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:
Trapped water that freezes and thaws is the number one killer of concrete balconies, so after the winter we've had, you might want to take a peek around your potentially precarious perch for some warning signs identified in the March issue of The Cooperator (article not yet available online).
Signs that your balcony has been H20-compromised include:
We're not going to spoil the big reveal, so head over to Refinery29.com's Arts & Culture blog to read this nightmare roommate tale rendered in tragio-comic detail. Then when you get home tonight, give your normal-ish roommate a hug and lay off about the dirty dishes in the sink. It could be worse. Sooo much worse.
(Refinery29.com)
If you're thinking of buying an apartment that has a tax abatement in place, you probably want to know what your taxes will be when the abatement wears off. But how? Start by figuring out what the unabated tax amount is today. Many thanks to the hive mind at StreetEasy.com for showing us this excellent trick:
The Wall Street Journal reports today that at least 18 NYC co-ops and condos are seriously contemplating building-wide smoking bans. To which we say...it's about time. We respect individual choice as much as anyone. But like bed bugs, smoke has a knack of running amok in an apartment building--becoming a communal problem, not an individual one.
Q. The apartment above ours recently was sold and is undergoing a gut renovation. Several weeks ago the building manager asked me if the new owner's contractor could gain access through our bathroom ceiling to do some plumbing work. I declined.
