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New York City braced for up to 24 inches of snow, with wind gusts hitting 60 mph and the National Weather Service warning of whiteouts and the sort of power outages that spice up winter evenings. Mayor Zohran Mamdani lined up over 2,200 plows while mulling whether to move schools online, and “code blue” shelter efforts were expanded—though last month’s cold snap showed not even an army of salt spreaders can melt bureaucracy.
New York and New Jersey ground to a halt as a blizzard dumped over a foot of snow by Monday morning—Central Park saw more than 15 inches, Newark 18, Islip nearly 23—prompting school closures, crippled transit, and power outages for tens of thousands. Neither snowplow nor subway proved heroic, but children rediscovering the lost art of the snow day may yet recall this one fondly—if they can get back online tomorrow.
New York declared a state of emergency as a blizzard dumped over 13 inches of snow on the city and pounded the Northeast with wind gusts reaching 97 km/h, derailing over 14,000 flights and cutting power to upwards of 250,000 homes. Transport ground to a halt from Long Island to New Jersey, but—true to form—subway and buses managed slightly delayed appearances despite whiteout conditions.
A winter storm laid nearly two feet of snow on New York City, with Central Park recording 19.7 inches—its most since 2016—and LaGuardia besting even that. Mayor Zohran Mamdani lifted the travel ban but kept the state of emergency; subways are mostly running, ferries less so, and airports barely at all. Schoolchildren rejoiced with a rare snow day—albeit one waiver away from statistical infamy.
Queens, battered by last month’s blizzard, found itself knee-deep yet again as another snowstorm dumped over 22 inches at LaGuardia and left thousands in the Rockaways without power. With Mayor Mamdani fielding 2,600 sanitation workers and imposing travel bans, hardy New Yorkers have been redirected to warming centers and the PlowNYC tracker—proving, if nothing else, that winter’s encore knows how to milk its applause.
New York City faced its first blizzard in nearly a decade, dumping up to two feet of snow and paralysing transit, but Mayor Zohran Mamdani claimed that measures adopted after January’s fatal storm—like doubling warming centers and faster crosswalk shoveling—kept casualties at bay this time. Whether his newfound zeal for snowy efficiency sticks or melts away with the slush remains to be seen.
After Mayor Zohran Mamdani warned that closing New York City’s $5.4 billion deficit might require sharp property tax hikes or raiding rainy-day funds, critics including Council Speaker Julie Menin and business leaders countered that squeezing homeowners and commercial landlords—over 3 million in all—would backfire. The city may yet discover, after much spreadsheet-wrangling, that fiscal gravity responds better to cuts than to creative revenue levers.
After the region’s fiercest blizzard in years socked New York and New Jersey, tens of thousands remain without power, with JCP&L reporting nearly 40,000 outages along the Jersey Shore, while Con Edison and PSEG scramble to restore service across Staten Island, Long Island, and beyond. Authorities assure us that plucky utility crews—5,000 strong, plus imports—are on the job, although snowdrifts rarely consult recovery timetables.
