

FAQ NYC
FAQ NYC
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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Jul 15, 2021 • 1h 20min
Episode 153: Book Club: (Low)Life
Jazz and boxing great Charles Farrell visits the pod to talk with Harry and Tim Marchman about his memoir that covers, among other things, playing with Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman, fixing fights for the mob, "the Moby Dick of boxing" and lots more. Stick around to the end to hear him play a little piano, too.

Jul 9, 2021 • 46min
Episode 152: Alvin Bragg's Bragging Rights
The Democratic nominee who's all but sure to be the next Manhattan District Attorney visits FAQ.

Jul 2, 2021 • 54min
Episode 151: Fun City Follies
Laura Nahmias joins Chrissy and Harry to talk about the BoE's RCV SNAFU and the state of the election now that it's all over but the counting.

Jun 25, 2021 • 42min
Episode 150: Book Club: Life on the Line
Chrissy has a message for the pundits "explaining" what just happened in New York, and Times reporter and researcher Emma Goldberg discusses her new book on the medical students who became doctors in the city in the midst of the pandemic and reads one incredible passage from it.

Jun 23, 2021 • 1h 6min
Episode 149: Decision Day
The votes are cast, the results are still to come, and Ben Max of Gotham Gazette joins Chrissy and Harry for a late-night break down of what we know (and what we don't yet).

Jun 18, 2021 • 43min
Episode 148: Homestretch
Christina and Harry take one last look at the mayor's race, and Alex Lynn breaks down what's really been happening at Washington Square Park.

Jun 10, 2021 • 1h 5min
Episode 147: The Gracie Bunch
Dianne Morales, Shaun Donovan, Ray McGuire and Kathryn Garcia each call in to answer two tough questions, plus an interview with Paperboy Love Prince.

Jun 3, 2021 • 59min
Episode 146: The End Is Near
Less than three weeks out, and after a "pivotal" second debate in which not much pivoted, Chrissy, Harry and the Wall Street Journal's Katie Honan talk about the mayor's race and the future of New York City.

May 27, 2021 • 1h 25min
Episode 145: Down and Out in New York City
We talk about homelessness in in New York City with David Brand of City Limits and Shams DaBaron AKA Da Homeless Hero.

May 20, 2021 • 53min
Episode 144: Book Club: Last Call
Author Elon Green joins Nolan Hicks and Harry Siegel to talk about Lost Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York and how a city crew including Rudy Giuliani's mom, Bernard Kerik, Robert Morgenthau, Linda Fairstein, William Bulger and Mike McAclary all tie into that story.


