There was a story yesterday in the City section about neighborhood blogs. No mention of OTBKB. But so be it. They did mention Gerritsen Beach, Gowanus Lounge, and Brownstoner (of course):

The growing number of New York neighborhood blogs — there are nearly
200, many in Brownstone Brooklyn, but there are others in communities
like Inwood, Harlem and Astoria,
Queens — has amplified the city’s already boisterous discourse, raised
the ideological stakes in discussions of even the tiniest issues and
turned upside down the old chestnuts about urban isolation.

Perhaps
most important, the city’s muscular and energetic blogs have provoked
questions about how to police raucous New York-style debate without
sapping its energy.