Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY – Call To Tear Down Williamsburg Finger Building.

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    Originally posted 5/11/07 1:59 PM

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    Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY – Following a lawsuit that resulted in the under-construction Finger building in Williamsburg being capped at 10 stories rather than 16,as we reported here

    The plaintiff Scott Spector is now saying that the building’s developers who include Mendel Brach, Moshe Owen and architect Robert Scarano will have to tear down the entire building.

    Spector originally sold the Finger site to the development team in 2004, and he owns many adjacent properties. Spector’s attorney says the Finger’s development team used land and air rights that actually belonged to Spector in order to construct the building, and that the incomplete building must therefore be razed. Spector is also planning “disciplinary action” to keep Scarano from continuing to practice as an architect. [The Architect’s Newspaper]


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    I cannot agree more! Mendel Brach responded to this reporter as good as anyone would. Think of yourself waking up in the morning and stepping out of your front door and there are 10 or more news reporters with microphones in your face. If this is not enough now imagine being followed for hours wherever you go. Mendel Brach still responded with the utmost respect. It is well known that he didnt make a single dime on this project and still tried in every which way to settle with these tenants for faults of others. We should all congratulate him for not giving up and trying to settle with these tenants.

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    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    to all you jealous yidden, let me enlighten you with the good news, so your raging jealousy should stop boiling, Mendy Brach remained with nothing! he lost his fortune to the finger building, all he has left is headache’s and agony which keeps him busy all day and lots of sleepless nights, so calm down, chill, the 25,000,000 he never saw and never will see. besides, Mendy is known in Williamsburg as the heart of gold, just look at how he nicely he cooperated with the reporter and did not give them the finger like any typical hasid would do. so chilul hashem what? where? they even say that Mendy will sit with the Spencer people and try to sort things out.

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    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    iisten here you anonymous bum how does hate come in to this? besides for the hate he created regardles if he did something wrong or not he did alot wrong

    What is his problem? cant make a honest buck

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    The real chilul hashem is your hate for a yid and your gleefull judging of him! regardless of whether mendel brach did something wrong or not.

    The media just loves when a yid is having problems, but us yiden should?? what a shame.

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    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    that bigshot anonymous has a point

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    I just love this “armchair judging” going on… no one knows anything firsthand BUT what they heard on the news. And they just “Know” that this person is a chillul hashem…

    How about: Oh my, what a disaster – AGAIN someone pouncing on the troubles of a yid and exaggerating it for the world to see? Nebach, for Mr. Brach. Nebach, for us yidden. SAYS WHO he walked away with $25 mil? The reporter? The “bagleibta” news reporter ALWAYS saying nothing but the truth, huh?

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    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    oh yeah, bigshot anonymous, if you were beset with problems, you’d have your head on your shoulders screwed tight AT ALL TIMES… even 7:30 in the morning as you are ATTACKED by the media.
    And if you never were ATTACKED by the media, or watched someone being attacked, then you have no basis for commenting on this.
    OBVIOUSLY – he wanted to say that (didn’t you see the look on his face – I’ll talk to you in a half hour?) BUT then his lawyer advised him not to.
    WHAT IS SO DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND?

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    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    if he would answer with kindness “i will try my best etc. but please understand that there are other people & firms involved which is realy out of my control…” the CHILUL HASHEM wouldnt be that big instead he gave them the run around.

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    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    oh I forgot its all ok he gives charity, and it was a kidush hashem What does my sins have to do with making extra anti semites and being a crook?

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    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    To all who are worried and jealous that Brach made what the media claims he did “25 million” let me all assure you no need to be jealous he did not make that much, not even the investors on this project made that, so all you angry venom spitters RELAX!

    Now a little facts wont hurt…I don’t know Brach personally, but My family bought from him 3 different houses in Williamsburg, and while we had our share of complaints -some of them serious- i can tell you that he is a sample of a developer, and a golden heart, he was sick thru his stomach about what happened to us, yes he ran into allot of issues and complications rachmuna litslan, but he is not one of those who set out to screw, he just got entangled in a lot of problems and instead of telling everyone deal with it, he tried to do the most possible.

