Can former Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s fortune help his former staffer, Micah Lasher, prevail in the wide open race for a rare open NYC Congressional seat, and mark an inglorious end to the Kennedy dynasty in the process? Does America’s attack on Iran make a Mayor Mamdani ally the favorite in his primary challenge to a […]
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LISTEN: The Vital Records of Mr. George Rex, ‘The Last Slave’
There’s a startling occupation listed in entry 983 of the death ledger for the town of Newtown, Queens covering the years 1881-1897: “The Last Slave.” Department of Records Associate Commissioner Kenneth Cobb and Research Associate Marcia Kirk visited Lit NYC to explain how the Municipal Archives found that entry, what they’ve learned since then about […]
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LISTEN: An Explosive Scene at Gracie Mansion
A police-punching Jan. 6 rioter and far-right agitator pardoned by Donald Trump showed up outside Gracie Mansion this weekend with a couple dozen supporters for a “stop the Islamic takeover of New York City” clashed with about 150 counter-protesters there to “run the Nazis out. ” And that was before two alleged ISIS sympathizers drove […]
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LISTEN: The Local Politics of America’s War in Iran
The FAQ NYC hosts discuss the messaging from Zohran Mamdani about America’s new war, the mayor’s meeting with the president days earlier and much more. Plus, New York Working Families Party Director Jasmine Gripper joins the pod to talk about its agenda, “how the left ecosystem in New York is evolving in a beautiful way” […]
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LISTEN: The Other Guy Was No Joke
Joe Flaherty was a dock worker and high school dropout on the wrong side of 30 when he found an unexpected writer’s life beginning as a columnist for the Village Voice. A couple years later, he was running the 51st State campaign of Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin as two of the city’s most famous […]
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LISTEN: ‘Curb Your Dog. Don’t Let Your Dog Curb You.’
One more storm, many more mountains of snow for winter-weary New Yorkers to slog through and a second chance for Zohran Mamdani to show he’s up to his endless blizzard of a job. FAQ NYC hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel dig into all that and more, including Mamdani’s dubious threat to raise property taxes […]
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LISTEN: ‘The Master Plan of New York is the Subway’
Mamdani swept into City Hall on hopes and dreams of making the city affordable, and the key to affordability in New York City is housing. People are not moving out of New York City because the bus fare is three dollars. People are moving out because they can’t afford the rent. Child care is too […]
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LISTEN: A ‘False Choice’ Between Cops and Community Workers
We have gotten into this mindset where it has to be one or the other, when, in fact, the great majority of the situations would be best handled through co-response: Sending police because there is a potential danger that it would be unfair to have clinicians or outreach workers handle alone — and recognizing there […]
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LISTEN: A Vision Zero for Homelessness in NYC
Breaking news: Nancy Pelosi endorsing JFK’s influencer grandson isn’t much of a political development, despite the New York Times’ pushing out an urgent alert about it. Neither, for that matter, is the deeply dysfunctional Brooklyn Democratic organization endorsing, un-endorsing and then endorsing Kathy Hochul again. The FAQ NYC hosts discuss all that and much more […]
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LISTEN: A New Mayor Navigates a Frigid City
Just a month into this new era, Zohran Mamdani is trying to get his feet under him as the ground remains icy and precarious. The FAQ NYC hosts discuss that and much more, including a deluge of fake news about the new mayor online and the last governor’s new talk show.