Red Hook’s S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse has been torn down
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I saw the death blow that brought down the Bowne building.
It happened on Labor Day — Monday, Sept. 2, 2019.
Construction workers all over America had the day off, but a demolition crew was on the job at the Red Hook property where entrepreneur Samuel Winter Bowne built a four-story brick grain storehouse for Gowanus Canal commerce back in 1886.