Once again like last year the sanitation trucks love to come down my street many times a day and night. and bury the right side of the street.I have dug out my car
from 4 feet of snow just to see buried again 20 minutes later., And again and again. can we put a stop to it?. Go showel other streets that really need! don't come through my street if you have to cause more harm than good!

I live on Manhattan's east side .They plowed , and
plowed and plowed again and again. They were
still plowing on Thursday.
I couldn't help but wonder why these plows
were not in the outer boros ,where the residents
were in real need.

The biggest problems during most big snow storms are the intersections: walking from shoveled sidewalks across plowed streets is hazardous - if not impossible - due to the mounds of snow & ice piled up at the curbs. I don't see how anyone who's not in fairly decent shape can navigate these 3-foot high (or more) mounds.

Maybe a worker with a shovel could accompany the plow driver and remove the snow from intersections that the plow had just piled up.

The other big problem is the car owners shoveling snow from their cars back into the street that has just been plowed (burying many cars in the process). I don't know if there's a solution to this game of chicken (or "penguin" might be more appropriate). Anyone have any ideas?

PS - to Simon, Astoria above. Shortly after his post - approx 2:30 orange Sanitation front loader plowed out 26th Avenue & moved snow away from some parked autos. 26th Avenue got 2nd plow thru & 18th ST got cleaned up down to street surface. As per my post yesterday, postman cleared to deliver along route.

Today AM, postman on route again. street & avenue remain cleared, awaiting MON recycling P/U. Bldgs clearing snow from garbage, recycling pickup areas

I saw a disgraceful demonstration of slacking and disregard for public safety last night at 5:30pm at the park at Forsyth and Hester. A snow plow was blocking most of the walkway so we had to climb through the snow to get around it. Outside the Parks Department truck, which was idling, four workers were standing around talking about how to milk the system. One said, "ain't no choice but to drag it out, otherwise you don't get overtime," another responded "s***, I'm gonna see if I can go home early!" With little regard for safety or courtesy, perhaps men like these would be better of collecting unemployment while honest people looking for honest work did the job.

Our street in Carroll Gardens, Bklyn, has still not been more than superficially plowed as of December 30. Naturally, a Fresh Direct truck just decided to drive right up it and get stuck in the middle. Will it be sitting there all day with the refrigerator running loudly, blocking possible plows and those who are trying to dig themselves out? They should be cited for such recklessness.

Wednesday 29th
Walked up Broadway which had been well plowed from 64th to 89th between 9 and 11 AM. Saw 2 snow plows driving north on each others tail. One scraping the already clean street, the other with the plow up. On my way home, saw the same two plows going south on Broadway. Also saw a sanitation truck with plow down going north on Broadway.
Some side streets plowed,others not. All bus stops piled high with snow so had to wait on the street. Crosswalks variably cleared or shin deep with water.

Seems that with all of the people complaining that they have still not had their streets plowed, this was a waste of plows.

Also of interest the Lincoln Square BID workers mostly standing in groups rather than cleaning bus stops and cross walks.

Disgraceful. Granted it was a snowstorm, but the lack of cleanup is completely ridiculous. We have side blocks that are completely barricaded with snow mounds. We're going on day 4 soon, and we are still in "lockdown". I've seen much heavier storms, and the efforts were spot on-very little delays if any at all. When it gets to the point that emergency crews are getting stuck, we have problems. And dammit, I'm way over-due for my multiple UPS packages! Ironic, Mass transit is in shambles, Yet we have a fare hike right around the corner.

Mill Basin: No snow plows,Q train not running, 2 and 5 train switching problem, B44, B41, B49, B68 bus not running.
This is an utter disgrace.
Looks like a Dept. of Sanitation slow down to me.
Yep-- you sure showed us!!

I am owed a refund on my city taxes-- for all the inconvenience.

Snow plows were moving along cleaned main roads and avoid unplowed side streets.

They don't know what is right and what is wrong.

