Your daily survival guide for buying, selling, renting and living in New York City.
Brick Underground is an independent digital media website whose mission is to help New York City renters, buyers, sellers, and renovators navigate one of the most complex and expensive real estate markets in the world.
More than three million current and future city dwellers visit Brick Underground each year for practical real estate information such as how to move to New York City, find a no-fee rental apartment, compare co-living spaces, negotiate with a landlord, buy a New York City home, or renovate a co-op, condo, or brownstone, and much more.
Founded in 2009 by journalist Teri Karush Rogers, who previously covered local real estate extensively as a contributor to the The New York Times, Brick Underground has been named Best Real Estate Website by the National Association of Real Estate Editors three times.
Our editorial team publishes 20 articles and three email newsletters each week (including a newsletter for NYC real estate agents), produces a podcast leveraging insights from NYC's leading real estate experts, and expands the boundaries of service journalism with helpful tools like our gross rent calculator, used by tens of thousands of prospective renters to easily calculate the rent they'll actually pay when an apartment is advertised at the net effective rent.
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BRICK UNDERGROUND NAMED
BEST REAL ESTATE WEBSITE!
Gold Award Winner
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REAL ESTATE EDITORS
Publishers
Anh Nguyen
Chief Product Officer & Publisher
Anh’s professional background spans Egyptology, pharmacology, and digital content and media management for several NYC-area nonprofits. She has organized three virtual conferences for the Save Ancient Studies Alliance and is the American Research Center in Egypt Chapter Council board secretary and a board member of the New York Chapter.
Anh earned a PharmD from the University of Connecticut (go Huskies!) and a MA in Egyptology from the University of Manchester, which taught her to present research to a diverse audience. A co-op owner and resident of Greenwich Village, she can be found strolling through the parks with her two Pomeranians. A one time renovation survivor, Anh now focuses her energy on tackling DIY home improvement projects and nursing her houseplants back to life.
Tyler Blair
Chief Business Officer
Tyler Blair is an entrepreneur and part of the founding team of Basil, a technology startup for organizing creative talent. Tyler was lured to New York City while working as a real estate attorney for Shake Shack. He is currently renting a one bedroom apartment in Hell’s Kitchen, which he landed after navigating the rental market without a traditional W-2 job. Tyler is quickly getting to know all of Brick’s advertising partners as he will lead business and technology operations for Brick.
Founder
Teri Karush Rogers
FOUNDER
After covering New York City real estate for five years as a contributor to The New York Times, journalist Teri Karush Rogers launched Brick Underground in 2009. Tapping her network of real estate experts and her own service journalism zeal, she set out to educate and empower the city’s renters, buyers, sellers, and renovators one post at a time.
Her mission hit home: Today, 3.5 million New Yorkers and soon-to-be New Yorkers turn to Brick Underground every year for answers to their real estate questions. More than 40,000 people subscribe to Brick Underground’s twice-weekly newsletter, and still more listen to the Brick Underground Podcast. The indispensable, independent online resource Teri and a dedicated team of journalists built has been awarded Best Real Estate Website three times by the National Association of Real Estate Editors. 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, which taught her she would rather explain things than argue about them. Teri raised a daughter, a dog, and a digital media business in the same Upper West Side co-op, and is a four-time renovation survivor.
Editorial Team
Jennifer White Karp
MANAGING EDITOR
As managing editor since 2018, Jennifer steers Brick Underground’s editorial coverage of every aspect of New York City residential real estate—from major rent law changes, to monthly market reports, to trends and strategies for buyers, sellers, renters, and renovators. During her tenure at Brick Underground, the independent online resource has been named best real estate website in the U.S. three times by the National Association of Real Estate Editors.
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.
Celia Young
SENIOR WRITER
Celia Young is a senior writer at Brick Underground where she covers New York City residential real estate. She graduated from Brandeis University and previously covered local business at the Milwaukee Business Journal, entertainment at Madison Magazine, and commercial real estate at Commercial Observer. She currently resides in Brooklyn.
Evelyn Battaglia
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Freelance journalist and editor Evelyn Battaglia has been immersed in all things home—decorating, organizing, gardening, and cooking—for over two decades, notably as an executive editor at Martha Stewart Omnimedia, where she helped produce many best-selling books. As a contributing writer at Brick Underground, Evelyn specializes in deeply reported only-in-New-York renovation topics brimming with real-life examples and practical advice. A renovation survivor and resident of the Upper West Side since 1994 (starting with a tiny studio with "Central Park views" when standing tiptoe in a pink-tiled bathroom), Evelyn can often be found running with her dog in Riverside Park.
Marjorie Cohen
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Marjorie Cohen is a New York City-based freelance journalist, editor and author of over seven non-fiction books. Her real estate reporting has appeared in amNewYork, Investopedia, and The West Side Rag. Since moving to New York five decades ago for graduate school at the Teachers College of Columbia University, Marjorie has lived on the Upper West Side, with a brief detour to West 15th Street when she got six months free rent in a new building. Her current apartment is rent-stabilized and she is never, ever, going to willingly leave it.
Kelly Kreth
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Kelly Kreth has been a freelance journalist, essayist, and columnist for more than two decades. Her real estate articles have appeared in The Real Deal, Luxury Listings, Our Town, and amNewYork. She won a National Association of Real Estate Editors award for column on the Covid death of her building’s doorman. A long-time New York City renter who loves a good deal, Kreth currently lives in a coveted rent-stabilized apartment in a luxury building on the Upper East Side.
Alanna Schubach
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Contributing editor Alanna Schubach has over a decade of experience as a New York City-based freelance journalist. She has written about real estate for Brick Underground, Mansion Global, and Barron's. She has also contributed features, essays, and op-eds to The Nation, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and The Village Voice. She won a National Association of Real Estate Editors’ silver award in 2018 for her Ask an Expert column for Brick Underground. She is also a fiction writer and a creative writing teacher, and currently lives in Brooklyn.
Mary Lowengard
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Mary Lowengard is a New York City-based freelance writer with more than three decades of experience as a journalist and editor. In addition to her work for Brick Underground, her reporting on business and finance has appeared in The New York Times, Fortune, Institutional Investor, Worth Magazine, and Bloomberg News. She has lived in a co-op on the Upper-Upper East Side of Manhattan for 25 years.
Nancy A. Ruhling
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
In addition to her work for Brick Underground, Nancy A. Ruhling has written about real estate for a number of publications, including Mansion Global. She also has written features on various topics for over 50 online and print publications, including The New York Times, the New York Post, the Daily News, the HuffPost, New York magazine, Town & Country and Vogue. She also writes the weekly blog AstoriaCharacters.com, which profiles the insanely interesting people who live in her Queens neighborhood, where she moved long before it was on anyone’s radar.
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