New York's Heart Is Its Perimeter

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The book covers four of the five boroughs and some 540 million years of history. As you walk through LGBTQ Greenwich Village, Chinatown, Harlem, and Warren, you take readers back to an age when times where we're still a beaver pond. "I think each of these chapters really intended to say something larger about the city," author says.

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.”