An awful lot can happen in a New York Minute. In this first episode of a year-end mini-series, you’ll be hearing a pair of stories about the drug trade from Clifford Michel, formerly of THE CITY, and former kingpin Steve Lynn. Those are followed by a pair of stories about glamor, gloom and gumption from the filmmaker and writer Hugo Perez and the singer and actress Flo Ankah. Those were all shared at a storytelling salon hosted by Alex Brook Lynn as part of her long-running Thirst series along with Harry Siegel at the loft of Rusty Zimmerman of the Free Portrait Project sketched several of the storytellers.

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Episode 320: Another New York Minute – FAQ NYC

In the second of three year-end episodes featuring stories about "a New York minute," natives Katie Honan and David Ray Martinez talk soap operas and families before transplants J.T. Price and Adam Levy talk about courteous robbers and courting wives.

Episode 321: New York Minutes for Ink-Stained Wretches – FAQ NYC

In the third and final installment of the pod's year-end mini-series of stories about a "New York minute," you'll hear from Michael Gartland and Ellen Moynihan of the Daily News, telling yarns about found beef, cops and lost cats. They’re followed by Justin Miller of New York Magazine on hearing an unsolicited tale of massages and romances. Finally, Mark Jacobson, the journalist and novelist who, among other things, wrote the articles Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet and The Return of Superfly that respectively became the TV show Taxi and the movie American Gangster, with a ramble about comedy in the city back in the day.