In her book, "A Block in Time," author Christiane Bird shares a story of New York City, told through the prism of one block. The block is located between Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Streets, Fifth Avenue and Broadway to the east, and Sixth Avenue to the west. It's the story of high life and low life, immigrants and tourists, farmers and aristocrats, crooked cops, moral reformers and Solomon Pieters, a former slave who was the first owner of the block.

Bird has worked on staff for the New York Daily News and has written for the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Miami Herald, among other publications. Join us for a discussion with Bird, on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI 99.5FM.