2006/2/12

The National Weather Service said 26.9 inches (68.326cm)of snowfall was measured in Central Park at 4:10 p.m., exceeding the previous record of 26.4 inches, set in December 1947.

 
Snow blocked roads at Newark Airport
 
Pedestrians near Times Square took to snowshoes to get around.
 
Michele Hardelm and her children made their way up First Avenue in the East Village
the best way they could - on skis.
 
 
 
Henry Perez, 3, pulled his friend Cavan Miller, 3, on a sled in Tompkins Square Park.
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Maximillian Lindenberg is pulled along by his father Andreas on the Washington Mall.
 
 
On the boardwalk in Long Beach, N.Y.
 
Clearing snow on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan
 
Making a path in Times Square.
 
Susan Lacina, left, and Franco Pantoni in New York's Central Park.
 
Deborah Lu crossed West 56th Street today
 
Struggling through the drifts at the corner of 124th Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem
 
 
 
Plows did their work on the Long Island Expressway
 
A snowy scene on East Sixth Street in the East Village.
 
Dog walkers in Prospect Park in Brooklyn
 
Sledders in Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn, in snow that they will be able to brag to their children about.
They took advantage of a record storm that shook up a humdrum winter
 
Temporary workers at 130th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard in Harlem, hired by the city to shovel out crosswalks and bus stops,
supplementing the labors of 2,500 sanitation workers working 12-hour shifts.
 
In Jersey City, it appeared as though mounds of snow had come equipped with mirrors and antennas.
 
Seeming to have the world to himself, James Felker cleaned off the stairs and sidewalk
outside his home on 130th Street in Harlem.
 
A hilly part of 10th Avenue, between 55th and 57th Streets, was one area of snowy road
where cars and buses were getting stuck Sunday.
 
For many, the easiest way to get around Sunday was on foot.
A couple walked across the Brooklyn Bridge toward Manhattan as the snow fell.