08, 2021
Cuomo's Vaccine Passports and NYC's Shotty Shotspotter technology
Mar 08, 2021
Episode 126: The Gotham Book Prize and the State of Gotham
Mar 02, 2021
Episode 125: Ray McGuire Will Be Your Huckleberry
Feb 25, 2021
Episode 124: City on the Verge
Feb 18, 2021
Episode 123: Dianne Morales Doesn't Have a Poker Face
Feb 11, 2021
Episode 122: Kathryn Garcia's Not About the Razzle Dazzle
Feb 04, 2021
Episode 121: Disaster Follows Shaun Donovan
Jan 28, 2021
Episode 120: Andrew Yang's New York Math
Jan 22, 2021
Episode 119: State Dad Always Wins
Jan 14, 2021
Episode 118: Down Ballot Doings
Jan 06, 2021
Episode 117: Rent Relief
Dec 30, 2020
Episode 116: Smack Talk Special
Dec 24, 2020
Episode 115: New York’s New Choice/s
Dec 17, 2020
Episode 114: Confessions of a Psycho News Guy
Dec 10, 2020
Episode 113: Schoolhouse Whiplash
Dec 02, 2020
Episode 112: The David Dinkins Interview
Nov 25, 2020
Episode 111: An 'Obnoxious and Offensive' Schools Closure
Nov 19, 2020
Episode 110: A Bridge in Brooklyn to Toll You
Nov 13, 2020
Episode 109: Election 2020
Nov 06, 2020
Episode 108: TRUMP ACDC
Nov 01, 2020
Episode 107: Local Focus and the National Picture
Oct 28, 2020
Episode 106: A Health Crisis and a Fiscal Crisis
Oct 22, 2020
Episode 105: Imbalance of Power
Oct 15, 2020
Episode 104: The Mount Vernon Tapes
Oct 09, 2020
Episode 103: The Relentless Trump Hunter
Oct 01, 2020
Episode 102: School Daze
Sep 24, 2020
Episode 101: Supportive Housing and the Brickhouse
Sep 19, 2020
Episode 100: The Storefront Domino Effect
Sep 13, 2020
Episode 99: School for Scandal
Sep 05, 2020
Episode 98: Drain Brammage
Aug 27, 2020
Episode 97: Six Ways To Sunday
Aug 21, 2020
Episode 96: What Now?
Aug 13, 2020
Episode 95: The Window Is Blowing, The Sky Is Falling
Aug 06, 2020
Episode 94: Jumaane Williams and Jawanza James Williams
Jul 30, 2020
Episode 93: The Musical Episode
Jul 24, 2020
Episode 92: City in a Corner
Jul 16, 2020
Episode 91: NYC on the Edge
Jul 09, 2020
Episode 90: Ritchie Torres on Policing the NYPD and the ‘Strength of My Own Operation’
Jun 30, 2020
Episode 89: Primary Shakeups as People Wake Up
Jun 24, 2020
Episode 88: Things Accelerate
Jun 18, 2020
Albert Fox Cahn talks about the upcoming vote on the NYC Post Act
Jun 17, 2020
Episode 87: Something Old, Something New and Something Gone
Jun 11, 2020
Episode 86: ‘It Can Happen To Anyone’
Jun 03, 2020
Episode 85: Cuomo, YOLO, Oh No
May 28, 2020
Episode 84: One Wave Down
May 21, 2020
Episode 83: Cor-oh-no Blues
May 14, 2020
Episode 82: Nap Time for the City That Never Sleeps
May 07, 2020
Episode 81: Rat Gangs
Apr 30, 2020
Episode 80: The Test
Apr 23, 2020
Episode 79: Things Fall Apart
Apr 16, 2020
Professor Christina Greer interviews Elinor Tatum of the Amsterdam News
Apr 13, 2020
Episode 78: Stay the Fuck Home
Apr 09, 2020
Cut down to the bone! NYC nurses issue a list of demands.
Apr 06, 2020
Episode 77: This Ain't Fine
Apr 02, 2020
Interview: Alexandra Scaggs educated us on The Federal Reserve, Municipal Bonds, and Why it Matters.
Mar 30, 2020
Episode 76: 'Unlike Anything We've Ever Experienced as New Yorkers'
Mar 26, 2020
Episode 75: New (Not) Normal
Mar 19, 2020
Episode 74: Evictions Go Viral
Mar 13, 2020
Episode 73: The Safe Choice?
Mar 05, 2020
Episode 72: Watching Weinstein: Just Another Trial
Feb 27, 2020
Episode 71: Surveillance in the City: A New Podcast
Feb 21, 2020
Episode 70: Stop, Frisk, Apologize, Rinse, Repeat
Feb 13, 2020
Episode 69: Better Late Than Never?