Woke up at 5am in West Yellowstone, Montana, on the 27th. Drove through blowing snow over two mountain passes and the Continental Divide to get to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Ate a breakfast burrito and hopped on a plane to Chicago. Arrived on time only to find out our flight to Newark had been canceled. Rented a car and drove from Chicago east. Slept in a motel east of Toledo, which meant that I drove in SIX states in one day (MT, ID, WY, IL, IN, and OH) and flew over at least FIVE (WY, NE, IA, WI, and IL). Woke up in Ohio at 5am or so, and then drove from there to Newark, where we returned the rental car three hours before it was due. Found a (the only?) recently dug-out parking space on lovely, unplowed St Johns Place in Prospect Heights at 4pm on the 28th. All in all, a relatively quick trip. We listened to NPR on the radio and streamed WNYC as much as possible en route!

Blocks are still not plowed, as of yesterday Ralph Avenue was a mess with a bus stuck and traffic backing up from Patchen avenue because it was also blocked up with disabled vehicles. Access A Ride cannot pick up passengers at the door(many of which are wheel chair bound or just cannot walk a block to the nearest corner) Thank you for the driver who helped me and my cane over a 4 foot snow drift to get into his vehicle. I have a torn miniscus*(sp)in my knee and was afraid to injure it further. Could not go to dialysis monday, but made it to work yesterday and today. Bloomy you suck!! Get it together, we have had far worse and the city was never crippled such as it is now.

On 26th Ave btw 14th Street and 12th Street in Astoria Queens. No plow on our street since before the blizzard began all the way to now. fireman who lives above us has been taking away loads of snow in his truck. No helpful plowing on 12th street which is the main access to major routes in our neighborhood. Almost no access to local food, almost everyone relies on Fresh Direct and other delivery services for supplies and the longer this lasts, the more dangerous the situation will become. Attempts to flag down dozens of passing plows has met with abject failure.Reduced to digging out not only our cars but also our streets, by hand. We survived through the debacle of the 2006 blizzard and the summer power outages of 2006 and 2007. Sick of having Queens constantly neglected and left to die on the vine. This is the last straw. Moving away. Probably to Oregon or Washington. So long NYC, love your art, culture, food and people, but certainly not your joke of a government.

Embarrassed to say it, but Upper West Side has been **fully plowed*** since the first hour or so of the snowfall (about 3pm Sunday 12/26), and I have heard or watched plows pass every half hour since! Who do I have to call to share these snowplows with those that need them? Plows go up and down W. 110th street [betw Bdwy/Amstrdm] even as I write this. We've been consistently clear, and W.110th stands as an embarrassing example that certain areas are prioritized for reasons other than valid need. It is unconscionable that entire neighborhoods are unplowed, emergency vehicles cannot access emergencies, and New Yorkers are being admitted to ER with hypothermia as a result... while this area is teeming with asphault-scraping snowplows. I would like to share snowplows...what can I do to send these to where they are needed? Its not that I don't appreciate it...but come on!

The plows came in threes yesterday and the day before about every 45 min during the day on my block After the first few times they were no longer pushing snow but creating potholes, and yet around the corner not once.

There has been no mail delivery for two days on 70th St. in Jackson Heights. The NY Times got delivered, though.

Prospect Heights - All side streets including major bus routes - Bergen and Dean Streets still left unplowed.

The only attention given by the city by Dept. of Sanitation is Vanderbilt. Other than that the neighborhood is a mess leaving it a safety hazard.

Never has it been clearer that the city is still ill prepared for a natural weather disaster.

At 20th Ave and 71st Street, I've seen one plow on the block. There has been no bus service and no train for days. Even the cabs don't run. I was supposed to start a new job yesterday, but can't get anywhere! We're abandoned!

A true 4 days after Christmas miracle...a team of snow ploughs on Kossuth and DeKalb Avenue in the Bronx at 8:45 this morning (12/29)! Maybe now the staff and patients at North Central Bronx and Montefiore can finally get in and out.

I live in N East Queens and Finally got a plow yesterday after making many complaints. I DO Blame Bloomberg with all his cutbacks on city services. He cut sanit workers and we no longer even have public trash cans! We no longer have a local bus to the LIRR. He tells people to ride public transportation then cuts service.One does not need to be a rocket scientist to realize how illogical such thinking is!! He prefers using taxpayer money for Baseball stadiums than to saving hospitals and city services!! SHAMELSS MAN...a real GRINCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I live on Eastern Parkway between New York Ave. and Brooklyn Ave. in Crown Heights and, as of this writing, the streets have not been plowed at all. The service roads are impassable. No cars, taxis, Assess-a-Ride, UPS delivery, etc. have touched this street since the snow storm. We have not had U.S. mail delivery since last Friday. This is a shameful response to this storm.

