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.
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(Photo by James Yeargin)
Our hearts sank when we walked out of our UWS co-op today and stumbled over New Jersey on our doorstep.
Where the elegant art-deco poster gallery used to hold court on the corner of W. 73rd and Columbus now looms a diorama-style ad to visit New Jersey this fall….replete with bales of hay, corn stalks, wagon wheels, pumpkins, and in-your-face signage.
Though we’re pretty sure that the apartments above the NJ “store” are rentals, we wondered whether boards are more open to pop-up retail tenants and whether it’s a good idea.
Q. What are the options for installing a water filtration system for a whole building? How much does it cost to install and maintain? Is there any recommended way to "sell" this to the board and to shareholders--for instance, does a filter system increase property values? I live in a 150-unit postwar building.
We’ve written a lot about bed bugs, notably including the Manhattan co-op with a $250,000 clean-up bill.
One prominent interior designer we know (whose clients occasionally call on him to manage their extermination effort while they decamp elsewhere) tells us that some white-glove buildings are so worried about contracting bed bugs that they have quietly begun conducting monthly inspections using bug-sniffing canines.
A year ago, says Manhattan interior designer Jeannine Williams, most of her business came from clients trading up into a new, larger co-op or condo. Lately, though, they're staying put, and hiring her to get more out of what they’ve got.
“Sometimes it’s the addition of another child and they need to make a bedroom work for two kids,” says Williams. Also, more people are working from home and need to make the dining room or living room do double duty as an office.
- Why it's easier to kick out co-op neighbors than condo neighbors (Habitat BoardTalk)
- Problems with moving risers in a co-op (StreetEasy forum)
- How to hire a good super (The Cooperator)
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Last month, inspired by a NY Times story about the padlocking of the Beatrice Inn nightclub, I posted some tips about how to fight a neighborhood nuisance.
