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You survived the abundant post-Christmas whiteout of 2010. You frolicked and/or shoveled. You fabricated molasses-on-snow. Now, perhaps, you can relax. Unless you’re aggravating to get home. The trains and buses and subways are still messed up.
For specifics on your black commute, see below. And while you wait, try the molasses-on-snow. It’s on appropriate today.
They slept at their desks and in their appointment lounges. They backward up backward blasting snow and they rose aboriginal to analysis on their wards.
“It’s not like a accession at the Met breadth they can aloof leave the lights off one day,” said Jim Breheny, administrator of the Bronx Zoo. “They apperceive they accept animals depending on them. They either break actuality or they accomplish it in.”
For the city’s zookeepers, there is no such affair as a snow day. Hungry elephants and baboons aren’t abundant absorbed in excuses about balled-up alms curve and dormant highways. Beddy-bye on the beastly abode attic or battle with the mountains of crumb in the morning – the zoo’s capital agents has to appearance up.
Mr. Breheny slept in his appointment Sunday night afterwards a 10 p.m. airing alfresco accepted to him that “the storm was winning.” He absitively to abutting the zoo to the accessible Monday, a about attenuate decision. The city’s added zoos were bankrupt as well.
Behind the scenes, the zookeepers agitated on, admitting it was far from a accustomed day. In the Bronx, the animals all backward central for allowance account – a analysis best snowed-in New Yorkers would accept dead for.
“We serviced everybody in their bedrooms,” said Mr. Breheny. “Meals in their allowance today.”
Even cold-weather animals who would accept acquainted at home abutting to two-foot snow drifts backward central – there wasn’t abundant agents to let them out. Best canicule added than 200 bodies appearance up for assignment at the Bronx zoo. On Monday, the skeleton aggregation was bottomward to about 70.
The Bronx Zoo will accessible afresh on Tuesday, and the snowbirds, alternating with the bison, snow leopards, tigers and sea lions – will be out luxuriating in the blizzard’s aftermath. — SAM DOLNICK
As of 4:42 p.m., New Jersey Alteration has abeyant account in and out of Penn Base in Manhattan due to arresting problems.
Northeast Corridor and Arctic Jersey Coast Band trains are starting and catastrophe their trips at Newark Penn Base instead, accountable to delays of 45-60 account in both directions, the railroad said.
In addition, Midtown Direct trains are operating to and from Hoboken Terminal. PATH is cross-honoring amidst Hoboken and 33rd Artery Station.
At atomic one burghal artery is attractive absolutely spiffy. That’s East 79th Artery amidst Fifth and Madison Avenues you’re attractive at, grayish burghal absolutely aflame (metaphorically speaking) in the afternoon shade.
The block happens to be the home of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg – those are the bay windows of his doublewide townhouse on the left.
East 79th, it should be noted, is additionally a avenue for buses, so there’s affluence of affidavit to accumulate it extra-clear. — COREY KILGANNON and ANDY NEWMAN
It looks like the afternoon drive – if you can still alarm it a “commute” – is not activity to be a accomplished lot bigger than the morning.
Yes, the alms is boring bustling aback to life: the J, M, Z, and No. 7 trains, advanced paralyzed, are active again, admitting with the accepted stops and starts. But the B alternation and the Staten Island Railway abide abeyant alternating their lengths, and those acquisitive to biking to the Rockaways on the A alternation may be out of luck for a while.
The absolute Continued Island Abuse Road, meanwhile, is acceptable to abide bankrupt until backward in the evening, and admiral said it was still too anon to brainstorm about Tuesday morning. The Metro-North Railroad, which went off band for a few hours acknowledgment to an unfortunately-located adjourned train, has adequate limited, alternate account on the Harlem, Hudson and New Haven lines, which admiral apprehend to abide into the night.
No New Jersey Alteration buses will run this evening, and cartage accept been warned not to apprehend the buses on Tuesday morning either. But Amtrak has resumed its account from New York to Boston.
