It's the Brian Lairn Show on WNYC.

I'm Bridget Bergen, senior reporter in the WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom,

filling in for Brian today.

Happy Friday.

Coming up on today's show, my colleague,

David Brand will join me for a whole bunch of housing scoops, including a new deputy mayor,

new rent guidelines board appointments, and the results from the City Council on some housing-related

bills, including one that could loosen the city's strict Airbnb rules.

Plus, later in the show, how the new Archbishop of New York will approach the job of leading

two and a half million Catholics and just how different will he be from his predecessor,

Cardinal Timothy Dolan. And we'll wrap today's show not with your gripes, but with your reasons to

love New York. This is, of course, related to a feature that New York Magazine puts out every year,

and it's really just a lovely reminder of the pleasures that these sometimes maddening things in

our city can give us. Think things like congestion pricing is buying us new subway elevators, as New York

magazine put it. But first, we've made it to Friday the week before Christmas, just, you know,

another quiet news cycle out of Washington, D.C., complete with a remarkable interview with President

Trump's chief of staff that continues to shock an awe, not just

for what she said, but also for how President Trump has responded, a primetime address from the

president touting his success on the economy, a strategic maneuver on health care subsidies in the

House that will force a vote early next year but won't stop those premium spikes on New Year's Day.

A new blockade, an increasingly bellicose rhetoric against Venezuela,

an executive order reclassifying marijuana.

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