Alanna Schubach
Contributing writer
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:
The peripatetic New Yorker: Why are city dwellers so nomadic?
September 13, 2016 - 13:59 PM
Why New Yorkers seem to be perpetually on the hunt for their next home.
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How block associations work to make NYC a city of neighbors
September 12, 2016 - 12:59 PM
From planting trees to fighting displacement, New Yorkers throughout the city are banding together to advocate for their neighborhoods.
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Live in an affordable unit in this new UWS development—if you're comfortable with the separate entrance
September 8, 2016 - 09:59 AM
Market-rate apartments in the area are easily triple what these will be asking per month.
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"The Gingerbread House," a Bay Ridge fairy tale mansion, is back on the market
September 7, 2016 - 13:59 PM
This Arts and Crafts six-bedroom is a fantasy home, and it's hard to believe it's in NYC
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Is NYC eating its own tail? How the city's economic success could be doing harm to its character
September 7, 2016 - 12:59 PM
The expense of living in NYC keeps snowballing, as the wealthy move in and pricey amenities spring up to serve them.
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Keys to NYC's most exclusive park come with this rental
September 6, 2016 - 15:59 PM
The keys may just trump every other amenity.
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