Development Watch: Degraw-ful?
For a small street in the Columbia Waterfront District, Degraw sure has a lot of construction going on, most of it not pretty. Clockwise from upper left, you’re looking at 140, 130 and 129 Degraw. Number 140 is probably the most “interesting” of the three, but we’d be curious to know whether this was necessary…
For a small street in the Columbia Waterfront District, Degraw sure has a lot of construction going on, most of it not pretty. Clockwise from upper left, you’re looking at 140, 130 and 129 Degraw. Number 140 is probably the most “interesting” of the three, but we’d be curious to know whether this was necessary surgery mere architectural whim; Number 130 looks better in this photo than we remember it feeling in person, but at least there are big windows and relatively high ceilings. The real head scratcher is Number 129, which looks like some strange attempt to create private mews, but Warren Place it is not. GMAP
So much misinformation above!!
there are no ‘mezzanines’ in 60 Tiffany, and there are no lawyers involved in the normal post-construction corrections associated with any new bldg. Sponsor has fixed what needed fixing w/o charge. I live there, I know.
Check DOB web site, 140 is not one of Scarano’s project.
That’s right, the downspouts are 5 stories tall. What a joke…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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…