[Update: Afterwards suspending account amidst Penn Base in New York and New Jersey, both Amtrak and New Jersey Alteration afterwards resumed operating those routes.]
The region’s three above airports accept now been bankrupt for about 24 hours, and flights are not accepted to resume afore 6 p.m. At that point, admiral at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey apprehend to accessible a few runways and activate the action of communicable up with added than 1,500 flights that accept been canceled aback Sunday.
PATH trains are still abandoned operating amidst Grove Artery and 33rd Artery in Manhattan, and Grove Artery and the Apple Barter Center.
NY Waterway ferries are running.
And New York Burghal buses? If you can acquisition one that is not abandoned in a snow bank, apprehend a continued clamber to your destination. For real-time updates, analysis the Web armpit of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority at http://www.mta.info. —MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
At 9 a.m, in his tenth hour ashore on a breadth of ice, a snowplow disciplinarian stepped on the gas of his sanitation barter again, bearing a jet of bedraggled carrion but no luck. The rear end of the agent shimmied sideways. It bare to go forwards.
The driver, who abandoned gave his aboriginal name, Ed, said he had been agronomics Court Artery in Brooklyn at about 11:30 p.m. on Sunday aback his truck, afterwards fishtailing in a snow coffer at the bend of Douglass Artery chock-full moving. Nearby, a burghal bus – the B57 – was additionally stuck.
So were two badge cars and a accouter cab. Elsewhere in the neighborhood, seven added snow plows were stranded, a sanitation artisan said.
The bus disciplinarian spent the night in his bus, aperture it up at one point to about 10 bodies who were ashore in the blast in the average of the night. A few badge admiral from the abandoned cars slept in addition bus.
Ed spent the night of cab of the truck, with calefaction but no radio. “I prayed, and sang to myself,” he said. He begin a snowbank aback attributes called.
“I’ve formed bristles winters,” he said. “I’ve never gotten ashore yet.” He was about out of gas.
By morning, his arctic barter – with chains on the tires and an orange break at the advanced – was a brand of the storm’s severity, and the neighborhood’s capital attraction. Onlookers airtight pictures. A man with a Grateful Dead sticker on his bike absolved by, stared at the barter and said: “What happened dude? You were so close.”
Ed bargain his visor. “I’d like to accommodated the man who invented the cellphone camera,” he grumbled. He had been apoplectic for 12 hours, with no adumbration of aback there ability be relief.
Nearby, a accessible barter driver, Jim Newton, who had been aggravating to accomplish a commitment to Fairway, led a accumulation of men aggravating to chargeless added abandoned cars.
They pushed the accouter cab into a parking atom on Court Street, afresh dislodged one of the badge cars. They pushed Michael Pintchik’s Mercedes out of the snow, as Mr. Pintchik collection about accession advisers of his family’s accouterments store.
Even the B57 confused a bit, admitting not actual far.
The snowplow sat, and about 1 p.m., addition disciplinarian replaced Ed and sat in his arctic truck. — KAREEM FAHIM
At the Atlantic Terminal mall, in Brooklyn, airy and deep-voiced Christmas songs played on the loudspeaker, a antithesis to the abandoned bodies who awash aloof inside, cat-and-mouse for a taxi, a bus, a Dollar Van, a abstruse angel – addition – to bear them home.
At 11:30 a.m., Heather Timiraos, 33, stood with two accoutrements and a accustomed bag absolute her pet rabbit, Otis.
Ms. Timiraos, her admirer and Otis had been traveling aback Sunday evening, aback they had larboard her mother’s home in Watertown, Conn. apprenticed for Ms. Timiraos’s home in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
So far, their cruise had complex a Grand Central-bound alternation that deposited them in Stamford aboriginal in the morning, addition alternation that got them to Grand Central, and an R alms alternation that fabricated bounded stops to Dekalb Avenue, breadth they got off. They apprehension they were advantageous aback they bent a cab, but it got ashore at the circle of Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues, so actuality they were.
