Elon Green talks with Rachel Holiday Smith and Harry Siegel about the direct line from the Transit Police beating Michael Stewart to death in front of horrified art students in 1983 to Eric Adams being elected mayor in 2021 — one that intersects with Madonna, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Spike Lee and Tucker Carlson.

Lethem talks with Brian Berger and Harry Siegel about his excellent and almost undefinable Brooklyn Crime Novel, and how COVID led him to again excavate the Brooklyn of his youth, two decades after novelizing it in The Fortress of Solitude.

Amy Sohn talks with Harry Siegel about how the American government's original anti-sex law, suppressing as obscene information about birth control, created the mechanisms used to this day to suppress unpopular thoughts.

Joel Kotkin discusses Americans’ demonstrated preference for suburban life, the waning of “urban supremacy,” and much more with Alyssa Katz,

Ross Pellin sat down with Haidee Chu and Harry Siegel to discuss his work mapping the languages spoken here in what may be the most linguistically diverse city in the history of the world, why our melting pot is also a threat to many of those languages, and much more.

“They all disappear. That's the thing. It's extremely ephemeral” — Jill Gill, the 91-year-old author of Site Lines: Lost New York 1954-2022, talks with host Harry Siegel about her decades painting watercolors of her city.

Stank Mack talks with Alyssa Katz about his two decades listening to New Yorkers and documenting their sayings and subcultures in cartoon form, with “all dialogue guaranteed verbatim.”

Julie Satow talks with Sarah Shears about the women behind the business of fashion.

The book’s namesake talks with host Harry Siegel about chornicling the hold-outs in trades and businesses that were vanishing in the 1980s and early 1990s, old New Yorks past and present, and much more.

Steve Fishman talks with Harry Siegel about his his new podcast, The Burden, where he speaks with and digs into the history of former NYPD super-cop Louis Scarcella, the detective who locked up New York’s baddest guys back in the city’s “bad old days” — and with the convicted murderers turned jailhouse law firm who won their freedom by digging into police work that sometimes seemed, as journalists will joke, too good to check.