Mary Lowengard
Mary Lowengard is a New York City-based freelance writer with more than three decades of experience as a journalist and editor. In addition to her work for Brick Underground, her reporting on business and finance has appeared in The New York Times, Fortune, Institutional Investor, Worth Magazine, and Bloomberg News. She has lived in a co-op on the Upper-Upper East Side of Manhattan for 25 years.
Posts by Mary Lowengard:
The cow in my kitchen: A quest to install a new gas stove gave me an electrifying epiphany
December 18, 2023 - 14:30 PM
A New Yorker is shocked to learn her gas stove produces about the same amount of pollution as a cow.
Read More When it’s OK to say ‘thanks but no thanks’ to your contractor
December 4, 2023 - 14:30 PM
A long-time New Yorker explains how she asserted herself with her contractor during a co-op renovation.
Read More I found an envelope of cash and bumped up my building’s holiday tips
November 28, 2023 - 13:30 PM
A New Yorker recalls the year that her holiday tipping was remarkably easy, thanks to a wad of cash that she found—only to find out she had made a big (and expensive) blunder.
Read More The landlord from hell, and why my friend still lives in his building
December 28, 2021 - 10:30 AM
A long-time NYC renter puts up with a lack of amenities—and suffers a lot of drama—in her rent-stabilized building so she can pursue her career as an artist.
Read More I’ve swapped my NYC apartment for decades. Here’s how to have a memorable (but frugal) adventure
June 15, 2021 - 13:30 PM
Swapping your NYC apartment is a time-tested way to travel domestically or abroad affordably and it offers you the added pandemic benefit of being able to skip crowded hotels and also limit your meals among unmasked diners in restaurants. But depending on whether you live in a NYC co-op, condo, or rental, there may be prohibitions against swapping.
Read More 3 (almost-free) ways to hack a summer at the beach
May 18, 2021 - 15:00 PM
Last summer, during the pandemic, our writer found a way to be on the beach at least once and sometimes twice a week. Here are her secrets to hacking a beach vacation, even a summer rental share.
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