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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Along with launching its online informational bed bug "portal" yesterday, NYC announced some welcome new disclosure and treatment rules for building owners, effective immediately.
To drill down into exactly what the new rules do--and don't--mean for apartment dwellers, we reached out to the office of City Council Member Gale Brewer, a major force behind the latest regs as well as the city's ongoing war against bed bugs:
At 462 comments so far, "You know you're a real New Yorker (and not a poser) when..." is one of the longest, head-nodding threads we've ever seen on UrbanBaby.com. If you haven't looked in a mirror lately, now's your chance:
You know you're a real New Yorker when....
Q. I bought my apartment at the peak of the real estate bubble, a nice condo penthouse apartment in Williamsburg for $575,000. Last spring, due to the economic crisis, I needed to reduce my expenses, so I decided to try to sell it. After months on the market, I finally found someone really motivated who loved my apartment and they applied for a mortgage.
If you are moving, you may be understandably concerned about picking up bed bugs in transit.
Yet whether out of cost worries, denial or ignorance, New York City moving and storage companies have been slow to adopt procedures that cut down the risk of in-truck transmission. So we were intrigued to hear that Moishe's, the 30-year-old local moving company, recently announced a prevention program.
From a quality-of-life perspective (think noise, cooking smells, vermin), most experienced apartment-dwellers would rather live above a bank than a restaurant. But as the recent recession thinned the ranks of banks and drugstores vying for space, more co-op boards, condo developers and landlords have opened their arms to restaurants while negotiating hard on details affecting residents and, in turn, property values or rents.
A 20 percent price drop for one-bedroom apartments in Manhattan has produced a glut of sale-priced studios, as buyers understandably gravitate toward bigger digs, according to this weekend's New York Times. Studio prices have dropped to 2005 levels, with a decent selection now available in the $200-$300k range, says the Times.
