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:
This renovated co-op in the heart of SoHo has all the bells and whistles you’d expect of a luxury loft—especially one that’s asking $6.25 million (with a $4,095 monthly maintenance fee). Listed by Prime Manhattan, the four-bedroom was designed by the architect West Chin, whose famously minimalist approach contributes to the sense of spaciousness here.
The ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan is a nightmare scenario, an example of how severe the consequences can be when a city agency is negligent.
Earlier this week, the Billfold ran a personal essay that took readers inside one former real estate agent’s experiences working in Crown Heights at a time, the author says, when the Brooklyn neighborhood was beginning to gentrify, one marked with moments witnessing gorgeous homes chopped up to create additional rooms and bring in more rent, seeing landlords commit acts of housing discrimination and, on a personal level, experiencing the highs and lows of trying to close enough
DUMBO is currently ranked as the most expensive of Brooklyn neighborhoods, but at $1.75 million, this two-bedroom condo's price tag is above its very high median. Listed with Douglas Elliman, it's in a luxury Toll Brothers development, a mere block from the waterfront and close to several train lines—all of which could explain the asking.
We now have new insight into the genetic makeup of the bloodsucking insects that populate the nightmares—and unfortunately, some of the homes—of New Yorkers.
This week’s episode of This American Life, “I Thought I Knew You,” is ostensibly about miscommunications and misfires, but its intro about an interaction between a New York City broker and an apartment hunter is a fascinating study of assumptions.
