Zoran Mamdani

Our focus is going to be utilizing every tool that we have to connecting homeless New Yorkers with a safe haven, with a shelter, with a warming bus.

The soot-covered piles of snow had finally melted away, and now they could be replaced by close to a foot and a half of snow by Monday.

Mayor Zoran Mamdani.

At least 19 people died on the streets of the city during January's cold snap.

The mayor said caring for the homeless will be a priority in the days ahead.

The storm will have a major impact on air travel in the Northeast.

Many airlines preemptively canceled hundreds of flights.

For NPR News, I'm Steve Kastenbaum in New York.

These have the potential to be even more hazardous conditions than we faced the last time around.

Our focus is going to be utilizing every tool that we have to connecting homeless New Yorkers with a safe haven, with a shelter, with a warming bus.

Tomorrow, our city will face its second snowstorm in less than a month and our first blizzard since 2016.

Right now, forecasts predict light snow will begin to fall tomorrow morning at 6 a.m.

Over the course of the day, it will grow heavier with intense snowfall beginning at 6 p.m.

No.

That young man, I forgive him.

I want to be clear.

$5.4 billion is still a very steep mountain to climb.

And there are two paths that we can walk, one that offers long-term stability and a second one with significant pain that we deeply hope to avoid.

The first path repairs the structural imbalance between the city and the state.

We want to work with Albany to raise personal income taxes by 2% on the 33,000 New Yorkers earning more than $1 million a year, and to raise corporate taxes on the most profitable corporations.