Faq Nyc

Chrissy and Harry discuss a week where the earth shook, the sun hid and everything else in New York City kept on ticking, plus how Mayor Eric Adams is positioning himself for his reelection campaign next year and much more.

Albert Fox Cahn of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project breaks down the problems with the mayor’s plan to deploy "weapons detectors" — which are really just metal tube detectors — in the train system. Plus hosts Chrissy, Katie and Harry discuss the NYPD's hyper-aggressive new approach to its perceived enemies on social media, and much more.

The writer returns to the pod for an depth-conversation about her new memoir, I Heard Her Call My Name.

Hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel discuss the Adams administration's women problem — and why his political rivals aren't talking about it — Trump's trials, the groups railing against congestion pricing and much more.

Hosts Chrissy, Katie and Harry talk subway scares and safety, and Politico New York health care reporter Maya Kaufman breaks down her reporting on Beth Israel transferring out seriously ill ER patients and much more.

Hosts Chrissy, Katie and Harry discuss Kathy Hochul's wild decision to deploy the National Guard in New York City's subway system, and much more.

Chrissy, Katie and Harry dig into what's happening with Winnie Greco, Eric Adams and the feds, and Politico NY education reporter Madina Touré breaks down what's happening with the city's badly needed yet under-filled 3-K program.

Hosts Christina and Harry talk about e-bike fires, Letitia James’s winning streak, and much more.

In a pre-internet world, the Village Voice was a newspaper like no other: a haven for writers about avant garde arts, Black politics, queer identity and a million things more — and that's after the pages devoted to exposing the seamy side of New York City politics. In this episode of FAQ NYC, Alyssa Katz, the executive editor of THE CITY who worked at the Voice early in her career, interviews Tricia Romano, author of the new book "The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of The Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture."

Hosts Chrissy and Katie discuss the $364 million former President Trump was ordered to pay to New York in a fraud case, as well as his brand-new sneakers and the FBI's investigation into the FDNY. Plus, there's a Vital City interview between physician and epidemiologist Jay Varma and Sociologist Erik Klinenberg, author of the newly published book ‘2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.’

The Gowanus Canal is a “toxic Wonderland” in the midst of a neighborhood undergoing a complicated transformation. Hear from locals, government officials and developers about the future of the area — and what challenges stand in the way of a cleaner, more resilient community. Samantha Maldonado, senior reporter at THE CITY,  and independent journalist Jordan Gass-Pooré dig in on the final episode of Hazard NYC, a four-part FAQ NYC Presents limited series exploring the city’s Superfund sites.

A small patch of land and the buildings located on it contain radiological contamination, posing a cancer risk for workers on the site and nearby neighbors. Work is ongoing to get rid of the threat — but it hasn’t been easy to get there. Samantha Maldonado, senior reporter at THE CITY,  and independent journalist Jordan Gass-Pooré dig in on episode three of Hazard NYC, a four-part FAQ NYC Presents limited series exploring the city’s Superfund sites.

An underground spill of chemicals in North Brooklyn is the latest focus of community efforts to clean up a neighborhood that’s long dealt with industrial pollution. Hear from locals who live on top of the so-called Meeker Avenue Plume and want people to remember, as one neighbor said, “It’s more than just a toxic site.” THE CITY’s senior reporter Samantha Maldonado and independent journalist Jordan Gass-Pooré dive in on episode two of Hazard NYC, a four-part FAQ NYC Presents limited series exploring the city’s Superfund sites.

Newtown Creek is one of the country’s most polluted waterways. Flooding from sea level rise and storms threatens to spread the creek’s contamination and bring pollution from outside the water into it. The feds are figuring out how to include climate change into the clean-up plan they’re developing. THE CITY’s senior reporter Samantha Maldonado and independent journalist Jordan Gass-Pooré dive in on episode one of Hazard NYC, a four-part FAQ NYC Presents limited series exploring the city’s Superfund sites.

Guest host Richard Kim, THE CITY's editor in chief, talks to journalists Kai Wright and Lizzy Ratner about their Blindspot podcast digging into the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and focusing on overlooked populations including intravenous drug users, incarcerated people, and the pediatric patients separated from their families "who lived and died their entire lives on the ward of Harlem Hospital" — and the individuals and communities who stepped up and stepped in where institutions failed.

Will Eric Adams finally have his Aaron Judge year in Albany, or at least get north of the Mendoza line? The FAQ hosts discuss that, the dark and distorted ways local New York City news is showing up nationally as the presidential election gets underway and much more.

On the FAQ NYC podcast, Chrissy, Katie and Harry discuss the brouhaha over a police officer pulling over Public Safety Chair Yusef Salaam in the middle of an online City Council hearing, and much more. Plus, Craig Gurian of the Anti-Discrimination Center explains his group's settlement with the city that sharply cuts the share of affordable housing units that can be set aside for people inside of a given community district — and why that’s a good thing. Listen here.

Journalists Ellen Moynihan, Chris Sommerfeldt and Michael Sheridan talk to host Katie Honan about why almost the entire staff of New York's hometown paper is walking out of their newsroom, such as it is, on Thursday, and why that matters.

Do old politicians ever learn new tricks? And what do they do when new politicians try and claim their spaces? The FAQ NYC crew discusses all of that, and much more.

Katie Honan, Christina Greer and Harry Siegel discuss the mayor and the governor's budget proposals, Eric Adams' legal defense and campaign fundraising, and more.