Architect In Brooklyn, NY Concern As 3rd Hardhat Is Killed At One Of His Sites

Brooklyn, NY - After three workers were killed in seven months at three different Brooklyn construction sites, housing advocates charged the projects' architect.

Robert Scarano was the architect on the site at 733 Ocean Parkway where a construction worker was killed this week after a garage wall next door collapsed.

The tragic streak of accidents began in August, when a worker was crushed by an 800-pound steel girder at a Greenwood Heights condo site. Then last November, Heng Zheng fell to his death from the unfinished third floor of a Williamsburg condo.

Scarano said he was "sick" over the workers' deaths. "I'm sick; it affects me mentally and physically," Scarano said. "I've worked for 35-odd years and never had anything happen where anyone was killed ... until last year when it happened twice, and this year. It is a somewhat dangerous business."