'It’s great and magical': New Yorkers hope for bigger snowfall
FLATIRON, Manhattan (PIX11) -- Lots of New York City residents were hoping for the heaviest snowfall in three years particularly because the snowfall was predicted for a Sunday going into a Monday holiday where most were out of the office and school.
But sadly, for some, the snowfall just wasn’t that significant.
Nick Nieves, an East Village resident, had been hoping for lots of snow. “I love it. It would’ve been nice for Christmas,” Nieves said.
It seems like all of New York City has been waiting for a significant snowfall. With 2 to 4 inches predicted, there was a big run on these huge bags of ice melt, snowblowers, and shovels at the Home Depot store in Flatiron.
“A lot of people coming in homeowners coming in for the salt, working with the snow,” Raul Garcia, an employee of Home Depot, told PIX11 News.
At the city sanitation department salt shed on Spring Street, some of DSNY’s 700 salt spreaders were being loaded up. The city has more than 20 million pounds of salt to be spread across all five boroughs as city plows waited for the 2-inch snowfall mark to start clearing the streets.
“It’s amazing. I’ve been waiting for a good snowfall for a couple of years,” Daniel Solinski told PIX11 News. “It’s great, magical,” he added.
And since the snow was falling on a Sunday night going into the Monday holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr., many New Yorkers saw this as the perfect opportunity to just enjoy a beautiful snowfall across the city.
“It’s coming down really heavy right now,” David Rondeau, a snow lover, told PIX11 News. “ I hope they clear the streets cause if I fall, I will sue,” he said with a laugh.
NYC Sanitation officials say the city reached a plowable snow depth of two inches or more and that all streets have been salted.