The Village in the 70s

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"I'm a native New Yorker. I've lived in Manhattan now since 1983, since the year I graduated college," he says. "There was something incredibly welcoming about it and a very, very special time ... especially as the LGBTQ community was beginning to sort of rise up and make a difference." The city's decline meant there were places where people could meet that became clubs or gathering places.

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.”