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Amy Zimmer

Real Estate and Education Reporter @the_zim Contact

Amy Zimmer is a reporter who oversees real estate and education coverage for DNAinfo.com New York. Previously, she covered the Upper East Side and Murray Hill/Gramercy neighborhoods for the site. 

Amy joins DNAinfo after six years reporting on everything from economic development and the environment to culture and crime for Metro. She broke news on the demise of CBGB, Coney Island redevelopment, and on the alarming trend of young women fainting on subways for lack of a good breakfast.

Amy is a born and bred New Yorker with deep roots on the Lower East Side. Her essay about her family’s former store on Orchard Street, H. Eckstein’s & Sons, appeared in The Suburbanization of New York: Is the World’s Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town (Princeton Architectural, 2007). Amy herself was featured in a 2004 New York Times story about the ever-evolving neighborhood, entitled “Trendiness Among the Tenements,” in which she represented “trendiness.”

Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, City Limits and on Public Radio International’s “Pacific Time.” A piece she wrote for the Brooklyn Rail won a 2004 Independent Press Association award and was anthologized in Pieces of a Decade: Brooklyn Rail Nonfiction 2000 – 2010 (Black Square Editions/Brooklyn Rail, 2010).

Amy received her Bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Yale University, where she won the Sapir Prize for her senior essay on New York graffiti writers. She has a Master’s degree in journalism from New York University.

Fun Fact:Remember Miss Subways? Amy has been working with artist Fiona Gardner on tracking down former winners of the beauty contest that ran from 1941 – 1976. Her oral histories and Gardner’s photographs will be featured in an exhibition at the New York Transit Museum in 2012.


 
Park Slope, Windsor Terrace & Gowanus »

November 5, 2013

The DOE hired some 70 talent coaches to train principals citywide on how to conduct teacher observations.

Upper East Side & Roosevelt Island »

November 1, 2013

These three homes, priced at less than $770,000, come with nice slices of private outdoor space.

Upper East Side & Roosevelt Island »

October 31, 2013

9/11 museum backer Monica Iken said the school will have a technology focus.

Downtown »

October 30, 2013

High-end neighborhoods in Queens and Manhattan are hot, despite being hit by the storm, brokers said.

Midtown & Theater District »

October 30, 2013

Bolster launches Wednesday, making New York the first city to have access to remodeling insurance.

The Rockaways »

October 29, 2013

Housing advocates and attorneys are bracing for a wave of foreclosures to hit Sandy-affected areas.

The Rockaways »

October 28, 2013

A year after Sandy, many residents still cope with unrenovated homes due to shady contractors.

Upper East Side & Roosevelt Island »

October 17, 2013

Forty-two percent of Brooklyn and 28 percent of Manhattan's new home sales were for 3-bedrooms, MNS said.