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From Times Square to the Grand Central, Jerold S. Kayden leads New York Times architecture critic on a virtual walking tour of Midtown

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Zack DeZon for the New York Times.

Jerold S. Kayden, Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design, recently led architecture critic Michael Kimmelman on a virtual tour of Midtown Manhattan for the New York Times. The conversation is part of an ongoing series featuring virtual walks around New York City. Kayden, who received degrees in law and city and regional planning from Harvard, focused his tour on the legal history behind 42nd Street.

Experience the tour in the article “Times Square, Grand Central and the Laws That Build the City,” in the New York Times.