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:
shaft en freude - n. Delight triggered by a less-than-flattering view of a neighbor or neighbor's apartment across an airshaft.
Glancing into the toy-crammed living room across the way, Monica felt a tingle of shaftenfreude over the fact that her own children were long past the Big Toy phase.
See the entire Vertical Dwellers' Dictionary.
This week’s New York Magazine takes a riveting look at how wealthy Upper East Siders are dealing with our city’s bed bug epidemic.
In a word: Quietly.
One exterminator says he receives 50 to 75 calls about UES bed bugs every week:
His clients include movie directors, hospitals, white-shoe law firms, high-end schools, and “titans of Wall Street I can’t name to you or they’d crush me.”
The Wall Street Journal reports a “frenzy” of last-minute buying across the country before the home buyer tax credit expires today.
But are NYC buyers rushing into contract to save $6,500-$8,000?
BrickUnderground heard two different views at a pair of local real estate events this week.
- How to negotiate with a landlord when your neighbors are paying less (UrbanBaby forum)
- That not-so-fresh smell in your dishwasher (Brownstoner forum)
- West Village nuisance Jane Ballroom reopens (Eater.com, NY Times)
Here's something the rodent-terrorizedresidents of the Upper East Side may find especially interesting: A newly EPA-approved garbage bag claims to ward off rats with a minty scent that inflames the sinuses of animals with sensitive sniffers.
