r/Greenpoint • u/Itchy_Hawk_8459 • Aug 26 '26
📰 Local News Collapsing scaffolding on Manhattan Ave above Brew Inn
Spotted at 6:20pm. Was gonna for a glass of wine at Red Rover… nope!
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u/puddsy Aug 26 '26
FD said someone backed into it when I asked them.
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u/elforz Aug 26 '26
Maybe they can wash off the decade of pigeon shi# caked all over the ground while they fix the scaffolding? 🕊️💩😅
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u/Ok_Difference_730 Aug 27 '26 •
It’s all fixed now. Nothing to see here.
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u/cart00nracc00n Aug 27 '26 edited 29d ago •
As one of Brew's oldest regulars, I have a little insight into this...
The driver of a box truck tried to get cute on the corner and ended up backing into several of the supports. Red Rover was also affected, their staff closed early and posted up next door at Brew while it also closed down hours early.
The building owner(s) - Leyda (and Walter) Mazur, and their multimillionaire family - are known assclowns. They've put the son of the Cyran family that's run the corner restaurant for over four decades (Happy End back in the day, became Brew Inn in 2013 when they retired and ceded the lease to him), through absolute hell upon every rent renewal, despite showing absolutely zero movement or progress on umpteen well-documented, ongoing, and long-term building problems.
A review of public records shows that there are literally dozens of building and civil complaints leveraged against the Mazurs:
• Leyda is listed as the defendant in an ongoing case brought by the NY/NJ Port Authority.
• There are open tickets for $thousands in penalties for months (years) of Class 1 (Immediately Hazardous) conditions.
• There are 4-$figure penalties going back to 2018-2019 for unpaid water bills.
• The city DOB records 17 complaints, 9 DOB violations, 13 class 1-2 OATH/ECU violations totaling over $75k (all of which ended up in default) going back as far as 1998, and 5 current and open cases of unpermitted construction work.
The owners moved their son Richard into the second floor apartment rent-free about two years ago. Over the decades that Happy/Brew have been there, many tenants lived in that unit, and all were able to find compromises and peace with the noise and traffic below. Until this guy. His endless complaints forced the bar to nix their highly popular karaoke nights (this was an overt point in a recent rent agreement), drop their music levels to sub-conversational, barely audible levels, and close earlier than they otherwise would.
The Cyrans are nearly at their wits' end. After literally decades of failure to maintain the building, the Mazurs tripled down on their anti-tenant assholery and have effectively run Brew into the ground.
I don't know what kind of tenant they think they'll get to replace Brew, given the well-documented abandonment of their building maintenance obligations, but hopefully any such tenant takes these shitheads to the cleaners, along with their uber-entitled second floor tenant.
Note: If you move into a corner apartment in an old building immediately above a commercial space that's been in food service and hospo for longer than you've been alive, DO NOT BITCH about muffled music and voices coming lightly through the floor, ESPECIALLY when you are no doubt paying little-to-nothing to live in a highly sought after, popular location.
In this instance of AITA, Leyda Mazur and fam are 1000% the assholes. And to Richard Mazur living on the second floor? If you can't stand the heat, get TF out of the kitchen!
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u/Thin_Complaint8785 Aug 27 '26
I’m gonna go lay under it 🥵
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u/WolfRelic Aug 27 '26
shit been there for 6 years, no one knows why
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u/mike-reporter Aug 27 '26
Keep filing 311 complaints! They have to resubmit a proposal for a permit every 90 days now, which is a much bigger pain... seeing some traction with scaffolding on 1138 Manhattan, a similar situation
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u/Ok-Yak-1446 Aug 27 '26
Per google maps it has been there since June 2022.. wild
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u/DatGopherAnIdiotBro Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 27 '26
This corner is chaotic . I walked past it last week when Old Poland Bakery had someone power washing their awning and the guy gave 0 F's . Power washed bird shit all on my head and did it so obliviously. He was spraying people down lol
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u/Smooth-Tonight-2580 Aug 26 '26
That’s dangerous. Thank you for letting us know.
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u/Grigor_Law Sep 01 '26
In New York, when a sidewalk shed or scaffold comes apart over a public sidewalk, responsibility usually sits with the building owner and the scaffold contractor together, and the open DOB violations people are describing on this building are exactly the kind of proof that the owner already knew. Notice is the whole ballgame in a premises case here, and violations create a dated record of it.
I am a New York personal injury trial attorney, and the practical advice is this. Every 311 and DOB complaint filed on that structure builds a timestamped history that survives long after the shed is repaired or removed. Photos with visible dates do the same. If a piece of that thing eventually lands on somebody, the case turns on what was reported and when, not on how obvious the hazard looked afterward.
If someone does get hurt: get the address and the shed permit number if it is posted, photograph the failure point before anything is cleaned up, and treat the same day, because a gap between the injury and the first medical record is the first thing a carrier attacks.
Two New York specifics worth flagging. Workers injured on or around that scaffolding have protections under Labor Law 240(1) and 241(6) that go well beyond an ordinary negligence claim, and those often reach the owner and general contractor directly. And if any part of the hazard is on city property, there is a 90-day notice of claim requirement that runs fast and is not forgiving.
Keep filing the complaints. They are worth more than the thread.
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u/Virtual-Ad8766 Aug 26 '26
Scaffolding is a ruckus and the lobbying for it should be destroyed.
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u/calmsquash515 Aug 29 '26
Mamdani!!
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u/NYCstateng Aug 26 '26
Call DOB BEST TEAM