
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:
10 years after the recession, renters are still in a vicious cycle—unable to buy, and stuck with sky-high rents
June 21, 2017 - 14:59 PM
Why the rental market in the United States hasn't recovered from the Great Recession
Read More Rent a 6,000-square foot penthouse palace in Lenox Hill—for a mere $76,000 per month
June 20, 2017 - 12:30 PM
The roof terrace is pretty epic.
Read More It could be worse: remembering a time without air-conditioning in NYC
June 20, 2017 - 09:59 AM
How New Yorkers survived heat waves in the days before air-conditioning—and how it could be hurting us now.
Read More NYC camping: Sleep under the stars within the five boroughs (and slightly beyond)
June 20, 2017 - 08:59 AM
Five options for camping that are (relatively) easy to reach from the city.
Read More A guide to the islands of New York City
June 19, 2017 - 13:45 PM
A day trip to one of NYC's islands makes for a quick and easy summer getaway
Read More Head to New Paltz this summer for a blend of the energetic and the bucolic
June 19, 2017 - 09:05 AM
Rock climbing, wine drinking, and antiquing 90 minutes north of the city
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