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September 10, 2007
Robert Scarano: Tag, You’re It!
Above, what the streets have to say about embattled architect Bob Scarano. The opinion’s been proffered on a development at Fourth and Carroll that seems to be on unstable ground. On the jump, a photo of the perplexing attempts to protect a neighboring building from said development. When graffiti artists are tagging about an architect, you know his rep must be pretty bad.
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can you explain what we are supposed to be seeing in the 2nd photo?
Posted by: guest at September 10, 2007 10:38 AM
the development site in question and the shoring bracing that's been necessary to prop up the adjacent property
Posted by: brownstoner at September 10, 2007 10:56 AM
scarano scarano scarano. oh my god, shut the fuck up.
Posted by: guest at September 10, 2007 11:44 AM
I agree with guest 11:44. Also, isn't shoring like this pretty common? It really seems like you're grasping at straws here.
Posted by: guest at September 10, 2007 12:05 PM
Shoring is routine in neighborhoods with older housing stock. There is nothing newsworthy here. Seems like a vendetta to me.
Posted by: guest at September 10, 2007 12:33 PM
Shore up adjacent building = Brownstoner says "Look at this development/developer what a slime has to shore up nearby buildings b/c it is so unsafe"
Don't shore up adjacent building = Brownstoner says "Look at this development/developer what a slime doesnt even shore up nearby buildings making it so unsafe to live nearby"
Brownstoner= uninformed,unreliable anti-everything drivel.
Posted by: guest at September 10, 2007 1:10 PM
This is not shoring, this is bracing when happens when you undermine the foundation of a property. This shows that the contractor and the developer did just that. It's always a heads up of what to expect from the finished product, probably crap in this case.
Posted by: guest at September 10, 2007 1:25 PM
Shoring, bracing whatever. The operative word is VENDETTA. And a pointless one at that...
Posted by: guest at September 10, 2007 1:59 PM
"Brownstoner= uninformed,unreliable anti-everything drivel."
Even if this was remotely true, not just trollish, you have to be a blind idiot to not see the track record of Mr. S's development sites, i.e. the developers funding the projects, the contractors hired, damage to properties, worker deaths, etc.
Garbage in, garbage out.
From design to build out. Same story, all across the Boro. Mr. Scarano and his associates are bad news...as well as old news, as those have attested above.
That being said, thanks Mr. B. for the post. Even though we all may be sick of seeing reading about Mr. S, attention needs to be placed where it matters most...and unfortunately, most often.
Posted by: Action Jackson at September 10, 2007 2:01 PM
Yikes-- what were they doing to imperil a solid old building like that? Driving piles or something? Reminds me of what happened when Annie Liebowitz's renovations of her townhouse in the West Village caused so much damage to her neighbor's house that she had to put up I-beams like this for a couple of years. Also blocked a lane of traffic. Must have cost a FORTUNE. And then she ended up buying three adjacent buildings and connecting them.
Posted by: Rehab at September 10, 2007 2:03 PM
1:25 is right: this is bracing. For those of you claiming a vendetta, if you had taken a second to inform yourself by clicking on the link to the earlier posting regarding this development, you would have seen that the building next door was destabilized and that a contractor had to be brought in to brace the building. And if you are still not sure, check out DOB's website for this project. Bracing can be done as a prophylactic measure, but according to the earlier article, that was not the case here.
Posted by: slopefarm at September 10, 2007 10:04 PM
Action FAGGOT Jackson,
Please look up and see who the Architect on the job is jerkoff.
Posted by: guest at September 10, 2007 11:31 PM
Uh, faggot comment aside (great intellect there, btw), I still see Scarano Architects is the RA of record. Just because a PE files a bunch of BS to remedy the problem from Jan 07 to now, does not release the original RA of culpability for the original shoring/underpinning issues...nor the contractor , no r the developer.
Sexual pref aside, what am I Missing 11:31PM, except a few pre 9-11 drinks?
Posted by: Action Jackson at September 12, 2007 12:11 AM
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