Teri Karush Rogers
Founder and publisher Teri Karush Rogers launched Brick Underground in 2009. As a freelance journalist, she had previously covered New York City real estate for The New York Times. Teri has been featured as an expert on New York City residential real estate by The New York Times, New York Daily News, amNew York, NBC Nightly News, The Real Deal, Business Insider, the Huffington Post, and NY1 News, among others. Teri earned a BA in journalism and a law degree from New York University. During law school she realized she would rather explain things than argue about them, so she returned to service journalism after graduation.
Posts by Teri Karush Rogers:
When the police showed up at Kenneth Starr's $30 million dollar Upper East Side condo last Thursday to arrest him for fraud and money laundering, the panicked financier-to-the-stars hid in his closet.
Oops.
- Noisy kids or crazy neighbor? (StreetEasy forum)
- Dog bites dog in elevator--who pays? (NY Times)
- "Green" condo owners sue developer for not being green enough (WSJ)
- Man impaled on C
A friend of ours lucky enough to live in a Chelsea apartment with a rear patio noticed she had company this spring: A gypsy contingent of rats was using her rear wall as a superhighway to the restaurant next door, occasionally detouring to her place for a refueling stop.
As pest management expert Gil Bloom explains it, our friend's experience is not uncommon.
- The zen of renovation (coopandcondo.com)
- UWS rats scare dogs (Myupperwest.com)
- City set to expand clothes recycling drop-off locations (NY Times)
Sometimes when we look at the Google searches that bring people to BrickUnderground, we can practically see the HBO pilot rising from the sturm and drang of a NYC vertical dweller's life.
Here's a sampling of what your neighbors were thinking/stewing about on a single day this week--money, sex, power, bed bugs....it's all right there at home:
This Memorial Day weekend, real estate broker Toni Haber ventures where no NYC agent has apparently gone before: She is putting souped-up bar codes in her ads, starting with a full-page display in Hamptons magazine hawking three sleek Manhattan apartments.
