When Snow Quieted the City

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15 climate [New York After Snow]( Remembering when we could count on storms to bury trash bags and cars, and offer us a few hours of quiet. Photo: James Leynse/Getty Images It was snowing hard outside as I wrote this, and the streets were black rather than white. The sidewalks, too, were dark. If the snowfall had stopped right then, the only evidence would be the barest bit of accumulation atop the trash cans and cars, and it would vanish within a couple of hours. The Department of Sanitation’s snazzy new high-tech system to deploy plows — screens, live digital maps, GPS tracking of every truck — was poised for heavy action, and yesterday gave it merely a light-gauge tryout. Little kids were able to gawk at the big wet flakes as they came down all morning, but that afternoon, they had nothing to play in, nothing to ball up and throw, nothing to hill up into forts in the park. The saucer sleds stayed in the closet. [Continue reading »]( Want more on city life, real estate, and design? [Subscribe now]( to save over 40% on unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [This Week’s Worth-It New York City Apartment Listings We found an entire house for under $3,500.]( [The Sutton Place Maisonette Designed by a Historian “I’m completely obsessive on the subject of detail.”]( By Adriane Quinlan [The Teens Getting Around the Teen Ban at Atlantic Terminal Mall “We’re just lollygagging.”]( By Kim Velsey [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( [Sign up to get The Listings Edit](, a weekly digest of the most worth-it apartments in New York. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved