John McGowan and Sons, Inc.

About John McGowan and Sons, Inc.

Sea Cliff's streets fall toward the water at a grade that ice takes seriously, and one cold night on a north wind can glaze a driveway solid. John McGowan and Sons, Inc. handles snow here — plowing drives, shoveling steps and walks, spreading salt where a slope makes stopping optional. Village lots are tight and the parked cars sit close, so this is careful work with a short blade rather than brute force. Most of it happens between two and six in the morning: headlights, the scrape, then quiet again. By the time the hill wakes up, the pavement is dark and dry and nobody has to think about it at all.