Happy Wednesday in the land of mini snow mountains, where crossing the street has become an adventure in alpine ice climbing.
Anyone who’s ventured outside since Sunday’s snowstorm probably encountered a wall of snow blocking off access to the crosswalk, making it necessary to walk through the street or clamber over cratered, compacted slush and ice. The obstacles are particularly debilitating for people with mobility issues, such as elderly and disabled New Yorkers, for whom it has become nearly impossible to run basic household errands.
“We had a member that … literally went outside the front door and turned back around, and was just defeated by the snow,” Autrice Wildman, director of Encore’s Lifelong Learning Center, told Gothamist.
The responsibility falls on the owners of corner buildings to carve paths through the snow mounds, but compliance is spotty and enforcement rare. With temperatures set to remain in the teens for much of the week, the snowbanks are quickly becoming glaciers.
City officials are asking New Yorkers for “just a little bit of patience” while they work to clear crosswalks. “Normally, we have the help of warmer weather melting the snow,” said Julia Kerson, the deputy mayor of operations, at a press conference yesterday.
Another snowstorm is expected to form along the East Coast this weekend, potentially clipping New York City on its way out to the Atlantic. Looks like we’re going to have to keep complaining about the weather for another week. Oh well.
Hundreds of Con Edison customers in northern and central Brooklyn went without power from Monday into Wednesday morning, through single-digit temperatures, as the power utility struggled to make repairs.
A bold new proposal would restore Brooklyn Marine Terminal to a fully functional maritime hub at a third of the price of the current plan.
Senator Chuck Schumer called Department of Homeland Security head Kristi Noem and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller “fucking liars,” calling for the pair to be fired.
Construction on the $16 billion Gateway rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey is set to grind to a halt by Feb. 6 unless the Trump administration restores federal funding.
A judge appointed the former Vermont Department of Corrections commissioner, Nicholas Deml, as the newly named Rikers ‘remediation manager.’
A new public high school for 676 students may be built in Mill Basin as the city’s School Construction Authority reviews a vacant lot and parking area at 7001 Avenue U.
The city will celebrate its first public observance of Muslim-American Heritage Month tonight, in the Rotunda of the New York County Supreme Courthouse on Centre Street.
Our World In Photos
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NEW YORK — Tugboat serves as ice breaker to make a path for ferries: New York Waterway ferries move as ice floats on the Hudson River seen from the Edge sky deck at Hudson Yards, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026, in New York.
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A woman holds up a sign as federal immigration officers confront protesters outside Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, in Minneapolis. Photo: Yuki Iwamura/AP
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New programming: Brooklyn Academy of Music expanded its Winter/Spring 2026 season with two New York premieres by the Mark Morris Dance Group and a new opera production, alongside updated details for several major returning programs. Get all the info on our website.
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