Jennifer White Karp
Managing Editor
Jennifer steers Brick Underground’s editorial coverage of New York City residential real estate and writes articles on market trends and strategies for buyers, sellers, and renters. Jennifer’s 15-year career in New York City real estate journalism includes stints as a writer and editor at The Real Deal and its spinoff publication, Luxury Listings NYC. A longtime Brooklynite who has sworn off basement apartments, she graduated from Wesleyan University and has an MFA in nonfiction writing from the New School.
Posts by Jennifer White Karp:
Working from home in the Covid era? Here's how to use pressurized walls to make an office
June 16, 2020 - 09:30 AM
Pressurized wall companies say they are getting lots of inquiries from New Yorkers who want to use temporary walls to create an office and make the layout of their office or house more functional for working from home in the Coronavirus era.
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Central Park goers flout social distancing, BLM mural painted in Brooklyn, & more
June 15, 2020 - 10:30 AM
And, what it’s like to move back home with your parents—stories from Generation Z.
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Another delay for broker-fee ban, how to invest in Black communities, & more
June 12, 2020 - 10:30 AM
And Zumper has a new interactive map that shows the places in the U.S. renters are most interested in moving to and most interested in leaving.
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Manhattan lease signings fell to 10-year low in May because of the shutdown
June 11, 2020 - 09:30 AM
According to The Elliman Report for Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens for May, new leases fell 62.2 percent in Manhattan, the second largest year-over-year decline in new leases in a decade. Brooklyn saw the number of lease signings fall 53.9 percent, a near record decline.
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NYC opens for Phase 1, $100 billion in rent aid stalled, & more
June 8, 2020 - 10:30 AM
Also in the news: Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer is pushing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to approve a $100 billion rent relief program.
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Buyers 'frantic' to get out of NYC, funds for businesses hit by looters, & more
June 5, 2020 - 10:30 AM
Ithaca’s Common Council passed a resolution seeking permission from the state to cancel rent for the town’s 7,500 renters for three months
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