Happy Thanksgiving!
And some podcasts for the road.
Thank you, dear reader, for spending time with us thinking about how to make New York City a better and more prosperous place.
I hope you’re not spending your Thanksgiving reading newsletters, but you might be spending it in transit, so it seemed useful to share a few key episodes of local podcasts that will help set the stage for New York politics and policy over the next year—once you’re through Nicole Gelinas’s and my first five episodes of The Bigger Apple, of course:
Housing experts Jamie Rubin and Leila Bozorg offer a glimpse of what an ambitious new mayor could do on housing on After Hours with Jamie Rubin.
Public-sector labor leader Henry Garrido sounded pretty confident in his conversation with Roberto Perez on Perez Notes.
Mamdani adviser Patrick Gaspard, a former top Obama aide, offers the progressive view of the mayor-elect on Max Politics.
Mamdani himself went on The Adam Friedland Show to talk about his Trump meeting, crack jokes, and dodge some weird questions.
MI’s Rafael Mangual, Renu Mukherjee, and Santiago Vidal Calvo dissect how Mamdani won on the City Journal Podcast.
The FAQ NYC gang wonders if anyone in New York isn’t running for Congress—and discusses what that means.
The Bigger Apple Podcast
And of course, Nicole Gelinas and I have been speaking with great colleagues about current issues in New York policy; you can find all episodes on Apple and Spotify.
This week, we spoke with E.J. McMahon, New York’s preeminent expert on state and city budgets, about what the state can and cannot afford, and why. That inevitably led to a conversation about the incoming mayor’s agenda, schools, Medicaid, and more—and left us much better informed.
Last week, we spoke with Stephen Eide about homelessness and mental health, and the week before that, with Danyela Souza Egorov about schools.
I’m grateful for your thoughtful emails and comments.
Happy Thanksgiving!