Feb 06, 2020
Episode 68: Eric Adams is Packing Heat
Jan 30, 2020
Episode 67: Talking About Pictures
Jan 24, 2020
Episode 66: The Frightening Future of Work
Jan 16, 2020
Episode 65: New York City Trash Talk Falls Short
Jan 10, 2020
Episode 64: The Killing of Tessa Majors
Dec 19, 2019
Episode 63: Mother of Exiles
Dec 13, 2019
Episode 62: Penn Station's Original Sin
Dec 09, 2019
Episode 61: Tears in the Rain
Nov 28, 2019
Episode 60: Digital Stop and Frisk
Nov 21, 2019
Episode 59: Civics Lessons
Nov 14, 2019
Episode 58: NYC's No-Contest Election
Nov 06, 2019
Episode 57: As Poor People Are Beaten for Seeking Help, Where's the Mayor?
Nov 01, 2019
Episode 56: Corey Johnson on "Removing an Indelible Stain"
Oct 24, 2019
Episode 55: The Water Miracle
Oct 17, 2019
Episode 54: Border/Lines
Oct 11, 2019
Episode 53: Life and Death, Porn and Potter's Fields
Oct 03, 2019
Episode 52: Train Pain and Gain
Sep 26, 2019
Episode 51: Testilying, Then and Now
Sep 19, 2019
Episode 50: A Verb, a Noun, and What?
Sep 12, 2019
Episode 49: (No) Escape From New York
Aug 21, 2019
Episode 48: Just Us, and No More Jeffrey Epstein
Aug 15, 2019
Episode 47: A Bike Mayor
Aug 08, 2019
Episode 46: View From The Plaza
Jul 29, 2019
Episode 45: Fear City, ICE Edition
Jul 18, 2019
Episode 44: Queens Rules
Jul 11, 2019
Episode 43: Who’s Counted, and Who Counts
Jul 04, 2019
Episode 42: Cabán Rocks Queens
Jun 26, 2019
Episode 41: A New York City Education
Jun 20, 2019
Episode 40: The Meek Mill Interview: ‘Ate Alive in the Criminal System’
Jun 13, 2019
Episode 39: Just Us, and The Queens District Attorney Debate
May 30, 2019
Episode 38: The Ghost of Hot John Lindsay
May 23, 2019
Episode 37: Just Us, and Officer Daniel Pantaleo
May 16, 2019
Episode 36: Black Boys, Ready to Die
May 09, 2019
Episode 35: Legal Pot Goes Up In Smoke
May 02, 2019
Episode 34: Door-to-Door War
Apr 25, 2019
Episode 33: Dirty Data Dystopia
Apr 18, 2019
Episode 32: A Tale of Two Pre-Ks
Apr 11, 2019
Episode 31: Just Us episode 1
Apr 04, 2019
Episode 30: Ferry Follies
Apr 04, 2019
Episode 29: MacDoodle Street, or, A Pod for Visual Voluptuaries
Mar 28, 2019
Episode 28: A New Day for the Oldest Profession?
Mar 22, 2019
Episode 27: Prosecutor's Promise: I'll Hammer Less
Mar 14, 2019
Episode 26: The Fusion Explosion
Mar 06, 2019
Episode 25: Nefarious Reasons in a Special Election
Feb 27, 2019
Episode 24: Amazon's Prime Decepticon
Feb 14, 2019
Episode 23: No Access
Feb 07, 2019
Episode 22: ICE's Courthouse Jump Offs
Jan 31, 2019
Episode 21: El Chapo's Burgundy Burn
Jan 24, 2019
Episode 20: New York's Californication
Jan 17, 2019
Episode 19: L-pocalypse Nah
Jan 10, 2019
Episode 18: Our 2018 Kicker
Dec 20, 2018
Episode 17: Nazis and Street Fights in Victory City
Dec 13, 2018
Episode 16: Albany's Sex Crimes Horror Show
Dec 06, 2018
Episode 15: NYCHA's SOS
Nov 29, 2018
Episode 14: Ugly Optical Illusion
Nov 15, 2018
Episode 13: Fresh From the Election Day Coup
Nov 07, 2018
Episode 12: The ‘Authentically Effervescent’ Mr. Johnson
Nov 01, 2018
Episode 11: Molinaro, the Mooch & the State of the N.Y. GOP
Oct 25, 2018
Episode 10: November Stakes
Oct 11, 2018
Episode 9: Jumaane's 'No Inside Dude'
Oct 04, 2018
8.2 Short: Jumaane Williams
Oct 03, 2018
8.1 Short: Howie Hawkins
Oct 02, 2018
Episode 8: STRINGER
Sep 27, 2018
Episode 7: IDC Heads Roll, and so Does the Cuomo Machine
Sep 14, 2018
Episode 6: How Thou Ought to Vote
Sep 06, 2018
Episode 5: AG Hopefuls Talk RE & DJT
Aug 30, 2018
Episode 4: The Curse of Tom Suozzi
Aug 23, 2018
Episode 3: FAQ Meets BdB
Aug 17, 2018
Episode 2: De Blasio’s Moon Shot Mission to Albany
Aug 09, 2018
Episode 1: The Return of John Liu
Aug 02, 2018