FAQ NYC

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LISTEN: ‘A Good Lifeguard Never Gets Wet’

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.

Team FAQ

Co-Hosts: Dr. Christina Greer, Katie Honan, Harry Siegel
Contributing Host: Alex Brook Lynn
Mayor of Sounds: Adam Chimera

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Recent Episodes

LISTEN: The Wright Stuff

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.

Real Life Funnies and Sidewalk Epiphanies

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…

LISTEN: The New Pride Agenda

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

LISTEN: After Congestion Pricing

Co-host Katie Honan is joined by THE CITY’s Jose Martinez, who helps explain Gov. Kathy Hochul’s about-face on congestion pricing.

‘The Answer Is Always Money’

Hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel discuss Donald Trump’s 34 guilty counts, the Mets retiring Darry Strawberry’s No. 18, and the seemingly countless points of contention and tension between City Hall and the City Council.

LISTEN: A Place That Women Ruled

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.

LISTEN: Revisiting Harvey Wang’s New York

“I started to notice a lot of businesses closing stores going out of business. You know, Orchard Street nowadays, if you walk down Orchard Street, you will you will recognize it from what it looked like back in 1979 1980. And it I started to do some pictures of some…

LISTEN: Reign of the Summer Mayor

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

LISTEN: NYC’s Students Take a Seat at the Table

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.

LISTEN: Hizzoner Meets His Holiness

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…

LISTEN: Columbia Cancels Commencement After Reporters Get Trapped in ‘Frozen Zone’

Gwynne Hogan, senior reporter for THE CITY,  joins hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel 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…

LISTEN: Is It Giuliani Time Again?

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…