A huge snowstorm lengthened morning commutes, delayed flights, and led New York City officials to cancel school as the storm ripped through the Northeast and blanketed New York City with eight inches of snow, according to the National Weather Service.
New York City Public School’s 1.1 million students got their first official snow day in five years.
“There are no words for how excited I was,” said Willem Joseph, a 10-year-old fifth grader at P.S. 41 in Greenwich Village, as he slid down a tiny hill on his bright red sled and crashed into a pile of snow in Washington Square Park. “When I woke up at 7:56, I just knew it was going to be a snow day since I usually have to wake up at 7:30 for school.”
“This is way better than school,” Ava Gural, an eight-year-old student at the Little Red Schoolhouse, said with snow in her brown hair, only one pink glove on, and rosy cheeks from the wind. She didn’t have her own sled but used cardboard instead to slide down the hill.
Hardware stores overflowed with customers needing salt, shovels, and Ice Melt.
“This morning from the moment we opened we were very busy,” said Joseph Breit, manager of Brickman Outlets Ace Hardware in Greenwich Village.
Others had no customers at all. Barry Fisherman, a 65-year-old ophthalmologist on Long Island, said as he walked through Madison Square Park that he had to close his practice for the day because his secretary and many of his patients could not make the commute.
Classes at the French Culinary Institute were also canceled because of the snow, which threw off 39-year-old culinary student Keith Fisherman’s schedule.
“We decided we might as well take advantage of the day off and grab some burgers,” said Keith as he went to grab a burger from the Shake Shack in the snow-covered Madison Square Park.
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