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A state of emergency and a travel ban were declared ahead of the powerful nor'easter storm.
When the city needed digging out, it called its emergency shovelers. One Queens resident describes the pay, the crosswalks, and the yellow snow.
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s largest nursing strike in decades may be on the verge of ending after a union representing more than 4,000 nurses in the NewYork-Presbyterian hospital system reached a tentative contract agreement with management early Friday.
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New York City's alternate side parking suspended after nearly 20 inches of snow
New Yorkers won't have to move their cars any time soon, as Alternate Side Parking has been suspended
New York City and Long Island are being hit hard with snow today. As of 8 a.m. Monday, the most snow reported so far was 20 inches in Suffolk County on Long Island, according to the National Weather Service.
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Snow day in New York City on Monday as Mamdani says nor'easter forces public schools to close
New York City will have a regular snow day on Monday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said, due to the nor'easter and forecast for towering snowfall totals.
While much of the northeast of the United States watches mounds of snow accumulate outside their windows, something else is piling up pretty quickly as well.
A state of emergency covers 20 New York counties as whiteout conditions and dangerous travel are expected through Monday evening.
Snowfall totals across the five boroughs surpassed double digits throughout the region and closed in on the two-foot mark in several neighborhoods: Staten Island (Richmond County): 29 inches in Grasmere, 27.8 inches in Todt Hill, 27 inches on Dongan Hills
In March 1888, a deadly blizzard clobbered New York City. The snow paralyzed the city—trains stood still for days, telegraph services stopped functioning, and even after the snow stopped, flooding from the melting caused widespread damage.
New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin and Councilmember Yusef Salaam are introducing a series of bills aimed at combating hate crimes Wednesday.