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. What's the most effective way to get rid of roaches? Also, are any of the sprays harmful to kids or pets?
A. We assume you are referring to ordinary roaches, about half-an inch long, rather than one-to-two inch behemoth beetle-like cockroaches commonly (though incorrectly) referred to as water bugs.
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This weekend's NY Times story on parents who buy NYC apartments for their grown children has unleashed such resentment among the 219 commenting readers so far that we can only hope none of the apartment-gifted kids in the article are applying for a job anytime soon.
Flipping through the latest issue of the Cooperator this morning, we ran across this heartwarming bed bug tale.
A pest control team prepping an elderly Upper East Side woman's apartment for bed bug treatment last month apparently unearthed more than $10,000 in cash hidden on the top shelf a closet. The money was stashed inside two envelopes underneath stacks of clothes.
The elderly resident had "hidden it in the closet years ago and forgotten it was even there," reports the Cooperator. "The woman, who prefers to remain anonymous, was ecstatic and grateful...."
