FAQ NYC

Hosts Chrissy, Katie and Harry discuss the national news, what the Democratic Party's shakeup — and a second Trump term — could mean for New York City, and much more from this unprecedented presidential moment.

The 2025 campaign just unofficially kicked off with new fundraising numbers, and NYC could be in for a wild game of musical chairs. Hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel discuss that and a national political moment that makes it hard for most New Yorkers to think about a primary that's just 11 months away and seems likely to be a rare competitive race against a sitting Democratic mayor.

Hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel discuss The Rev. Al Sharpton’s op-ed making the case for a second term for the city’s second Black mayor and much more.

“They all disappear. That's the thing. It's extremely ephemeral” — Jill Gill, the 91-year-old author of Site Lines: Lost New York 1954-2022, talks with host Harry Siegel about her paintings and capturing a changing city in the latest episode of FAQ NYC Off Cycle.

Hosts Chrissy, Katie and Harry talk about NYC's $112 billion budget, changes in the summer swimming season, "gentrification in the ocean" and much more.

Ben Max, the executive editor of New York Law School’s Center for New York City Law and host of the Max Politics podcast, joins FAQ NYC to talk with Christina Greer and Harry Siegel about the results of a big primary night.

For two decades, Stan Mack published a weekly cartoon strip in the Village Voice in which he listened to New Yorkers and documented their sayings and subcultures, assuring readers: “all dialogue guaranteed verbatim.” Now Mack and Fantagraphics have compiled hundreds of highlights from his archives into a book called “Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies: The Collected Conceits, Delusions and Hijinks of New Yorkers from 1974 to 1995,” a document of late-20th century New York City — a time before cellphones when life was lived out loud. He talks with guest host Alyssa Katz, THE CITY’s Executive Editor who worked at the Voice early in her career, in the latest episode of FAQ NYC Off Cycle.

Hosts Katie and Chrissy talk with Elisa Crespo, executive director of New Pride Agenda, about the biggest issues for LGBTQAI+ New Yorkers.

Our Katie Honan and transportation reporter for THE CITY, Jose Martinez, discuss the Governor's recent withdrawal from putting congestion pricing into effect on June 30th, the consequences of that, and the state's ongoing pattern of advancing the plan and then procrastinating indefinitely.

Julie Satow, author of When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion, talks with guest host Sarah Shears in the latest episode of FAQ NYC Off-Cycle.

The namesake of Harvey Wang's New York, talks with host Harry Siegel about shooting the hold-outs in trades and businesses that were vanishing in the 1980s and early 1990s, old New Yorks past and present, and much more.

Co-hosts Katie Honan and Harry Siegel discuss The City's new summer newsletter, the mayor's messaging mess, and much more.

In the latest episode of FAQ NYC Off Cycle, Host Katie Honan talks with Jose Santana, a senior at Dr. Richard Izquierdo Health and Science Charter School in the Bronx, about his work journalists producing the new student-produced podcast PS Weekly.

Eric Adams, now facing a second Democratic challenger, said he was praying for the press while ducking their questions and blessing our own Katie Honan on his way to meet the Pope in Vatican City. Meantime, the mayor finally started repping for the Knicks, who promptly stopped winning, as the NYPD is pretty much mocking the oversight efforts of the City Council and Department of Investigation. All that and much more gets discussed on the latest episode of FAQ NYC.

Gwynne Hogan, senior reporter for THE CITY, joins hosts Chrissy and Harry to discuss what it’s been like reporting on the NYPD from inside the “frozen zone” it established inside and around the Columbia campus, the NYPD’s wild new messaging machine that’s pumping out flashy action videos and angry tweets while reporters are stuck glimpsing the action through a glass darkly, and much more.

Jeff Mays of the New York Times joins hosts Chrissy, Katie and Harry to discuss Mayor Eric Adams ousting the head of the Civilian Complaint Review Board, trying to install Randy Mastro as the city's now corporation counsel, reversing some of his own cuts in a $111.6 billion executive budget proposal, and much more.

Citizens Budget Commission President Andrew Rein joins hosts Katie Honan and Harry Siegel to break down what we know about the nearly quarter-trillion_ dollar state budget that just dropped, weeks late, what to expect from the city's ongoing budget negotiations, and much more.

Hosts Christina and Katie discuss that plus the NYPD’s hyper-aggressive attempt to reclaim the narrative, two police killings of emotionally disturbed people, and much more.

In the latest episode of FAQ NYC Off Cycle, journalist Steve Fishman talks with Harry about his his new podcast, The Burden, where he speaks with and digs into the history of former NYPD super-cop Louis Scarcella, the detective who locked up New York’s baddest guys back in the city’s “bad old days” — and with the convicted murderers turned jailhouse law firm who won their freedom by digging into police work that sometimes seemed, as journalists will joke, too good to check. Check out The Burden here https://link.chtbl.com/aHO7cwwD