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Episode 199: Albany Strangeness in the Multiverse of Map Madness May 05, 2022

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Map master Steven Romalewski and penetrating politics reporter Brigid Bergin do their best to explain what the hell is happening with our upcoming election, where the maps are still being drawn and not even the dates, plural, for various contests aren't entirely certain. Plus, Nick Pinto of the brand-new NYC journalism venture Hell Gate breaks down his story there about the NYPD's Stonewalling Attorney Called Out for Lying and Forging Emails.

Episode 198: The Cave Cop Who Transformed New York City Apr 26, 2022

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Michael Daly recalls his friend Jack Maple, the maker of the maps that changed everything.

Episode 197: Flipping the Albany Script With Eddie Gibbs Apr 20, 2022

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An awful lot of New York politicians end up going to prison but Assemblyman Eddie Gibbs, who spent 17 months in Rikers as a teen followed by four and a half years in state prisons, is the first to do it the other way around. He joins the pod for a conversation about that, "the bad old days" and the state of the city now, and rapping and performing comedy with legends including the late Big L and Biggie Smalls.

Episode 196: Everything At Once Apr 13, 2022

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A conversation from early Wednesday afternoon, before Frank James' arrest, about the train shooting and also Brian Benjamin' resignation.

Episode 195: The Big, Slow Ugly Apr 06, 2022

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Josefa Velasquez joins from Albany to break down the stop-and-start, hurry-up-and-wait path toward New York's forthcoming and already late $216 billion or so budget (and everything else) deal.

Episode 194: The More Things Change Mar 31, 2022

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Jeff Mays of the New York Times breaks down Kathy Hochul's troubles with Black voters, and Craig McCarthy of the New York Post looks at what is, and ain't, new with the NYPD's neighborhood policing initiative, its anti-gun unit, and its quality of life enforcement push.

Episode 193: The Coming Home Health Care Conundrum Mar 23, 2022

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Chinese American Planning Council President and CEO Wayne Ho joins the pod to talk about what Albany can do to make the economics of this work for New York's aging population, and much more.

Episode 192: Shots Fired in a Vital City Mar 16, 2022

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Elizabeth Glazer, the founder and co-editor of the new publication Vital City, joins the pod to talk about rising crime and the rising criminal justice reform tide in New York City, and what reformers can do to move past squishy root-causes rhetoric.

Episode 191: Chief Shenanigan Enthusiast Mar 09, 2022

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Prof. Christina Greer explains what makes Eric Adams like "a really good point guard" — and the Nets could use one for home games, by the way — and Amir Khafagy breaks down his reporting for Documented on how the city has let down the Twin Parks fire survivors now that they're no longer front-page news.

Episode 190: ‘Ain't Gonna Change Nothing’ Mar 02, 2022

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Super-reporter Greg B. Smith breaks down why Eric Adams' promise to remove the homeless from the trains "right away" has been going nowhere fast.

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