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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.


 
South Bronx »

April 14, 2016

The city is piloting a new G&T program in four underserved districts in the Bronx and Brooklyn.

Harlem »

April 13, 2016

Parents at Central Park East 1 in East Harlem are calling for the ouster of the new principal.

Midtown & Theater District »

April 13, 2016

Some 20,000 city school kids will get to see the hit musical over the course of the next year for $10.

Harlem »

April 12, 2016

Harlem and Washington Heights are basking in glow of renewed interest in all things related to Hamilton.

Harlem »

April 5, 2016

Test your New York City smarts. Can you guess what neighborhoods these residential buildings call home?

South Bronx »

April 5, 2016

Anthony Bourdain recently helped the Bronx Academy of Letters raise $370,000 for arts, sports and more.

East Village & Lower East Side »

April 1, 2016

The average sales price for Manhattan homes passed the $2 million mark for the first time, reports said.

South Bronx »

March 31, 2016

The number of suspensions from July to December 2015 dropped nearly 32 percent, according to DOE data.