Every morning, architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks from his Greenwich Village apartment across Washington Square to his studio in Tribeca. Sorkin is in no hurry; and he never neglects his surroundings. On the contrary, he pays the closest attention to everything around him. In Twenty Minutes in Manhattan he explains what he sees, what he imagines, what he knows. It reveals incredible layers of history, engineering, art, and rich social drama, all within the space of a simple twenty-minute walk.