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:
Post-traumatic assessment disorder is what we suffer each time we hear the words “Local Law 11.”
The every-five-year façade maintenance required by the city commonly costs hundreds of thousands of dollars per apartment building to perform. The cause is worthy; the price tag punishing.
We feel the same way about the Energy Audit bill that is perilously close to becoming law.
This Sunday's "The Hunt" column in the NY Times followed a back-from-the suburbs, two-dog family who wanted to buy a $2.895 million Upper East Side condo in a building that only allowed one dog per unit.
Here is the curious resolution:
"[The buyer] noted to the condo board that their apartment was three units combined. So both of their basset hounds...should be allowed. The board acquiesced."
- A little sound advice - noiseproofing your home (NY Times)
- A board member's owner's manual (Habitat)
- Selling your apt at auction (NY Mag)
- Renovating your building's laundry room (Habitat BoardTalk)
Most New Yorkers understand that California Closets can only take you so far. Sooner or later, your kid will demand her closet back and your husband will notice that behind the scrim of his five favorite suits, “his” closet is now a hers.
For many of us, a box of heavy-duty garbage bags and a trip or twelve to Housing Works comes next.
