The Grass Is Greener

On today’s show: Adam Davidson of the New York Times Magazine and NPR’s Planet Money team explains why the Bronx can’t be more like Brooklyn. Then Jeffrey Eugenides joins us for the Leonard Lopate Show Book Club to talk about his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Middlesex! A master glass blower and a designer tell us all about the Mobile Glass Lab on Governor’s Island. Plus, the editor and two contributors of Central Park: An Anthology on what the Park means in their lives and to the lives of New Yorkers in general.