The Brooklyn Queens Expressway was also what gave us the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. It's a very mixed bag creation, a kind of jury rigged attempt to drive highways through New York and not completely destroy all of Brooklyn Heights. So we get the promenade, we also get the highway, we lose some buildings. And I find that part of it also deeply interesting.
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.”