The Life and Times of Richard Ravitch

Sam Roberts, obituaries reporter and former urban affairs correspondent at The New York Times, host of CUNY-TV's “The New York Times Close Up” and the author of The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World's Greatest City(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022), talks about the life of New Yorker Richard Ravitch, who died Sunday. He helped save the city from bankruptcy in the 1970s, chaired the MTA and served as lieutenant governor of the state.