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:
Over the past few months, BrickUnderground has written about two anonymous doormen who’ve broken the code of silence by posting online and largely unflattering accounts of the residents they were hired to serve. (Another doorman spills it online, Twittering doorman tells all)
- More boards hiring private detectives to investigate buyers (The Real Deal)
- NYC guide to getting rid of your old stuff (Brokelyn)
- How long should you hold the elevator in a one-elevator building? (UrbanBaby forum)
Last week’s arrest of a serial robber posing as a UPS deliveryman has left West Village parents jumpy: An alarm has gone out about a “tall skinny white guy, youngish, with an Eastern European accent” gaining unauthorized entry into some non-doorman buildings over the past couple of days.
Q. My floor doesn't look good anymore. It's a wood floor that was scraped and finished, and yet in less than three years it looks gray and worn down. What should I do? Should it not have been washed with water? Was it treated wrong, or finished incorrectly in the first place?
A. It looks as though you were robbed—of at least one coat of polyurethane, says BrickTank expert and general contractor Jeff Streich of Prime Renovations in Manhattan.
