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**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.

Latest Episodes:

Episode 113: Schoolhouse Whiplash Dec 01, 2020

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Professor David Bloomfield runs down Mayor de Blasio's unsteady approach to the schools, and much more.

Episode 112: The David Dinkins Interview Nov 24, 2020

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David Dinkins, the city's first and so far only black mayor, sat down for nearly two hours last year with Chrissy and Harry to talk about his life and career. Here's that interview, very lightly edited.

Episode 111: An 'Obnoxious and Offensive' Schools Closure Nov 19, 2020

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What the hell are de Blasio and Cuomo doing here, and why can't they get on the same page? Plus, Steven Romalewski of the CUNY Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research at CUNY'S Graduate Center returns to the pod.

Episode 110: A Bridge in Brooklyn to Toll You Nov 12, 2020

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Councilmembers Joe Borelli (R, Staten Island) and Justin Brannan (D, Brooklyn) talk about how the return of two-way tolls to the Verrazzano looks from each side of the bridge, the second wave of the virus that’s looming, and more.

Episode 109: Election 2020 Nov 05, 2020

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Harry, Chrissy, and Alex talk with Ben Max of Gotham Gazette & The Max & Murphy Show about what the election means for NYC and what election New Yorkers have to look forward to in 2021.

We also talk Cuomo, a COVID vaccine, and privacy law with Albert Fox Cahn of The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project.

Episode 108: TRUMP ACDC Nov 01, 2020

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Morgan Pehme, the director of 'Get Me Roger Stone' and 'Slumlord Millionaire,' has made a film about the rise and fall of Trump's casinos in Atlantic City using archival footage.

Episode 107: Local Focus and the National Picture Oct 28, 2020

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David Plotz explains City Cast, the network of local pods he's launching this winter in cities across the country to “connect you with the city you love” and, knock on wood, help listeners “stop being obsessed with the question of Trump, and instead “reengage with the questions of daily life that are played out on the streets of American cities.”

And speaking of Trump, Walter Shapiro, in the midst of covering his eleventh(!) presidential campaign, talks about how campaigns and campaign coverage have changed, not mostly for the better, in part because the iPhone made every moment an on-camera moment, and his plans to pivot to vaudeville coverage if Trump defies the polls again and wins a second term.

Episode 106: A Health Crisis and a Fiscal Crisis Oct 21, 2020

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Jacob Kornbluh breaks down the public health picture, and the political one, inside the Orthodox community. And Columbia Professor Ester Fuchs goes deep on the fiscal crisis of 1975 and the one New York is facing now.

Episode 105: Imbalance of Power Oct 14, 2020

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State Sen. Alessandra Biaggi talks about her bill to reset the balance of budget power, and much more.

Episode 104: The Mount Vernon Tapes Oct 08, 2020

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A deep dive with WNYC investigative reporter George Joseph into police impunity and its consequences just north of Bronx.