The NYT's headlines and subheads are based on the Cheltenham family. (ITC Cheltenham Bold Condensed, ITC Cheltenham Condensed, ITC Cheltenham Regular, ITC Cheltenham Bold)

NYT uses a custom Cheltenham drawn by Matthew Carter. Here are other versions of Cheltenham.

eston and I in unison! Actually, they are closer to the Cheltenhams by E+F, Bitstream, and URW. ITC Cheltenham has that monstrous x-height.

See look, I learned something new. I thought they used the ITC variants.

Here's the Typographica post on the Times type.

Seems Matthew Carter designed the font (Miller) used in the Dallas Morning News too.

http://fontbureau.com/news/2002-11-10

Here's the showing: http://www.fontbureau.com/fonts/Miller

Here's an article on the type in the LA Times

http://www.fontbureau.com/news/2002-10-14

thanks for all the info!