Will Zimmerman
Will Zimmerman is a reporter with NY Next, a Post franchise highlighting NYC's top visionaries, power players, and policies shaping the future of business and innovation.
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<br>The future of travel — five technologies set to change the ways the world moves
November 5, 2025 | 6:00amGet ready for flying taxis, floating ferries and the return of supersonic planes.
The 'grocery-store guy' is building a food empire, one scan at a time
October 30, 2025 | 6:00amBobby Parrish has launched his FlavCity product line in nearly 2,000 Target stores.
Remembering the 2000 Subway Series 25 years later: New York's 'Baseball Woodstock' as told by those who lived it
October 25, 2025 | 1:46pmTwenty-five years ago today, the New York Yankees beat the New York Mets in Game 5 of the 2000 World Series. It remains, to this day, the only championship meeting...
Juul is waging a comeback with high-tech safeguards meant to keep vapes away from teens
October 23, 2025 | 6:00amJuul is waging a comeback with high-tech safeguards meant to keep vapes away from teens
‘Dear New York’ turns Grand Central into massive art installation
October 15, 2025 | 11:00amFor the first time in the transit hub's history, there are no ads, just art.
NYC’s digital members-only clubs are harnessing power of city’s most influential tastemakers — and major brands are buying in
October 2, 2025 | 6:00am“We’ve taken the membership model and twisted it,” said Bryan Goldberg, the man behind NYLON Membership.
With Noble Mobile, Andrew Yang wants to do for data what Mark Cuban did for prescription drugs
September 16, 2025 | 3:24pmAndrew Yang’s new venture, Noble Mobile, offers a $50 unlimited phone plan that pays users back for unused data.
Doctors warn ‘pickleball is a drug’ — as players go to wild lengths to make sure their paddle matches their shoes, injuries be damned
September 3, 2025 | 5:16pmThey just can't quit.
US Open’s $800M makeover puts VIP hospitality courtside — ‘We’ve heard the feedback’
September 2, 2025 | 4:17pmA massive, $800 million renovation will transform Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Fintech giant Plaid revolutionized American banking, now it's battling AI fraud
August 14, 2025 | 6:00am“It's a cat-and-mouse game," CEO Zach Perret told NYNext.
New Social Media Platform twocents Replaces Usernames With Net Worth — 'It’s About Radical Transparency'
August 4, 2025 | 1:30pmOn twocents, your network is your net worth.
AI-powered exoskeletons are helping paralyzed patients walk again — and could soon be coming to homes across US
July 31, 2025 | 6:00am“Every time I get up, I remember how tall I really am,” Caroline Laubach, a 22-year-old exoskeleton test pilot from Pennsylvania, told NYNext.
Donald Trump Jr., Omeed Malik are all about investing in companies that enhance US prosperity, even as GrabAGun has rocky debut
July 18, 2025 | 2:04pm“A lot of the things that we've done over the last few years [have come] out of necessity,” Donald Trump Jr. said of 1789 Capital. “We saw the affront on...
NYNext Guide to: Where the wealthy are moving now
July 18, 2025 | 6:00amForget Monaco and Miami, these are the new hot spots for the 1%.
This medical school is thinking like a tech startup — and it could save your life
July 17, 2025 | 6:00amNYU Langone is blurring the line between doctor and inventor.
NYNext Guide to: Luxury Wellness Retreats
June 25, 2025 | 5:13pmNYNext charts the rise of wellness as luxury — from six-hour hikes at The Ranch in Malibu to $54,700 stem cell resets at Clinique La Prairie on the shores of...
How Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin got LeBron, Jay-Z and Tom Brady to headline the most ambitious event in sports fandom
June 19, 2025 | 6:05amMichael Rubin is bringing back Fanatics Festival — a glitzy, star-packed sports convention that lost $15 million in its first year — as a strategic play to deepen fan loyalty...
This AI platform is drastically changing how major financial firms do business: 'Like having a really capable intern'
June 13, 2025 | 6:00amHebbia is supplying artificial intelligence to those with more information than time — and millions, if not billions, on the line.
Inside NYC’s exclusive new cleaning club — from the woman who sold her last brand for $100M
June 5, 2025 | 2:04pmThe Fill is part product line, part community — a way for Gwen Whiting to turn years of labor into a curated, intentional space.
Whisper-quiet electric helicopter-plane could turn NYC into ‘The Jetsons’
June 4, 2025 | 2:54pmKyle Clark, the pilot and CEO behind BETA Technologies, envisions his ALIA aircraft landing on rooftops and being used for short-hop flights across New York City.