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.

FAQ NYC is a news podcast hosted by Christina Greer, with 527 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Christina Greer hosts FAQ NYC, a news show with 527 episodes published.

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  Episode 520: NYC’s Comptroller on the AI Storm Coming for Our Economy, and Its Silver Linings

  Sep 28, 202640 min

  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 every morning. We have the most creative, entrepreneurial population, and we're still the most dynamic economy. I ultimately believe that we got this and that we'll come through stronger.”

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  Episode 519: Terror, A Knickerbocker History

  Sep 24, 20261h 10m

  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 being surveilled by the NYPD to being a part of Zohran Mamadani’s kitchen cabinet:

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  Episode 518: The United Nations — and Mamdani and Trump — Assemble

  Sep 21, 202640 min

  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 .

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  Episode 517: 'Two Great Mayors in 400 Years'

  Sep 19, 20261h 12m

  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 protests that our resilient city has found way through over the last 25 years, why its values are being tested now in a way they haven’t been in a century, and how in their telling an unlikely businessman mayor helped reaffirm, reshape and restore the resilience that’s always defined New York.

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  Episode 516: A Ginned-Up Scandal in a Solemn Week

  Sep 14, 202630 min

  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 the Bronx and the water towers nobody seems to be testing, the unsettling rehabilitation of George W. Bush, the only living New York City mayor who didn't make the ceremony, and more.

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