Good afternoon! For the next 24 to 48 hours, New Yorkers will be treated to a glistening blanket of clean, magical, uncorrupted white snow… through their windows. Wind gusts travelling between 40 and 60 mph make for life-threatening blizzard conditions, and a state of emergency has been called across the five boroughs.
When the snowfall and wind die down, Central Park could be buried with over 2 feet of snow, one of the highest totals in a decade and among the top 20 ever recorded. In the meantime, many roads and bridges are closed, public transit is suspended or heavily delayed and children across the city are enjoying their first traditional snow day — no virtual learning — in years. Even GrubHub and DoorDash are down, which is how you really know things have gotten serious.
Like the city’s last heavy snow, four whole weeks ago, conditions will worsen tomorrow as freezing temperatures complicate the cleanup process. But unlike last time, we won’t have to wait weeks for the thaw, with highs in the upper 30s as soon as Wednesday.
“It’s a great day to stay home,” New York City Emergency Management Commissioner Christina Farrell told Gothamist. “Let the first responders, let the public servants work on clearing out the city and just give it a little more time.”
The mayor had a message just for the children of the city, who are waking up today to the best kind of day off — the one that was unplanned. “To kids across New York City, you have a very serious mission if you choose to accept it: stay cozy,” Mamdani said at a press conference.
May their innocent hands long remain unsullied by the cruel touch of the snow shovel.
Here is a list of all the closures and cancellations related to Winter Storm Hernando.
Councilmembers Chi Ossé and Shahana Hanif formally joined the New York City Democratic Socialists of America’s City Socialists in Office bloc, doubling the group’s official footprint inside City Hall.
The Sheepshead Bay subway station is now fully accessible, after a ribbon-cutting on Thursday unveiled new elevators among other improvements.
The top investigator at the New York State Gaming Commission resigned following a New York Focus investigation that found regulators ignored key evidence in a major horse doping scandal.
A Hunter College professor was overheard making “abhorrent” remarks in a Community Education Council meeting. The SUNY school is reviewing the comment for possible violation of university policies.
Applicants have until this Friday, Feb. 27, to enroll in the Summer Youth Employment Program, the largest of its kind in the nation.
A Brooklyn woman filed a lawsuit against her neighbor, alleging the neighbor refused to return her terrier-mix pup after offering to dog sit while she recovered from illness.
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MANHATTAN — No, it’s not Abbey Road in reverse, but it is famous in musicals — “42nd Street”: Pedestrians cross 42nd Street near Bryant Park during a snow storm, Monday, Feb. 23, 2026, in New York.
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Historian Jon Meacham comes to the most famous pulpit in America
Jon Meacham at the podium. Photo: Wayne Daren Schneiderman/Brooklyn Eagle
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham gave an invigorating and informative presentation at the historic Plymouth Church, located at 75 Hicks St., on Monday.
Meacham’s lecture was titled “The Presidents and the People: Reflections on America at 250 Years Old,” a timely subject for the Presidents’ Day event.
The lecture marked the first in the church’s “Henry Ward Beecher Lecture Series.” Beecher was an abolitionist, social reformer and the church’s founding minister. He established the church in 1847, 14 years before the Civil War.
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On Air: The ninth annual On Air Fest returns to Brooklyn on Feb. 25 and 26. This year, On Air Fest will host panels and live podcasts from public figures such as Alec Baldwin, Don Lemon, Malcolm Gladwell, Roxane Gay, Wyclef Jean, Seth Meyers, Chani Nicholas and Roy Wood Jr. Learn more about the event here.
Happy Birthday to “A Quiet Place” star Emily Blunt, who was born in 1983!
On This Day in 1916, the Eagle reported: “The President is standing firm for a declaration by Germany that the new submarine order affecting armed merchant vessels shall not operate in any way to modify the assurances given to the country in the proposed settlement of the Lusitania case.”
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