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:
Developers aren’t the only with an expansive sense of neighborhood boundaries. Plenty of New Yorkers take geographic liberties to associate their own 'hood with an enviable—or at least recognizable—neighborhood...such as:
For a New Yorker, asking whether someone rents or owns is pretty standard conversational fare, at least whenever the topic turns to real estate. But apparently we're a little out of touch with the rest of the country.
In a city of 8 million people, there are at least ten times that many real estate stories. BrickUnderground wants yours.
A dispute between a major Brooklyn landlord and 73 locked-out union workers took a filthy turn today when Local 32BJ released this 48-second video showing open sewage pits and other unsanitary working conditions in basement areas below the 59-building Flatbush Gardens complex.
It doesn’t look great, that’s for sure. But, ahem, how sanitary is your basement? If you have a trash compactor, it may be worse than you think.
Whether you consider holiday tipping a form of blackmail, a legitimate annual rite like any workplace bonus, or something in between, you have probably wondered what you get in return.
Depending on the size of your tip and the length of the recipient's memory, payback can range from a friendlier and/or more helpful attitude for a couple of months to a longer-term disposition toward special favors—bent workrules, drycleaning that regularly finds its way upstairs to you, or a wave upstairs to the plumber who shows up to install your new "television."
