FAQ NYC

Just before Election Day. hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel dig into what’s at stake in the mid-terms, and much more.

COGE Commissioner Emma Wolfe and Executive Director Ann Cheng visit the podcast to explain the questions on the back of every NYC ballot and make the case for how voters approving a few changes to the city's charter could cut red tape, modernize municipal bureaucracy, and make city government run faster. Plus, hosts Christina Greer, Harry Siegel and Katie Honan dig into early voting turnout so far...

The City Reporter’s Gwynne Hogan joined hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel at the Tenement Museum for a live taping just before early voting kicked off in New York City. They dug into this year’s races, what’s at stake locally and nationally, how immigration is playing into those politics, and much more.

New York City is poised to finally pass a carriage horse ban after more than a decade of talk about that — but it's far from clear what will actually happens after that. Hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel discuss and much more, including the court records that led to Katie’s story for The City Reporter on the remarkable life — and afterlife — of a journalistic trailblazer, Republi...

Hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel discuss Mamdani’s response to the Marble Hill ICE shooting and how it seemed to show the limits of his relationship with Donald Trump and the rising pressure from his allies on the left to somehow push the feds out of the city and maybe Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch along with them.

Hosts Katie Honan, Christina Greer and Harry Siegel look at Gov. Kathy Hochul's decision to appoint Attorney General Letitia James as a special prosecutor looking into the deeply disturbing gang rape accusations at Cornell, and the legal, political, journalistic and moral fallout from that story, and much more.

New York City Comptroller Mark Levine makes his maiden voyage on the podcast — “I guess I’ve made the big time!” — to talk about the warnings he’s been sounding about artificial intelligence, his concerns about next year’s looming budget deficit and much more, including a hopeful last word: “I love the fact that the people building these tools live in a diverse New York City and ride the subway ev...

In the final episode of FAQ NYC’s special series, A Knickerbocker History of America, Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel sat down with Asad Dandia in front of a live audience at P&T Knitwear to dig into the history of terrorism in New York City. For Dandia, the Brooklyn borough historian, that history includes a decade in which he went from being a CUNY student who learned he was be...

Hosts Christina Greer and Katie Honan discuss Mayor Mamdani and President Donald Trump’s relationship ahead of their meeting at Gracie Mansion, along with the latest in the Brooklyn Democratic Party’s court back and forth . Plus, they discuss efforts to save an African burial ground from development and the mayor's management report .

Director Ric Burns and his writing and producing partner, James Sanders, sat down with Christina Greer, Harry Siegel and guest co-host Dave Colon to discuss their two new episodes of Gotham: A Documentary bringing their epic history into the 21st Century, The filmmakers dig into the unprecedented wave of crises from 9/11 to the Great Recession to Hurricane Sandy to COVID and the George Floyd prote...

Hosts Katie Honan, Christina Greer and Harry Siegel discuss the different ways New Yorkers marked the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, the attempts to manufacture outrage about Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s appearance at the commemoration ceremony, and Katie’s reporting from a pub right by Ground Zero on the anniversary this year. Plus, the group gets into a new Legionnaires' outbreak in t...

More than three times as many people have now died of 9/11-related illnesses as were killed on that terrible day — and three-quarters of the New Yorkers here now weren't here then. On the day Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a portal of documents showing city and federal officials had known since weeks after the attacks about the noxious air that people were breathing downtown, FAQ NYC hosts Harry Si...

In the second episode of FAQ NYC’s new three-part special series, A Knickerbocker History of America, Katie Honan, Harry Siegel and guest cohost Asad Dandia, the Brooklyn borough historian, sat down in front of a live audience at P&T Knitwear to discuss just three of the city’s many, many “riots” — “a violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd” — and how the Harlem riot of 1934, the hardhat r...

Katie Honan looks back on a wild scene as the Brooklyn Democratic Party bosses changed their rules in a closed door vote after losing an open election to try and hold onto power before she, Chrissy and Harry dig into the Mamdani administration’s 2K payroll problems, the unanswered question of how the city is going to pay for the new administration's $4 billion BQE repair, and much more.

Hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel dig into about the mayor’s new BQE plan, his many fights with the City Council, Hakeem Jeffries’ private sit-down with Hakeem Jeffries, Jessica Ramos’ double-dipping mess on her way out of the party, AOC’s very public family planning, and much more…

Chrissy, Harry and Katie sort through a week of summer news in NYC before Transportation Commissioner Mike Flynn joins Katie for an interview.

at were not plugged into walls.” Things change when the lights go out, but while the blackout of 1965 was a moment that brought the city together the one in 1977 became a signal moment in the narrative of its decline. Nearly a half century later, it remains the largest mass-arrest event in New York City history — one that helped set the city on a long journey into ever more prosperity and austerit...

FAQ NYC co-hosts Katie Honan and Harry Siegel dig into the state’s new effort to ferret out New Yorkers who want to live here but pay lower insurance and tax bills somewhere cheaper, a lawsuit pushing back on the NYPD's use of NYCHA's free wifi program to give officers unfettered live access to the housing authority's surveillance cameras, and much more., including a rare direct shot at President...

As the mayor's push to trumpet the collection of his new pied a terre tax and confront quiet money with loud politics got off to a bumpy start, he's standing his ground and playing for time to smooth things out. Christina Greer, Harry Siegel and guest co-host Alex Brook Lynn dig into that and much more, including Mamdani's slow-walk on his police reform promises from the campaign trail, his new pi...

New York Immigration Coalition CEO Murad Awawdeh joins the podcast to discuss the Supreme Court green‑lighting the Trump administration’s move to end Temporary Protected Status, and how New York State and City are building new protections as federal policy hardens. Plus, FAQ NYC hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel discuss Mayor Zohran Ma...

Other than the extreme heat, smoky air, flash flooding and deaths from an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, it’s remained a lovely summer in New York City — including for night fishing .. FAQ NYC hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel discuss all that and much more, including “shark” Zohran Mamdani’s aggressive early plans for his reelection bid, an older generation of Democratic lea...

Mayor Mamdani this week blamed the previous administration for a map of immigrant enclaves that didn't include Little Italy, and said the city would include it next time. Hosts Katie Honan and Harry Siegel discuss the mostly bad-faith criticism of the map, the eternal arguments about which New Yorkers are represented and which are neglected, how his administration set itself up to get attacked her...

When Zohran Mamdani urged New Yorkers to set their air conditioners to 78 degrees, echoing what mayors before him have advised during heat waves for decades, his critics again lost their minds. Hosts Katie Honan and Harry Siegel talk with Alex Brook Lynn, FAQ NYC's original producer calling in from Paris, about heat waves, sharks in the water, swimming in the Seine and much more.

A sudden City Council push to hold up the budget due Tuesday if City Hall doesn’t increase funding for the wildly popular — and thus wildly expensive — CityFHEPS housing vouchers represents a big new test for Mayor Mamdani and his incredible winning streak. Hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel discuss all that and much more, and Straight Arrow News senior politics reporter — not to...