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:
At one Upper West Side condo recently, a mutiny erupted when the board took away the doorman’s chair after renovating the lobby and relocating the doorman’s station.
“They didn’t do it to be mean or inhumane—they just wanted him to be more alert and pay more attention,” says Lynn Whiting, the property manager for the building.
- Co-op residents email their assessment rage (Malcolm Carter)
- Kidnapper-turned-managing agent steals $2m from Manhattan co-ops (Daily News)
In New York City real estate, as in life, crazy can be a two-way street.
According to an informal survey conducted on BrickUnderground's behalf, here are the five most outrageous questions, requests or intimidation tactics some New York City real estate agents have faced recently:
- Take your Puccini and shove it (NY Post)
- Buyer claims new condo defective - developer disagrees (Curbed)
- My pot-smoking neighbor (StreetEasy forum)
- Manhattan real
