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Will Lee Zeldin Defund the MTA?

The City senior reporter and bona fide train knower Jose Martinez s FAQ to break down the gubernatorial race’s very high, yet hardly noticed, stakes for the already troubled future of the city’s circulatory system.

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LISTEN: The Girl From Marvel’s Boy-Club Bullpen Tells All About Old Times Square

Ann Nocenti, the writer, journalist and filmmaker who wrote and edited some of the most iconic Marvel comics of the late 1980s and early 1990s s the podcast to discuss her early years in New York as “the girl who lived behind the fish tank,” quite literally, how her work in asylums influenced her stories […]

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How NYC’s Suburbs Could Decide America’s Future

New York has more competitive Congressional races than any state besides California. NBC’s Steve Kornacki s Azi Paybarah and Harry Siegel to break down the races here that could well decide which party controls the House.

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Big Qs in Fine Print on the Back of Your Ballot

About these four proposals New Yorkers get to decide on, right after (mostly) guessing which judges to elect? Rachel Holliday Smith breaks down what’s at stake, and why most voters have no idea about any of it.

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‘Same As It Always Is’—Manny Kirchheimer’s New York, and His Pandemic Time Warp

“New York is so rich, and I couldn’t afford to travel so New York became my movie set.” America’s “least known great documentarian” discusses his 86 years living here, his work during the pandemic re-editing his footage of the city from the 1950s (and that you can see over the next two weekends at the […]

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An Open Invitation to Mayor Adams

Is the left somehow to blame for the tent city for asylum seekers that the Adams istration had been erecting on Orchard Beach, and that’s now going up on Randall’s Island? Is New York really turning back into Fear City? If the “old normal” went away with the pandemic shutdown, what are the reasons to […]

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From Emperor of the City to ‘Total Humiliation’

Biographer Andrew Kirtzman s FAQ NYC’s Weekend Edition to talk about his quarter century covering “America’s mayor” and the inevitable question: What happened to Rudy Giuliani?