The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World’s Greatest City

From award-winning New York Times reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world’s most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known yet pivotal inhabitants who helped define it--now in paperback.

Sam Roberts, a 50-year veteran of New York journalism, is an obituaries reporter and former Urban Affairs correspondent at the New York Times. He has hosted the New York Times ＂Close Up＂ on TV, and the podcasts ＂Only in New York,＂ anthologized in a book of the same name, and ＂The Caucus.＂ He is the author of A History of New York in 27 Buildings, A History of New York in 101 Objects, and Grand Central, among other books. He has written for the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, New York, and Air Mail. A history adviser to Federal Hall, he lives in New York.