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

Erika Henningsen Hates a Book-Length Menu

2 weeks ago | grubstreet.com | Zach Schiffman

Performing in eight shows a week for Broadway’s Just in Time means Erika Henningsen doesn’t always get a chance to socialize during regular hours. For starters, she says, “I’m not doing dinner on Friday night with my friends.” Her offstage hours now include recording voice-overs for Amazon’s Hazbin Hotel and promoting Tina Fey’s new Netflix show, The Four Seasons.
Chef Moosah Reaume Handles Room Service for the Met Gala

4 weeks ago | grubstreet.com | Zach Schiffman

Met Gala Monday is the biggest day of the year at the Carlyle, where dozens of celebrities descend pre- and post-glam — with their entourages and litany of dietary restrictions in tow. In charge of feeding them all this year was the hotel’s executive chef, Moosah Reaume.
Comedian Kyle Gordon Starts His Passover With Bacon

1 month ago | grubstreet.com | Zach Schiffman

It’s been two years since comedian Kyle Gordon went viral for the techno parody song “Planet of the Bass,” and, since then, he’s built a career out of satirizing through song. Earlier this year, he released the millennial stomp-and-holler song “We Will Never Die,” which spurred a rash of Gen Z–led memes about what have now been deemed “millennial burger joints” — i.e., chalkboard menu, craft beers, overpriced.
Jeffery Self Fills the Void With Coffee Runs

1 month 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 month 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

1 month 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

2 months 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’

Feb 21, 2025 | 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

Feb 7, 2025 | 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.