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:
His advice-packed account of his recent Brooklyn apartment search includes a footnoted shout-out to some folks from the NY Times and Newsweek, so it might be that we should know who Benjamin Jackson is. We don't, but it's clear that the man has some excellent guerrilla-style lessons to share about how to find a NYC rental, including these bits of craft and cunning:
In a recent chat with some executives from Westchester brokerage behemoth Houlihan Lawrence, BrickUnderground steered the conversation toward the sort of anthropological trivia we love to collect. Specifically, we asked how buyers from NYC behave differently than their already suburbanized counterparts.
As the Village Voice and CurbedNY reported, a team of consumer-minded Internet "hacks" has launched "Who is my landlord?," a site designed to let tenants easily identify their landlord (not as easy it sounds, especially when dealing with a slumlord) and look up Department of Buildings violations all in
Rats in the commode are not an urban myth; nor, apparently, are they limited to basement apartments. Gothamist.com reports on a 3rd floor toilet rat incident in Prospect Heights (the rat made it from bathroom to living room, then vanished). The post offers up some handy advice for anyone dealing with a similar plumbing invasion.
