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Snow Advisory For Tomorrow: No Outdoor Dining, ASP Suspended & All Remote Learning

Snow squall on Cortelyou, December 18, 2020. Liena Zagare/BklynerBROOKLYN – Get ready for lots of snow! New York City is expected to get up to a foot of snow tomorrow, Wednesday, December 16, and is supposed to last until Thursday. Outdoor dining on city streets will be suspended at 2

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It’s Snowing In Brooklyn & Lots Of Other News

The Diocese of Brooklyn and DeSales Media Group lit a 35-foot Christmas tree in more than 14,000 lights on Grand Army Plaza. (Photo via DeSales Media)Yes, you read that right– it’s snowing! Coronavirus numbers are also rising, so please stay safe and wear your mask. According to

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Winter Weather Advisory: New York May Get 5-8 Inches of Snow Tonight

Winter’s here: Just days after pleasant holiday dinners, New York gets hit with challenging weather. The mayor and other city representatives held a weather preparedness press conference today to address any snow-related questions and ensure New Yorkers of the city’s weather emergency plans. According to the National Weather

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Will We Get Our First Snow Tomorrow?!

Snow in Brooklyn. Photo from Bklyner Archive.New York City — The Department of Sanitation has declared a snow alert [https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dsny/site/resources/press-releases/dsny-issues-snow-alert-for-tuesday-november-12-2019-at-10-a-m] for New York City beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, November 12. Get your hats and gloves out! Data

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Winter Storm Watch This Weekend, A Possible 4-6 Inches of Snow

Photo: Nathan HaselbyGet your snow boots and shovels ready because we may quite possibly get hit with 4 to 6 inches of snow this weekend, ending the spring-like days! A winter storm watch is in effect from Saturday at 6 pm to Sunday morning. Temperatures are not expected to go

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Who’s Responsible For Clearing Snowy Sidewalks? Southwest Brooklyn Politicians Weigh In

Clearing a Brooklyn sidewalk during a snowstorm (Photo: Nathan Haselby)After last week’s bomb cyclone and freezing weekend, things are finally heating up a bit—and so is the conversation over who is responsible for keeping New York’s sidewalks clear from snow. Southwest Brooklyn politicians got vocal on

Central Brooklyn

The Art Of Climbing Snow To Board A Bus

B68 bus stop on Coney Island Ave and Ave J. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BKLYNER) FLATBUSH – It’s the day after the “Bomb Cyclone.” The snow has stopped falling and the roads have been cleared. Those who decided to stay in the warmth of their homes yesterday instead of shoveling out

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Snow Warning Issued for Last Weekend of the Year

Snowy Brooklyn Sidewalk (Photo by maribeldelatorre via Instagram) / Snowy Brooklyn Sidewalk (Photo by maribeldelatorre via Instagram)After a couple days of frigid cold, it looks like snow will carry us out of 2017 and into the new year. The New York City Department of Sanitation has issued a “Snow Alert”

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Let It Snow! First Snow of the Season Tomorrow

Barclays in the snow (Photo by Nathan Haselby)Well, winter is finally, truly, here. Tomorrow will see the first snow of the season, with 3-5 inches predicted to accumulate throughout the day, starting around 4:00 am and continuing throughout the day, into the night. Temperatures will be just above

Central Brooklyn

Blizzard Warning: Everything You Need To Know

Photo by Bensonhurst Bean.These winter weather advisories are beginning to sound like the boy who cried wolf [/tomorrow-covered-blanket-snow-seriously/], but this time it’s cranked up a notch: officials are calling for a severe winter storm that could bury the city under more than a foot of snow by tomorrow

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Tomorrow We Could Be Covered Under A Blanket Of Snow…Seriously

You can run, but you can’t hide. (Photo by maribeldelatorre via Instagram)Don’t get too used to this 50-degree sunshine today…because it’s OVER! The National Weather Service issued a Winter Weather Advisory [http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=NYZ176&warncounty=NYC081&firewxzone=NYZ176&local_place1=

Central Brooklyn

Snow Takes: Photos Of The Snowstorm In Brooklyn

Espo on 4th Avenue (Photo by rosellapix via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BQTRwbOgQru/?tagged=brooklyn])Brooklyn is pretty photogenic to begin with, but cover it in a blanket of fluffy, white snow and suddenly the camera phones come out and the Instagrammers go wild. Below is a selection

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Winter Storm Warning Issued For Tomorrow (This Is Not A Drill)

Photo by Tom PrendergastAs strange as this sounds on a 60-degree afternoon, forecasters say Brooklyn could be hit with 6 to 12 inches of snow tomorrow. The National Weather Service and NYC Office of Emergency Management have issued a Winter Storm Warning [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/em/about/press-releases/