5th Street between 6th & 7th Aves in Brooklyn, not plowed yet as of 11:20 Tues night.

Kew garden hills, queens. 150 street was just plowed one hour ago but the avenues like 72 ave have not been. The snow on these streets is at least a foot and a half high.

Gravesend Brooklyn, W 13th St between Ave S and Highlawn was finally plowed this morning ( 12/28 )

I live in the Jamaica area of Queens. We usually have our streets cleaned within 24 hours. It is now Tuesday 10:22 p.m. and our streets are still filled with snow. Cars have been getting stuck all day long. Every where you turn there's a car trying to get through the snow.

There was a statement made by the NYCDS that the reason there was such a delay in getting the trucks out was the fact that they were stuck behind cars, that people where using their cars when they weren't supposed to and doing such made the trucks get stuck behind cars that were also stuck.

I saw this happen where I live where four trucks where stuck behind one car trying to get out of a parking spot. The question is, who dispatched these trucks to all go and plow in the same direction? Why not send the trucks on different routes so that only one or maybe two get stuck instead of four? The excuse was lame. It wasn't the cars. It was poor dispatching.

It used to be that plow trucks would go out during the storm and clear up. I didn't see one truck during the storm.

I just want to say that I think the city did a great job at prioritizing the main Blvd's, Avenues, and Highways here in Queens. Although many of the side streets have not been plowed, people have to remember that there are over 6,000 miles of roads in our city and they can't all be done at the same time. It's barely been 2 days since the storm. If they only plowed the side streets and not the main roads, we'd be in a lot more trouble. Sure it's hard to see that all the roads in my neighborhood are done except for mine, but I'm patient.

Glen Oaks in Floral Park Queens STILL not plowed nor has the maintenance company at this complex cleared the side walks until an hour ago..the city dropped the ball and our maintenance department did as well.

I live in south Midwood, Brooklyn. Nothing has been plowed as of 8pm Tuesday, there is no train service, no mail or other deliveries, etc.

Enough complaining Brooklyn - good grief! If it makes you feel better, our street, w. 99th on the UWS has not been plowed either, 48hrs later. It's called dealing with snow.

7pm on Tuesday and no sign of snow plows on the cross streets of Park Slope. I'm at 2nd St between 7th and 8th Aves, and just ventured out for some recon. None of the cross streets in the surrounding blocks appear to have seen a plow. I did see an ambulance stuck on 1st St.

We still have not had a plow come down our street. This is the worst response and its unacceptable. Bloomberg is trying to cut costs and its not working. How are people expected to get to work?!

22nd street and 5th ave here in Brooklyn, 6:30 pm on Tuesday and still no plow has come through....
I'm sure that the upper east side i.e. Bloomburg's NY has long been plowed.

Cortelyou Road this afternoon: gridlock of at least four express busses; a snowplow; cars; delivery trucks. Stores mostly open, but the supermarket was out of bread! (The food coop, though, had plenty.) Sidewalks were cleared but it was still treacherous walking. A visit to the library: no computers, so they were writing down bar code numbers of cards and items taken; promising to log in returned items tomorrow. Best sighting: a man stepping into the stuck =-still street -- With a voice like Extreme Makeover he yelled "Bus Driver!" at a bus that had been there at least 45 minutes. "Follow me!" he said, and when the driver sat there, he yelled again "Trust me." The driver did, and the man led him through the snow, around obstacles the driver must have had trouble seeing. Surprisingly, there was (otherwise) no yelling amid this unusual traffic jam. Side streets in either direction showed un-disturbed snow, and cars and vans stuck in the middle of those streets. And down on the Q train tracks -- a train in every station (Beverly, Cortelyou, Newkirk) about 50 men with shovels clearing away the third rail on the Manhattan-bound track. The word was a) they were union b) they'd be working all night at overtime rates c) the MTA knew to leave the trains all on one track, in one direction -- so that they could clear the other once the snow stopped. So here - no trains, no busses -- I wonder if anyone got to work who couldn't walk there.