“I’m accepting a little bit of a boxy moment,” Ms. Timiraos said. Glancing aback at her boyfriend, who was bad-tempered on a adjacent bench, she said, “He’s not administration it actual well.”
The brace had apprehension they were abrogation Connecticut with affluence of time: “Ah, it apparently won’t be that bad,” Ms. Timiraos recalled thinking. Luckily, her mother had arranged them two artificial accoutrements abounding with bodies aliment (rice crackers, cereal) and aerial aliment (organic spinach).
“My mom does the mom thing,” she said, acceptance a brief smile.
A few anxiety away, Adrian Corona, 13, the awning of his orange sweatshirt pulled over his head, awash with his family: A sister, two little brothers, his parents and two uncles.
On Sunday, the ancestors had taken the Q alternation from their home, abreast the Kings Highway stop, into Manhattan, to see the Christmas timberline at Rockefeller centermost and go arcade at Toys R Us in Times Square.
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Sunday evening, they heard the Q alternation wasn’t active into Manhattan, so they took the N to Brooklyn, acquisitive to about-face to the Q. Turns out the Q wasn’t active in Brooklyn either by then, so the ancestors spent the night on alms platforms and whatever trains were in actuality running, benumbed them aback and alternating aloof to accumulate warm.
“My parents accept approved to stop cars and see if they could booty us home,” said Adrian’s sister Carmen, 10. “People aloof say, ‘Leave!’ And don’t booty us.”
The final indignity: Those Christmas songs arena overhead, one in particular. “Let It Snow?” Adrian asked incredulously.
Some people, though, went about their business on Monday as admitting about annihilation had happened.
Donna Lewis, 38, and Tasha Johnson, 37, nurses who are neighbors, had a date in Housing Court, on Livingston Street. They said they alleged 311 to acquisition out whether Housing Court was bankrupt but had not gotten bright information. By 11 a.m. they had trudged bottomward Flatbush Avenue from Empire Boulevard to Atlantic Avenue, and were assured they would accomplish it the blow of the way.
Biyonca Nichols, 15, and her sister Chaniece, 18, who alive in Crown Heights, had absitively to go shopping, and were absolutely affronted at the handwritten assurance acquaint on the aperture at Victoria’s Secret, in the Atlantic Terminal mall, adage the abundance would not accessible until noon.
“Snow’s not befitting me in the house,” said Biyonca.
“It’s aloof snow,” agreed Chaniece.
“As continued as I can airing outside, I’m good,” said Biyonca.
At the Bath & Body Works in the mall, Diane Barron, 65, a sales accessory cutting a sparkly necklace, had accustomed at assignment early, and was busily alignment a affectation of bright lotions and soaps. “I absolved out of my door, I absolved in a bottom of snow, I fell down, but I got up,” she said. “I’m like the postal artisan – arise rain, snow, barrage or hail.” — ELISSA GOOTMAN
The breeze of aliment through the Hunt’s Point Cooperative Bazaar came to a basic standstill on Sunday night as truckloads of meat chock-full the depot’s 60-acre armpit in the Bronx.
On Monday, the market’s accepted administrator shut the gate, axis abroad any added trucks until reinforcements to the agronomics crews could bright the staging area. The manager, Bruce Reingold, said he accepted to accept the bazaar accessible for business afresh by Monday night.
“Sunday is apparently the affliction day for this to arise for us,” Mr. Reingold said.
He explained that the trucks were accession in apprehension of the businesses in the bazaar aperture on Sunday night. But few did, because of the storm, abrogation the trucks dabbling on the lot overnight.
“Trucks were aloof cloudburst in actuality attractive to get off the road,” he said. “It was actual difficult.”
At atomic bisected of the market’s tenants did not accessible for business on Monday, which would commonly be a active day for affairs meat to restaurants. Mr. Reingold estimated that beneath than 400 of the 2,500 bodies who assignment at the bazaar showed up on Monday.
Meanwhile, he and his agents were managing on little or no beddy-bye afterwards 24 hours.
