

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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Feb 6, 2020 • 36min
Episode 69: Better Late Than Never?

Jan 30, 2020 • 42min
Episode 68: Eric Adams is Packing Heat
He isn't backing down from his complaints about new New Yorkers, his fundraising, or anything else.
WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE: https://youtu.be/1aiFuCo2Kn4

Jan 24, 2020 • 38min
Episode 67: Talking About Pictures

Jan 16, 2020 • 36min
Episode 66: The Frightening Future of Work

Jan 10, 2020 • 40min
Episode 65: New York City Trash Talk Falls Short

Dec 19, 2019 • 34min
Episode 64: The Killing of Tessa Majors
Michael Daly of the Daily Beast discusses his reporting on the killing that shocked a city, and Christina Greer talks about her time at Columbia and why this killing drew some much more attention than others.

Dec 13, 2019 • 40min
Episode 63: Mother of Exiles
FAQ takes a field trip to Emma Lazarus' Sitting Room at the American Jewish Historical Society to talk with Executive Director Annie Polland about the poet's life and her legacy. It's a story about intergenerational identity and how a rich woman found herself identifying with "wretched refuse" that's disturbingly resonant today.

Dec 9, 2019 • 39min
Episode 62: Penn Station's Original Sin
Marc Dunkelman delves into the history of Penn Station, and explains why the ghost of Robert Moses makes it so hard to get anything built in New York now.

Nov 28, 2019 • 26min
Episode 61: Tears in the Rain
For the past year, FAQ has been asking New York's politicians the toughest questions, namely: “Are you a replicant?” The results of their Voight-Kampff tests have been a tightly held secret until now. It’s November, 2019, and the future is here and so are the tests, and results.

Nov 21, 2019 • 36min
Episode 60: Digital Stop and Frisk
Albert Fox Cahn of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project joins Chrissy, Alex and Harry to talk about police body cams, who's watching our (AI and facial recognition enhanced) watchmen, and much more.


