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Episode 319: ‘A New York Minute’ Dec 27, 2023

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Here's the first of three off-beat, year-end episodes of stories about a New York minute, with a pair about the drug business told by Cliff Michel and Steve Lynn, and then a pair about gloom, glamor and gunmption told by Huge Perez and Flo Ankah.

Episode 318: Adams’ Angst Is Real Dec 11, 2023

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The mayor's poll numbers are down and the vultures are out, but there's still a year and a half before voters are supposed to have their say again.

Episode 317: George Santos Defines Democracy's Deterioration Dec 04, 2023

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Is Eric Adams really in political trouble? Will George Santos ever really go away? Are the Mekons truly golden? Chrissy, Katie and Harry discuss all that and much more.

Episode 316: N.Y. vs. Everything Dec 02, 2023

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Politico's new New York editor Sally Goldenberg visits the pod to talk about the state of the city now, what she saw in her months in the wilderness covering the Republican presidential campaign, and much more.

Episode 315: Is This ‘A City in Crisis’? Nov 27, 2023

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Mayor Eric Adams, who won office talking about making New York feel safer, is cutting spending on core services even as his own poll numbers are plummeting and as critics are talking, however cynically, about “a city in crisis.” Co-hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel discuss all that, the last big cases to emerge from the Adult Survivors Act and much more.

Episode 314: Pigeon Swag, Queens Boys and Turkey Talk Nov 23, 2023

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Remember that time that Andrew Cuomo tried to push aside Carl McCall? Co-host Christina Greer does. With the former governor reportedly considering a run against newly embattled Mayor Eric Adams, she and Katie Honan talk about that episode and lots more.

Episode 313: A Novel About Flying Cars Lands Right on Time Nov 20, 2023

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Bradley Tusk joins host Harry Siegel to discuss his new novel, Obvious in Hindsight, about a company working to legalize flying cards and — sound familiar? — a mayor of New York City in the crosshairs of the FBI.

Episode 312: What George Santos Sees in the Mirror Nov 18, 2023

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Mark Chiusano, author of "The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos," talks with guest host Azi Paybarah of the Washington Post about this character in the aftermath of the brutal new House ethics report about him.

Episode 311: A Drip Drip Drip That Eric Adams Can’t Abide Nov 13, 2023

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A conversation about the mayor, the feds, the “geniuses” doing communications and much more, with co-hosts Katie Honan and Harry Siegel.

Episode 310: Election Extra with Ben Max Nov 08, 2023

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A Republican beat an incumbent to claim a Council seat in the Bronx, while a Republican incumbent fell short in Brooklyn.