

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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Oct 15, 2020 • 42min
Episode 105: Imbalance of Power
State Sen. Alessandra Biaggi talks about her bill to reset the balance of budget power, and much more.

Oct 9, 2020 • 1h 1min
Episode 104: The Mount Vernon Tapes
A deep dive with WNYC investigative reporter George Joseph into police impunity and its consequences just north of Bronx.

Oct 1, 2020 • 44min
Episode 103: The Relentless Trump Hunter
Eileen Markey, editor of the new Wayne Barrett collection Without Compromise, joins FAQ and guest interviewer Michael Tomasky for a look back at the muckraker's decades exposing the Donald and the rest of New York's endless rogues' gallery.

Sep 24, 2020 • 33min
Episode 102: School Daze
As parents wait for school buildings to reopen, we take a tour of New York City's public school history with CUNY professor emeritus of education Stephan F. Brumberg,

Sep 19, 2020 • 1h 6min
Episode 101: Supportive Housing and the Brickhouse

Sep 13, 2020 • 29min
Episode 100: The Storefront Domino Effect
It's FAQ's 100th episode(!), and Karla Murray joins to talk about her storefront project and all the small businesses New York is losing amidst… all this.

Sep 5, 2020 • 34min
Episode 99: School for Scandal
Ace education reporter Madina Touré explains how New York's schools plan fell short, and looks at what's coming next.

Aug 27, 2020 • 35min
Episode 98: Drain Brammage
Chrissy runs down some ominous New York news, Harry recalls getting accidentally stoned on the job and — this week's highlight — Alex talks with musician Stefan Zeniuk about his (beautiful!) sonic elegy for a sewer tunnel, performed with large instruments at the entrance to a sewer tunnel in Astoria earlier this week.

Aug 21, 2020 • 42min
Episode 97: Six Ways To Sunday

Aug 13, 2020 • 36min
Episode 96: What Now?
With Sally Goldenberg of Politico New York on the city's shift to the left, Jake Offenhartz of Gothamist on the NYPD's cat and mouse game, and much more.


