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 289: Unpacking the Eric Adams Playbook
47 mins; July 25, 2023
Episode 288: The Three C's
29 mins; July 19, 2023
Episode 287: A Plan for a Retail Revival
35 mins; July 13, 2023
Episode 286: Red (Ex-Mayor) Table Talk
39 mins; July 05, 2023
Episode 285: Big-Time Upsets in a Low Turnout Election
39 mins; June 28, 2023
Episode 284: The Digital Revolution Is a Local NYC Story
40 mins; June 25, 2023
Episode 283: Who By Fire, Who By Sword
31 mins; June 20, 2023
Episode 282: The NYPD’s ‘Italian Squad’ Fought the Mob, and Mayors
32 mins; June 16, 2023
Episode 281: The Ex-Cops Complete Their NYPD Takeover
40 mins; June 13, 2023
Episode 280: ‘His Art Brings Joy to a Lot of People’
44 mins; June 09, 2023
Episode 279: Gun Cops Aren’t Beat Cops, Even if Eric Adams Calls Them ‘Neighborhood Safety’ Cops
34 mins; June 06, 2023
Episode 278: ‘This Is Why Eric Adams Makes Sense’
35 mins; May 30, 2023
Episode 277: The Booksellers of Brooklyn Take Flight
40 mins; May 26, 2023
Episode 276: A Retconned Origin Story
43 mins; May 23, 2023
Episode 275: A Two-Trumpet Town
31 mins; May 22, 2023
Episode 274: "At Best to Be Pitied, at Worst to Be Reviled"
26 mins; May 12, 2023
Episode 273: City Stressed Out
42 mins; May 09, 2023
Episode 272: Party City: Casinos, Weddings, and Galas, Oh My!
34 mins; May 02, 2023
Episode 271: We Need To Hold the NYPD Accountable
50 mins; April 25, 2023
Episode 270: Digidogs Unleashed In ‘Fear City’
30 mins; April 18, 2023
Episode 269: Budget Breakdown: Mo Money Mo Problems
36 mins; April 11, 2023
Episode 268: Trump Got Arrested and Life Went on As Usual Around NYC
31 mins; April 04, 2023
Episode 267: What It Takes to Build Community Power
25 mins; April 01, 2023
Episode 266: Eric Adams' Excellent(?) Albany Adventure
34 mins; March 28, 2023
Episode 265: What's In a (NYC).Name
28 mins; March 25, 2023
Episode 264: Who ❤️ We ❤️ NYC.nyc?
27 mins; March 21, 2023
Episode 263: Invisible Viruses on the Big Screen
38 mins; March 18, 2023
Episode 262: Of Mayors and Mekons
40 mins; March 15, 2023
Episode 261: A Bad Look for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
24 mins; March 07, 2023
Episode 260: A Pot Seller’s Post-Prohibition Plan
36 mins; March 05, 2023
Episode 259: Phil, Till the Next Episode
24 mins; February 28, 2023
Episode 258: ‘Crazy’ Eddie Antar Was the Original Retail Gangster
44 mins; February 26, 2023
Episode 257: Where Eric Adams and Ron DeSantis See Eye-to-Eye
25 mins; February 21, 2023
Episode 256: A Portrait of the (Free) Portrait Artist
42 mins; February 18, 2023
Episode 255: George Santos Is Real-Life George Costanza
36 mins; February 14, 2023
Episode 254: ‘It Was Very Easy to Survive, Except You Might Killed. (Probably Not.)’
39 mins; February 09, 2023
Episode 253: ‘Horn Maintenance’
36 mins; February 05, 2023
Episode 252: A ‘High-Risk’ Shell Game from Eric Adams’ NYPD
35 mins; January 31, 2023
Episode 251: The Fletcher Family on Remembering the Husband and Father They Lost to COVID
25 mins; January 28, 2023
Episode 250: Eric Adams: "I Am the Colgate"
33 mins; January 24, 2023
Episode 249: Building a Bigger Tent to Build More Housing
33 mins; January 22, 2023
Episode 248: Rikers and the ‘World‘ Tour to Nowhere
46 mins; January 16, 2023
Episode 247: A State of the State for an Unsettled State
29 mins; January 11, 2023
Episode 246: 2023 Predictions Through a Hazy Crystal Ball
42 mins; January 04, 2023
Episode 245: The View From the Broken End of the Bottle
41 mins; December 29, 2022
Episode 244: The Stories Behind the Pictures
40 mins; December 25, 2022
Episode 243: Libraries Are on the Chopping Block in Eric Adams' New York
32 mins; December 21, 2022
Episode 242: ‘A Typical Kid’
43 mins; December 17, 2022
Episode 241: Fear and Felonies
28 mins; December 14, 2022
Episode 240: Get Intimate With the City You Only Thought You Knew
39 mins; December 11, 2022
Episode 239: ‘Not on Miss New York’s Watch’
48 mins; December 07, 2022
Episode 238: The City Wants to Help People Who Don’t Want To Be Helped
34 mins; December 02, 2022
Episode 237: Eric Adams' New Mental Health Plan Is Less Than It Seems
26 mins; November 30, 2022
Episode 236: NYC’s New Weed Wild West
37 mins; November 27, 2022
Episode 235: ‘Democrats Are a Huge Part of the Problem’
38 mins; November 22, 2022
Episode 234: Mmmm, Chaat Dogs
26 mins; November 20, 2022
Episode 233: Bucks and Blame to Spread Around
32 mins; November 16, 2022
Episode 232: Was COVID NYC a Better Version of Ourselves?
