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:
Whether you have bed bugs or plain old bed bug anxiety, we suggest you sign up ASAP to secure a spot at BrickUnderground's next Meetup, BedbuggedNYC.
In real estate as in groceries, pretty much everything is more expensive in New York City.
So it's no surprise that renovation jobs in New York City tend to cost a lot more than their suburban counterparts; everything from labor to insurance is more expensive.
What is surprising is how idiosyncratic prices can be: Bids are commonly adjusted according to a contractor’s assessment of everything from the parking situation on your block, to your property manager's reputation for meddling, to whether your next-door neighbor is a stay-at-home board president.
Q. I am a co-op owner and I've had water leaking through my kitchen ceiling intermittently since I purchased the apartment last year.
Over on the Brownstoner forum, a month-to-month renter is facing a steep rent increase ($325 on a $2,025/month Ft. Greene one-bedroom) and the landlord has given her less than a week to decide. If she doesn't sign a lease at the higher rate, she'll need to find a new place by Sept. 1st.
What? You don't check BrickUnderground every day for the latest intel on finding a NYC apartment and living through the aftermath?
That's okay--we get it, along with the fact that you skipped over How to Analyze a Rendering when it was first posted a year ago, because (God rest Aunt Ruthie's thrifty soul) you couldn't afford your rent back then, let alone a new condo.
Stick a condo rendering in front of us and our pulse immediately slows down.
