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Episode 524: FAQ NYC Live: Talking Immigration and the Election Oct 24, 2026

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The City Reporter’s Gwynne Hogan joined hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel at the Tenement Museum for a live taping just before early voting kicked off in New York City.

They dug into this year’s races, what’s at stake locally and nationally, how immigration is playing into those politics, and much more.

Episode 523: They Ban Horses, Don’t They? Oct 19, 2026

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New York City is poised to finally pass a carriage horse ban after more than a decade of talk about that — but it's far from clear what will actually happens after that.

Hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel discuss and much more, including the court records that led to Katie’s story for The City Reporter on the remarkable life — and afterlife — of a journalistic trailblazer, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman's low-blow closed-door attack on Mayor Mamdani, and much more.

Episode 522: Mamdani’s Roughest Week Yet Oct 12, 2026

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Hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel discuss Mamdani’s response to the Marble Hill ICE shooting and how it seemed to show the limits of his relationship with Donald Trump and the rising pressure from his allies on the left to somehow push the feds out of the city and maybe Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch along with them.

Episode 521: New York's Leading Women Take on Cornell Oct 05, 2026

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Hosts Katie Honan, Christina Greer and Harry Siegel look at Gov. Kathy Hochul's decision to appoint Attorney General Letitia James as a special prosecutor looking into the deeply disturbing gang rape accusations at Cornell, and the legal, political, journalistic and moral fallout from that story, and much more.

Episode 520: NYC’s Comptroller on the AI Storm Coming for Our Economy, and Its Silver Linings Sep 28, 2026

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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.”

Episode 519: Terror, A Knickerbocker History Sep 24, 2026

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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:

Episode 518: The United Nations — and Mamdani and Trump — Assemble Sep 21, 2026

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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.

Episode 517: 'Two Great Mayors in 400 Years' Sep 19, 2026

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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.

Episode 516: A Ginned-Up Scandal in a Solemn Week Sep 14, 2026

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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.

Episode 515: 25 Years Later, a Mayor Finally Owns Up To 9/11’s Toxic Dust Sep 08, 2026

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More than three times as many people have now died of 9/11-related illnesses as were killed on that terrible day — and three-quarters of the New Yorkers here now weren't here then.

On the day Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a portal of documents showing city and federal officials had known since weeks after the attacks about the noxious air that people were breathing downtown, FAQ NYC hosts Harry Siegel and Christina Greer dig into that story.

Plus, they discuss Mamdani’s new workers’ rights office, his new 400-page racial equity plan, a treasure map of easily searchable historical photos, and much more.

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