High-tech snowplows and AI help cities clean up from big storms
March 4, 2026
New York City is exploring AI in the future to process the thousands of 311 calls and online service requests it can get in a single day.
New York City is exploring AI in the future to process the thousands of 311 calls and online service requests it can get in a single day.
A LATE-SEASON storm has the chance to drop one final round of snow on the city before this year’s record-setting winter finally ends.
The 7,600-square-foot snow operations center can store 6 million pounds of road salt and up to 75 plow blades and brine tanks.
A 47-year-old Brooklyn man was ice fishing in New York’s Adirondack Mountains on Thursday when his snowmobile failed and he became stranded.
Mamdani’s $30-per-hour rate got lots of people clearing sidewalks, but some workers who shoveled in past storms have yet to see a paycheck.
“The question is not how the streets were plowed,” one official said. “It was whether they could leave their homes at all.”
Between 1,700 and 2,000 staffers have been working 12-hour shifts to remove snow from sidewalks and paths, according to the Parks Department.
Despite Monday being a school “remote-learning” day, kids in Brooklyn Heights somehow managed to make snow angels and go sledding.
NEW MAYOR ZOHRAN Mamdani pitched in to help Brooklyn residents clear the streets during this weekend’s snowstorm.
More than 2,500 sanitation workers started 12-hour shifts Saturday evening, and 700 salt spreaders were activated.
New York City saw its snowiest day in years, with 11 inches falling. Main roads throughout the city were largely clear Monday morning.
FLATBUSH RESIDENT STEPHEN Niese, age 62, isn’t breaking from his decade-long daily jetty-to-jetty swim routine off of Coney Island.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Monday that an additional person had died, bringing the death total to seven at press time.
The city is experiencing colder temperatures this week than any sustained period in the last eight years, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Sunday.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani urged New Yorkers to stay home and off the streets Sunday and watch “terrible reality TV.”
Bitterly cold temperatures are headed to Brooklyn this weekend, hovering around 10 degrees Saturday and Sunday.
New York law prohibits businesses from taking advantage of consumers by selling vital products for an excessive price during emergencies.
More than 900 Con Edison customers across Brooklyn and an equal number in Queens lost electrical power Monday.
The snowfall on Friday, Dec. 27, was a reminder of how quickly our public spaces can change and how many people it takes.
Brooklyn Heights celebrates the holidays with snow, Christmas trees, live music, and community caroling events throughout the week.
ALTERNATE SIDE-OF-THE-STREET parking will be suspended on Thursday as the city buckles down for a winter storm.
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE is warning of snow, potentially mixed with rain, this weekend, with 2 to 5 inches predicted across the city.
LIGHT SNOWFALL IS expected to begin in NYC around 10 a.m. on Monday and continue into the afternoon.
A quick-moving snowstorm hit the Northeast on Tuesday canceling and delaying flights, making roads slippery and prompting many school districts to cancel classes or switch to remote learning — or at least try
Parts of the Northeast were preparing Monday for a coastal storm that was expected to pack high winds and dump a foot or more of snow in some areas, leading
Major cities on the East Coast broke a snow drought of sorts Tuesday while other parts of the U.S. struggled with perilously low temperatures that closed schools, cut power and
Through many winters, the pages of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle have included photos of mid-winter snow dumps, most memorably an early 20th century photo showing snow covering all of the
Beleaguered Californians got hit again Tuesday as a new winter storm moved into the already drenched and snow-plastered state, with blizzard warnings blanketing the Sierra Nevada and forecasters warning residents
It’s winter, so where’s the white stuff? It’s not covering the ground in New York City. Since summer ended, there hasn’t been any measurable snowfall in the city, meaning at
Roads reopened Thursday in storm-besieged Buffalo as authorities continued searching for people who may have died or are stuck and suffering after last week’s blizzard. The driving ban in New
Residents and officials across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. are bracing for a powerful winter storm expected to produce blizzard conditions Friday and Saturday. Heavy snow and
“It’s a snow day.” Those were once the most glorious words ever uttered on an early morning radio broadcast. When I was a kid in the ‘70s, it was pure
A major snowstorm pushed through the Northeastern United States on Sunday, less than a week after a storm dumped more than 2 feet on parts of the region. By early
Here is a series of photos of the snowstorm that blanketed Brooklyn and the Northeast on Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
Even before the first flakes fell, New York City’s first big snowfall of the season was doomed to be a gloomy disappointment for more than a million of its schoolchildren.
My father, Irving Kaufman (1910 – 1982), was a professional photographer who started in Brooklyn in the mid 1930s working for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. He captured thousands of images