Room 9, the cramped reporters’ chamber tucked into a former courtroom for inebriates inside City Hall, has been the cluttered home to the city’s newsmen and, eventually, women, since the days of Mayor A. Oakey Hall’s troubled administration, which began in the 1860s.
A journalistic institution, the room returned to life on Thursday for the first time in two years, ending the first city-imposed exile of its rumpled press corps, part of a $106 million renovation of the 200-year-old building.
