The NYTimes City Room blog popped in to videotape at today’s joint press conference of Picture New York, the National Coalition Against Censorship, and the New York Civil Liberties Union. The NYCLU is the only one you’ll see mentioned in the Times coverage that we’re linking to, but we were all there. The Free NYC Rap guys from Olde English were there too! We’re the “huge and dynamic group of New Yorkers … who won’t take it lying down when the city tries to squelch free expression” that the NYCLU’s Donna Lieberman talks about with obvious pleasure in the videoclip. That’s us — that’s 31,600 of us — that have something to celebrate with today’s reversal by the city.

The NYT City Room blog gets the petition numbers wrong by a third, but at least ‘the paper of record’ followed us uptown to the Mayor’s Office on Film, where we delivered into the public record those nearly three reams of paper holding 31,600 of your names.

The Times has covered the camera permits issue from the start, when it was just them and NY1 paying attention.