Book Review: Michael Sorkin’s “Twenty Minutes in Manhattan”

Twenty Minutes in Manhattan is a book by Michael Sorkin, an architect and author whose other work includes the funny and insightful All Over the Map. Structured around the author’s walk through Greenwich Village from his apartment to his office – the titular twenty minutes – it would seem at first glance to be a potentially boring and myopic book. The table of contents seems to further suggest this, with chapter titles as inspiring as “The Stairs,” “The Stoop,” and “145 Hudson Street.” But th...