    On this particular Spencer fiasco, i know that he originally built it for yiden -like everyone faculty based -for low prices in a area no yid set foot at that point, as he pioneered in that whole franklin area, no one wanted to buy for a long time thats when he switched it to artists and had to buy added land to get more FAR and lost his pants on this project! had no intentions of not making money, i am sure.

    Chilul hashem? Let me just say this : don’t judge a person especially when you dont know him, i hope hashem should not judge you all for this and your plentiful sins WITH A DOSE OF PROBLEMS LIKE THIS..

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    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    Please dont blame Brach So who is to blame for the Chilul Hashem he makes he is a living chiluul hashem he hurts all jews I dont care how much charity he gives and if the Rabbis no about his buisness dealings then the rabbis are also a disgrace its all about the money

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    Please lets not blame Brach.
    He is a well known baal tzedakah has helped countless Almonos and Yesomim, contributes seforim to many mosdos and is well known to the leading Rabonim. Sometimes business doesn’t go as planned especially when there are partners, bankers, architects, inspectors, contractors and expeditors. There are so many people involved, slip ups happen. Lets hope this has a published happy resolution.

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    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    February 24, 2006
    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 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.

    http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2006/02/time_for_brach.php

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    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    I hear that there is a guy Fishman that really got messed up with him he is paying a dear price but is suing Scarano for whatever he is worth or will be worth in his pitiful life

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    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    let us all be reasonable here. while there were those who didnt know what they were getting by hiring that putz. there were the others who did. when you have a guy that has multiple projects with scarano and he is having problems you got to think that there are partners in crime. i just hope that all this crap doesnt result in another kristal nacht one day. it seems more and more yiddin are getting caught doing stuff that will piss off the goyim.

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    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    Scarano is the one responsible for wasting Millions of dollars from investors who did not know what they are getting into when they hired him, he convinced everyone that whatever he is doing is legal, and he is still charging big money for things he should be held responsible, cause no one is working together like the tenents from Spencer against Brach, The DOB does whatever the want they treat the developers like criminals, Scarano should be sued in a class action

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    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    R’Moshe Feinstein On Honest Dealings With Government

    Concerning the matters of kindness that our government in the United States of America, (that G-d has, in His great kindness toward the survivors of European Jewry and the survivors among the Torah giants and their students, brought us here, and we founded Torah institutions, established ones from Europe, and also new ones,) which through the “Kingdom of kindness”, whose entire purpose is to benefit all its citizens, has made available many programs to help students in all the schools in the country, so that they can learn and grow in their studies, and also Torah institutions receive substantial assistance for their students; certainly all the Roshei Yeshivot and their principals, and the students, appreciate all the benevolence of the government, and bless the welfare of the Nation and all who stand at its leadership with all blessings.

    And even though there is no suspicion on the Roshei Yeshivot and the principals, who are too fearing of Heaven to violate prohibitions of theft, and of speaking falsehood and untruth and deception, and violation of the law of the land with any type of leniency, for they know of the severity of the prohibitions and the terrible punishments from Heaven, and it is against the whole purpose of the foundation of the yeshivot and the study there, which is for the students to be truly G-d-fearing and to beware of monetary prohibitions in the extreme; even so, it is appropriate to be raise the issue in order to draw attention also to the donors, who bring donations to support the Torah, that they should not cause theft, or a loss of money to the government, not in accordance with the laws of the Torah and the laws of the government, that they should not stumble even unintentionally in these great transgressions. And to all who are very careful, great blessing should come to them, and they should succeed in their Torah institutions, to have many G-d-fearing students; which is a great blessing to the Nation as well, as it is well-known to all that the Yeshiva students are, thank G-d, the most distinguished citizens in their personal traits and good behavior.

    (Igros Moshe Choshen Mishpat, II, 29 The translation here is slightly abridged and adapted)

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    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    I’d love to ahve him as a neighbor.

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    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    thank him for creating alot more anti semites and a chillul hashem I am not Mochel him

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    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    but he will tell you he didnt do anything wrong.

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    16 years ago
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    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    Robert Scarano is a master of fraudulent self certification. He is the cause or recent changes in building code.

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    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    scarano ruined so many lives, however the yids and yiolies are guilty too. deal with the devil and you get burned.