How ballsy Scott Barone is gonna keep on tickin in NYC
After nine years of steady, if unexciting work as a general contractor, Scott Barone’s big break was supposed to come in 2008 when his firm landed a ground-up residential project in Tribeca. But that job never got on its feet. Months after Ponte Equities filed permits for the 11-story condo as 231 Hudson Street, Lehman Brothers went belly up and the bottoms fell out of the banking industry, real estate market and economy, at large. “I’d just gotten married, my wife was pregnant at the time, we were in the middle of building a white whale of a house and I had a warehouse in Queens t...