Park Slope resident Charles M. Blow is now an Op-Ed columnist in the NY Times. Here’s the announcement from April 2008 by Andrew Rosenthal.   

When last seen around these here parts, or at least
the parts on 43rd Street, Charles was in the newsroom, helping to guide
the paper’s design as deputy design director for news, a position that
he created.
 
 

Before that, of course, he was our pioneering
Graphics Editor, introducing Times readers to the kind of ambitious,
authoritative and beautiful charts, maps and other kinds of graphics
that are now an ingrained part of our journalism. Charles left The
Times for a new challenge, at National Geographic Magazine, where he
was Art Director, rebuilding the art department and attracting
world-renowned visual journalists. In addition to producing scientific
illustrations, maps and graphics, his staff developed and pitched
stories.

He is returning to us as a columnist, but an
entirely new kind of columnist a visual columnist, if you will. Charles
will do his own Op-Charts, lending his formidable skills and distinct
style to that form of opinion journalism. And, equally exciting, he
will create a new kind of journalistic space on our website. I’d call
it a blog if I were given to using that word. Charles envisions a
gathering place for visual journalists, especially those who use
numbers and images and charts to express opinion. It will be just the
kind of “you won’t find it anywhere else” feature that ought to be on
nytimes.com.
 
 

Charles will be working from the columnist
zone on the 13th floor. I was devastated when he left The Times,
because he was a great colleague, a great mind and a great leader. I
couldn’t be happier to welcome him back. – Andrew Rosenthal

Charles has a piece in today’s Times’ called Lipstick Bungle.