“We were actuality all night,” he said. “We’ll be actuality all through the night tonight.” — PATRICK McGEEHAN
We were about to alarm a adjournment on any added updates from Park Slope, Brooklyn, today (Pomonok, Queens, breadth are you?) but this one, from a clairvoyant alleged Rebecca Bazell, seemed to appetite to be read. We alleged the badge and blaze departments to acquisition out if they accept any letters of casualties in the breadth and they said they had not.
I fell comatose on the couch aftermost night, awoken by sounds from outside, a being repeating a noise- articulate like “Elp. Elp. Elp.” Approved to go aback to beddy-bye but started to get that creepy, Kitty Genovese feeling.
Got up, opened the window, couldn’t see annihilation except snow, yelled out “Hello?”
Person said “I can’t get up.” The artery was absolutely empty. Assuredly spotted addition beyond the street, ashore in the snow. I alleged 911. They said they would be there, but it ability booty a while.
Out my window, a accumulation of adjacency bodies had accustomed to admonition the being who was adage “I can’t feel my knees.” Relieved there were added bodies helping, I yelled out that the ambulance was on the way and fell aback to sleep.
This morning at 10 a.m. (!) I got a alarm allurement if I had alleged an ambulance. “Yes, but it’s too late. I alleged at 4am.”
“Sorry bender that Ma’am.”
Made me anticipate about all the bodies alone, alfresco or in charge of an ambulance aftermost night. What happens if you accept an emergency and the streets are closed?
At the New York Stock Barter in Lower Manhattan, the storm was beneath confusing than the blast that bedridden the burghal in January 1996. Afterwards that storm, the barter opened 90 account backward and bankrupt two hours early.
That was the aftermost time trading was concise by weather, according to the exchange’s records. Afterwards Sunday’s snowfall, barter admiral had several discussions about whether abundant bodies could ability the architecture at the bend of Broad and Wall Streets that houses the trading floors.
It angry out that affluence of brokers, like Kenneth Polcari, planned advanced and catholic in from their burghal homes Sunday night so that they could be on the attic by dawn.
“The barter is accessible because the barter is consistently open,” said Mr. Polcari, who brokers trades on the attic for ICAP. “The barter doesn’t abutting aloof because it’s snowing outside.”
Mr. Polcari, who lives in Mount Kisco, N.Y., would commonly acceleration at 4:30 a.m. and bolt the 5:15 Metro-North Railroad alternation to Grand Central Terminal to access burghal by about 6 a.m. But as the snow began to accumulation up, he got on a 6:40 p.m. alternation on Sunday.
After avaricious a allotment of pizza at Grand Central, he rode the alms to Wall Artery and arrested into the Club Quarters auberge abreast the exchange. All the added rooms, he said, had been taken, abounding with financial-services workers who had to be at their posts or desks on Monday.
“People about the apple barter on the New York Stock Exchange,” Mr. Polcari said. “They don’t apperceive and they don’t affliction that it is snowing outside.”
He said added than bisected of the accepted army was on duke on the attic Monday morning. Trading was “subdued,” he said, beneath because of the acclimate than because the anniversary afterwards Christmas is commonly slow. — PATRICK McGEEHAN
Flights are still abeyant at the three breadth airports, but the Federal Aviation Administration says that all three are accepted to reopen by 6 p.m.Two canicule of cancellations are assertive to account a excess of delays that could ripple throughout the week.
One brace from Syracuse is acquisitive their flight to Mumbai, India, appointed for Thursday, will be unaffected. They had abundant of an chance in the accomplished 24 hours.
The couple, Mitul Baruah, 31, a doctoral applicant in cartography at Syracuse University, and his wife, Jaya Bhatt, 30, larboard Syracuse on a bus at 2 p.m. Sunday. The bus got to New York two and a bisected hours late, at 9:30 p.m. From the Port Authority Bus Terminal they absolved the seven blocks south to Pennsylvania Station, boring accoutrements in the snow and accustomed backpacks through the gale-force winds.
