Artist, musician, and Queens man Issa Ibrahim talks about a song he wrote in New York’s Creedmoor psychiatric facility, eulogizing the neighborhood where he grew up.
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FAQ Gets Dopey
Dave from the “DOPEY,” podcast, shares a few stories about drug addiction and recovery during some of the biggest moments in New York City history.
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Emma Whitford Tells FAQ What’s Up With The New Rent Relief For New Yorkers.
Emma Whitford, reporter at Law360. gives us a rundown of the new rent relief from the Federal Government hopfully headed toward New Yorkers this Spring.
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The NYPD is Secretly Spying on Us, The Post Act Could Change That.
Albert Fox Cahn, founder of S.T.O.P, the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, talks to Alex Brook Lynn about The Post Act, a bill that will be voted on in the City Council this Thursday, June 18th. The Post Act could force the NYPD to become transparent about the technology they use to spy on New Yorkers. […]
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Elinor Tatum of The Amsterdam News on FAQ.NYC
. Professor Christina Greer interviews Elinor Tatum of The Amsterdam News, the oldest Black newspaper in the country, about what it is like to publish a print newspaper during COVID-19, and the importance of ethnic newspapers in the time of Corona. Elinor was also part of ‘Don’t Bury the Lede’ an interactive installation about the […]
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Interview: Sarah Dowd, a Harlem Hospital Nurse says our healthcare system is “cut down to the bone!”
Alex Brook Lynn of FAQ.NYC interviews Sarah Dowd, a nurse at Harlem Hospital, about what healthcare workers need to pull us through this crisis. As the world watches tired healthcare workers beg for supplies on social media, Sarah Dowd, a nurse at Harlem Hospital, doesn’t want to see their troubles become an accepted “horrific sob […]
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Interview: Alexandra Scaggs Educated Us on The Federal Reserve, Municipal Bonds, and Why it Matters.
We learned some new things about economics to prepare for our new world order. Barron’s financial journalist Alexandra Scaggs explains to Alex Brook Lynn how the stimulus bill impacts lending, what big things are changing with the federal reserve, and how the issue of municipal bonds, something that progressive economists have been on about for […]