Brian Lairer on WNYC.

Now we continue our centennial series, 100 years of 100 things.

We're up to number 94, 100 years of the New York City skyline.

To talk about how our skyline became so iconic and how it's evolved over the decades,

I'm joined by Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic for the New York Times, and author of

The Intimate City Walking, New York.

Michael, always great to have you.

Welcome back to WNYC.

Thank you.

Brian.

It's great to be you. Welcome back to WNYC. Thank you. Bryant's great to be here. And listeners, we don't have as much

time for this as we usually do in a non-membership drive segment, but we want to invite a few of you

in here with your favorite or least favorite part of the New York City skyline. Your favorite or

least favorite part of the New York City skyline or your favorite or least favorite part of the New York City skyline,

or any questions about its evolution? 212-433, WNYC, 212, 433-9-6-92. And Michael, I guess we need to go back

before the 1920s, more than 100 years, to talk about the start of building Skyward.

Where would you start the timeline?

I mean, it's a really great question, Brian.

In a way, you almost have to go back into the 19th century to the Brooklyn Bridge.

It's hard probably for anybody to really conjure now.

How shocking that must have been this incredible giant structure the size of a mountain

really imposed on what was still you know a city of really mostly two and three story buildings

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