"A snow plow goes through and then people go out and clean their cars off and they literally re-block their own streets . . . People are saying, 'My street's not cleared.' They're not wrong, but unfortunately they may have contributed . . . to it inadvertently," de Blasio said.
As the mayor admits, other streets are wider than the Queens streets. This thing is not new in the Queens. The Sanitation Department needs to check the situation borough-by-borough, according to NY Post.
On the other hand, City Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Queens) has asked why the Department of Education gave the go-signal for all schools to open Monday when it was practically impossible to move in most of the areas of Queens streets.
The mayor answered: "We cannot say in this neighborhood there's school, in that neighborhood there's no school. It doesn't work that way. We made a decision that was in the best interest of the overall city."
Meanwhile, the 26.8 inches of snow that fell in New York City is the second worst recorded since 1869. The governor of New York declared a state of emergency Saturday, throughout New York City including its suburbs, during the snowstorm, as reported by News 9.
The new snowfall after midnight of Sunday, has almost tied the previous record of 26.9 inches from February 2006, according to the National Weather Service.
Transit officials have suspended above-ground portions of the Metro-North, the Long Island Rail Road, and the city subway systems.
The East Coast has been blanketed by a massive snowstorm with strong winds and heavy snowfall, bringing most of the cities to a standstill.
The blizzard has brought much of the East Coast to a heavy snowfall and shut down the nation's capital. At least 18 deaths have been reported that resulted from car crashes, shoveling snow and hypothermia.
