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LISTEN: Eric Adams Is in the Single Digits
How did the mayor end up so far behind the 8 ball that he’s polling in the single digits in his run for re-elction? His press strategy, if that’s even the word for it, is one part of the problem. And recent headlines about how his cronies keep putting NYC up for sale surely aren’t helping…
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: ‘Andrew Cuomo Reeks of Yesterday’
What is Andrew Cuomo thinking with his weird new approach to social media, and wild swings at Zohran Mamdani? Will yesterday’s leaders ever clear the stage, and will tomorrow’s likely leaders get seriously vetted before they’re vested with tremendous power? The FAQ NYC hosts discuss all that and much more,…
LISTEN: Mamdani Looks Mayoral While the Centrists Seem Small
Hosts Katie Honan and Harry Siegel dig into a stunning Midtown shooting — the second in seven months in which a gunman traveling to New York City to murder businesspeople — and how the mayoral candidates responded to that. Plus, Katie goes deep on one simple trick for getting free…
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LISTEN: ‘C’ is for Compliance
The FAQ NYC hosts dig into the Trump administration’s latest demands for compliance, why Mayor Eric Adams insists New York is powerless to enforce its own laws and ordinances inside of the federal office building in lower Manhattan now doubling as a makeshift jail, and how the Department of Homeland…
LISTEN: A Father and an Immigrant and a Criminal
In the latest episode of LIT NYC, host Katie Honan talks with author Radha Vatsal, a speechwriter at city hall by day, to discuss her new novel about old New York, No. 10 Doyers Street, and “a past that was not as black and white as we make it out…
LISTEN: The Bill’s Coming Due for New York
Andrew Rein of the Citizen Budget Commission comes joins the FAQ NYC podcast to talk about the deep hole the city and state are in even before Washington makes more social safety net spending cuts. When New York’s been in trouble before, the feds spent billions. Now the Trump administration…
LISTEN: Cuomo Charges Ahead in Centrists’ Game of Chicken
As Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams keep playing centrist chicken, the FAQ NYC podcast digs into all the latest developments in an upside down mayoral race where polls show a generic centrist would be tough to beat but the candidates clogging the middle lane now are each way behind in…
LISTEN: Mamdani Derangement Syndrome Is Real
It seems like no one — from President Donald Trump to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, the New York Post to the New York Times — can seem to line up a clean swing at Zohran Mamdani. Instead, the young socialist who just upended Democratic politics keeps benefitting from the wild shots…
LISTEN: Inside Mamdani’s Construction of a New Coalition
What just happened, how did New York City get here, and what happens now?! Three guests with different behind-the-scenes perspectives about Zohran Mamdani’s winning primary campaign and his alignment with the Democratic Socialists of America — Narrative Wars writer Michael Lange, city historian Asad Dandia, and City and State Editor Peter…
LISTEN: An Aging Establishment Is Up Against a New Populist Politics
After Zohran Mamdani’s stunning upset of Andrew Cuomo, his opponents inside and outside of New York City and the Democratic Party are struggling to come to terms with the ascending left-wing he represents and the new voters he delivered. Hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel discuss that and…
LISTEN: The Humbling of Andrew Cuomo Is a Changing of the Guard
“Whatever brought them to the Cuomo party, they’re now thinking ‘What am I going to do in November?’” On an historic night for Zohran Mamdani, Katie Honan phoned in from Andrew Cuomo’s forlorn “celebration” moments after he conceded and as workers were already taking down the bunting. New York Law…
LISTEN: ‘New York Times, You’ve Gone Rogue’
First, the New York Times reported that it would no longer endorse in local races. Then, it put together a panel of 15 New Yorkers to issue a sort-of endorsement with nearly half of its members, including FAQ NYC host Christina Greer, favoring Brad Lander. Then, just after Lander began…