Guggenheim Fellow Robert Kanigel, who won the Grady-Stack Award for his science writing and whose “The Man Who Knew Infinity” was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, discusses his new biography “Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs,” about the late urbanist and community advocate born 100 years ago, whose “Death and Life of Great American Cities” helped us rethink our approach to urban revival and avoid potentially catastrophic damage to the organic strength of city neighborhoods nationwide.
92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue at 92nd St. Oct. 6, noon.
Tickets are $25 at 92y.org.
