Time for Brach to Get a Shorter Crane
The Daily News is reporting this morning that the controversial Finger Building on North 7th Street in Williamsburg is about to get trimmed back by almost 40 percent. The project has been on hold since November because of a host of zoning and demolition violations. Now, in what appears to be an attempt to break…
The Daily News is reporting this morning that the controversial Finger Building on North 7th Street in Williamsburg is about to get trimmed back by almost 40 percent. The project has been on hold since November because of a host of zoning and demolition violations. Now, in what appears to be an attempt to break the legal loggerjam that has held up the project, developer Mendel Brach has submitted new plans that would reduce the building’s height from 16 stories to 10 stories. The reduction is directly related to adispute over the condo’s ability to use the roof of Scott Spector’s adjacent building as recreational space–without it Brach can only build 10 stories as of right. As of now, Spector (who began scooping up property in the Burg a decade ago and was the man behind the short-lived but much-praised Chickenbone Cafe) is giving Brach the finger.
Finger Building Going Pinkie [NY Daily News]
Williamsburg Lowering the Bird [Curbed]
Finger Building Gets Fingered [Brownstoner]
Mendel Brach/Robert Scarano didn’t submit real plans for a 10-story building. They simply lopped off the top 6 stories on the plans. When you look at the plans, there’s NO ROOF! Something very fishy is going on.
oh, that explains all the games around this project! just like the games he is playing with our “beloved” tower at South Portland.
Anon 2:44pm
You’re kidding, right? It’s the “iconoclast” himself…
who is the architect of this job?
Down, down, down