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This Is Not the Way New Yorkers Normally Greet a Major Snowstorm
Sleds were sold out all over as the city, for once, met an oncoming nor’easter with a measure of delight.
Credit.George Etheredge for The New York Times
Published Dec. 17, 2020Updated Dec. 18, 2020
It’s a New York City nightmare: a midweek nor’easter that dumps almost a foot of snow before the morning commute, snarling traffic, shutting down airports and commuter train lines, slowing subways and forcing parents to somehow work around small children thrilled by a day off from school.
But this is 2020. The snow day began nine months ago. And in the sort of reversal that could only happen in this pandemic era, the city’s heaviest snowstorm in years was, to many, a most welcome change, something new to look at from the windows that New Yorkers have lived behind since March.