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.
Episode 489: A Full Plate for a Young New Mayor
32 mins; March 30, 2026
Episode 488: The Readymade Art-Bomb Who Exploded in NYC
41 mins; March 29, 2026
Episode 487: Mamdani's New York Is Starting to Take Shape
22 mins; March 23, 2026
Episode 486: The Mecca of Basketball Is Back
32 mins; March 16, 2026
Episode 485: The Vital Records of Mr. George Rex, ‘The Last Slave’
46 mins; March 13, 2026
Episode 484: An Explosive Scene at Gracie Mansion
22 mins; March 09, 2026
Episode 483: Reviving the Missing Link in Queens
39 mins; March 07, 2026
Episode 482: The Local Politics of America’s War in Iran
46 mins; March 02, 2026
Episode 481: The Other Guy Was No Joke
43 mins; February 27, 2026
Episode 480: “Curb Your Dog. Don't Let Your Dog Curb You.”
24 mins; February 23, 2026
Episode 479: Free Buses Won’t Make NYC More Affordable. New Trains Would.
50 mins; February 18, 2026
Episode 478: A ‘False Choice’ Between Cops and Community Workers
52 mins; February 16, 2026
Episode 477: A Vision Zero for Homelessness in NYC
48 mins; February 09, 2026
Episode 476: A New Mayor Navigates a Frigid City
32 mins; February 02, 2026
Episode 475: Mayor Mamdani Weathers His First Storm
28 mins; January 26, 2026
Episode 474: ‘The Last Confederate Widow’ of 1960s Cruising
47 mins; January 24, 2026
Episode 473: Ex-Mayor Quit Race But Can’t Quit the Crypto Hustle
25 mins; January 20, 2026
Episode 472: Welcome to the Big Leagues, Team Mamdani
29 mins; January 12, 2026
Episode 471: The Resurrection of a Brooklyn Icon
50 mins; January 09, 2026
Episode 470: The Mayor Mamdani Interview: ‘Is It Right To Hope?’
15 mins; January 08, 2026
Episode 469: Mamdani’s Promise and Jumaane’s Potential
37 mins; January 05, 2026
Episode 468: A Precarious Transition Begins ‘A New Era’
30 mins; December 29, 2025
Episode 467: One Simple Secret for Pleasantly Populated Public Spaces
50 mins; December 28, 2025
Episode 466: A Plan To Pay for Parks
40 mins; December 22, 2025
Episode 465: Kishkes, Knishes and a Lost New York City
66 hours 58 mins; December 19, 2025
Episode 464: ‘It’s Hard To Dig a Hole in New York City’
25 mins; December 15, 2025
Episode 463: A New Home for a New Mayor Vowing to End Homeless Sweeps
26 mins; December 08, 2025
Episode 462: A Vision for NYC’s Deliveristas and a Battery-Powered Future
46 mins; December 05, 2025
Episode 461: Will Zohran Mamdani Be NYC’s 111th Mayor? Maybe Not.
22 mins; December 01, 2025
Episode 460: City Council Speaker Is the Next Race Up
57 mins; November 24, 2025
Episode 459: New York's Winter of Discontent — and New Hopes
26 mins; November 17, 2025
Episode 458: Fear, Trash and Love in a Drop Dead New York City
48 mins; November 15, 2025
Episode 457: Transition Intrigues and Somos Speaker Speculation
27 mins; November 10, 2025
City Hall Free For All: The Mamdani Transition Begins & Patrick Gaspard on Political Power
51 mins; November 07, 2025
Episode 455: The Kismet and the Anxiety of Street Photography
47 mins; November 05, 2025
City Hall Free For All: It’s Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani
35 mins; November 05, 2025
Episode 453: A Native New Yorker’s Postcard From Paris
33 mins; November 01, 2025
City Hall Free For All: An Affordability Election & A Housing Agenda for the Next Mayor
55 mins; October 28, 2025
Episode 451: Live from the Past, and Looking to the Future
44 mins; October 25, 2025
City Hall Free For All: The Race Hits Its Homestretch & Bratton Sounds Alarm About a Mayor Mamdani
48 mins; October 21, 2025
Episode 449: The Weird, Wacky World of Drew Friedman’s Drawings
35 mins; October 18, 2025
City Hall Free For All: Tish James Indicted & Alexa Avilés on Immigration Politics
44 mins; October 14, 2025
City Hall Free For All: An $18B Transit Cut & Sam Schwartz on Breaking Through Gridlock
44 mins; October 07, 2025
City Hall Free For All: Eric Adams Drops Out & Tish James on Her Legal Battles with Donald Trump
46 mins; September 30, 2025
Episode 445: ‘The Power of the Tabloids’
41 mins; September 26, 2025
City Hall Free For All: A Crowded Mayoral Race & Jumaane Williams on Democratic Defiance
45 mins; September 23, 2025
Episode 443: The It Girl of the Air and Her Messy Marriage
56 mins; September 20, 2025
Episode 442: While the Rumor Mill Is In Overdrive, Zohran Mamdani Is Running Away with the Race
19 mins; September 15, 2025
