Kelly Kreth
Contributing writer Kelly Kreth has been a freelance journalist, essayist, and columnist for more than two decades. Her real estate articles have appeared in The Real Deal, Luxury Listings, Our Town, and amNewYork. A long-time New York City renter who loves a good deal, Kreth currently lives in a coveted rent-stabilized apartment in a luxury building on the Upper East Side.
Posts by Kelly Kreth:
Born and raised on New York City’s iconic St. Marks Place, author Ada Calhoun chronicles the street’s history and evolution in her brand new book St. Marks is Dead: The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street.
Infinite Home, the newly published book by author Kathleen Alcott, is a fictional story about a brownstone building in Brooklyn and its inhabitants. It highlights how a New York City building is more than a sum of its parts , each becoming a miniature community comprised not just of bricks and beams, but also stories.
Doug was sharing a small two-bedroom in a fifth-floor walkup on the Upper West Side when his future mother-in-law connected him with a friend who wanted to sublet her 900-square-foot one-bedroom (with a terrace!) at 113 West 75th Street.
It was 1992, and she wanted a paltry $700 a month for a place that would have rented for $2,500 a month. Doug is a real estate broker. He knows.