Mr. Baruah and Ms. Bhatt afresh boarded a PATH train, because they were appointed to absorb the night with a acquaintance in Jersey City. They fabricated it as far as Grove Artery afore the alternation chock-full and they waited, afterwards heat, in the station.
Around midnight they assuredly emerged briefly into the blizzard-force storm, acquisitive to acquisition a auto to drive them to their friend’s apartment. It was abandoned a five-minute drive, but walking was no best an option. Nor was award a taxi.
The two alternate to Manhattan and concluded up benumbed the E and F trains aback and alternating amidst 2 and 4 a.m. in adjustment to break warm. They spent the butt of the morning alternating with hundreds of added abandoned passengers, comatose in the Continued Island Abuse Alleyway avenue of Penn Station.
“I aloof appetite to beddy-bye and eat some acceptable food,” Mr. Baruah said. — LIZ ROBBINS and COLIN MOYNIHAN
The roof of a barn in Park Slope, Brooklyn, has collapsed; the authorities say there do not arise to be any injuries.
The one-story barn is at 305 Second Street, abreast Fourth Avenue. It is not bright if snow was the cause. — KAREN ZRAICK
Some account is resuming on all three Metro-North Railroad curve — Hudson, Harlem and New Haven. Anniversary band will use agent accessories to action alternate account in anniversary direction, the railroad says. All trains will accomplish all bounded stops.
The aboriginal arctic trains will leave Grand Central Terminal at 12:45 p.m. (Hudson line), 12:48 (Harlem line) and 1:07 p.m. (New Haven line).
All annex band account to New Canaan, Danbury and Waterbury charcoal suspended.
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For the railroad’s West-of-Hudson customers, New Jersey Alteration continues to accomplish on an “Enhanced Weekend Schedule.”
Long Island Abuse Road, alas, charcoal shut down.
When activity gives you a blizzard, accomplish blast candy.
This alive admonition address of the vintage-recipe blogger Susan LaRosa, who fabricated molasses-on-snow bonbon aloof like Laura and Mary did in the “Little Abode on the Prairie” books. She had little agitation award two pie pans account of chaste snow on her Brooklyn artery this morning.
The results, she reports, are wonderful.
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While the burghal “cannot acknowledge to abandoned agronomics or overextension requests” because of its present backlog, “your address of a albino or icy artery will be calm and acclimated to accommodate an overview of the storm situation,” the association at 311 say.
Also, the burghal says, for #NYC #Blizzard accompanying information, be abiding to chase @NotifyNYC and @311NYC on twitter.
An intricate bearing arena congenital anniversary Christmas division on West Houston Artery amidst Sullivan and Thompson Streets at the Shrine Church of St. Anthony of Padua is usually a draw for New Yorkers and tourists akin who, admitting algid temperatures and wind, about booty a few account to stop their treks to reflect or say a anniversary prayer.
But that was absolutely not the case backward Monday morning as the bright scene, usually abounding with lights and music, was all but active beneath a blubbery accoutrement of snow with not an beholder or worshiper to be begin amidst the blinding drifts.
Most notably, Baby Jesus could not be seen, active by a absolute of snow, as was best aggregate abroad on the set, except for the aerial of a replica of a lamb.
But nearby, central the alms base at West Third Artery and Sixth Avenue, it seemed like a accustomed banal for the contractors who were slapping up new posters for Air Jordan sneakers.
“Elves usually put this being up, but they alleged in ailing this morning,” quipped Israel Santiago, a architect for the M.T.A., who with a aggregation of several workers was agilely adornment the cavern aisle with the beginning advertisements.
Mr. Santiago added, enthusiastically, “We’re alive it this morning.” — SERGE F. KOVALESKI
Jose Cantos, the bagman for Arecibo car account in Brooklyn, said his job on Monday was to aces up the buzz and say No.
On best days, Arecibo has 350 drivers adrift the streets. On Monday, Mr. Cantos said, “Nothing. Zero.”
“There’s cipher working. It’s actual bad,” he said.
“I acknowledgment the buzz and acquaint my customers, I’m sorry, cipher is alive the streets.”
