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:
is in order: According to CurbedNY, the Atelier, 478-unit luxury condo on E. 42nd is lowering its common charges...for the second year in a row. Nice bragging rights for the owners of the 69 apartments currently for sale.
We’ve talked a lot about how to find out if your future apartment has bed bugs, and by now you probably know that bedbugregistry.com is a good place to look for information not only about apartment buildings but also hotels.
Apartment staging--aka the act of stripping your personality and personal effects out of your apartment to make way for someone else's fantasy--came into its own around the same time as Botox, Brazilian waxing, and real estate blogs. What happens if you don't conform to the erasure aesthetic? If you are Christine O'Donnell, you wind up savaged on Gawker by an anonymous 25-year-old raised on porn.
Q. I live in a building for people 62 years and older. The heat cannot be adjusted unless done so by the super. Two and a half years ago, he turned off 3 of the 4 units. Now that I am in NY all year, I requested that the last one be turned off too. I was left a message by the Manager who said that its getting cold and I have to keep one on! Her tone of voice was like she was talking to someone, because of age, cannot make a valid decision about the heat being turned off! Do I have any recourse or do I just have to live in a "hot house"?
On UrbanBaby, a parent wants to know where to keep the magic alive in a one-bedroom apartment shared with spouse & kid. "We don't hide our lovemaking from our children. Do you?" says one suspected jester. Says another, "[O]ur #3 still climbs in our bed most nights. He sleeps soundly.
So if 98% of Manhattan is lethally noisy, should apartments with bedrooms that face the back of the building or airshaft command a premium? Besides their potentially life-extending (relative) quietude, think of all the money to be saved on earplugs and blood pressure medicine. Bonus: With no sweeping views to admire, you can shut those curtains and
