Welcome to Keys to the City hosted by Anthony Weiner. A podcast about the problems facing New York City and the enduring power of ideas.From existential threats to pet peeves, each week together we’ll resist the temptation to curse the darkness. Instead, we’ll try to light a candle by bringing to light things that have worked before or new ways to get things done.So, if you find yourself muttering “there ought to be a law”; or “if only I were king for a day” or just something like “that’s been bugging me”, this show is for you.Dropping eve...
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43 min
Episode 14 – Grading Ranked Choice Voting
Idea 44 was so good that it got adopted. Now expensive and divisive run off elections have been replaced by ranked choice voting. It's still a fairly new idea but we’ve seen it in…
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34 min
Episode 13 – A Wee Bit of Help For Small Business
New York is a city of tall buildings and marquee companies. But the capital of big corporate is actually a town where most businesses are small. In fact, the anchor of our economy…
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41 min
Episode 12 – Gimmie Shelter…That’s Affordable
Everyone can agree that New York is an expensive place to live, but what to do about it? There seems to be a structural imbalance between supply and demand. So what can the governm…
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39 min
Episode 11 – Assigning Accountability for our Schools
Some of the Keys have been adopted and some have been overtaken by time, but Idea #84 is as fresh and vital as ever – getting Albany out of our schools. We all know who is in charg…
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26 min
Episode 10.1 – A Calm Consideration of Police Body Cameras
If you skipped most of the cacophony of the first take, Anthony tries to make amends with a conversation with a man who has quite nearly written the book about the implementation,…
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46 min
Episode 10.0 – A Mud Fight over Police Body Cameras
After a few years of the biggest experiment in the use of police body worn cameras, Anthony looks at how this idea is working on 24,000 officers and wonders if he got it right in w…
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28 min
Episode 9 – How Much More Should a $70 Million Apartment Cost?
This episode may not appeal to the oligarchs, princes and masters of the universe who shop for New York apartments in the $50 million range. But Anthony has an idea for the rest of…
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27 min
Episode 8 – Ending Child Hunger in a Snap
Anthony continues his search for that mythical creature – the idea we can all agree upon. On this week’s Keys to the City, it’s in sight – ending the moral blight of children in ou…
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34 min
Episode 7 – An Alternate Idea About Alternate Side.
Is there any ritual more New York than the morning dance of alternate side parking? But does it make sense? Anthony looks at the zero-sum game of who gets to park where, when and f…
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39 min
Episode 6 – When a Sin Tax Goes Bad
We learned that prohibition didn’t work as planned but the idea of taxing behavior that we want to discourage is an accepted thing. But when New York City decided to raise the tax…
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36 min
Episode 5 – Throwing the Whole Toolbox at Addiction
What if there is a problem with such a wide “blast radius” that no one idea will tame it? In this episode, Anthony takes a look at the impact of addiction on our streets, our taxes…
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22 min
Episode 4 – Time to Tame the Scaffold Jungle.
There are many things that you only see on the streets of New York City, but one thing we need less of are the over 9000 scaffolds or sheds that create dark, messy canyons have spr…
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17 min
Episode 3 – Parallel Parking For Fire Engines, C'mon!
Anthony dives into the shallow end of the pool for this episode about one of his pet peeves. Idea 101 asks a simple question, “Why can’t we park closer to the pump?”. In New York C…
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24 min
Episode 2 – Every Year, Cut What Doesn’t Work
Does anyone like government programs that don’t work or waste money? But rarely does anything get done to change them. This episode focuses on Idea 41. Anthony proposes requiring e…
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23 min
Episode 1 – Stop, Frisk then Show us The Data
The podcast kicks off with the hot issue of the moment, crime. Idea 76 from Anthony’s books of ideas suggests making the controversial – but necessary – police tactic of stop, ques…
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Episode 0 – Coming Soon – Keys to The City with Anthony Weiner
Welcome to Keys to the City hosted by Anthony Weiner. A podcast about the problems facing New York City and the enduring power of ideas. From existential threats to pet peeves, eac…