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Climbing Bus Stop Mountain: Snowfall Makes a Mess of Wheeled Commutes

Arnaldo Duarte helps another commuter over a snowbank trying to board a bus on Fordham Road in The Bronx,

In the aftermath of a winter storm that belted New York City with more than 10 inches of snow, officials said hundreds of bus shelters and stops were still snowed in, forcing commuters to scale slushy mounds Monday before going on their way. The piles created by the city’s biggest snowfall in five years were, […]

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City Investigating Seven Outdoor Deaths as Cold Snap Sets In

People brave a heavy snowstorm in Fort Greene, Brooklyn

Seven people have been found outside in the extreme cold and pronounced dead since Saturday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a weather briefing Monday morning. Nationwide, officials have confirmed at least 21 deaths related to the winter storm that dumped more than a foot of snow into 19 states including New York, while nine additional […]

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LISTEN: Mayor Mamdani Weathers His First Storm

People commute in Brooklyn the morning after a major snowstorm hit the city

The new mayor appeared to clear the bar with the city’s response to the first big snow on his watch. Meanwhile, his predecessor’s people were in the news again as Adams’ former chief of staff is reportedly the subject of a federal grand jury while his favorite deputy mayor for public safety is taking a […]

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NYC Schools to Go Remote Monday as Snow Blankets City

People brave a heavy snowstorm in Fort Greene, Brookyn,

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a remote learning day Monday for nearly a million public school students, with up to a foot of snow expected to fall on the city over the weekend. Frigid temperatures may have already contributed to the death of five people in the city.  “As snowfall begins to blanket our city and […]

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LISTEN ‘The Last Confederate Widow’ of 1960s Cruising

That sense of mystery is something that a lot of my better photographs have, and The Ramble at the time exuded a kind of mysterious… 19th century romanticism of the English garden that gave you that kind of experience. I used it as a kind of leitmotif when I was creating the photos, a kind […]

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