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Many of the people mentioned are not in the New York group currently; they're in Berkeley. However, New York media stereotypically see the world as revolving around New York.
It seems to me that some of the biggest tension between this article and the way LWers see ourselves is that the article is about people and their human quirks (living arrangements, sexual habits, and physical behavior), with the ideas presented as irrelevant eccentricities. Whereas within the LW-space, the ideas are pretty important. It's like an article about Nikola Tesla that focuses on his affection for pigeons.
I think you're right. Maybe if LW's ideas bore more fruit in the external world, journalists would give them more airtime compared to gossip...