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LISTEN: A Native New Yorker’s Postcard From Paris
Alex Brook Lynn, FAQ NYC’s original executive producer, rejoins the podcast to talk with Harry Siegel about New York City’s election, and how and why Paris — which has all the same big urban issues — has taken a different approach to providing things like affordable housing for working class people, childcare, and more.
Team FAQ
Co-Hosts: Dr. Christina Greer, Katie Honan and executive producer Harry Siegel
Editor and Engineer: Giulia Hjort
Alumni: Azi Paybarah, Alex Brook Lynn
The New Yorkest podcast delivers a new conversation most every Monday, along with interviews, special episodes, occasional mini-series and more.
Recent Episodes
LISTEN: An Affordability Election and a Housing Agenda for the Next Mayor
In episode six of City Hall Free For All, the hosts give one last look at the election in its closing days, as early voting numbers are through the roof and a Mamdani mayoralty looks almost inevitable with Republican Curtis Sliwa and Andrew Cuomo running as an independent splitting the…
LISTEN: Live from the Past, and Looking to the Future
Like Mike Bloomberg after 9/11, “Zohran Mamdani is another person facing not only a moment of crisis but a kind of tectonic shift. We all feel it in our guts: We’re not in Kansas anymore. We know it’s not just another election, that 2025 is not just another year in…
LISTEN: The Race Hits Its Homestretch and Bill Bratton Sounds the Alarm About a Mayor Mamdani
In episode five of City Hall Free for All, the hosts debrief the first mayoral debate and preview the second one — co-moderated by our own Katie Honan! — as Andrew Cuomo struggles to gain ground against frontrunner Zohran Mamdani with wild card Curtis Sliwa also in the mix. Plus,…
LISTEN: The Weird, Wacky World of Drew Friedman’s Drawings
The legendary illustrator talks with LIT NYC hosts Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel about what he wants to illustrate now that he no longer needs to take assignments, how New York City shaped his work, why he thinks being called the “Vermeer of the Borscht Belt” (the title of the…
LISTEN: The AG Is Indicted, and Alexa Avilés Unpacks the Rhetoric of Resistance
In episode four of City Hall Free for All, the hosts discuss the dubious criminal case against Letitia James, Andrew Cuomo’s ambivalent reaction that move by Donald Trump’s Justice Department, and much more. Then, City Council Immigration Chair and longtime Democratic Socialists of American member Alexa Avilés joins for a…
LISTEN: An $18 Billion Transit Cut Is No Way to Cut Through Gridlock
The Trump administration is using the federal shutdown to snatch away money it’s already committed to huge New York projects that are already ongoing. All that and much more gets discussed on the latest episode of City Hall Free for All, along with a conversation with “Gridlock Sam” Schwartz about…
LISTEN: Letitia James Discusses Her Legal Battles with Donald Trump, and More
”I decided to ride the wave that I was witnessing in my beloved Brooklyn, and that wave was young people,” New York Attorney General Tish James said as she spoke with Katie Honan and Harry Siegel about the mayor’s race, her battles with Donald Trump in both his presidential terms…
LISTEN: ‘The Tabloids Were Comic Books for Adults’
Jonathan Mahler joins LIT NYC hosts Harry Siegel and Amy Sohn to discuss his sweeping new book, The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990: “The tabs were this incredibly paradoxical force in New York during these years. On the one hand,…
LISTEN: A Crowded Mayoral Race and Jumaane Williams on Democratic Defiance
The FAQ NYC podcast is teaming up with Max Politics for a special limited series with hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan, Harry Siegel and Ben Max digging into all the latest in the mayor’s race — and what’s at stake for the city’s future. In the debut episode, Public Advocate Jumaane…
LISTEN: The It Girl of the Air and Her Messy New York Marriage
“George Putnam was not a nice guy. Amelia Earhart, however, was a terrific person. The thing is, you don’t get women going to the moon, which is happening, we don’t get so many of the women aviators in this world, without George Putnam, a Machiavellian narcissist who did things like…
LISTEN: 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 Hochul has endorsed the…
LISTEN: 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…