Development Watch: Degraw-ful?

140 and 130 come to us courtesy of (you guessed it!) Scarano...If tarring and feathering come back in vogue, I say he's first in line. 130 is not bad...

Posted by: Anonymous at February 26, 2007 11:05 AM

140 and 129 come to us courtesy of (you guessed it!) Scarano...If tarring and feathering come back in vogue, I say he's first in line. 130 is not bad...

Posted by: Anonymous at February 26, 2007 11:05 AM

dang...my mistaken entry made it through...my bad

Posted by: Anonymous at February 26, 2007 11:07 AM

Yes, Scarano should be tarred and feathered along with the a-hole developers that hire him...In this case, Marshall Sohne...He'd never put up monstrosities like this on his block in Cobble Hill...

Posted by: Anonymous at February 26, 2007 11:11 AM

I just walked down this block yesterday and saw these buildings. 140 looks sort of neat to me—I think by adding the small angle it might allow for water views—could be wrong!

Posted by: Anonymous at February 26, 2007 11:15 AM

You should see all the post-sale defects that come out of these Scarano/Sohne buildings like 42 Tiffany, 60 Tiffany (part of development in bottom left pic, which also happens to back right into a nasty-smelling live poultry market and a huge new huge mental patients apartments living building set to block city/harbor views).

Condo boards having to get lawyers to get Sohne to finish the jobs (he just wants to take money from each and move on to next project with his pal Mr. Lee's illegal immigrant labor construction crew), and condo owners that buy in are then sandbagged with tens of thousands of dollars in subsequent repairs.

Whee.

Posted by: Anonymous at February 26, 2007 11:19 AM

Scarano at least tries to design interesting looking buildings (clearly with rock bottom construction costs beings his top priority).

I'd rather live in a Scarano building than a Fedder's building any day.

Posted by: Anonymous at February 26, 2007 11:19 AM

geez, I walked by yesterday also.
Kinda like the angled windows...am sure to give a look at harbor.
Can't believe I missed 129. I must have been staring at 130.

Posted by: Anonymous at February 26, 2007 11:27 AM

Marshall Sohne and Scarano should be arrested for what they did to 60 Tiffany. They capped a beautiful old factory building with a stucco addition that just looks awful (it includes some of Scarano's famous 'mezzanines'). It was planned so poorly that drainage wasn't taken into consideration. So downspouts (the kind you see on suburban homes) had to be added all around the building. Their artistic touch? They painted them blue. Yuck. What they're doing on Degraw is even worse.

Posted by: Anonymous at February 26, 2007 12:03 PM

That's right, the downspouts are 5 stories tall. What a joke...

Posted by: Anonymous at February 26, 2007 12:05 PM

Larry the live-in sales agent, is that you?

No charges? No lawyers?

Not true.

42 Tiffany had to hire lawyers to get the sponsor to listen.

No charges? Um..perhaps you are unaware of all the assessments for construction fixes that 42 Tiffany owners have had to pay for out of pocket?

But don't listen to me...or Anonymous 2:29...all this is a matter of record.

Easily confirmed by checking condo board meeting minutes, condo association accountiing books and building management agent records.

In light of actual records to the contrary, Anonymous 2:29, it appears that claims of misinformation should be directed toward you.

Posted by: Anonymous at February 26, 2007 2:42 PM

yeah 140 is nd arch&design led by natasha donskoy (who worked with scarano previously)

Posted by: Anonymous at February 26, 2007 3:09 PM

140 looks goof

Posted by: Anonymous at February 26, 2007 3:19 PM

Jon,

Still pandering to the masses.

Posted by: Anonymous at February 27, 2007 4:46 PM