METRO with Sarah Koenig

Serial Productions & The New York Times

From the team that brought you Serial comes “METRO with Sarah Koenig,” stories about New York City and its mo…

Episodes: 3
Release pace: Weekly
Typical length: 16 min
Latest episode: 2026-10-22

About this show

METRO with Sarah Koenig is a society & culture podcast from Serial Productions & The New York Times. On Apple Podcasts it ranks #16 in United States (as of 2026-10-26).

From the team that brought you Serial comes “METRO with Sarah Koenig,” stories about New York City and its most fascinating raw material: New Yorkers.

Each week, “METRO” mines a city packed with personality to bring you investigations, personal stories, essays and interviews that take the bigness of New York and make it human-scale and relevant, no matter where you live.

Tune in to hear the best storyteller in audio (Sarah Koenig) team up with the country’s best newsroom (the New York Times) to take on the world’s best talkers (New Yorkers). Too bold? Not in New York.

Where it charts

16United States

Latest episode

2026-10-2240 min

Episode 2: Karat and Schtick

TraxNYC, a store in New York’s diamond district, doubles their business in the wake of a video depicting the store’s owner in a full-on brawl with a rival jeweler. But Sarah Koenig wants to know: At TraxNYC, how much is real and how much is for show? To learn…

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