“I’m running to bring a safer, more affordable and better run city,” says city Comptroller Brad Lander, offering himself as the candidate with both a vision and “a track record of making government work for people.” In the latest installment of the pod’s series of sitdown interviews with the Democratic mayoral contenders, Lander talked about how […]
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LISTEN: Adrienne Adams Says ‘I’m the Change the City Needs’
“My vision for the city is to put the city back on track again. We are so tired of the trauma, we are so tired of the drama, we are tired of the scandal,” said City Council Speaker and mayoral candidate Adrienne Adams. “As the first woman mayor of the City of New York I’m […]
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LISTEN: Jessica Ramos Says NYC Can Do Better Than Another ‘Megalomaniac Mayor’
“What gets headlines is talking about Andrew Cuomo and isn’t that a really unfortunate state of affairs?” Jessica Ramos said in a wide-ranging conversation with hosts Katie Honan and Harry Siegel at the office of The City. “And it’s unfortunate, because it creates kind of a hamster wheel and meanwhile, there are lots of honest, […]
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LISTEN: ‘Inshallah Mayor’ Zohran Mamdani Says It’s All About Making NYC More Affordable
“Democrats in general tend to show up to gun fights with bar graphs,” said Queens Assemblymember and mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani as he sat down with FAQ NYC hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel at The City’s offices on Tuesday to make his case. That boils down, he explained, to driving down the […]
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LISTEN: Whitney Tilson Says NYC ‘Needs To Make Crime Illegal Again’
Looking at the “different flavors of career politicians” running in the Democratic mayoral primary, “I didn’t see anyone who could be independent of the machine that runs this city,” said former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson. So he entered the race himself “to try and bring my party back to the center.” In a wide-ranging […]
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LISTEN: Michael Blake Has ‘A Very Different Vision of What Can Be for NYC’
“You simply can’t trust Eric Adams nor those that are closest to him,” former assemblymember and Mayoral candidate Michael Blake said as he sat down with FAQ NYC hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel on Tuesday for the latest installment in the pod’s series of interviews with the field. “When you have four deputy […]
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LISTEN: Zellnor Myrie Says ‘We Cannot Cower in This Moment’
“I’ve always represented a community that knew we could hold two things together at the same time: that we want to hold officers able when they step over the line but also that we need them as part of our public safety ecosystem,” state Senator and mayoral candidate Zellnor Myrie said as he sat down […]
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LISTEN: Scott Stringer Says ‘The Greatest City in the World Is Broken Now’
“I think this election is about who can put the city back together, and I don’t think people are going to buy the woe-is-me Eric Adams story,” mayoral candidate Scott Stringer said as he sat down with FAQ NYC hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel at The City’s offices on Tuesday to make […]