{"id":115472,"date":"2026-01-28T19:57:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/115472\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T19:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:57:23","slug":"nyc-van-owners-ride-encased-in-waterfall-of-ice-after-snowstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/115472\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC van owner\u2019s ride encased in waterfall of ice after snowstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His parking spot had zero chill.<\/p>\n<p>A van owner found his wheels encased in a waterfall of ice after he parked under a leaky pipe by a Bronx train station in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/24\/us-news\/nyc-wakes-up-to-artic-temperatures-ahead-of-winter-storm-fern\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">subfreezing temperatures<\/a>, he said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Rosario, 49, was stone-cold shocked to find his Mercedes-Benz sprinter van frozen so solid it wouldn\u2019t budge after he left it under the elevated tracks at the Kingsbridge Road 4 train station Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Rosario said he has no way of moving his ice-encased van. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s still stuck in the ice,\u201d he told The Post. \u201cIt\u2019s been cold before, but I\u2019ve never seen anything like this in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rosario, who uses the vehicle to transport building materials,\u00a0said police couldn\u2019t help remove the ride, and that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority dragged its feet, so he was stuck waiting for it to thaw out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing I can do about it,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m still waiting for them to help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need this car to do my job,\u201d Rosario fumed.<\/p>\n<p>His vexing van-sicle came as the Big Apple shivers through bone-chilling below-freezing temperatures on the heels of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/26\/us-news\/heres-how-much-snow-winter-storm-fern-dumped-on-nyc-with-more-on-the-way\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a record-breaking snow storm<\/a> that dumped more than a foot of snow on some parts of the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe MTA has to do something with the way its pipes and canals work so something like this never happens again,\u201d Rosario said.<\/p>\n<p>Rosario, 49,\u00a0found his Mercedes-Benz sprinter van frozen so solid it wouldn\u2019t budge under the elevated tracks at the 4 train station on Kingsbridge Road. Stephen Yang for the NY Post<\/p>\n<p> A leaky pip encased Rosario\u2019s van with a waterfall of ice. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>In January 2011, a driver <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2011\/01\/25\/frozen-car\/#2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in the East Village<\/a> needed a blowtorch, a hammer and a chisel to rescue his car after an un underground pipe bust and encased his car in ice during frigid temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>The MTA didn\u2019t immediately return an email from The Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His parking spot had zero chill. A van owner found his wheels encased in a waterfall of ice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,2700,899,57,9,24,63,13896,129,131,130,58],"class_list":["post-115472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-car","tag-extreme-weather","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-parking","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}