Get our stories in your inbox, free. SHOVELING DEATHS There have been at least five snow-shoveling deaths across New York City, according to an FDNY official. “We had visions of the old Lindsay administration under the de Blasio Administration”.
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“Some areas of Queens strong, others less so”.
“I saw good results even on the tertiary streets”.
Over the past 36 hours, complaints over unplowed streets and unsafe conditions in Queens, particularly in the neighborhoods of Woodhaven, Glendale, Maspeth, Middile Village and Ridgewood, have flooded social media. Many streets were impassible.
“Where are the plows for goodness sake?” one said, “done with hearing all the excuses”. “This is a disgrace!”
‘We were the forgotten borough in this storm, ‘ Ulrich fumed.
All across this borough, people entombed in their streets hope that putting some heat on Mayor Bill de Blasio will take the snow away. He says the public workers are not supposed to touch those streets.
The anger intensified throughout Queens as the cleanup began, and Mayor de Blasio admitted the Sanitation Department fell short, thanks to the sheer size and the overwhelming snowfall. His Monday conference did little to allay frustration.
In a phone interview on Fox 5 News on Monday morning, Harry Nespoli, the President of the Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association, said the side streets are under contracts by the city to private plow companies who are not doing the job. “There’s a big difference between people cleaning cars and creating a snow pile and a street that’s never been plowed”, Peralta said.
State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. Ulrich said in a Sunday statement.
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The statement further said the New York Sanitation Department has more than 2,300 pieces of snow clearing equipment out to plow the streets and sanitation employees work two 12-hour shifts. “You take 27 inches of snow off a bunch of cars you literally will block a street”, said de Blasio.
