About Gothamist
Gothamist is a website about New York City and everything that happens in it. That means news and events, restaurants and bars, happenings and goings-on. Gothamist has an avid and growing readership, and an even more avid and growing staff.
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Editor and co-founder: Jen Chung
Publisher and co-founder: Jake Dobkin
Technology Director: Neil Epstein
Editor-at-Large: Tien Mao
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Logo: Sam Park
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Arts+Events: Jen Carlson, Jeff Baum, John Del Signore, Toby von Meistersinger, and Karen Wilson
Ask: Christina Piluso
Food: Laren Spirer,
Joe DiStefano, Andrew Gottlieb, Beth Green, Nick Kindelsperger,
Tamara Lover, Hugh Merwin, and
Youngna Park
Health: Kapil Desai
Interview: Rachel Kramer Bussel and Ben Kharakh
Sports: Tien Mao, Tom Boorstein, and Peter Trinkle
Video: Kelly Loudenberg
Weather: Joe Schumacher
Special thanks to: Justin Case, Michael Barrish, Matt Kingston, and Hilton Marcus
Fun facts
- "The marvelous, not-to-be-missed Web site Gothamist.com - a crystal ball that reflects everything worth knowing about this city" - Liesl Schillinger, The New York Times Book Review
- Gothamist averages more than 65,000 unique visitors per day.
- Traffic has grown more than 20% per month for the last six months.
- Recently named a "Forbes Favorite" for city blogs, Forbes described Gothamist as a "sophisticated, deliciously urbane city blog."
- Gothamist has been featured in and linked from The New York Times (articles about NY blogs and the August 2003 blackout), Wired News (on fotolog), USA Weekend (recommended blog), AM New York, the Daily News, Metro and the Associated Press (an article about local blogs seen in USA Today, CNN and other papers around the country).
- Gothamist was included in ABC's World News Tonight's People of the Year 2004 piece about bloggers.
- Gothamist was named the number one blog by WABC's Sree Sreenivasan in his year-end technology wrap-up; Sreenivasan had previously named Gothamist one of the best blogs about NYC.
- Gothamist's wide range of content attracts a high volume of comments and discussion from its readers.
- Gothamist has been nominated for Best NY Blog by New York magazine and for six Bloggie Awards (2003: Best American Blog, Best Group Blog, Best Non Weblog Content; 2004: Best Non-Weblog Content, Best British Blog [for Londonist], and Blog of the Year). Gothamist was voted Best NY Blog by NY Press readers in 2004.