New York Times? N(o)P(a)!

The embargo has been lifted, and with it, our spirits.

peepsNet is pleased to reveal that Nicole has crashed through the gates of that certain East Coast newspaper of record with an article about a cool, emerging neighborhood in that West Coast town where she insists she must live.

Sunday's New York Times -- Travel Section, page 4, as earlier alluded to -- carries Nicole's homage to NOPA -- "the name stands for “north of the Panhandle,” that sliver of green jutting east from Golden Gate Park — was once known mostly for low-income housing and random shootings," Nicole writes. "But an influx of attention-getting restaurants and boutiques in the last decade has made it one of the city's cooler destinations, even as it struggles to maintain its gritty individuality," she continues, mocking the inaccessibility of this budding paradise to we Right Coast denizens.

The story is already on the web (yes, that is about the 11th link to it in this pimping puff piece. You should be so lucky.) but we cannot wait to see it in print which, as any New York Times reader will tell you (assuming that Jane O’Shaughnessy speaks for us all), is all that really matters.

peepsNet takes special note of the special care the NYT gave Nicole's article, commissioning a lovely illustration by Jorge Columbo to which we have linked, the better to shore up the paper's sagging readership.

No charge, Gray Lady. A reciprocal link would be just fine.