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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.


 
Ditmas Park & Flatbush »

April 23, 2014

Find someone in your network, do your homework and trust your instincts, experts told us.

Murray Hill, Gramercy & Midtown East »

April 22, 2014

The Players club is facing foreclosure after not paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in city taxes.

Astoria & Long Island City »

April 21, 2014

Kindergarten waitlists dropped by nearly 50 percent, DOE officials said after sending out offer letters.

Park Slope, Windsor Terrace & Gowanus »

April 21, 2014

DNAinfo asked the experts how to pick a pre-K program at a public school before the April 23 deadline.

East Village & Lower East Side »

April 18, 2014

Lunar New Year and the Muslim holidays happen to fall on weekends and school breaks in 2014-15.

Bay Ridge & Bensonhurst »

April 17, 2014

As Williamsburg home prices skyrocket, Bay Ridge may be picking up some of the overflow.

Flushing & Whitestone »

April 14, 2014

Changes to the gifted and talented exam put children of immigrants at a disadvantage, experts said.

Downtown »

April 9, 2014

Teachers and principals will use student grades and work to decide who passes summer school.