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:
Here's an interesting way to search for an apartment: Instead of typing in zip codes or neighborhoods, pull up a map, draw a line around your desired neighborhood, and then take a leisurely stroll with your mouse across the listings caught inside your real estate net.
Thanks to M&M Pest Control for sending us a link to this hilarious bed bug "news" segment by Fox 5's comedian-contributor Jessie Cantrell. Do bed bugs like rap music? Watch and learn.
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When the snow starts falling, some alternate-side-of-the-street parkers break rank and head to the nearest garage rather than deal with The Big Dig. Others stay put and, if they don't feel like shoveling, recruit the super, porter, or other staffer to free their plowed-in car from its snow cave. But how much to to tip? If the snow is fresh, $20-$25 should do the trick for a medium-sized storm. Tip more in a snowpocalypse scenario like the one pictured, and double it if you dawdle until the snow has hardened into a dingy gray cinderblock vise around your vehicle.
BrickUnderground received a curious press release a little while ago announcing that the folks behind the troubled rental-to-condo conversion of The Apthorp have assigned the Upper West Side prewar grand dame its very own "Creative Director," who will be "entrusted with selecting colors, finishes, appointments and cabinetry for the landmark’s public and private spaces including the four distinctive lobbies and dramatic model residence." We're not sure if the concept of Creative Director has legs when it comes to existing co-ops
Not for everyone. “For us, it’s just the overall convenience,” says a commenter on UrbanBaby.com, who lives in a “huge” building where the doormen don’t stop visitors. “Our doormen are actually useless in terms of both security and function. But our porters and package room are priceless.”
