Dobkin admits that sites like Gothamist are nowhere close to accomplishing the reporting the alt-weeklies do — yet. “Of course, there’s still more we need to do, particularly with long-form and enterprise reporting, but as our budgets grow, that stuff will come,” he writes in an email. “I just hope in 50 years (!) I can say that we’ve had as much of an impact on New York (and on our other cities) as the Voice had while they were around.