How Did You Grow Up in a Comically Cliched Neighborhood?

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Growing up in the village, it was a much more of a community. It felt like a welcoming place to people who wanted to feel that they were a little bit out of the mainstream. I mean, the village now, my family still is down there, some of it. But it's an incredibly wealthy neighborhood. And I think it doesn't feel welcoming in the same way.

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.”