are the roads in park slope and prospect heights clear by the gov?

What is the "gov"?

Simply put, no. Unless you've got a serious emergency, keep your car off the roads.

The main avenues are littered with idiot drivers who started trying to go somewhere, got stuck, and are now impeding plows from clearing the roads. Hell, even the plows are having trouble, despite the chains on their wheels.

The side streets are still by and large unplowed.

Do everyone a favor and stay off the roads.

Yeah, there was some arse who parked diagonally across 11th Street up by 7th Avenue - people were extremely peeved at whoever it was. Eventually the car was moved - towed, I hope. Our street still isn't plowed out, though. I'm house/dogsitting up the street while the rest of my family lives at my place down the street, and I spent the morning shoveling all the walks between here and there of the folks who'd gone out of town, so my Mom could walk back and forth. My arms are now like flippers. Armchair, I am not volunteering - I am all shoveled out.

Yes. Yes. StoopLady, you are CORRECT!

Holy Shit. It still has not been plowed.

on sunday night, i saw a line of five or six cars get stuck on my block of 17th street. the last one in the line was a taxi, and he spent 30 minutes trying to back up a few feet and blow through the snowdrift he'd been stuck in. i couldn't understand why he didn't just back all the way out to 3rd ave, since he seemed able to move backward and 3rd ave was pretty close and much clearer (eventually, this is what the whole line of cars had to do). where did he think he would go if he managed to get a little farther up 17th? over the other cars? under them? through the huge drifts of snow on either side of them?

now it is two days later, and the street is still not plowed. but there is a pedestrian plaza in times square, so it's all right. did bloomberg really recommend that people who can't get to work because of the DOT failures take advantage of the "free time" to see a broadway show? i read it in a news article, but it wasn't a direct quote. it does sound like something he would say.

Agree with Mama AW there is a car stalled on Underhill between Dean and Bergen. There is no place to park and no plows have been down Underhill, Bergen, Dean or St. Marks. There was a post here about a group who will shovel the snow. If not PM I have someone who can do it for you.

Why not take public transportation with your shovel and get salt in the neighborhood. We dont need more cars on the road.

Folks that live in the outer boroughs work in Manhattan. That's why its equally important that the bus routes, major streets and key crosswalks in the OBs are cleaned promptly.

Its great that when I come out of the subway in Manhattan I can walk to my job without encountering anything more treacherous than a slushy puddle, but if I need a dogsled, Perry and Henson just to get from my front door to the train station, I'd say that someone has greatly screwed up in the plans for dealing with the snow.

you know it just came to mind that our idiot mayor is so concerned with banning salt on everything that now he is even limiting it on the roads here!

The City's response is baffling. Many times plows are out during the storm clearing streets and spreading salt. I don't know why that wasn't done this time. Maybe that can't be done effectively for the kind of storm that passed through. But the Mayor did make a mistake by not declaring a snow emergency and clearing the streets as quickly as possible so EMS could get around. You need only read the NYTimes to see the deadly results of the glacial EMS response time. A pregnant woman in labor called 911. When they arrived hours later, the baby was dead. There is no way of knowing whether something like that could have been avoided. But you had to be a damn fool for getting in a vehicle and driving around town Monday after the storm. A damn fool.