Frenchman Alain Robert became the first person ever to scale the 52-story New York Times building on Thursday. Mere hours later, a second man, identified as Renaldo Clarke, attempted the same climb. Both men used the horizontal rods that surround the outside of the building as a ladder to make their way up to the top — where they were apprehended by police.
Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker, talks with Robert Siegel about the structural lure of the Times building and why people might be tempted to scale it.
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