Episode 441: Eric Adams Amps the Absurdity Up to 11
24 mins; September 08, 2025
Episode 440: The Home Stretch Is Here
28 mins; September 02, 2025
Episode 439: ‘They Closed the Door and Blocked the Glass and We Heard This Man Screaming in Agony‘
62 hours 36 mins; August 30, 2025
Episode 438: ‘Chipgate’ is Small Potatoes
40 mins; August 25, 2025
Episode 437: A Pipe Dream and ‘A Key to Everything’
48 mins; August 22, 2025
Episode 436: The Friends of Eric Adams
29 mins; August 18, 2025
Episode 435: ‘Andrew Cuomo Reeks of Yesterday’
39 mins; August 11, 2025
Episode 434: Mamdani Looks Mayoral While the Centrists Seem Small
28 mins; August 04, 2025
Episode 433: ‘These Were the Real Culture Wars’
39 mins; July 29, 2025
Episode 432: ‘C’ is for Compliance
41 mins; July 28, 2025
Episode 431: A Father and an Immigrant and a Criminal
30 mins; July 24, 2025
Episode 430: The Bill’s Coming Due for NY
61 hours 59 mins; July 21, 2025
Episode 429: Cuomo Is Back and NY’s Headless Horseman Season Is Here
31 mins; July 14, 2025
Episode 428: Mamdani Derangement Syndrome Is Real
37 mins; July 07, 2025
Episode 427: Inside Mamdani’s Construction of a New Coalition
74 hours 46 mins; July 05, 2025
Episode 426: An Aging Establishment Is Up Against a New Populist Politics
33 mins; June 30, 2025
Episode 425: The Humbling of Andrew Cuomo Is a Changing of the Guard
47 mins; June 25, 2025
Episode 424: ‘New York Times, You’ve Gone Rogue’
32 mins; June 16, 2025
Episode 423: ‘A Little Bit of Amnesia’ in Ramos Endorsing Cuomo
36 mins; June 09, 2025
Episode 422: Is Cuomo Choking?`
31 mins; June 02, 2025
Episode 421: Kathryn Garcia Says 2025 ‘Is Much More Topsy-Turvy”
112 hours 19 mins; May 31, 2025
Episode 420: ‘How Do I Get a Squirrel?’
39 mins; May 27, 2025
Episode 419: Cuomo's Still Coasting
32 mins; May 19, 2025
Episode 418: Are the Moderates Riding 'The Silent Wave’?
30 mins; May 12, 2025
Episode 417: Mamdani Momentum Hits Cuomo Cliff
49 mins; May 05, 2025
Episode 416: A Different Path to Public Safety
46 mins; April 28, 2025
Episode 415: Is Randy Running the Show While Eric Runs for Reelection?
26 mins; April 21, 2025
Episode 414: Does Cuomo Want a Wedding or a Marriage?
29 mins; April 14, 2025
Episode 413: Brad Lander Says NYC Can Do Better Than ‘A Bully Who’s Also a Chicken’
58 mins; April 12, 2025
Episode 412: Adrienne Adams Says ‘I’m the Change the City Needs’
48 mins; April 09, 2025
Episode 411: A High-Stakes Casino Contest
37 mins; March 31, 2025
Episode 410: Andrew Cuomo Muscles Into Adrienne Adams’ Turf
34 mins; March 24, 2025
Episode 409: A Plan to Make Subways Feel Safe Again
46 mins; March 17, 2025
Episode 408: Jessica Ramos Says NYC Can Do Better Than Another ‘Megalomaniac Mayor’
62 hours 48 mins; March 15, 2025
Episode 407: ‘The Great Wound’ of a Self-Exiled Brooklyn Basketball Legend
50 mins; March 12, 2025
Episode 406: Running Hard or Hardly Running?
31 mins; March 10, 2025
Episode 405: 'Inshallah Mayor’ Zohran Mamdani Says It's All About Making NYC More Affordable
35 mins; March 07, 2025
Episode 404: ‘Sometimes People Just Get Beaten to Death’
46 mins; March 05, 2025
Episode 403: Cometh the Hour, Cuomo the Man?
54 mins; March 03, 2025
Episode 402: Whitney Tilson Says NYC ‘Needs To Make Crime Illegal Again’
49 mins; February 25, 2025
Episode 401: Two Adamses, Two Tis(c)hes and Much Too Much Tumult
31 mins; February 24, 2025
Episode 400: Michael Blake Has ‘A Very Different Vision of What Can Be for NYC’
54 mins; February 19, 2025
Episode 399: Time-Tunneling Into a Different Brooklyn with Jonathan Lethem
54 mins; February 15, 2025
Episode 398: NYC Was in a Different Place on Monday Morning
40 mins; February 10, 2025
Episode 397: Zellnor Myrie Says ‘We Cannot Cower in This Moment’
49 mins; February 06, 2025
Episode 396: The Mayor Who Cried Wolf?
36 mins; January 27, 2025
Episode 395: Scott Stringer Says ‘The Greatest City in the World Is Broken Now’
51 mins; January 22, 2025
Episode 394: Adams is Sinking and Cuomo Is Looming
27 mins; January 13, 2025
Episode 393: A New Year and a New Toll
33 mins; January 06, 2025
Episode 392: Scenes from NYC's Long War to Take Back Its Streets from Cars
58 mins; December 28, 2024
Episode 391: A Grim End to a Brutal Year for Eric Adams
34 mins; December 23, 2024
Episode 390: How a Gilded Age Anti-Sex Law Bred the Modern State’s Criminalization of ‘Dangerous’ Speech
