Mayor De Blasio – and son Dante — pass first ‘snow test’
Brooklyn attitude wins approval
Mayor Bill de Blasio grabbed a shovel – both figuratively and literally — after winter storm Hercules dumped 6 –7 inches of snow on New York City, and many of the city’s residents gave him high marks in the first ‘test’ of his administration.
As the storm swirled Thursday night into Friday morning, De Blasio, still lacking a complete staff and with unpacked boxes, visited sanitation garages in Brooklyn and Queens, issued storm updates, consulted with his commissioners, closed schools and spent the morning shoveling the sidewalk in front of his Park Slope home.
De Blasio said, “I’ve been doing it for many years. It’s time to keep up the tradition,” the New York Daily News reported. “New Yorkers all over the city are dealing with the same snow I am, so I wanted to be here like I always did.”