New Yorker
December 29, 2010
Is This Why Your Street Isn’t Plowed?
by Samantha Henig
New York’s snowy streets may have played a role in the death of a newborn in Crown Heights, and have left one woman in Bay Ridge waiting for an ambulance for thirty hours. Mayor Bloomberg, facing outrage from residents and city officials like Christine Quinn, insists that “Our city is doing exactly what you’d want it to do.”
What we want it to do, it seems, is to get ready for tourists to party. While the outer boroughs deal with still-white roads and curbs buried under walls of plowed refuse, Times Square is revealing its multicolored painted sidewalks, thanks to dump trucks carting off the blizzard’s remains.
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December 29, 2010
Is This Why Your Street Isn’t Plowed?
by Samantha Henig
New York’s snowy streets may have played a role in the death of a newborn in Crown Heights, and have left one woman in Bay Ridge waiting for an ambulance for thirty hours. Mayor Bloomberg, facing outrage from residents and city officials like Christine Quinn, insists that “Our city is doing exactly what you’d want it to do.”
What we want it to do, it seems, is to get ready for tourists to party. While the outer boroughs deal with still-white roads and curbs buried under walls of plowed refuse, Times Square is revealing its multicolored painted sidewalks, thanks to dump trucks carting off the blizzard’s remains.
- b. 12-29-2010 8:52 pm