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Episode 249: Building a Bigger Tent to Build More Housing Jan 22, 2023

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Open New York is an organization advocating to make it easier to build and manage housing in New York City — and now it’s broadening its agenda to also support advances in tenants’ rights. Will that be enough to change state laws and neighborhood politics to get more housing built — and will building more housing really bring down rents for the masses? For the latest installment in her series asking the big question, What Is New York For?, The City Deputy Editor Alyssa Katz talks with Open New York Director Annemarie Gray about her group’s game-changing ambitions.

Episode 248: Rikers and the ‘World‘ Tour to Nowhere Jan 16, 2023

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A conversation with the authors of Rikers: An Oral History.

Episode 247: A State of the State for an Unsettled State Jan 11, 2023

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Professor Christina Greer and Harry Siegel break down Kathy Hochul's first state of the state as New York's elected governor.

Episode 246: 2023 Predictions Through a Hazy Crystal Ball Jan 04, 2023

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A look back at Eric Adams' first year as mayor, and ahead to the even bigger challenges looming for New York City.

Episode 245: The View From the Broken End of the Bottle Dec 29, 2022

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Anthony Almojera, lieutenant paramedic with the FDNY EMS, explains what Eric Adams’ new plan for bringing more severely mentally ill street into hospitals can’t accomplish, how that population has changed over his two decades on the job as violence against, and what those encounters are actually like for the medical first responders regularly interacting with the city’s street population.

Episode 244: The Stories Behind the Pictures Dec 25, 2022

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Daily News legend Susan Watts and THE CITY's Ben Fractenberg talk with Alex Brook Lynn about the art of shooting the news in New York, and share the stories behind some of their most powerful photographs.

Episode 243: Libraries Are on the Chopping Block in Eric Adams' New York Dec 21, 2022

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Christina Greer and Harry Siegel reflect on the mayor's first year, which was anything but boring. and what's to come.

Episode 242: ‘A Typical Kid’ Dec 17, 2022

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Alex Brook Lynn talks about her brother Zack's schizophrenia and her family's efforts to navigate New York's broken systems. WARNING: This episode contains a discussion of suicide.

Episode 241: Fear and Felonies Dec 14, 2022

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A conversation about fear, crime, Al Sharpton and what, if anything changed in New York's political dynamics after Democrats mostly survived this year's election.

Episode 240: Get Intimate With the City You Only Thought You Knew Dec 11, 2022

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Michael Kimmelman, author of The Intimate City: Walking New York, joins THE CITY's Alyssa Katz in the latest installment of her series asking the big question: What Is New York For?

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