32 mins; November 13, 2022
Episode 231: Hochul Makes History as Red Wave Falls Short
41 mins; November 08, 2022
Episode 230: Andrew Cuomo Says Cities Are in Trouble in a ‘Post-Covid World’
58 mins; November 05, 2022
Episode 229: Will Lee Zeldin Defund the MTA?
36 mins; November 02, 2022
Episode 228: Lee Zeldin Is ‘That Guy’
29 mins; October 30, 2022
Episode 227: Sandy Was Just the Start. Is New York City Building Resiliently Enough for What’s Coming Next?
36 mins; October 26, 2022
Episode 226: The Girl From Marvel’s Boy-Club Bullpen Tells All About Old Times Square
40 mins; October 23, 2022
Episode 225: ‘Politics is Tidal’ - Can Kathy Hochul Stand Up to the Wave?
36 mins; October 20, 2022
Episode 224: How NYC's Suburbs Could Decide America's Future
33 mins; October 15, 2022
Episode 223: Big Qs in Fine Print on the Back of Your Ballot
38 mins; October 12, 2022
Episode 222: ‘Same As It Always Is’—Manny Kirchheimer’s New York, and His Pandemic Time Warp
32 mins; October 08, 2022
Episode 221: An Open Invitation to Mayor Adams
30 mins; October 04, 2022
Episode 220: From Emperor of the City to ‘Total Humiliation‘
37 mins; October 01, 2022
Episode 219: The Mapmaker's Big ‘Surprise’
47 mins; September 28, 2022
Episode 218: A Nap for the City that Never Sleeps?
41 mins; September 21, 2022
Episode 217: The Overwhelming Seductions of New York
41 mins; September 16, 2022
Episode 216: Arsenic and Old Apartments
39 mins; September 07, 2022
Episode 215: Does Eric Adams Want To Be the Mayor or Just Play the Mayor?
37 mins; August 31, 2022
Episode 214: Election Night Extra: A Lot of L's to Go Around
47 mins; August 24, 2022
Episode 213: Bringing Honesty to the Dangerousness Debate
32 mins; August 10, 2022
Episode 212: Dangerousness and the District Attorney
36 mins; August 03, 2022
Episode 211: Can Old Dems Learn New Tricks?
36 mins; July 27, 2022
Episode 210: The First Responders the FDNY Left Behind
67 hours 17 mins; July 21, 2022
Episode 209: Summer in the City
19 mins; July 13, 2022
Episode 208: Brooklyn's Bad Machine
37 mins; July 06, 2022
Episode 207: Election Night: The Empire Strikes Back
36 mins; June 29, 2022
Episode 206: The One Sound You Do Not Want To Hear By the Beach
69 hours 18 mins; June 22, 2022
Episode 205: A Big Personality, Thin Skin and a Low Bar
39 mins; June 15, 2022
Episode 204: The Swagger-Stagger Situation
35 mins; June 09, 2022
Episode 203: The New Yorkest
39 mins; June 01, 2022
Episode 202: Sixty-odd Candidates In Search of a District
39 mins; May 25, 2022
Episode 201: Dead Souls, Brooklyn Edition
65 hours 33 mins; May 18, 2022
Episode 200: The Livest One
61 hours 22 mins; May 11, 2022
Episode 199: Albany Strangeness in the Multiverse of Map Madness
63 hours 5 mins; May 04, 2022
Episode 198: The Cave Cop Who Transformed New York City
66 hours 57 mins; April 26, 2022
Episode 197: Flipping the Albany Script With Eddie Gibbs
63 hours 16 mins; April 20, 2022
Episode 196: Everything At Once
29 mins; April 13, 2022
Episode 195: The Big, Slow Ugly
33 mins; April 06, 2022
Episode 194: The More Things Change
68 hours 59 mins; March 31, 2022
Episode 193: The Coming Home Health Care Conundrum
