Zach Schiffman

New York

Senior Social Media Editor at New York Magazine

I’m 5’5 but everyone tells me I seem 5’8 / social @curbed @grubstreet @nymag

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Articles

Jeffery Self Fills the Void With Coffee Runs

1 week ago | grubstreet.com | Zach Schiffman |Margalit Cutler

For the actor and author Jeffery Self, working on his memoir, Self Sabotage, while shooting a new movie provided the right opportunity for multitasking. “It felt glamorous — editing my book on set,” he says. “Unless I make it a performance, I won’t get the work done.” Now, that film, the paranoid thriller Drop, is also out.
Jefferey Self Fills the Void With Coffee Runs

1 week ago | grubstreet.com | Zach Schiffman |Margalit Cutler

For the actor and author Jefferey Self, working on his memoir, Self Sabotage, while shooting a new movie provided the right opportunity for multitasking. “It felt glamorous — editing my book on set,” he says. “Unless I make it a performance, I won’t get the work done.” Now, that film, the paranoid thriller Drop, is also out.
Idina Menzel Almost Starred in a ‘Moonstruck’ Opera

2 weeks ago | vulture.com | Zach Schiffman

She’s a dreamer. Snap out of it! In the green room of the New York “Legends of Broadway” shoot, Idina Menzel revealed that she’d been in a workshop of a musical adaptation of the 1987 movie Moonstruck with an “Italian, operatic score.” She’d tried to keep the show going but ultimately aged out of playing Loretta, the role that won Cher an Academy Award. If Idina can’t play the role now (she could), maybe young Cher Micaela Diamond could take the mantle?
Ella Emhoff Likes A Sugar Burst

3 weeks ago | grubstreet.com | Zach Schiffman |Maanvi Kapur

Ella Emhoff launched her Substack, Soft Crafts Craft Club, in late October of last year, just as her stepmother rounded off her presidential campaign. Five months later, she’s shed her Secret Service detail and is trying to rediscover her voice through her art and writing, shepherding an online — and charmingly intergenerational — community of crafters. “A lot of my demographic is not 25-year-olds,” she says.
The Empire State Building Adopts ‘Dynamic Pricing’

2 months ago | curbed.com | Zach Schiffman

The Empire State Building, which has inexplicably become a necessary celebrity-press-junket stop, is planning to enact “dynamic pricing” for access to its famous observation deck. Tony Malkin, CEO of Empire State Realty Trust, revealed the plan in the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call on Thursday.
Liza Treyger’s Grub Street Diet

2 months ago | grubstreet.com | Zach Schiffman |Sarah Kilcoyne

Comedian Liza Treyger’s first Netflix special, Night Owl, debuted on January 28, and she still isn’t over it: “I keep taking pictures of myself on the home page,” she says. She spent the week having celebratory lavish dinners — and the occasional afternoon cocktail — before inevitably coming down with the flu. Even that hasn’t dampened her spirit as she celebrates the first anniversary of her move back to New York after four years in Los Angeles. “It’s just kind of magical,” she says.
Broadway Actor Helen J. Shen Warms Up Her Voice With Wontons

Jan 10, 2025 | grubstreet.com | Zach Schiffman |Ryan Inzana

It was a busier than usual week for Helen J. Shen, the 24-year-old actress who made her Broadway debut last November alongside Darren Criss in the musical comedy Maybe Happy Ending. She’s in the middle of a grueling post-holiday performance schedule and on Monday she recorded the show’s original Broadway cast album. “Cast recordings were my gateway drug into musical theater,” she says.
What Is the Best Apple Store in New York City?

Dec 24, 2024 | curbed.com | Zach Schiffman

Steve Jobs was obsessed with the Fifth Avenue Apple Store. “This is the best store we’ve ever built,” he told Brian Williams in 2006, when the startling glass cube first rose in midtown.
Chef Vikas Khanna Is Still Working on His Thanksgiving Turkey

Nov 22, 2024 | grubstreet.com | Zach Schiffman |Margalit Cutler

To his fans, Vikas Khanna is a judge on MasterChef India and the owner of the acclaimed, reservation-scant Bungalow, which opened in the East Village this past March. But in reality, he’s cooked in New York’s kitchens since the early 2000s. Khanna runs Bungalow assiduously, staying up until the middle of the night, every night, to clean up. When he heads to India next month to shoot a new season of MasterChef, it’ll be the longest he’s been away from the restaurant since it opened.
Every Single Thing Steve Kornacki Does on Election Night 2024

Nov 5, 2024 | vulture.com | Jen Chaney |Justin Curto |Zach Schiffman

liveblog Live Khaki-ed up and ready to go. There is a great deal of uncertainty looming over this Election Day, but this much is 100 percent beyond doubt: Steve Kornacki, master of the MSNBC Big Board, is prepared for the moment. He has been training for months in the way that election-results reporters train: by breaking down literally any sort of information displayed on a large digital screen. Olympic gymnastics? Kornacki explained that for us. NFL games? Obviously.