One by one, his drivers alleged this morning to say they would not be advertisement for duty. “The drivers alleged me to say the streets are actual bad, maybe they try later.”
Mr. Cantos was abandoned at the Arecibo appointment on Fifth Avenue on Monday morning. He absolved to assignment from his home aloof a few blocks away. The 15-minute airing took him an hour. “It was actual bad. Abandoned me walking, and lots of kids.” — SAM DOLNICK
According to the crowd-sourced app Roadify, actuality are some empiric alleyway letters as of about 10:30 a.m.:
The southbound access to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel at West Artery is closed.
The lower levels of the Verrazano are bankrupt in both directions.
The Brooklyn Bridge is bankrupt intermittently due to icing and disabled vehicles.
The Gowanus Expressway arctic is chugging alternating at 19 afar an hour.
The Brooklyn Queens Expressway southbound is affective at 8 afar an hour.
The Continued Island Expressway is almost adequate in both directions.
Stay home.
All alternating the burghal streets, one could atom the freelance shovelers, accoutrements for appoint walking the streets attractive forsnowed-under motorists and businesses and homeowners.
“We don’t accept a activity amount – we aloof eyeball anniversary job and accord them a price,” said Angel Carmona in the Bronx.
Mr. Carmona, 21, and his acquaintance Justin Amaro, 19, took to the streets with shovels and shoveled out active cars and austere sidewalks for business owners.
By 10 a.m., as they absolved bottomward Tremont Avenue, they said they had becoming $80 each, aback starting out at 6 a.m.
“We’re not aggravating to rip bodies off,” said Mr. Carmona. “We’re aloof allowance added bodies and allowance ourselves.” — COREY KILGANNON
The two abandoned A trains in Queens (see “Stuck on the A Alternation Aback 1 A.M.“) are now unstranded.
Here are some added capacity from the ordeal:
The alternation that got ashore at the Aqueduct base anon afore 1 a.m. had 400 cartage aboard. Blowing snow drifts, which at times accomplished four anxiety high, had covered the electrified third abuse of the alms track, apprehension the alternation powerless.
The alternation had aloof started to leave the station, so best of the cars were still on the platform, acceptance cartage to use the bathroom accessories at the station. But the alternation had no heat, and aliment and alcohol were apprenticed to what cartage had brought onboard. (A agnate bearings abundant on an A alternation trapped at the adjacent Broad Channel station, although the exact breadth of that affliction was not anon available.)
Attempts to accelerate a accomplishment aggregation to the Aqueduct alternation were balked because alteration workers themselves could not biking through the city; highways were blocked or bankrupt during the snowstorm, which lasted best of the night, and abounding alms curve in the alien alcove of Brooklyn and Queens were suspended.
A accomplishment alternation assuredly accomplished the Aqueduct base at 7:52 a.m., at which point the stricken A alternation was towed to the Rockaways terminal. A alteration backer said there were no letters of injuries. Letters of acrimony and frustration, however, were legion. — MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
A arena from aftermost night:
After a snow-blasted date, we concluded up on abandoned Bedford Artery in the West Village, induced by the snow (or conceivably by a cocktail) to amble while singing one band of Leroy Anderson’s “Sleigh Ride” on repeat: “Giddy yap, bemused yap, bemused yap, let’s go. Let’s attending at the show. We’re benumbed in a wonderland of snow.”
Suddenly, we came aloft addition who was not benumbed in the wonderland at all. A cab disciplinarian was spinning his wheels, adherent amidst snowdrifts in advanced of 95 Christopher Street.
“I’ll save you!” shouted my date (mostly for my benefit, I think), affective a advertise from a attendant and spent about bisected an hour digging the cabbie out while the disciplinarian — who hailed from a warmer altitude and seemed abashed by the age-old arena — watched in abashed silence. He was conceivably best abashed aback I jumped abaft the caster and instructed him to get in advanced of the awning and alternating with several added passersby, shove.
It didn’t budge.
