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Marissa Matozzo

  • New York City–based lifestyle and culture reporter with 8 years of experience producing high-impact digital content for major media outlets

  • Covers pop culture, entertainment, and lifestyle through a sharp, audience-first lens, with a focus on fashion, film, music, beauty and wellness

  • Specializes in SEO-driven storytelling, translating trends and online discourse into engaging, widely read content

  • Brings expertise in editorial strategy, analytics and content management systems, with a strong command of AP Style and digital publishing best practices

    • Work Highlights

    New York Post •

    NYC’s most stunning cultural gems are tucked inside townhouses and galleries — and most locals don’t even know they exist

    The lines at The Met are wrapping around the block, tourists are shoulder-to-shoulder at MoMA and summer crowds are packing nearly every major cultural attraction in the city.

    But some of New York’s most fascinating museums and galleries are hiding in plain sight.

    While visitors flock to the city’s marquee institutions, a quieter world of cultural treasures is tucked behind unassuming doors, hidden inside historic townhouses and nestled within...
    New York Post •

    Exclusive | Cash-strapped New Yorkers are bartering everything from haircuts to food to save money: could you do it too?

    See more of our coverage in your search results. In 2026, money talks — but increasingly, so does a blowout, a brow tint, or a fresh set of lashes.

    Across social media feeds and salon chairs nationwide, a very ancient idea is making a very 2026 comeback: bartering. 

    Only this time, it’s not barley for labor or tools in Mesopotamia — it’s eyelash extensions for manicures, tattoos for eyebrow shaping, and matcha for a quick trim.

    Bartering — the direct exchange of goods or services without ca...
    New York Post •

    Exclusive | New Yorkers are embracing the city’s most frozen-in-time hot spots — from secret bars to punk emporiums

    In a city that changes faster than a Midtown rent hike, some New Yorkers are doing the unthinkable: hitting pause — on the present.


    From Jazz Age cocktail bars to punk-rock basements that still smell like hairspray and rebellion, a growing set of young New Yorkers are spending their weekends time-traveling through the five boroughs — no flux capacitor required.


    The inspiration? TikTok creator Dasha Kofman, whose nostalgic “day in the decad...
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    I tried the $2.2K Met Gala facial loved by Sabrina Carpenter, Kendall Jenner — and here’s the truth about it

    It’s the Friday before the Met Gala and I’m wedged on a J train at 7 a.m., completely bare faced, under-eye circles on show, en route to the Upper East Side for a date with the hottest celebrity facialist in town. 


    His name? Iván Pol — a skincare god with over a million instagram followers and a client roster that reads like an Oscars seating chart: Emma Stone, Ana de Armas, Sabrina Carpenter, Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid, to name a few....
    New York Post •

    Exclusive | NYC’s ‘eldest daughters’ formed a firstborn support club to cope with burnout and exhaustion: ‘Big sisters deserve recognition’

    Across NYC, eldest daughters are meeting up to unpack the pressure they say never really went away.


    The “eldest daughter” is not just the one born first. 


    She’s the one diffusing group chat meltdowns, remembering every family member’s birthday, and absorbing everyone else’s emotions like it’s a full-time job.


    The only difference? Now she’s doing it as an adult while paying Gotham rent, working nine-to-five, and juggling a calendar that...
    New York Post •

    Exclusive | Is dating across the East River a long-distance romance? These NYC singles think so

    For some New Yorkers, crossing the East River is a romantic adventure.


    For others, it’s a logistical nightmare measured in subway delays, transfers and rapidly fading interest.


    In a city of 8 million, love may be everywhere — but it still comes with a ZIP code.


    And for many singles, a suitor’s borough ranks right up there with height, salary and abs on the ever-growing list of strict dealbreakers.


    Paula Jannell, 25, of Ridgewood, Queens, and her boyfriend, Devin Amaro, 25, of nearb...
    New York Post •

    Exclusive | Mr. Darcy AI bot is giving modern love advice to heartstruck women as ‘Pride & Prejudice’ fever reignites

    He’s tall, brooding, bad at first impressions — and now, apparently, great with WiFi.


    More than 200 years after first insulting Elizabeth Bennet at a Meryton ball, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy is back — this time as a chatbot.


