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After Ramp Collapse, Greenpoint’s East River Ferry Service Suspended Until...
Image via Alan Tansey After yesterday’s nightmare-confirming collapse of the East River Ferry’s Greenpoint passenger ramp—just moments after 10 passengers had crossed over it—service at that stop...
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“No Telling” When the East River Ferry is Coming Back to Greenpoint, But...
Photo via Alan Tansey Better get used to those shuttle buses: in the wake of last week’s ramp collapse, officials are now saying there’s “no telling” when East River Ferry service will return to...
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This Snow Is Part of a Bona Fide Cold Snap
An image search for “old man winter” is highly recommended. This seemingly unending stream of updates about the weather being awful makes us feel like a broken record, but there’s no accounting for the...
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So, Another Snow Storm is on its Way
There are only so many new headline permutations we can come up with to communicate that jesus, more snow is coming and winter will never end. But here we are! More snow is coming, and winter will...
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Spring Is Finally Here! Here Are 10 Ways to Celebrate
The day has finally come: as of 12:57pm today, this monster of a winter is over. Spring is here! And that’s a pretty huge thing to celebrate. There are a lot of good ways to commemorate the turning of...
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Enjoy the Warm Weekend While You Can, It’s Probably Going to Snow Next Week
Image via MTA/Flickr We’ve all gotten pretty weary of the “Guess what? It’s gonna suck out/it sucks out/it will never stop sucking out” Winter 2014 updates, but seemed appropriate to give fair warning...
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Congratulations, You Survived New York’s 10th Worst Rainstorm
Rainstorms: Less romantic in the 21st century. This morning, we woke up, looked out our windows and stared, bewildered at the dry air outside. What was this magical phenomenon called “not raining”? Why...
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Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek May Get Massive Storm Walls
Rendering of a tidal barrier in the Newtown Creek. Image New York Development Corporation If you’ve been down in the subway system lately, you might have noticed posters from the city urging residents...
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This Is Literally Going To Be One Of The Cloudiest Weeks Ever
Great time to watch that depressing documentary/boring art film you’ve been saving. The wompiest of womps: According to the National Weather Service, this week will be the cloudiest on record since...
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You Do Not Need An Air Umbrella
In the annals of tools that humans use, the umbrella is one that has consistently beat out other tools to keep you dry in a rainstorm. The umbrella has been around in some form for more than a...
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An ‘Arctic Blast’ Will Hit New York Next Week
You remember last winter, when layers of dirty snow clung to the side walk in disgusting grimy crusts and it hurt your face to go outside? Oh yes, don’t let the intermittent summer of mild summer...
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Arctic Blast Hits Tomorrow To Turn New York Into Thankless Hellscape
Remember that horrible-sounding ‘arctic’ blast of very cold air that we talked about last week? You know, the one charging down from the North to slash temperatures by 20 or 30 degrees, the one that...
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A Snow Alert Is On for Tonight: or, People Sure Have a Lot to Say About a...
So, we just learned that the Department of Sanitation has issued a snow alert starting at 8pm tonight (see below). Perhaps predictably everyone is getting PRETTY WORKED UP about this. Because, you...
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New York Feels Like 9 Degrees This Morning, Stay In Bed
Actual visual representation of future arctic hellscape New York will become or still from Day After Tomorrow? It is so cold out. How cold? Cold enough that yesterday, every state in the union had...
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A Christmas Storm Is About to Ruin Your Travel Plans
Remember around Thanksgiving, when a nasty Nor’easter turned holiday travel into a sloppy, icy, gross nightmare? Oh, sure you do. And if you liked travel-pocalypse 2014 the first time, you’re sure to...
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Some Thoughts on the Problem with Umbrellas in Winter
For those of you who live in a bubble/get to work at home/are visiting some tropical paradise, here’s a newsflash: The weather in New York City today sucks ass. Oh, not in the...
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Blizzard Dos and Don’ts: A Primer
(via Accuweather) So we’re looking down the barrel of an honest-to-god serious-as-your-mom-when-you-came-home-drunk-after-prom blizzard. Mayor De Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo are both urging...
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Uber Rates To Be Capped During Storm, But It’s Still A Bad Idea To Call An Uber
Anyone who’s trying to shuffle their way home through the rapidly accumulating snow, breath a little easier. Though Uber is indeed enacting their notorious surge pricing during the storm, because...
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De Blasio Performs Dramatic Reading of The Onion’s Blizzard Report
(Photo: NYC Mayor’s Office) So the Mayor got a lot of flak for freaking out about #Juno, which rather than turning in to Blizzardocalypse 2k15 , ended up being what’s pretty much an average January day...
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Do Not Even Start With This Sunday Snow Storm Right Now
No. No. Just no, meteorologists. I do not want to hear about this “possible impending snowstorm,” OK? I don’t care about “potential for heavy precipitation, some being snow, some being rain, some...
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