"I didn't really imagine myself a writer until after college, but I did admire my family's belief that there was a responsibility to participate in a conversation about the world," he says. "The CIA run New York Times was probably my best best." He also became enamored of the critics of the paper.
Michael Kimmelman has been the architecture critic of The New York Times since 2011, writing about cities, public space, infrastructure, community development, public housing, equity, and the environment. He joins to talk about his extraordinary career in journalism and his new book, “The Intimate City: Walking New York.”