
Alanna Schubach
Contributing editor Alanna Schubach has over a decade of experience as a New York City-based freelance journalist. She has written about real estate for Brick Underground, Mansion Global, and Barron's. She has also contributed features, essays, and op-eds to The Nation, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and The Village Voice. She won a National Association of Real Estate Editors’ silver award in 2018 for her Ask an Expert column for Brick Underground. She is also a fiction writer and a creative writing teacher, and currently lives in Brooklyn.
Posts by Alanna Schubach:
New Yorkers, by nature, are an over-achieving breed—and perpetually short on space. An unadorned blacktop roof, for instance, is a waste of outdoor space, which is why some urban homeowners are not only opting to beautify their fallow rooftops but give a helping hand to the environment, too.