Sam Roberts has covered New York for The New York Times and The Daily News for more than 50 years as a reporter, urban affairs correspondent, columnist and editor. He is now an obituaries reporter for The Times, the host of The New York Times Close Up on CUNY-TV and the author of a dozen books, including The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World’s Greatest City; A History of New York in 27 Buildings; A History of New York in 101 Objects; The Brother: The Untold Story of the Rosenberg Atom Spy Case; and Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America.