STATE OF EMERGENCY: Street Travel Ban Begins at 9 P.M. On Sunday

Mayor Mamdani has declared a “state of emergency,” which contains a “travel ban” on metropolis roads and, clearly, a snow day for youths. And there might be no Citi Bike after 8 p.m. tonight.

City streets might be closed to “non-essential vehicular traffic” from 9 p.m. Sunday to midday on Monday, the mayor stated in a noon press convention. But the MTA is sustaining service all through, although circumstances are fast-changing.

“This will be New York City’s first old-school snow day since 2019,” Hizzoner advised the town’s joyous public college youngsters.

Here’s the declaration itself. It’s must-see TV:

The emergency declaration additionally:

• Suspends Alternate Side Parking for Monday, Feb. 23.
• Directs the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection to watch and implement in opposition to worth gouging.
• Instructs New York City Emergency Management, the Fire Department, the NYPD, Department of Sanitation, and the Department of Transportation to take all crucial steps to guard public security.

The MTA advised Streetsblog at 2 p.m. on Sunday that it plans to run subway and bus service, however is watching the altering circumstances carefully, significantly on the elevated stations and subway stations in a minimize.

Bus service can be topic to roads being cleared, so prospects ought to count on service modifications on the fly.

Vehicles which can be exempt from the journey ban embrace:

• Government and emergency response autos  
• Public transit, together with MTA buses and Access-A-Ride  
• Vehicles delivering meals, gasoline and medical provides  
• Utility autos performing emergency repairs  
• Transportation for important staff touring to workplaces, together with well being care amenities, pharmacies, grocery shops, gasoline stations, media retailers, motels and laundromats  
• Transportation to hospitals and court docket amenities  
• Nonprofit and personal organizations offering emergency reduction

Even although supply staff usually are not topic to the ban, the mayor beseeched New Yorkers to do the proper factor: cook dinner for your self and do not order meals for deliveries that can endanger staff.

The mayor additionally stated 22 warming buses and 13 college warming facilities, plus 11 hospital amenities. He added that 86 homeless individuals had obtained shelter upfront of the storm.

“Stay inside and stay safe,” the mayor stated.

(Breaking: Streetsblog’s Emergency Weather Desk is now predicting 12 to 14 inches as of 1:30 p.m. on Sunday. Check again for updates.)

The mayor’s workplace put out these particular company guidelines and information:

FDNY:  

• Starting Sunday at 6 p.m., there might be 5 firefighters on all Engine Companies, with further staffing citywide.
• Four high-axle autos might be deployed, one in Staten Island, one in Queens, one in Brooklyn, and one within the Bronx.
• FDNY will deploy 10 Rapid Response Vehicles for Cold Calls, two per borough. Each RRV might be staffed with one officer and two Firefighters.   
• Thawing equipment deployed to all fires.   
• All ambulances might be geared up with chains.   
• Trainings might be canceled and scheduled members might be utilized within the subject.   
• Extra staffing might be added for EMS.  

NYPD: 

• NYPD Highway Patrol might be escorting DSNY to assist salt and plow streets.  
• Tow truck job power is activated and vans might be pre-staged throughout the town to help any motorists who’re caught. 
• Additional high-water rescue groups have been activated since reasonable coastal flooding is anticipated.  

New York City Public Schools:  

• Public college amenities groups are working across the clock to shovel and de-ice college buildings, guarantee satisfactory heating and backup energy protocols are in place, and ensure emergency provides are prepared.   
• Clear and constant communication with households stays a precedence, with updates being shared in all NYCPS languages by means of letters, emails, SMS messages, social media, robocalls and web site postings.  

