City bars ‘unsafe’ demolition at S.W. Bowne building in Red Hook
The city has called a halt to demolition — again — at a historic Gowanus Canal-side industrial building that activists have been trying to save.
On Thursday, June 27, the city Buildings Department slapped Red Hook’s S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse at 595 Smith St. with a Full Stop Work Order because of “unsafe demolition,” online records indicate.
The agency shut down the site following an inspection made in response to a complaint by a member of the public through the city’s 311 system, Department of Buildings spokesperson Andrew Rudansky told the Brooklyn Eagle.