    The swoon-worthy leading man of Jane Austen’s “Pride & Prejudice” has entered the digital age — as “AI Mr. Darcy,” a Regency-era romantic reincarnated by tech company Upkarma.ai to dispense love advice to lovelorn modern wo...
    New York Post •

    Exclusive | ‘Bridgerton’ fans are dropping hundreds of dollars on dainty, sassy pumps — and turning NYC into a royal runway

    “Marie Antoinette” and “Bridgerton“-inspired shoes are inspiring the latest footwear that New York City fashionistas are strutting down the Big Apple sidewalks in, treating them like the queen’s ballroom.

    With the popular period drama‘s Season 4 Part 2 landing on Netflix Thursday, Feb. 26, fans are stepping into off-screen fantasies by wearing dainty, “coquette” Regency-era (1811–1820) shoes that mix romance, drama, and a touch of sass from stores like Upper West Side’s Sole, West Village’s Scr...
    New York Post •

    Exclusive | ‘Bushwick Birkin’ — or Big Brown Bag? What an NYC woman’s tote says about her

    In New York City, the shopping bag you carry around says almost as much about you as your shoes — sometimes more.

    From thrift stores and grocery aisles to luxury department stores and an Upper West Side family institution, reusable shopping bags have quietly become the city’s most democratic status symbols — swung over shoulders like Birkin-adjacent badges of honor.

    In a city where everyone tries to look effortlessly cool (and eco-conscious while they’re at it), Gothamites are hitting up store...
    New York Post •

    Exclusive | NYC singles are looking for love at Medieval Times: ‘It’s like Hooters— but for women’

    Fed up with swipes, screenshots and soul-sucking situationships, singles are deleting their dating apps — and heading straight for the castle.

    Not a fairytale one, either.

    The surprisingly steamy singles scene is unfolding at Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament in Lyndhurst, NJ, where turkey legs, jousting matches and helmet-clad heartthrobs have become the hottest new alternative to Hinge.

    Between sword fights and royal decrees at the family friendly dinner-and-tournament show (made famous af...
    New York Post •

    Exclusive | NYC women are celebrating 32 as the new ‘Sweet 16’ — partying in honor of ‘work in progress’ hero Carrie Bradshaw on ‘SATC’

    Move over, Sweet 16 — New York women have crowned a new birthday worth popping bottles for.


    Fed up with the societal (and self-imposed) pressure to have life figured out by their early 30s, women in NYC and beyond are celebrating turning 32 in a big way — not because it’s a traditional milestone, but because it’s a cultural one.


    The reason? Carrie Bradshaw.


    When “Sex and the City” debuted in 1998, viewers met its heroine at 32 — single, successful but very much a work in progress.


    Wa...
    New York Post •

    Exclusive | ‘Poetcore’ is the new granny-chic trend that’s transforming fashion for angsty geeks and celebs

    The party-girl era is packing up her micro-bag — and Gen Z is reaching for tweed, knits and something that looks like it might’ve belonged to their grandmother.

    Instead of dressing for bottle service or viral club fits, young fashionistas are embracing a quieter, more subtle look — one that feels handwritten rather than algorithmic.

    Think oversized sweaters, worn-in blazers, satchels, lace collars, and the unmistakable air of someone who definitely journals.

    The aesthetic has a name now — poe...
    New York Post •

    Exclusive | I needed a wardrobe makeover — could an AI ‘stylist’ save me?

    It’s one of the most annoying dilemmas women face — wanting to look stylish at work, on weekends and on nights out, but getting stuck in a rut.


    At the same time, finding the budget for standout pieces — or the hours to hunt online for clothes that actually flatter your shape — can feel impossible.


    Personally, beyond the trial-and-error misery of online shopping, I’m burned out from slogging through fast-fashion stores and “basics” sections...
    New York Post •

    Exclusive | NYC’s secret beauty spots revealed — where women pay $25 for a Park Avenue-style glow-up worth hundreds

    It’s glow time in Chinatown. Under a slant of sunlight, Viveca Chow reclines, her hair bundled in a cotton towel, as esthetician Diana Wu works a smooth, curved tool over her pronounced cheekbones.

