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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Many thanks to everyone who attended BrickUnderground's first Meetup yesterday morning. Renters arrived with questions on everything from how to price a buyout of a rent-stabilized lease, to whether a rent reduction is in order if a landlord takes over your terrace all summer for construction, to how to get your landlord to remediate secondhand smoke.
Q. I rent in a tenement in the Village. The stairs in my building are worn and decaying along the ledges of each stair. Rather than forming a 90 degree angle at the ledge many of the stairs are now rounded from years of stair-climbing. On some of the stairs, small chunks (about 1"-2") are starting to fall off completely near the ledge. In addition, some of the stair rails are missing, forming a gap that's about a foot wide (a toddler or a ballerina could easily fit through). While there is rarely trash is the hallway, its always covered in dirt and dust.
Register today to lock in your spot at BrickUnderground's RentNYC Meetup tomorrow morning from 8:30-10am upstairs at 'Wichcraft (11 East 20th @ Broadway).
Trying to make sense of NYC's latest bed bug complaint scorecard, we checked in with a few bed bug fighters (pest control operators, they are called) to see if they thought "the bedbug wave...may have been somewhat more hype than bite," as the Wall Street Journal led off its report last week.
Later this month, a New York City judge is scheduled to decide whether a proposed 328-bed facility housing 200 mentally ill men, 32 drug abusers and around 100 homeless can proceed at 127 West 25th Street in Chelsea.
That's the question taken up by Habitat Magazine: "Many people don't want to do something for nothing anymore," the magazine notes.