Sam Roberts
Sam Roberts , a 50-year veteran of New York journalism, is an obituaries reporter and formerly the Urban Affairs correspondent at the New York Times . He hosts the New York Times "Close Up," which he inaugurated in 1992, 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: How a Train Station Transformed America , among others. He has...See more
Sam Roberts , a 50-year veteran of New York journalism, is an obituaries reporter and formerly the Urban Affairs correspondent at the New York Times . He hosts the New York Times "Close Up," which he inaugurated in 1992, 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: How a Train Station Transformed America , among others. He has written for the New York Times Magazine , the New Republic , New York , Vanity Fair , and Foreign Affairs . A history adviser to Federal Hall, he lives in New York with his wife and two sons. See less