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:
Teensy Ditmas Park is attracting a lot of notice these days for its small-town feel: The family-friendly neighborhood is home to Victorian houses with wide porches, where it’s not unusual to see kids out at play. It’s also considered one of the last bastions of affordability in Brooklyn but, like so many other neighborhoods, prices are rising.
The history of the Lower East Side is vibrant and rich, well-mined by the Tenement Museum, which allows visitors to step inside the preserved—and cramped—apartments where immigrant families once resided. But today, many of those families are long gone, their experiences related through documents and artifacts.
It's no secret that the division between rich and poor is a worsening problem in New York—in fact, according to the Pew Research Center, our city has one of the highest rates of income segregation in the country.
No need to worry about keeping warm through the winter in this three-bedroom, three-bath triplex on Jefferson Avenue: It's outfitted with four stone fireplaces, not to mention plenty of other elegant features. The townhouse, built in 1905, is emblematic of the surrounding Stuyvesant Heights historic district, a neighborhood that's iconic for its row houses with high ceilings and vast windows.
