Huffington Post, under the newly appointed CEO Eric Hippeau, has launched its second city vertical after the Chicago launch last year: it has added New York, the city where it is based. The section will feature “curated selection of the best New York news coverage, plus a collection of bloggers,” according to a posting on the launch by Arianna Huffington. It has tied up with about a dozen local outlets, its says, including the New York Observer, Gotham Gazette and the Brooklyn Rail. Absent from it: The NY Times, which has been pushing its own hyperlocal sites neighborhood sites, though that won’t prevent HuffPo from aggregating stories from the NYT.

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The new section is headed by veteran journalist Dan Collins, until recently a producer for CBSNews.com, and former correspondent for U.S. News & World Report and the New York Daily News.