NEW YORK [NY1] — City records reportedly show Manhattan streets were plowed long before parts of Brooklyn and Queens after Sunday’s blizzard.
ALBANY — Andrew Cuomo became New York’s 56th governor at a stroke after midnight Saturday morning, making him the first son to follow his father into the office.
An ambulance crashed on a snow-clogged Brooklyn street last night as it tried to reach an elderly woman who had fallen in her apartment — the latest in a series of mishaps associated with the monster blizzard.
A Boro Park reader sent us in these incriminating photos of a sanitation worker conveniently “learning” Daf Yomi in Shul instead of plowing the streets.
It’s not just the snow cleanup that’s rotten in the city: A week’s worth of last year’s garbage is stinking things up for the start of 2011.
There was a method to their madness.
The selfish Sanitation bosses who sabotaged the blizzard cleanup to fire a salvo at City Hall targeted politically connected and well-heeled neighborhoods in Queens and Brooklyn to get their twisted message across loud and clear, The Post has learned.
As the snow deepened Sunday and Monday, roughly 100 front-line 911 operators in Downtown Brooklyn fielded tens of thousands of calls, struggling to sort the true emergencies from an ocean of concerns about stranded cars, twisted ankles and people simply stuck in their homes.
The MTA failed to follow its own emergency protocol before the blizzard that crippled large swaths of the subway system, the Daily News has learned.
A federal judge has rejected the city’s proposal that grisly anti-smoking ads be posted wherever tobacco is sold.
These garbage men really stink.
Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts — a disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency-services vehicles, The Post has learned.
At 3:58 a.m. on xmas Day, the National Weather Service upgraded its alert about the snow headed to New York City, issuing a winter storm watch. By 3:55 p.m., it had declared a formal blizzard warning, a rare degree of alarm. But city officials opted not to declare a snow emergency — a significant mobilization that would have, among other things, aided initial snow plowing efforts.
Mayor Bloomberg finally issued a mea culpa today for the snow fiasco that has crippled the city – but vowed not to sack the sanitation chief for the screw up.
A blizzard baby delivered inside the lobby of a snowbound Crown Heights building died after an emergency call of a woman in labor brought no help for nine excruciating hours.
A testy Mayor Bloomberg fended off criticism of the city’s failure to clear hundreds of snow-choked streets Tuesday as an avalanche of critics attacked his reputation as a supermanager.
NEW YORK — Public transportation, crippled by the Sunday blizzard, is limping along today and, contradicting Mayor Bloomberg, MTA Chairman Jay Walder warned that problems will continue throughout Tuesday.
NEW YORK [AP] — It took hours for Christopher Mullen to get off a plane from sunny Cancun and on to a half-empty subway car, his only way home. It would be another eight hours and more — a night spent huddled under a thin blanket on the frigid, grungy car — before he could get off the A train.
Yeshiva World News is reporting that New York City’s 311 system has collapsed, and all calls are getting a busy signal or ringing away.
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