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:
A recent study on NYC air pollution made headlines with its finding that the Upper East Side boasts some of the city's dirtiest air. It pinned much of the blame on prewar apartment building boilers that tend to burn two particularly filthy (though cheap and plentiful) types of heating oil.
After weeks of agonizing over how much to tip in a brutal recessionary year, apartment dwellers spent the weekend comparing post-game notes online. (StreetEasy, UrbanBaby)
For one resident of a luxury Central Park building, things apparently did not go well: A doorman presented with a $60 tip responded, “I love the card, not so much the contents.”
- My doormen don't seem grateful for tips (UrbanBaby forum)
- I fired my contractor - now I'm really in hell (StreetEasy forum)
- 15 most common mistakes of new board members (Habitat Mag)
BrickUnderground’s 1st Annual Holiday Tipping Guide focuses on how much to tip the people on your building's payroll.
But what about the mail carrier: To tip or not to tip, and if so, how much?
Here’s a provocative notion: Co-op and condo buildings would be better places to live if only they were run more like rentals.
Just in time for New Year’s resolutions, we will expand on this bit of heresy in three posts over the next couple of weeks. Today’s is about forging a new and more perfect union with managing agents.
