Carla Zanoni is DNAinfo.com's Director of Social Media and Engagement.
Before she came to DNAinfo, Carla created and ran The Streets Where We Live, a blog dedicated to northern Manhattan, which became a must-read for anyone living in Washington Heights and Inwood.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and raised in New Jersey, Carla got her start as a reporter at the Columbia Spectator while studying English Literature with a focus on poetry at the university. She went on to the Amsterdam News, where she was nominated for an award for a multi-part series on AIDS/HIV in the African-American community.
After getting her master’s in journalism at Columbia, she worked as a features editor for Manhattan Media’s Our Town, West Side Spirit, Chelsea Clinton News and The Westsider. She won two New York Press Association awards for a two-part series on street prostitution and was part of a team that won a NYPA award for reporting on religion.
She has also contributed to City Hall, Avenue and New York Family, as well as the New York Times, Corduroy magazine, the Manhattan Times and the Bronx Free Press.
Carla lives with her husband, a sound engineer for film and television, in Inwood with their surly cat.
Fun Fact: Carla once sported a half-shaved head of magenta hair at hardcore and punk shows during the late 80s and early 90s in New Brunswick, NJ. She also frequented the Limelight when she was a raver back before it became a shopping mall.
A lone food vendor continues to sell hamburgers and fried food along a stretch of Amsterdam Avenue after police and the Department of Health carried out a sweep.
The team behind a new film, four of whom live in Upper Manhattan, turned to social media to fund their film "American Falls" with actors Denis O'Hare of "True Blood" and Vincent D'Onofrio.
The Parks Department will be closing the Dyckman Fields section of Inwood Hill Park at 10 p.m. instead of 1 a.m. as a security precaution, after receiving a request from the 34th Precinct.
One Manhattan-bound lane of the Henry Hudson Bridge and Parkway will be shut down at night for the next three years starting on Monday while the MTA repairs the upper level of the bridge.
The MTA will install an elevator on the southbound side of the Dyckman Street 1 train after settling a class-action lawsuit filed by the United Spinal Association
