Mayor Zohran Mamdani warned of wet, heavy snow incoming — potentially 2 feet (.6 meters) — and said city officials are instituting a “travel ban” that would close roads to all non-essential traffic from 9 p.m. Sunday until noon Monday. No vehicles will be permitted on streets, bridges and hgiways during this time.
“These are blizzard conditions. New York City has not faced a storm of this scale in the last decade,” he said at a news conference Sunday. “We are asking New Yorkers to avoid all non-essential travel. Please, for your safety, stay home, stay inside and stay off the road.”
Mamdani also canceled in-person and virtual classes for city schools on Monday, calling it the “first old-school snow day since 2019.”…