    This isn’t some cucumber-water-and-pan-flute facial. There are no plush robes or heated beds here at Diana Beauty Spa, tucked between noodle shops on crowded Mott Street — just the rhythmic pressure of Wu’s capable hands and the scent of herbal oil i...
    New York Post •

    Exclusive | Post reporter transforms into a cast member of the city’s spookiest lair for a night of fright

    Behold, New York City’s newest “scream queen.”


    It takes a lot to truly rattle me. I live for the eerie and the strange — the haunted houses, the folk horror flicks, the spooky vintage thrift store knickknacks.


    So when I recently got an offer to go full freak show and freak out New Yorkers at NYC’s boo-tacular Blood Manor — the hugely popular, 10,000-square-foot labyrinth with 22 themed rooms of gore, guts and high-voltage trauma — I was al...
    New York Post •

    Exclusive | Nike x SKIMS launch fizzles in NYC: Kim K collab doesn’t draw big crowds — or big raves

    What a SKIM-py turnout.

    The much-hyped NikeSKIMS collab dropped in New York City Friday morning — but for all the buzz about Kim Kardashian’s takeover of both the gym and the runway, Manhattan didn’t break a sweat.

    But Post reporter Marissa Matozzo sure did, braving a barrage of squeezing, tugging, hopping and holding her breath to (sometimes) fit into eight pieces that promised effortless workouts — if not effortless dressing.

    When The Post hit Nike’s Fifth Avenue flagship at 8 a.m., just th...
    New York Post •

    Exclusive | Inside the gritty, hidden NYC music mecca where Madonna and The Strokes found their sound — and where musicians are still vying for a room to rehearse

    Times Square’s hidden music mecca is still hitting all the right notes.


    Long before soulless glass towers and blinding LED billboards reshaped one of NYC’s most notorious neighborhoods, some of pop culture’s biggest names strutted, sang and even slept in the halls of The Music Building — one in scores of recording studios around the Crossroads of The World responsible for captivating the world aurally over a period of decades.


    This one no...
    New York Post •

    Exclusive | Single women are using Hinge to get their furniture built by matches — for free: ‘It felt like getting the boyfriend experience on a first date’

    Move over, Mr. Right — Gen Z gals are looking for Mr. Fix-It.


    Savvy single ladies in NYC and beyond are treating the dating app Hinge like a handyman service —updating their profiles on the trendy pair-off platform to say they can be “won over” by a man who can help them install, well, hinges.


    Dinner and drinks? Later for that — these practical women on the prowl say the ideal “first date” includes hex keys and hammer drills.


    “I feel like guys need a little job or mission, and then th...
    New York Post •

    Exclusive | Inside Brooklyn’s ‘unique’ jazz haven where Duke Ellington meets viral fame and all ages sit and enjoy the music: ‘It’s so special’

    Step inside this Bed-Stuy brownstone and you’ll swear you’ve been whisked back to a jazz venue in 1940s Brooklyn.


    Housed in a 19th-century home with floral drapes, moody lamps and live music, this intimate Victorian parlor revives the borough’s storied musical roots — no time machine required.


    Welcome to BrownstoneJAZZ, the romantic, toe-tapping hot spot that’s putting Brooklyn back on the jazz map — and picking up a new generation of fans...
    New York Post •

    Exclusive | Fashionistas are swarming an NYC pharmacy to snatch Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy’s coveted, iconic headband

    She’s still turning heads — and inspiring headbands.

    Nearly three decades after Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy’s life was cut short in a devastating plane crash, her chic, minimalist and unfussy style legacy lives on — and Gen Z can’t get enough.

    A $36, ¾-inch tortoiseshell headband made by French hair accessory brand Charles J. Wahba and famously worn by the style icon in the ’90s has become one of the hottest summer accessories — thanks to a recent social-media moment.

    As a result, fashion mavens...
    SheFinds •

    Manicurists Show Us How To Do The 'Dark Espresso' Nail Trend We’ll Be Seeing Everywhere This Fall

    It’s no secret that “Espresso” by Sabrina Carpenter is a top contender for the 2024 song of the summer, and that deep, dark brown shades are dominating beauty trends, from lip liners to 90s-inspired fashion.
    As we edge closer to fall, numerous outlets, TikTok manicurists, and beauty aficionados forecast that espresso nails will become the season’s must-have.
    I curated a selection of nail inspiration and tips to help you embrace this trend as the temperatures drop.
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