Emily Myers
SENIOR WRITER / PODCAST PRODUCER
Emily Myers is a senior writer, podcast host, and producer at Brick Underground. She earned two awards for the Brick Underground podcast from the National Association of Real Estate Editors. Previously she worked as a journalist and content producer in San Francisco and a senior broadcast journalist at the BBC in London. Emily studied journalism at the University of the Arts, London and earned an MA Honors degree in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. In spite of her itinerant background, Emily has been living in the same Brooklyn rental for six years.
Austin Havens-Bowen
STAFF WRITER
Staff reporter Austin Havens-Bowen has covered real estate at Brick Underground for over two years. Previously he reported on local news for the Queens Ledger and The Hunts Point Express in the Bronx. He graduated from Hunter College with a BA in media studies. He rents a one-bedroom apartment in Astoria with his boyfriend and their two cats.
Evelyn Battaglia
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Freelance journalist and editor Evelyn Battaglia has been immersed in all things home—decorating, organizing, gardening, and cooking—for over two decades, notably as an executive editor at Martha Stewart Omnimedia, where she helped produce many best-selling books. As a contributing writer at Brick Underground, Evelyn specializes in deeply reported only-in-New-York renovation topics brimming with real-life examples and practical advice. A renovation survivor and resident of the Upper West Side since 1994 (starting with a tiny studio with "Central Park views" when standing tiptoe in a pink-tiled bathroom), Evelyn can often be found running with her dog in Riverside Park.
Marjorie Cohen
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Marjorie Cohen is a New York City-based freelance journalist, editor and author of over seven non-fiction books. Her real estate reporting has appeared in amNewYork, Investopedia, and The West Side Rag. Since moving to New York five decades ago for graduate school at the Teachers College of Columbia University, Marjorie has lived on the Upper West Side, with a brief detour to West 15th Street when she got six months free rent in a new building. Her current apartment is rent-stabilized and she is never, ever, going to willingly leave it.
Kelly Kreth
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Kelly Kreth has been a freelance journalist, essayist, and columnist for more than two decades. Her real estate articles have appeared in The Real Deal, Luxury Listings, Our Town, and amNewYork. She won a National Association of Real Estate Editors award for column on the Covid death of her building’s doorman. A long-time New York City renter who loves a good deal, Kreth currently lives in a coveted rent-stabilized apartment in a luxury building on the Upper East Side.
Mimi O’Connor
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Mimi O’Connor has written about New York City real estate for publications that include Brick Underground, Refinery29, and Thrillist. She is the recipient of two awards from the National Association of Real Estate Editors for interior design and service journalism. Her writing on New York City, parenting, events, and culture has also appeared in Parents, Red Tricycle, BizBash, and Time Out New York. She is the author of several books, including "The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit" and "Reel Culture." She once lived in a NYC building in such rough shape that a Law & Order location scout rang her doorbell to inquire about using her apartment as a murderous psychopath’s headquarters.
Mary Lowengard
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Mary Lowengard is a New York City-based freelance writer with more than three decades of experience as a journalist and editor. In addition to her work for Brick Underground, her reporting on business and finance has appeared in The New York Times, Fortune, Institutional Investor, Worth Magazine, and Bloomberg News. She has lived in a co-op on the Upper-Upper East Side of Manhattan for 25 years.
