BROOKLYN DIGS OUT
Borough blanketed in snow during fi rst big storm of ‘22
BY MEAGHAN MCGOLDRICK
Brooklynites are still digging
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out after a storm inundated
the borough with more
than two feet of snow on parts
of the New York City region
this weekend.
As of 11:59 pm on Jan.
29, snow totals from Winter
Storm Kenan ranged from 9.5
inches in Central Brooklyn
neighborhoods like Crown
Heights to more than 11
inches in southern Brooklyn
neighborhoods like Bay Ridge
and Sheepshead Bay, according
to the National Weather
Service. Bayside, Queens saw
some of the most snow, with
more than 13 inches as of late
Saturday.
The furious “bomb cyclone,”
as it was referred to
by meteorologists ahead of
its arrival in the Northeast,
stretched from the Carolinas
to Maine and forced many
New Yorkers inside ahead
of and during its touchdown
early Saturday.
The city’s Emergency
Management offi ce advised
all New Yorkers to stay at
home — or to use trains and
buses if they must go out.
Still, the Five Boroughs
soldiered on, with surprisingly
limited interruptions
to the New York City subway
system, and seemingly fastpaced
Sanitation services,
which Mayor Eric Adams
lauded over the weekend for
“getting stuff done.”
During the fi rst blizzard
of his tenure, the former Beep
made good on a promise to
the New York Post to shovel
outside of his own Brooklyn
home. And for kiddos who
didn’t have to worry about
whether or not they had the
day off from school, city parks
turned into Mount Everest
for brave Brooklynites looking
to hit the slopes.
Of course, there were
some utility outages, perhaps
(Top) A youngster gets some snow
to the face in Bay Ridge. (Bottom)
A Brooklynite treks through the
storm in East New York.
Photos by Arthur de Gaeta/Lloyd Mitchell
due to the storm’s high wind
surges. Since Jan. 29, Con
Edison has restored power to
907 customers who were without
during the nor’easter, according
to spokesperson Allan
Drury.
As of noon Monday, the
energy behemoth was working
to restore power to an additional
169 customers whose
services were knocked out
as a result of Kenan. Though
there is a light at the end of
the tunnel, Drury warned
New Yorkers to stay vigilant
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