Eric Adams has no interest in hearing complaints about snow removal anymore.

Three weeks into his post-mayoral life, Adams made it clear: New Yorkers should not voice their grievances regarding streets or sidewalks not being cleared yet with him. Which makes sense, given he no longer has any authority to do anything about it.

“Reminder: I don’t run City Hall anymore. Yelling at me on Twitter will not speed up snow removal,” Adams posted on X.

Big storm on the way. Reminder: I don’t run City Hall anymore. Yelling at me on Twitter will not speed up snow removal. Prepare, check on seniors, send me your snowmen 📸, and show some love to DSNY, NYPD, and FDNY doing the heavy lifting.

— Eric Adams (@ericadamsfornyc) January 23, 2026

While recent winters have been far lighter in terms of snowfall than years prior, there are multiple examples of snowstorm mismanagement that have spelled trouble for administrations.

That includes John Lindsay in 1969, who faced criticism for the length of time it took to plow out some parts of the city, leading him to call his lack of preparations before the storm “a mistake.”

It also includes more recent examples, like Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2007, whose Department of Transportation ticketed New Yorkers who literally couldn’t move their frozen cars. Bloomberg’s initial tone afterward struck some as cold.

“This was not a lot of snow, it was easy to move your car. I don’t like to get up early in the morning and have to do anything either, I’d like to sleep in too,” the then-mayor said.

In 2018, traffic got stuck for upwards of 10 hours from a storm. Then-Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration later acknowledged it hadn’t adequately stressed the urgency of the storm. 

Mayor Zohran Mamdani, just three weeks into his term, appeared to be willing to accept the challenge.

“I think it is only right that New Yorkers judge their leaders by their ability to deliver for them in most day-to-day aspects of their life,” he said Thursday.

There will be 2,000 sanitation workers working 12-hour shifts over the weekend, along with 700 salt spreaders hitting the streets, the mayor said. He later said in a post on social media that the city would issue a Code Blue Thursday evening in an effort to get unhoused New Yorkers into shelters.