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Shaftenfreude

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By Teri Karush Rogers  |
May 3, 2010 - 12:22PM
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shaft en freude - n. Delight triggered by a less-than-flattering view of a neighbor or neighbor's apartment across an airshaft.

Glancing into the toy-crammed living room across the way, Monica felt a tingle of shaftenfreude over the fact that her own children were long past the Big Toy phase.

 

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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.

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