Robert Bell is a PhD student in the department of History at New York University, wherein he has cultivated a refined interest in themes of historical urban change and cultural development and is highly attuned to the curious, idiosyncratic local histories of New York City. As a docent, Robert engages tour participants with the monumental history of New York’s urban spaces, while also sharing the history of quotidian, daily realities and lives that form the city’s particular charm and character. Robert was born in San Francisco, raised in Canada, and has lived in Brooklyn for the past nine years.