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:
While an annual salary of $120,000 doesn't put you in the one percent, you're not far from it: According to the Wall Street Journal's income calculator, you're still earning more than 94 percent of the U.S. population. New York City real estate, however, often functions as a funhouse mirror, distorting perceptions of what constitutes wealth, and being a top earner by national standards doesn't necessarily mean you can afford to live grandly here.
