Brooklyn digs out after snow blitz; de Blasio sends more plows to Upper East Side
Fewer than half of NYC school kids make it to class
The biggest snowfall of the season so far brought up to ten and a half inches of the white stuff to Brooklyn, forcing the shuttering of the U.S. Army Garrison at Fort Hamilton and the closure of some private schools.
Because of the bitter cold, kids in Brooklyn Heights frolicked only briefly in Cadman Plaza Park and kept their sledding sessions short in Hillside Dog Park, which doubles as a sledding hill in the winter.
On Wednesday, New York City public schools, including afterschool programs, were in full swing. But less than half of the city’s 1.1 million school kids made it in to class, said Department of Education spokesperson Marge Feinberg.