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:
Mansion tax deadline boosts Brooklyn's high end, but it can't prop up slowing sales
July 11, 2019 - 09:00 AM
The median sales price in Brooklyn increased 4.7 percent to $815,000, a new record high, according to Douglas Elliman’s second quarter market for Brooklyn, Queens, and Riverdale. At the same time, the number of sales fell for the sixth, straight quarter and apartments on the market increased for the fourth consecutive quarter.
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Tourists flock to Hudson Yards, a Home Depot boycott, & more
July 10, 2019 - 11:00 AM
Consumers are pledging to boycott Home Depot after one of its founders said he would donate to President Trumps 2020 reelection campaign.
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A modern UWS condo near the Natural History Museum, for $5,495,000
July 9, 2019 - 13:10 PM
This luxury Upper West Side condo, 221 West 77th St, #12E, is on the market at a price that’s close to what the owner originally paid. It is now asking $5,495,000—reflecting a discount of $205,000 about two weeks ago. It initially went on the market in April for $5,700,000.
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Loft tenants get expanded protections, who is inspecting NYCHA's playgrounds, & more
July 8, 2019 - 11:00 AM
And, Skander, a Chicago modular construction company, says it can put up a three-unit building in 90 days.
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Here are the NYC apartments for sale with the deepest price chops in June
July 8, 2019 - 09:00 AM
The top addresses for steepest price cuts in June, according to RealtyHop’s New York City Price Drop Report, are at two well-known Manhattan buildings, 845 United Nations Plaza, otherwise known as Trump World Tower, and 520 West 28th St., designed by the late starchitect Zaha Hadid.
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Would you rent this one bedroom in Greenpoint and ride the ferry to Manhattan, for $3,315?
July 3, 2019 - 13:00 PM
A hike to the ferry stop won’t be too much of an issue with this one-bedroom apartment, 26 West St., #5G, in a luxury doorman building in Greepoint, Brooklyn. It’s a 9-minute walk to the ferry stop at India Street, and then a 13-minute ferry ride to Manhattan.
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