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.
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We found the NY Times’ online slideshow of doorman fashions pretty fascinating, if only because we never really had connected the words fashion and doorman before.
But given the astonishingly wide variation in the five featured uniforms, we were interested to get the views of a doorman unrelated to the profiled buildings.
Food delivery is a major part of NYC apartment dwelling life, but sometimes the grub-for-cash exchange can seem so wham-bam-here's-your-receipt-ma'am.
Wouldn't it be nice if every now and then, your delivery guy belted out a song from Spamalot...or maybe a side of Beijing opera with your moo shu shrimp?
Yang Yu Bao (filmed above) takes the aria route as he delivers take-out for China Fun's Upper West Side location.
So are "delivery enhancements" the new frontier in NYC take-out?
So here’s the situation: Double-income, no-kids Upper West Side couple—living in a posh one-bedroom co-op on Central Park—are considering giving it all up for a townhouse in Park Slope.
They like the idea of buying an entire brownstone for the price of their one-bedroom, and crave neighborhoodliness over the increasingly “Big Box” West 60s. But they’re worried about the commute, fewer services, and the prospect of joining the kidless minority in the famously family-style burgh of Park Slope.
Just when you thought NYC doormen had lost the art of secret-keeping in the Internet age (see the Twittering doorman & BrickUnderground's anonymous doorman), it turns out there are still a few things that your doorman won't divulge ... at least, not to you.
According to our sources at the door and those who manage them, here are the five things you can count on your doorman to stay mum about:
Over the next couple of months BrickUnderground will be nipping, tucking and rearranging to make us easier on your eyeballs and to enable you to find your way around a little better.
As always, we welcome your ideas and feedback as things evolve, so please don't hesitate to tell us what you think.
New York City released its property tax assessment rolls on Friday, and according to one tax expert, it’s a good-news, bad-news situation, depending on your view of the Manhattan skyline: Assessed values for co-ops and condos drifted down a bit in the outer boroughs but headed up in Manhattan.
“Manhattan co-ops and condos increased on the average 10%,” says Stan Russo of Sonnenschein Sherman & Deutsch, a real estate law firm that fights for property tax reductions on behalf of about 500 co-op and condo buildings around the city.
