It’s a yuge week for New York with new guest host Katie Honan ing the pod and, oh yeah, Andrew Cuomo announcing his resignation. Plus, Afua Atta-Mensah considers the Black pols who agreed to let the governor use them as shields.

As the walls close in on Andrew Cuomo, The City’s Josefa Velasquez looks at how the governor got here and how this is likely to end (spoiler: it won’t be pretty) and Comptroller Scott Stringer looks back on his mayoral campaign and forward to what’s next for him and the city.

Long-ago Cuomo employee and long-time Cuomo critic Alexis Grenell s FAQ for a look at how things fell apart for our Emmy-award winning governor. And, as mentioned in the episode, here’s our 2018 episode about Albany’s Sex Crimes Horror Show, beginning with a long litany of the bad actors there.

With Politico New York City Hall Bureau Chief Sally Goldenberg

Photographer David Godlis and writer Luc Sante talk with Alex and Harry about Godlis Streets, his new book of 1970s street photography, and what was alluring about capturing glimpses of that city and the sometimes alluring “generalized small-time crumminess of so much of that decade.”

Chrissy is feeling oddly optimistic about the Eric Adams-Andrew Cuomo alliance, and jazz great turned boxing manager Charles Farrell visits the pod to talk with Harry and Vice’s Tim Marchman about his memoir that covers, among other things, playing with Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman, fixing fights for the mob, “the Moby Dick of boxing” and […]

The Democratic nominee who’s all but sure to be the next Manhattan District Attorney visits FAQ for a lively conversation.

Laura Nahmias s Chrissy and Harry to discuss the BoE’s RCV SNAFU, the state of the election now that it’s all over but the counting, and her essay at Fun City about Eric Adams, the man who would be mayor.

Chrissy has a message for the pundits “explaining” what just happened in New York, and Times reporter and researcher Emma Goldberg discusses her new book on the medical students who became doctors in the city in the midst of the pandemic and reads one incredible age from it.

The votes are cast, the results are still to come, and Ben Max of Gotham Gazette s Chrissy and Harry for a late-night break down of what we know (and what we don’t yet).