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:
Would you rent this Windsor Terrace apartment with a private garden that's not a true one bedroom?
May 8, 2019 - 14:30 PM
You might have some bargaining power if you know how to read a listing carefully. Take this supposed one-bedroom, one-bath apartment, 499 17th St,. #1, in Windsor Terrace. It has a large, private outdoor space. and is asking $2,100, which is less than the median for a one bedroom in the neighborhood, $2,340, according to StreetEasy. It's not really a one bedroom, which may give you some leverage.
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A Noho duplex penthouse in a 1885 printing factory, for $17,900,000
May 7, 2019 - 12:00 PM
The Noho duplex penthouse that sits on top of The Schumacher at 36 Bleecker. a condo building redesigned by architect Morris Adjmi, is apparently the last apartment to sell from the 2015 conversion and a buyer can now get it for significantly less than it was originally asking. There was a 5.5 percent price drop about four weeks ago to its current asking price, $17,900,000.
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Flouting rent-control laws in Jersey City, buyers lured with private dinner parties, & more
May 6, 2019 - 11:00 AM
And, how illegal home conversions hurt NYC.
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Protecting rent-stabilized tenants, best neighborhoods for recent grads, & more
May 3, 2019 - 14:00 PM
And, the ways renting in NYC is unlike renting anywhere else.
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Here are the NYC apartments for sale with the deepest price chops in April
May 2, 2019 - 12:00 PM
Listings site RealtyHop has launched a new monthly price drop report for New York City. The report zeros in on neighborhoods with the highest total number of price drops, as well as the biggest percentage drop in median price, and biggest median price drop. The Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill in Manhattan had the most price drops in April.
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Brownstone Brooklyn's in-demand architect, test driving Nest Secure, & more
May 2, 2019 - 11:00 AM
The New York Times profiles Elizabeth Roberts, the architect who transforms Brooklyn brownstones by "blowing out" the back walls.
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