Bruce Kahnweiser

The blizzard was also packing strong winds, including gusts topping 50 miles per hour.

Those winds brought down trees and snapped power lines.

Overnight, more than 40,000 remained without electricity.

And nearly 450 schools across the state will remain closed today or reopen late.

For NPR News, I'm Bruce Kahnweiser in Greenbrook, New Jersey.

Air travel ground to a halt Sunday and Monday, but today more than half the scheduled flights departing from Newark Liberty, JFK, and LaGuardia are expected to take off.

Rail travel on New Jersey Transit is expected to resume today, but with limited service.

Buses will be running again.

The blizzard was also packing strong winds, including gusts topping 50 mph.

Those winds brought down trees and snapped power lines.

Overnight, more than 40,000 remained without electricity.

And nearly 450 schools across the state will remain closed today or reopen late.

For NPR News, I'm Bruce Kahnweiser in Greenbrook, New Jersey.

New York has already shivered through one of the coldest winters in recent memory, but a new blast of arctic air whipped up by strong winds are making for life-threatening conditions up and down the eastern seaboard.

Lows in New York will be pushing towards zero, with winds gusting up to 50 miles per hour.

Lows in the teens are happening as far south as North Carolina, and a large swath of upstate New York and New England were already below zero as of midnight.

Mamdani burst into the national spotlight this past year with a mayoral campaign that captivated the left and piqued the interest of centrists.

In the end, it wasn't close.

In a three-way race, he won more than 50% of the vote, thumping one-time New York political icon Andrew Cuomo by nine points.

The 34-year-old Mamdani stands out as the first South Asian and the first Muslim to lead America's largest city.