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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.

  1. 7 HR AGO

    Episode 443: The It Girl of the Air and Her Messy Marriage

    Laurie Gwen Shapiro, the author of "The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made an American Icon," joins Harry Siegel and Amy Sohn to dig into what they don't tell you in the children's books about the life and death of the world's most famous female flier.

    57 min

  2. 5 DAYS AGO

    Episode 442: While the Rumor Mill Is In Overdrive, Zohran Mamdani Is Running Away with the Race

    While Eric Adams says Andrew Cuomo is spreading fake rumors that he’s out, even Donald Trump seems resigned to the idea that Zorhan Mamdani will be New York City’s next mayor — and is threatening to punish the city and the state now that Gov. Kathy Hocul has endorsed the Democratic nominee. The FAQ NYC hosts discuss all that and much more from another jam-packed week in New York City.

    19 min

  3. 8 SEPT

    Episode 441: Eric Adams Amps the Absurdity Up to 11

    The incumbent mayor polling in the single digits regained the spotlight after Labor Day as he insisted he was running to somehow win a second term, not auditioning for a job as the Trump administration's new ambassador to Saudi Arabia. But even then, he seemed at least as concerned with dragging down Andrew Cuomo as he did in lifting himself up. The hosts run down all that and more more from a week so wild that the thing where the Adams campaign invited Muslim leaders to City Hall to celebrate the Prophet Muhammed's birthday, but told the press that it was a mayoral endorsement event, hardly got noticed.

    24 min

  4. 2 SEPT

    Episode 440: The Home Stretch Is Here

    The summer’s done, Jerrold Nadler is ending his storied Congressional career at the end of his term, nodding at the need for generational renewal in the Democratic Party, and it looks like Eric Adams might be out of work soon, too, as Zohran Mamdani has maintained a healthy lead in the mayoral race entering its final two-month sprint.

    29 min

  5. 30 AUG

    Episode 439: ‘They Closed the Door and Blocked the Glass and We Heard This Man Screaming in Agony‘

    Just two lawyers have remained inside 26 Federal Plaza every day as it’s become the epicenter of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda in New York City, with “large masked men with guns” stationed outside of courtrooms to drag away people showing up for civil hearings. Allison Cutler and Benjamin Remy of the New York Legal Assistant Group’s Immigrant Protection Unit talk with Harry Siegel about what what’s different now than in Trump’s first term as he’s now targeting institutions as much as individuals, what they’ve witnessed inside the courthouse building in Lower Manhattan — and why those scenes are coming soon to a street near you.

    1h 3m

  6. 25 AUG

    Episode 438: ‘Chipgate’ is Small Potatoes

    Katie Honan never wants to be the story and is "tired of telling the story" but she recaps and reflects on a very weird week, why she's "filled with sadness about Winnie," and the film-noir feeling of getting left, quite literally, holding the bag full of crumbled chips and $300:

    40 min

  7. 22 AUG

    Episode 437: A Pipe Dream and ‘A Key to Everything’

    It's an Off Cycle episode, with photographer Stanley Greenberg sitting down with Harry Siegel and guest host Lizzie Walsh to talk about the epic new Waterworks: The Hidden Water System of New York. He discusses how the DEP tried to stop his first edition of Waterworks from being published after 9/11, how COVID helped lead him to create a totally new second edition, and much more.

    49 min

  8. 18 AUG

    Episode 436: The Friends of Eric Adams

    How did the mayor end up so far behind the 8 ball that he's polling in the single digits in his independent run to win a second term? His press strategy, if that's even the word for it, is one part of the problem, and the signs of a city for sale as he's likely on his way out aren't helping.

    29 min
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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.

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  • Creator
    FAQ NYC
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2025
  • Episodes
    453
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2025 FAQ NYC LLC
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