Faq Nyc

A Republican beat an incumbent to claim a Council seat in the Bronx, while a Republican incumbent fell short in Brooklyn.

Forget about Trump testifying and everything else from another jam-packed week in New York City: Chrissy, Katie and Harry spend all of this episode talking about the FBI's raid of his chief fundraiser's house and where that leaves Eric Adams and New York City.

Co-hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel discuss kids in tents, city hall’s crude insult comedy, Eric Adams’ strong political hand and much more.

Christine Quinn and Bishop Matthew Heyd explain how their new coalition, called NY Sane, aims to pressure the mayor and governor to treat migrants the same way they would any one else seeking shelter here.

Co-hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel discuss Eric Adams' discipline problem, Republican allies, his multi-lingual AI voice avatar and much more.

What did Eric Adams trip south of the border accomplish? The FAQ NYC hosts discuss that and much more in an episode centered on how the world's events register, with or without pomp and circumstance, in the city's politics.

Katie Honan talks with Aviram Cohen about his work supporting brothers Carlos and Miguel Cevallos as their hand-painted signs went from a secret of sorts to a sensation.

Following his failure to communicate before his city was flooded, the mayor made the media rounds to insist he’d performed perfectly. Sound familiar? Come to hear hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel discuss that, and stick around for an enlightening interview with Adams, speaking with Vital City, about gun violence, the right way and the wrong way for police to do stops, questions and frisks, and much more.

Author Sean Howe goes deep into some of the stories in his wild new book, "Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s."

City Planning Commission Director Daniel Garodnick makes the case for the Adams administration’s hugely ambitious new plan to update “our zoning rules that have over time gotten in the way,” so that developers can build what City Hall has described as “a little more housing in every neighborhood” adding up to a projected 100,000 new homes over 15 years.

Bill Griffith discusses his new graphic novel, "Three Rocks," about Ernie Bushmiller, the cartoonist who created the iconic strip, and goes deep into some New York City newspaper history in the process.

Just two years ago, more than 90 percent of New Yorkers applying for food stamps and other benefits received them in a timely fashion. Now, it’s fewer than 30 percent. Co-hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel discuss what it means for New Yorkers, and for the mayor, when stuff isn’t getting done, and much more.

State Sen. Zellnor Myrie rejoins the pod for a lively conversation about his plan for the city to do just that, and much more.

Eric Adams is done with Covid, but Covid may not be done with New York City. The FAQ NYC hosts dig into that and much more in a post-Labor Day, return-of-the-school-year episode.

With a new poll showing most people in the city think New York has already done enough for migrants, co-host Christina Greer talks with Harry Siegel about what that means for a place where a lot of people are "progressive in theory," why she's sounding an alarm for Eric Adams given the history of Black mayors in America, and much more.

Hosts Christina Greer and Katie Honan break down another jam-packed week in New York City, covering migrant housing plans, questionable donors to Adams' 2021 campaign, and who holds down the city when the mayor, for a variety of possible reasons, cannot.

Dave Giffen of the Coalition for the Homeless and Josh Goldfein of Legal Aid talk with Katie Honan about what Kathy Hochul should be doing but is not as "she's apparently forgotten she's also the governor of people who live in New York City," what Mayor Eric Adams is saying that doesn't hold up, and much more.

Photographer Stephen Yang joins Alex Brook Lynn and Harry Siegel for a conversation about capturing private moments in public settings, the differences between photojournalism and street photography, why tabloids have traditionally frowned on high-contrast shots (spoiler: those require too much black ink to print) and much more.

Albert Fox Cahn of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project joins hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel to dig into the problems with automated enforcement, the perils in letting police collect too much data, and more.

Journalist Todd Maisel spent 40 years listening to police scanners, letting the scratchy radio sounds guide him to some of the biggest news stories in New York City. He's now sounding the alarm over the NYPD's plan to encrypt these radios -- turning them off for everyone who isn't in the police. "Do we trust he police to tell the truth? I don't," he told FAQ. Silent radios "is bad for the public, it's bad for checks and balances, it is a real problem," he said. Listen to the full interview here.