Mission not accomplished.
Despite promises that every street in the city would be plowed by Thursday morning, the Daily News found several snowbound streets – including one where a nursing home remained cut off from help.
“We are in a state of panic,” said Lori Tesoriero, an administrator at the Richard J. and Florence Zarick Pavilion in Bay Ridge.
“I have cancer patients who can’t get their chemo treatments,” she said. “I have lots of residents with other issues, and we’re all just stranded here.”
City sanitation commissioner John Doherty, in a Wednesday news conference, promised every street across the five boroughs would be plowed by 7 a.m. Thursday morning.
A News spot check in Brooklyn, perhaps the borough hit worst by the blizzard, showed the effort wasn’t completely successful.
Full story: NYC blizzard clean-up: City fails to meet 7 a.m. deadline to have every street cleared of snow