UpdatedThu, Dec 17, 2020 at 4:05 pm ET
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Quick, grab your sled and slide on down to these downhill spots across the five boroughs before the snow melts away. (Yana Paskova/Getty Images)
NEW YORK CITY It s snow big deal to find the perfect New York City sledding hill to turn the biggest winter storm in years into a blast for the whole family.
Parks in all five boroughs boast sledding hills covered with inches of enticing snow that fell overnight. The storm dropped more snow in a single night than New York City saw all last winter, according to the National Weather Service.
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New York is dead, they say. Over! Look at the streets this cold December day, streets barely plowed or salted. Up Lexington Avenue, across 42nd Street and along the south side of the park, snowplows were nowhere to be seen all morning Thursday and into the afternoon. The few cars about followed each other through tall piles of brown mush. Lonely pedestrians took their precautions as they could find them. It s crazy out there! I could barely walk, said Barbara Paddock, who sheathed her duck boots in spikey crampons to navigate the six-block walk from her apartment in the Murray Hill neighborhood to Grand Central Terminal. They call New York the city that never sleeps. Now it s the city that never wakes up!
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What is a Nor easter, and is this going to be one?
Let s hand this one to the experts at the National Weather Service. A Nor’easter is a storm along the East Coast, so called because the winds over the coastal area are typically from the northeast. These storms may occur at any time of year but are most frequent and most violent between September and April. They nearly always bring precipitation in the form of heavy rain or snow, as well as winds of gale force, rough seas, and, occasionally, coastal flooding to the affected regions.
Children Love Snow Days. The Pandemic May End Them Forever.
In New York City and elsewhere, classes will be held online no matter how bad storms are this year in a shift that makes some parents wistful.
Children in Prospect Park in Brooklyn after schools were closed in March 2019 on what could have been one of New York City’s last traditional snow days. Credit.Stephen Speranza for The New York Times
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“Snow day.” These two words have charmed New York children for generations, conjuring thoughts of sledding down Central Park’s Pilgrim Hill or building snowmen at Forest Park in Queens; of strapping on ice skates and heating up hot chocolate.