Brian Laird on WNYC and Yay, Summer is here, unofficially at least. What are your plans?

You probably heard Katie Honan on this show with serious reporting and analysis about

city politics. Maybe you know her as one of the hosts of the FAQ NYC podcast. That's political. Well,

now she anchors also a new seasonal newsletter at the nonprofit news organization that she

works for called The City.

The newsletter is called Summer and the City.

And she joins us now to help kick off the season.

And this mostly beautiful summer weekend, the weather on Saturday in particular, looks perfect, clear, high somewhere around 80.

And listeners, we can take a few recommendations from you, too, for what to do this summer

and even what to do this particular summer weekend.

212-433 WNYC, 212-433-9-6-9-2.

Hi, Katie.

Welcome back to WNYC, and nice to do it in this context for a change.

Yeah, thanks so much for having me, Brian. And it's good to talk about something fun and lighthearted.

Do you want to introduce the summer and the city newsletter? Yeah, sure. So this is a product that

we are launching in this limited edition for the summer. You know, I'm sure for readers of the city,

know we do very serious stories,

investigations, corruption, fraud, serious issues, health issues, but we also, we kind of do these stories because we love New York City, right? And the other side of loving New York City is

loving the good sides of it as well, not just, you know, what the mayor might have said that

week. So I kind of pitch this idea with obviously a lot of other people here working on on our product team, our newsletters had our editors.

It's been our social team.

It's been really fantastic kind of figuring out how to capture that in a way that's useful, but then also teaching people about, you know, we've interviewed some of the city workers who make the city,

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