October Snowstorm Brings Early Winter to New York, Northeast
How did New York City fare in the October snowstorm that hammered much of the Northeast last weekend? It appears to have learned a lesson from last year: be prepared, and be prepared early. With the city’s uneven response to the debilitating blizzard of last December still fresh in City Hall’s collective psyche, the Sanitation Department had more than 400 salt spreaders ready to work through Saturday night, 1,400 plows prepared, and 2,200 employees set to work midnight to 8 a.m..