NYC’s $30/Hour Snow Shoveling Hustle: How Mayor Mamdani’s Strategy Cleared the Streets in Record Time
New Yorkers are all too familiar with the post-blizzard obstacle course: leaping over giant slush puddles, navigating icy crosswalks, and waiting days for neighborhood sidewalks to finally become walkable again. But during the city’s latest winter blast, Mayor Zohran Mamdani decided to try something different, and it paid off in a big way.
The initiative was designed to supplement the city’s sanitation workers, who are often stretched thin plowing the major roadways, by deploying an army of local residents to tackle pedestrian walkways, bus stops, and narrower neighborhood streets…