Ben Gibberd is a British writer and journalist who has lived in New York City for the past twenty years. He has written about the city for numerous publications, including Time Out New York and Time Out London magazines, where he wrote a “Dispatches from New York” column for several years. Between 2004 and 2009 he was a regular contributor to the New York Times’ Sunday City and Long Island sections with numerous cover stories, essays, profiles and features. “Children of Darkness,” his profile of New York’s urban explorers, who plumb the depths of the city’s rotting infrastructure, is being anthologized this September by NYU Press in More New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of The New York Times, edited by Constance Rosenblum. In 2007, his book, New York Waters: Profiles From the Edge, about the men and women of New York’s working waterfront, was published by Globe Pequot Press. His award-winning 2006 guidebook to Manhattan, The Little Black Book of New York, published by Peter Pauper Press, is now in its third edition. He is currently working on two film projects with film director Neal Slavin; a documentary based on one of his City section profiles, and a feature film based in New York during the Vietnam War. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two young children.