We live in Midwood, Brooklyn. We walked around for a few hours today and estimated at least 80% of the streets in our neighborhood have not been plowed even once. Also, we have not had mail delivery since last Friday. We walked to our post office today and it was not open. We checked first online and there was no mention of the closure!

We still have a B48 bus stuck in a snow drift on our block of Engert Avenue between Eckford Street and Graham Avenue. The block, therefore, has not yet been plowed. And MTA employees have been babysitting the bus for almost the entire time. Notice the graffiti--that appeared sometime after Monday night...

NO streets plowed in Brooklyn Heights. See 100 photos here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=GarrettPhotog&target=ALBUM&id=5555831030862863473&authkey=Gv1sRgCMKUhc-jmPmanwE&invite=COq62N0I&feat=email

Mikey has abandoned us in Brooklyn!

56th St. between Fort Hamilton and 13th Ave in Brooklyn looks like the North Pole---completely unplowed with occasional detritus of stranded cars ; this is the second day.

7th Street in Park Slope Brooklyn (the street leading to the ER at Methodist Hospital) hasn't been plowed and this is 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Our building ran out of heating oil and the oil delivery couldn't get through for over 24 hours because of the condition of the street.

Haven't seen any snowplows at all on 11th between 4th and 5th in Brooklyn, and there's a taxi sitting vacant at the top of the block. Neighbors have done their part and cleared the sidewalk--where's the city?! We lost a day of a planned trip, and counting. A block up, a van is stock, and two blocks up the only snowplow in sight did a block of rich people's houses and then left.

You outer boroughers might be surprised to hear this, but here I sit on W 98 Street between West End and Riverside on Tuesday at 5:37 and my street hasn't yet been plowed. So this time, at least, it's not just the outer boroughs. Today, some enterprising car owners dug a trench down the middle of part of the street so that some of the parked cars could make it out.

Just about all the neighbors on the block have been helping out one another throughout this time. Digging each other out and shoveling driveways AND THE STREET! The plow truck came at 1700 and there was a car stuck on the corner so it passed us by - Colony Ave in Staten Island.

Lenox Road in Flatbush has not been plowed. Heck, Nostrand Avenue hasn't been either.

Still snowbound on Union Street between Franklin and Bedford. Saw plows on Franklin(moving around cars that are marooned there) but no plows in sight.

The complete opposite of Manhattan where I was this morning.

Hmmmmm

Auburndale neighborhood between Utopia Pkwy and Francis Lewis Blvd, between Northern Blvd and the LIE has not been plowed. Can't imagine how an ambulance could possibly navigate the streets. Is Utopia Pkwy not a primary road? It has its own exit off of the LIE? This neighborhood was damaged in the hurricane several months ago with trees down, unremoved for days and days and days!

We are still waiting for our street to be plow. A very frustrated street 51ave in Elmhurst, Queens. :(

all side streets in Coney Island... it's terrible. My father walked 3 miles to work because there were no buses and we couldn't get his car out.

No plows to be seen on Macon Street in Bed-Stuy. My landlord's car is still under a 5' drift and people have been pulling cars up on to the sidewalk, which individual home owners have shoveled.

no plowing yet on 3rd street in Park Slope!

12/28/2010
I'm on East 24th St in Brooklyn, between Foster and Farragut. You can't drive down 24th St as it hasn't been plowed; Foster, a main street was partly done but traffic tied it to a standstill all yesterday and today, Farragut only a little in the middle. It is impossible to get a car with snow removal equipment to my house, and shovelling snow, it can only go out onto the street where it makes matters worse.

Inwood is quite well plowed, but that is probably a function of being home to a couple sanitation depots. Turns out there is some benefit after all to having those garbage trucks rumbling around the neighborhood all the time.

Our streets in Jackson Heights Queens have still not been plowed, with the exception of Northern Blvd and Roosevelt Avenue. Cars are stuck in the middle of streets. Parked cars cannot get out. Plows are in the neighborhood either parked or driving around but not plowing. This is the worst snow response I've seen in my life. Inexcusable.

