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:
It isn’t always easy going green. Habits are habit-forming after all, so we sometimes need a symbiotic nudge to act according to our higher instincts. Which is why we think this offer will appeal to city dwellers with green in their hearts and heaps of clothing to be drycleaned.
While it’s true that a co-op board can turn down a buyer for everything from red hair to red-state political views or a desire to gut-renovate, there are also a host of reasons for which it’s illegal to reject a buyer.
These include marital status, race, color, religion, national origin, alienage, citizenship, gender, sexual orientation, military status, disability, and choice of lawful occupation, says real estate attorney Robert Braverman of Braverman & Associates.
Blizzards and holiday-themed stories may have pushed bed bugs out of the news lately, but as this picture--snapped in the locker room of an Upper West Side gym this week--attests, the epidemic continues to unfold around us.
was the first comment posted after a lengthy online post-mortem by a doorman, "Mr. Murphy," about a death in the Upper West Side building he used to work at. Perhaps the most morbidly fascinating passage in the essay filtering death through the eyes of the building staff was a graphic exchange between the super and a longtime doorman about all the bodies they have discovered over the years (the guy who hung himself was the worst, they agree).
Young, single, female apartment dwellers often complain about doormen who seem a little too interested in their comings and goings, particularly when guests of the opposite sex are involved. But in a recent essay, NY Times 'Big City' columnist Susan Dominus reveals that she did not exactly chafe under the supervision of her former doormen-slash-elevator-operators.
There’s something about a really nice apartment – an Architectural Digest-quality nice apartment – that we can never quite put our finger on, but that makes the place look tons more luxe than our own.
Or it could just be the flowers.
H.BLOOM, a Flatiron-based floral provider that launched in April, aims to make that degree of gorgeousness accessible for anyone with an extra $35 in her or his weekly budget.
