Robert Scarano

• Horrifyingly, the basement lounge at the Chelsea Hotel (where Leonard Cohen remembers you well) has been transformed into "an offbeat retreat." Designer Richardson Sadeki even had the gall to drop in some dead-Sex Pistols references. [Interior Design]
• After taking seven bad hits of L.S.D., Robert Scarano reimagines Stuy Town as a post-apocalyptic, post-Blade Runner wasteland [above]. [NY Post, via Curbed]
• Manhattan Prez Scott Stringer organized a city-wide preservation love-train. "It was great to have Uptown talking with Downtown," he said, "East Side talking with West Side and all of them talking with me." People all over the world, join hands. [Villager]
• Now that the Jitney has come to Brooklyn, The Great Jitney War of '07 is heating up! In a nutshell: West Side psychoanalysts are furious. [Sun] - Max Abelson
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Tonight, David Yassky is holding a fundraiser on York Street with Robert Scarano, a well-known Brooklyn real estate developer who just gave up his right to self-certify architectural work after a series of complaints were filed with the city's Department of Buildings.

"The city said that many of his buildings were larger than allowed by zoning, and it also charged that he failed to guarantee safe conditions at a construction site where a worker was killed in March. Mr. Scarano agreed to drop out of a program that allows architects to approve their own plans without regular review from the Buildings Department."

Update: A Yassky aide sends word that the event tonight is canceled. An official statement from the campaign is in the works. Update II: The Yassky campagin called to give the following statement:

"The fundraiser which had been tentatively scheduled for tonight has been cancled because the campaign didn't think it was appropriate."

No word on what they felt was inappropriate about it.

Dept. of Credit: Brownstowner had the scoop on the fundraiser, and quotes the invitation! -- Azi Paybarah

The New York Times reports today that Robert M. Scarano Jr.--whom has been an object of ridicule (rightfully so, IOHO) on Brownstoner lately for dubious zoning interpretations and near-constant injuries on job sites --has given up self-certification. His designs will now have to be certified by city examiners. -Matthew Grace