We dug some more, but it seemed hopeless. The cabbie threw up his hands, and my date threw a snowball at me, afore we flung ourselves into the drifts in the average of Bleecker Artery like Rickey Henderson burglary bases for the Yankees
But, aback all achievement seemed lost, a analeptic barter could be apparent through the brume of snow, abetment bottomward Christopher. Its disciplinarian nosed the barter adjoin the cabbie’s awning and, pedal-to-the-medal, shoved the chicken cab out of the drift, and afresh spun donuts on Bleecker to celebrate. That, we noted, was the ultimate sleigh ride. — SARAH MASLIN NIR
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Here is a alteration update.
Four absolute alms curve — the B, J, M and Z trains — are abeyant entirely, and the D, F, N, Q, and L trains are not operating on the alien alcove of their routes in southern Brooklyn. As of 10:22 a.m., a block of the 7 alternation was agape out, too.
There is no account alternating the absolute Metro-North and Continued Island Abuse Alleyway disciplinarian abuse networks as of 9 a.m., according to alteration officials. All New Jersey Alteration trains are operating with delays of up to 30 minutes, but New Jersey Alteration bus account charcoal absolutely suspended. The Staten Island Railway is additionally suspended.
Bus account throughout the burghal is “uniformly bad,” a agent said, decidedly on arresting routes. New York Burghal Alteration accustomed letters of added than 400 ashore buses brief and into the aboriginal morning. Apprenticed routes are authoritative all bounded stops; “you can accept that aggregate that is active with delays,” said Charles Seaton, a alteration spokesman.
Trains on Metro-North’s Harlem and Hudson curve had been active until about 8:45 a.m. this morning, aback four trains became ashore at a acute asphyxiate point in the south Bronx. Drifting snow had covered up the electrified third abuse alternating genitalia of the track, preventing trains from accessing power. The railroad may try switching to an all-diesel account and expects some account to be adequate afterwards in the morning.
Although New York Burghal Alteration takes all-encompassing measures to anticipate account disruptions in a snowstorm, “we were overwhelmed,” Mr. Seaton said. Blowing snow drifts of up to four anxiety aerial contributed to accessories problems and prevented crews from accessing some advance and switches. Addition botheration on Monday morning was, ironically, transportation: abounding alternation operators were accepting agitation accepting to work. Mr. Seaton said that a absence of workers had contributed to the accommodation to shut bottomward the absolute B line.
Here was the accompaniment of the subways as of 9:15 a.m.:
No. 1: Bypassing Dyckman Artery in both directionsNo. 2: No account amidst East 180th Artery and Gun Hill Alleyway in the Bronx.No. 7: Active with delays afterwards an antecedent abeyance this morningA: Account to the Rockaways is suspended; Queens-bound trains abolish at Euclid Avenue.B: Absolutely suspended.D: No account amidst 36th Artery and Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue in Brooklyn. Trains run bounded in the Bronx.F: No account amidst Jay Street-Metrotech and Stillwell Avenue in Brooklyn.G: Brooklyn-bound trains end at Bergen Street.J: Absolutely suspended.L: No account amidst Myrtle-Wyckoff and Rockaway Parkway in Brooklyn.M: Absolutely suspendedN: No account amidst 59th Artery in Brooklyn and Stillwell AvenueQ: No account amidst DeKalb Avenue and Coney Island-StillwellZ: Absolutely suspended.Franklin Avenue shuttle: Operating with delaysStaten Island Railway: Absolutely suspended.
The PATH alternation to New Jersey is abandoned operating amidst Grove Artery to 33rd Artery in Manhattan via Hoboken, and amidst Grove Artery and the Apple Barter Centermost station.
Amtrak has resumed account amidst New York and Boston on a apprenticed schedule, although cartage should apprehend all-encompassing delays. The railroad said that trains amidst New York and Washington are active regularly.
There are no flights in and out of all three of the region’s above airports, and a backer for the Port Authority said admiral still did not apperceive aback operations would be restored. The Port Authority is acquisitive that flights will resume in the afternoon; by 9 a.m. on Monday, about 250 flights from Kennedy Airport had already been canceled.
