The poster "quoted" from the NY Times article, but did not properly "cite" it. His text (taken largely from the NY Times article, and much of it left outside the quote marks) *does* contain a link to the NY Times article, but it's deep within his (copied) text, and without context - making it seem (perhaps inadvertently) that the text was his own. That's not a proper citation.
What the poster should have written was something like "As this [begin link]New York Time article[end link] notes, [quoted text from the article]".