Stanley Avenue, Staten Island. The streets all around are plowed and we still have not been touched. You cannot get a car out at all and it is almost impossible to walk. The irony is that if a plow had come through just once the sun today would have done allot of the work. It is kind of ridiculous.

People in my neighborhood of Ditmas Park are shoveling the sidewalks so they can drive down them.
Our streets remain unplowed.

The city is trying to blame us for their utter mismanagement of this snow storm. People have always been out in cars during storms. The difference is that the city was not keeping up with the clean-up in the manner that they usually do. I live in Bensonhurst, on a side street. I suspect I won't be out until the thaw. But the major streets have not been cleaned either. 86th Street is a major roadway and it is down to one lane, total, not each side.
I called 311 and after hanging on for a full game of scrabble, discovered that I was disconnected. I sent an e-mail. But really, do they need us to tell them that nothing has been plowed? I think they are pretty clear on this, and have chosen to do nothing.

Bay 14th Street is still not plowed and same is true for other streets in the neighborhood

Sackett St. bt. Smith and Hoyt not plowed for second day!

We did get a photo into A section of NYTimes, but the cars are socked in.

Sometimes NYers can be their own worst enemy. I took a walk to see how thing were going. What I saw:
People shoveling out their cars, making 5 - 6 foot piles of snow *in the middle of the street*! How is a plow supposed to deal with that? Three times I saw plows stopped behind stuck cars. On Ave. Y, which had been cleared, cars were *double parked*, leaving only one lane's width to deal with cars trying to go in 2 directions... Abandoned cars blocking intersections or protruding into traffic lanes.
People, please -- if you don't absolutely have to take your car out, DON'T!

The F line is the only line fully operating among the four that terminate at Coney Island. The Brighton (B, Q) and Seabeach (N) lines have been out of service for well over 24 hours now (36?). The D was briefly back - and the MTA's home page insists it is - but the service page for the BDFM reveal that the D went back out of operation south of Bay Pkwy as of 6:50 this morning.

The MTA has now also officially announced that many of the bus routes that serve central and southern Brooklyn are enitrely out of service, including the lines that could connect passengers to the lonely F (the B4, the B36, the B68). Major bus routes that serve Coney Island ave (B68), Ocean Ave (B 49), and Nostrand Ave (B44) as well as Ave J (B6, B11) are out of service.

Central and Southern Brooklyn is at an unprecedented standstill. Unless you can walk to the F line in the west, or the 2 and 5 lines in the east, you are unable to go anywhere.

I'm on Argyle Road in Ditmas Park, between Beverley and Cortelyou. It's an official fire truck route, and has not yet been plowed . There are no stuck vehicles, the road is wide, and there's been no activity at all. .....oops! I hear a sound! (rush to the window)... A plow just went down the block WITHOUT PLOWING!!!!! What the blazes is going on?

Windsor Place from PPW to 11th Ave has not seen a plow as of noon Tuesday. 48 hours is long enough to wait.

This is Mayor Bloomberg's John Lindsay moment just as CITYTIME is his Koch-PVB scandal moment. The 3rd term is poison to any NY politician.

I live in Windsor Terrace, near Park Slope. 10th Ave was plowed, but not my 2 cross-streets (16th St and Windsor Pl) were not touched.
Yesterday evening, on 7th Ave in Park Slope, a major thoroughfare, 2 City buses were parked on the side of the street (one at 9th St, one at 5th St), and left. They are still there this morning.
Yesterday, people were walking on the street on Prospect Park West, as the sidewalks on either side were not clear. The sidewalk that is the property of the Parks Dept was not cleared. We saw a Parks Dept plow on the sidewalk, but it was only spreading sand.
The biggest question will be "How much Overtime is going to be used and mis-used in this response?" Last snowstorm, many days after the storm had finished and the streets were clear, and piled-up snow already melting, plows were busy in Park Slope clearing piles of snow. Truck 1 would push snow into the street, Truck 2 would drive on the snow. What a waste of money!

I'm posting some photos from our adventures shopping in SoHo yesterday, as well as the snow in Brooklyn last night and this morning.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stribs/

You may look at a clock to see the time. This picture is the same. I look at it and realize its time to sit back, slow down, sip a warm coffee and relax with that book you have been carrying around. I am not going antwhere :-)