Public Transit and Ferries:  

• With the anticipated winter climate circumstances, MTA advises prospects to examine MTA.info or the MTA app for subway and bus service updates, and the TrainTime app for commuter rail info earlier than touring. Most subway strains will nonetheless function native service, and scheduled observe work has been suspended. Bus service could also be adjusted primarily based on highway circumstances.  
• Crews throughout subways, railroads, and buses are working to maintain service shifting throughout the storm. Subway and railroad groups are monitoring switches and tracks, whereas clearing snow from platforms, stairs, and entrances.  
• Longer accordion-style buses have been changed with 40-foot normal buses geared up with chained wheels.  
• Bus service might be adjusted primarily based on highway circumstances across the metropolis and repair curtailments on a route-by-route foundation are attainable.  
• From 7 p.m. Sunday to 10 .a.m. Monday, empty tractor-trailers and tandem vans are prohibited on the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, Cross-Bay Bridge, Henry Hudson Bridge, Marine Parkway Bridge, Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, Throgs Neck Bridge, and Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.  
• Staten Island Ferry service will change to an hourly schedule at midnight. Half hour service might be provided beginning at 6 am.   
• Scooter share service stopped this morning at 6 a.m.   
• Citi Bike service will halt at 8 p.m.

Department of Sanitation:  

• The Department of Sanitation has been responding to this storm since yesterday, and all assortment vans and salt spreaders at the moment are affixed with plows and chains. The Department has been in full-force operations since 6am this morning, with 2,600 Sanitation Workers now deployed on every successive 12-hour shift. 700 Salt Spreaders are loaded and 1000’s of plows are able to roll.  
• Property homeowners are reminded to clear a four-foot path to permit secure passage for wheelchairs and strollers after finish of precipitation.  
• The similar sanitation staff preventing this storm additionally decide up your trash, and assortment might be delayed following this storm. We are asking residents with Monday recycling to HOLD that materials to the next week, as is widespread after some holidays.  
• Staying off the roads tonight will enable New York’s Strongest to work safer and quicker in these extraordinarily difficult circumstances.  

Housing Preservation and Development:  

• HPD has code inspectors and workers from the Emergency Repair Program staff working extra time this weekend to reply to 311 complaints, conduct inspections, and coordinate emergency repairs when warranted.   
• If New Yorkers have points with the warmth or sizzling water of their condo, they need to name their landlord. If they don’t shortly reply, tenants ought to name 311 and a uniformed HPD inspector will come, conduct an inspection, subject violations and if warranted, coordinate emergency repairs.  

Department of Buildings:  

• The division can have inspectors out within the subject over the weekend responding to weather-related incidents and performing random spot-check inspections of building websites across the metropolis.   
• If websites usually are not secured, the division will take instant enforcement motion — issuing violations and Stop Work Orders, the place crucial.  

New York City Housing Authority:  

• NYCHA additionally has turbines on standby that may be mobilized if wanted.  
• NYCHA residents in want of non-emergency help ought to name the Customer Contact Center at 718-707-7771 or submit work tickets by means of the MyNYCHA software.   

Libraries:  

NYC Ferry:  

• NYC Ferry expects attainable service impacts resulting from storm circumstances together with potential early closure on Sunday and a late begin of service on Monday. Specific service impacts might be shared on the NYC Ferry app and ferry.nyc. Riders ought to examine the web site or app earlier than touring.  
• As at all times, throughout instances of inclement climate, please use further precaution when touring to and from landings.  

Con Edison: 

• Con Edison has crews are additionally ready to reply swiftly and safely to any weather-related service points or outages that may outcome when highway salt mixes with melting snow.   
• Con Edison has deployed further staffing of crews in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and the Bronx to take care of service of our underground system.  We have secured Underground mutual support contractors to help as properly in Brooklyn/Queens.  
• Each working area can have across the clock ICS protection starting Sunday at 6 p.m. by means of Monday.  
• Con Edison stays in shut coordination with New York City Emergency Management and the Westchester County Department of Emergency Services to help a unified response. 
• The firm urges the general public to prioritize security by staying away from downed wires, which can be stay, and reporting them instantly to Con Edison or by calling 911.
• Customers can report outages and examine restoration updates at conEd.com, by means of the Con Edison cellular app, or by calling 1‑800‑75‑CONED (1‑800‑752‑6633).  

New York City Pride Hockey Association (NYCPHA):

• The championship recreation between the Hotshots and the Fiesta Penguins continues to be on. Puck drops at 5:30 p.m. on the Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers. Travel to this recreation is taken into account important.