Arts & Culture

Morning Mug: “And Finally Winter, With Its Bitin’, Whinin’ Wind, And All The Land Will Be Mantled With Snow.” — Roy Bean

Photo by Roberta Fine.Morning Mug is our daily showcase of photographs from our readers. If you have a photograph that you’d like to see featured, send it to photos@sheepsheadbites.com. Also, follow us on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/SheepsheadBites], Twitter [http://twitter.com/sheepsheadbites], and Instagram

Bensonhurst

What’s Up With That Giant Snow Pile Blocking Bay Parkway?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=336m4dZnglE In the aftermath of Winter Storm Jonas, the Department of Sanitation [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/dsny/index.page] (DSNY) did a kickass job at getting our streets clear and functioning in a timely manner. But where does the snow go when it

Central Brooklyn

After Record-Breaking Snowfall, Support Grows For Bill To Suspend Parking Rules

A car snowed in by Winter Storm Jonas. (Photo: Ned Berke [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206686209408488&set=a.1878414194685.107486.1071163781&type=3&theater] / Facebook)Following the record-breaking blizzard [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2016/01/volunteers-distribute-hot-food-to-neighbors-stranded-by-the-winter-storm/] that blanketed parts of the city in almost three feet of

Bensonhurst

5 Fun Winter Activities That Don’t Involve Building A Snowman

We’re officially three days post blizzard, and the snow piled around the borough has become a bit of a snooze. Most of the stuff on the sidewalk is either black or yellow (gross), Sunday was our prime sledding day, and once you’ve built the obligatory snowman [http://citykidcamp.

Kids & Family

5 Fun Winter Activities That Don’t Involve Building A Snowman

We’re officially three days post blizzard, and the snow piled around the borough has become a bit of a snooze. Most of the stuff on the sidewalk is either black or yellow (gross), Sunday was our prime sledding day, and once you’ve built the obligatory snowman [http://citykidcamp.

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Neighbor Asks For Help Clearing Snow Mountain In Manhattan Beach

The Department of Sanitation has created a snow mountain at Shore Boulevard and Irwin Street. (Photo: Audrey Brown)It appears the Department of Sanitation, in their effort to quickly clear the roads after this weekend’s record-breaking blizzard [/volunteers-distribute-hot-food-to-neighbors-stranded-by-the-winter-storm/], has created a treacherous crossing on Shore Boulevard by piling almost

Bensonhurst

10 Breathtaking Photos Of Winter Storm Jonas

B.Y. LeiWell, the honeymoon is over. Just three days after Winter Storm Jonas deposited 26 inches of snow on our city, the breathtaking blanket of white power that coated Bensonhurst on Saturday has quickly morphed into piles of grey ice and sludge — as it does each year. Fortunately, many

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Blizzard Watch For Saturday: Here’s What You Need To Know

Photo by Ditmas Park CornerThere’s a potential blizzard headed our way on Saturday and Mayor de Blasio has issued a Hazardous Travel Advisory [http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/074-16/mayor-de-blasio-issues-hazardous-travel-advisory] , so grab a good book or binge-watch your favorite show on Netflix this weekend instead of heading out

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Blizzard Watch For Saturday: Here’s What You Need To Know

Photo by Ditmas Park CornerThere’s a potential blizzard headed our way on Saturday and Mayor de Blasio has issued a Hazardous Travel Advisory [http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/074-16/mayor-de-blasio-issues-hazardous-travel-advisory] , so grab a good book or binge-watch your favorite show on Netflix this weekend instead of heading out

Central Brooklyn

Photo Of The Day: Snowy Day

Photo by Lou HowortWe are glad to finally see a bit of snow on the ground! Share photos with us at editor@ditmasparkcorner.com, in the Ditmas Park Corner Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/dpcorner], or tag them #ditmaspark on Instagram, and we’ll post them on the

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Winter Snow Showers Are Coming Tonight Into Wednesday; Wind Advisory Is In Effect

Image via National Weather Service [https://www.facebook.com/NWSNewYorkNY/?fref=ts].This morning’s cold temps have warmed up a bit, so the previously forecast snow may become snow showers, according to the National Weather Service (NWS), which released these forecast maps today. “A quick moving area of low

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Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring!

In just one weekend, it seemed to morph from winter to spring – a transition our neighbors captured perfectly! Many thanks to neighbor S. Daniel Ackerman for taking the above wintery photo. “Some of us will miss winter, however might we might be looking forward to spring,” Daniel wrote to us.