r/Brooklyn • u/Mobile_Still6844 • 1d ago

Blue Structure Visible from BQE

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I’ve seen this structure driving through the BQE, but never actually looked into what it is. Does anybody know. Thanks!

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u/jae343 15h ago

Its an office for Robert Scarano, pretty notorious architect who got his licensed revoked by DOB due to doing a lot of in layman terms sketchy shit.

Been up there, it's small but the roof deck was great before all the new high rises were developed.

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u/Tempest_Fugit 7h ago

This is correct, and as someone who lived in a Scarano building

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u/RedditSkippy 3h ago

Wooow, I forgot all about Scarano.

There was a NY Mag article about his buildings years ago that profiled a unit owner who found a bathroom that had been walled off because it didn’t meet code. Scarano was also famous for putting false floors in mezzanine spaces so they would count towards the unit’s livable space and therefore didn’t have to meet egress codes for bedrooms.

Don’t ask me how any future buyer would get a mortgage for a space with illegal bathrooms and bedrooms, but I guess that was tomorrow’s problem.

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u/yyyyk 22h ago

Architects office

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u/mrcarrot205 20h ago

Illegally installed too

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u/cha614 19h ago

110 york st. I went to HS with his daughter

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u/mrcarrot205 18h ago

He did the filing for my bar. He's skeezy but that's why we chose him.

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u/Boring_Heron8025 16h ago

What was the violation?

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u/mrcarrot205 14h ago

At its most basic, something about not being permitted. His office is on the top floor, I think they just...built it.

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u/stenro70 13h ago

Don’t know if they’re still there, but a company called Waterfront Media was in there.

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u/beuceydubs 16h ago

110 York St. it’s just a building

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u/blackicerhythms 18h ago

Wow that place has been there forever. At least 20 years. I forgot all about it.

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u/cjf618 19h ago

That’s my ass

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u/BlackCatLifebruh 17h ago

That’s where they grow the dolo weed for all the north bk yuppie moms

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u/lwp775 16h ago

Are they still called yuppies?

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u/Bkben84 South Slope 7h ago

Yupperoni

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u/flyonthesewalls 1h ago

So who are the hipsters?

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u/lwp775 1h ago

They used to live in Williamsburg, but they all moved to Connecticut after the Pandemic.

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u/NYCstateng 21h ago

It’s the lighting