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:
Q. I'm doing a major kitchen renovation on my co-op apartment. After totally gutting my kitchen, my contractor stopped coming to the job or answering his phone. It's been about two weeks.
I've paid him almost $25,000 of the $63,000 project and I have nothing but a hole to show for it.
What are my rights? What should I do?
A. The first thing to do is check your contract, say our experts.
Q. I'm planning to remodel my kitchen in the European style, including a built-in wide fridge under the countertop, and a separate cooktop and oven. It will be beautiful and expensive, but not a traditional American kitchen. How will that affect the resale value of my apartment?
It seems Robert De Niro's recent apartment fire is making some New York City apartment dwellers jittery.
According to the New York Post, the blaze was caused by a lint build-up in a dryer belonging to De Niro. It sent 12-foot flames out the windows and affected many apartments in the actor's building at 88 Central Park West.
Q. Why don't all doormen open doors? Isn't that their job?
A. This is probably a case of mistaken identity, say our experts.
"Typically, 'doormen' who don't open the doors are technically not doormen but security guards," says real estate broker and asset manager Roberta Axelrod of Time Equities.
Some of you may have noticed the new "Resources" button that showed up on our navigation bar recently.
Not long from now, that's where you'll click to find a handy directory to the folks who make our NYC real estate world go round: Everyone from temporary wall companies, to contractors, architects and decorators, real estate agents and lawyers, plumbers and pest control whizzes, soundproofers and odor remediators and many, many more.
We'll let you know when the Resource Directory is up and at your service.