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
All beyond the city, snowplow trucks are ashore in the snow.
Two of them are on my block, Baltic Artery amidst Fourth and Fifth Avenues, in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
One arena to a arrest about 10:30 aftermost night. His partner, abaft him, approved to about-face appropriate assimilate an alleyway to get about him. There they both stand.
“I got these huge chains, I’m disturbing up these streets,” said the disciplinarian ashore in the alley, Richie DeSantos. “But I can’t move.
“I alleged the bagman a few account ago,” he added. “He said you’re cardinal 10 out of 20. I’m activity to get some coffee.”
He waded up the artery he couldn’t plow, through knee-high snow. — ANDY NEWMAN
As of 7 a.m. there were 20 inches of snow in Central Park, according to the National Acclimate Service. The centermost blast in the arena was 31 inches in Elizabeth, N.J.
Here are some added blast totals from the acclimate account and its spotters:
*Kennedy International Airport, 7 a.m.: 15.5 inches.
*La Guardia Airport, 7 a.m.: 14 inches.
*Newark Liberty Airport, 7 a.m.: 24.2 inches.
*Bedford Park, the Bronx, 6 a.m.: 22 inches.
*Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, 11 p.m.: 18 inches.
*Fresh Meadows, Queens, 12;25 a.m.: 14.2 inches.
*Great Kills, Staten Island, 10:50 p.m.: 16 inches.
*Lyndhurst, N.J., 2:30 a.m.: 29 inches.
*Long Beach, Continued Island, 2:45 a.m.: 16 inches.
*Yonkers, N.Y., 12:30 a.m.: 16 inches.
Some travelers in Queens who were advantageous abundant to bolt the A alternation about 1 a.m. today became afflicted aback the trains chock-full moving.
They are still ashore on them, at atomic six hours later.
This is the case on a alternation that is anon at the Broad Channel base and addition one at the Aqueduct station, said Charles Seaton, an M.T.A. spokesman.
“We’re aggravating to get the trains out of there, but the trains are ashore in the stations,” he said.
It could be worse. Because the trains are in stations, the cartage are able to get off to use the bathrooms.
The cartage are, of course, chargeless to leave the alternation and booty their affairs in the alfresco world, but decidedly in Broad Channel, “once you get off the alternation there’s basically no abode abroad to go,” Mr. Seaton said.
There were agnate strandings on the Q and D curve in Brooklyn beforehand today, but they accept been resolved, Mr. Seaton added.
A clairvoyant alleged Lauren McKeever wrote us at 2:30 a.m. that her sister and four-year-old asthmatic niece were ashore on a D alternation amidst 36th Artery and Ninth Avenue in Brooklyn, abandoned 10 anxiety out of the station, with no heat, and that alternation workers were not absolution cartage off to use the bathrooms.
Buses are a added applicable commuting advantage than subways in abundant of the city, admitting that is not adage a accomplished lot. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s cachet folio is assuming “good service” on about bisected its bus curve and delays on the rest, subject, of course, to absolute cancellations.
But really, said an bureau spokesman, Charles Seaton, “We’re advising bodies to absolutely not use the casework today.”
The National Acclimate Account says the storm has abundantly confused east. There may be addition inch or two in eastern Queens today, but best of the burghal will accept to accomplish do with what little snow they have.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s cachet folio is assuming “good service” on the 7 and G trains. This appellation may be somewhat relative.
The 1 alternation is said to be active added or beneath normally. Added curve are accepting problems. There’s no 2 or 5 trains account arctic of 180th Street. There’s no A amidst Euclid Avenue in Brooklyn and Far Rockaway in Queens.
There is no B. The M is blotchy in Queens. The D is out from Coney Island to 36th Artery in Brooklyn, and the F is out from Coney Island to Jay Artery in Brooklyn. The Q is out from Coney Island to Dekalb Avenue. The N is out from Coney Island to 59th Artery in Brooklyn.
The L is out from Myrtle Avenue east to Canarsie.
There is about no J train.
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