Roberts, Sam: - 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 .
A history adviser to Federal Hall, he lives in New York with his wife and two sons..
He has written for the New York Times Magazine , the New Republic , New York , Vanity Fair , and Foreign Affairs .
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 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.
Roberts, Sam: - 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
