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:
Dear FedEx,
First off, let me say I think you're really great. You deliver stuff fast and on time and really I've never had a bad word to say about you.
Until lately.
You see, I work from home a lot of the time, in a building with a video intercom and no doorman. It's in a "prime" section of the Upper West Side and there's not a lot of crime that I know of, but still, I don't buzz people in just because they're wearing a FedEx cap and they say they have a delivery for my apartment number, which anyone can read on the directory outside the building.
Apps, schmapps. We predict that the next entrepreneurial revolution will unfold not in Silicon Alley, but right inside your very own NYC apartment, beginning with:
Along with launching its online informational bed bug "portal" yesterday, NYC announced some welcome new disclosure and treatment rules for building owners, effective immediately.
To drill down into exactly what the new rules do--and don't--mean for apartment dwellers, we reached out to the office of City Council Member Gale Brewer, a major force behind the latest regs as well as the city's ongoing war against bed bugs:
