In this episode, Leonard Lopate makes his WBAI debut by welcoming Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times editorial board member and revered longtime columnist Clyde Haberman. Author of the book “The Times of the Seventies: The Culture, Politics, and Personalities that Shaped the Decade,” Haberman currently serves as a professor at the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College. The author of over 1,500 columns during his 16 years at the Times, this 2015 inductee into the New York Press Club's Hall of Fame attempted to describe his place in covering the city he loves in his final installment for the paper, entitled “Before Going Dark, One Last Attempt at Explaining New York City,” in 2011. “City columns for this and other newspapers come in all shapes and sizes,” Haberman wrote. “Some dwell on cops and robbers. Some columnists are investigative heavyweights. Some like to hang out with politicians; go figure. No one would sensibly cast me as any of those types. My goal was simply to make a desperate stab at explaining the maze called New York City. When I failed, people let me know. But the reward was the thousands of generous messages over the years from readers, many of whom accused me of having consistently made them laugh.”