From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bobarro. This is the Daily.

Friends, he was acuelly. He was acc, and a swift renovation that defied all predictions.

The Cathedral of Notre Dame to the public. The cathedral of Notre Dame reopened to the public.

Today, chief architecture critic Michael Kimmelman,

with the story of the miracle on the sin.

It's Wednesday, December 11th. Michael, welcome to the daily.

Thank you, Michael.

Pleasure to be here.

I'm just going to acknowledge that we have been trying to get you on the show for seven years.

And then two days more, because over the past couple of days, there's been a tremendous

amount of very serious news.

The government in Syria fell a closely watched manhunt for the suspected murderer of the

CEO of a major healthcare company.

That case got cracked wide open, all of which delayed this much-awaited

debut of yours on the show. And today is the day. You, our chief architecture critic,

finally here, talking about something worthy of your biography, Notre Dame. So welcome.

Well, better late than ever, I hope. Yes. Well, just to begin,

do you remember the first time you stepped inside that cathedral? I mean, I remember as a boy going with my family, and we had come from the Soviet Union where I was unable to find milk.

I was probably eight. Paris, it turns out, has milk. It was cold, but I do remember going into the cathedral and feeling somehow warmed when I went in there.

So that was my first impression. I guess it stuck with me in some way.

So your memory of it is vague, but the impression I'm getting is that whatever it did to you, it did something.

Yeah, I think it does to millions and millions of people

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