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:
As obsessive fans of HBO’s Bored to Death, we perked up when this affinity-marketing gem from StuntmanPR showed up in our email this afternoon:
Upper West Side co-op owner and broker-blogger Malcolm Carter opens the kimono on life inside a first-floor apartment. Sure, it’s loud and there’s cigarette smoke drifting in from the street. On the other hand:
What? Was the Kleenex not passed around your lobby when your doormen's ex-union boss, Gus Bevona, died two weeks ago? A bloggy flashback the other day by union consultant Ray Abernathy (apparently smarting over an unaired interview with Anderson Cooper) helps explain why.
Q. In July I ordered a Sub-Zero refrigerator, a Viking range and Miele dishwasher from a local appliance dealer, to be installed in my kitchen renovation next month. I negotiated a decent discount because I was buying several appliances at once. Now the store says they made a pricing 'mistake' and that I actually owe them $1,100 more than we agreed on.
Can they do that? I have a written order on which I've put down a hefty 20 percent deposit. Don't they have to honor their word? What are my options?
Transparency and accountability in the rental market? We're all for it, which is why we asked the guys behind BadNYCapartments.com to help us produce this inaugural edition of the Bad NYC Apartment Blotter.
The reports below were filed on BadNYCapartments.com by renters who hope to warn away future tenants. You can view full reports and addresses by clicking on the link after each entry; share your advice and stories here in the comments.
Williamsburg (Manhattan Ave)
