Map master Steven Romalewski and penetrating politics reporter Brigid Bergin do their best to explain what the hell is happening with our election, where the maps are still being drawn and not even the dates, plural, for various contests aren’t entirely certain. Plus, Nick Pinto of the brand-new NYC journalism venture Hell Gate breaks […]

Reporter Michael Daly recalls his friend Jack Maple, the maker of the maps that changed everything—and how those were inspired by the murder of Maple’s grandmother in Brooklyn.

An awful lot of New York politicians end up going to prison but Assemblyman Eddie Gibbs, who spent 17 months in Rikers as a teen followed by four and a half years in state prisons, is the first to do it the other way around. He s the pod for a conversation about that, “the […]

A conversation from early Wednesday afternoon, before Frank James’ arrest, about the train shooting and also Brian Benjamin’ resignation.

Josefa Velasquez s from Albany to break down the stop-and-start, hurry-up-and-wait path toward New York’s forthcoming and already late $216 billion or so budget (and everything else) deal.

Jeff Mays of the New York Times breaks down Kathy Hochul’s troubles with Black voters, and Craig McCarthy of the New York Post looks at what is, and ain’t, new with the NYPD’s neighborhood policing initiative, its anti-gun unit, and its quality of life enforcement push.

Chinese American Planning Council President and CEO Wayne Ho s the pod to talk about what Albany can do to make the economics of this work for New York’s aging population, respond to Assemblymember Ron Kim’s charge that C is waging a “war on workers,” and much more.

Elizabeth Glazer, the founder and co-editor of the new publication Vital City, s the pod to talk about rising crime and the rising criminal justice reform tide in New York City, and what reformers can do to move past squishy root-causes rhetoric.

Prof. Christina Greer explains what makes Eric Adams like “a really good point guard” — and the Nets could use one for home games, by the way — and Amir Khafagy breaks down his reporting for Documented on how the city has let down the Twin Parks fire survivors now that they’re no longer front-page […]

Super-reporter Greg B. Smith breaks down why Eric Adams’ promise to remove the homeless from the trains “right away” has been going nowhere fast.