{"id":117835,"date":"2026-01-30T22:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/117835\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T22:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:06:07","slug":"nyc-bus-stop-at-sloan-kettering-cancer-center-piled-with-snow-for-days-thwarting-wheelchairs-cane-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/117835\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC bus stop at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center piled with snow for days, thwarting wheelchairs, cane-users"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several city bus stops \u2014 including one right outside Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center \u2014 were still dangerously plagued by piles of snow several days after Winter Storm Fern<\/a>, upset riders told The Post.<\/p>\n

The treacherous mounds forced commuters \u2014 including some with canes \u2014 to navigate narrow, slippery paths down to the clearing in the roadway to their bus or avoid the spot altogether because of wheelchair and walker inaccessibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone in a wheelchair couldn\u2019t get over the mounds,\u201d said Memorial Sloan Kettering office coordinator Lakeya Holmes at the bus shelter between East 67th and 68th streets.<\/p>\n

Many bus riders are upset at the bus stops that are still plagued with piles of snow. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n

Jessica Alequin, a financial specialist at nearby Weill Cornell Medicine, said, \u201cI saw some people with walkers going in the street to get around the mounds.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mountains of snow were still a major issue outside the Upper East Side facility Wednesday night \u2014 more than three days after the blizzard started hammering the city Sunday \u2014 but appeared cleared by Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of my co-workers have seen patients fall coming off the bus on Tuesday,\u201d Lakeya said. <\/p>\n

\u201cMSK takes our sidewalks very seriously \u2013 you see how they\u2019re cleared,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Many of the bus stops leave some riders to navigate narrow and slippery paths. Jenn Bain<\/p>\n

Alequin, 36, said, \u201cOn Tuesday, there wasn\u2019t even a path cleared to get onto the bus.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had to climb over the mountain of snow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Follow The Post\u2019s latest coverage of the winter storms ravaging the Northeast<\/p>\n

While private property owners are responsible for cleaning their sidewalks, the city\u2019s Department of Transportation is responsible for clearing roughly 3,400 bus stops with shelters through a third-party contractor, JCDecaux, agency reps said.<\/p>\n

Consistently below-freezing temperatures this week have resulted in persistent snow and ice, which may take weeks to completely rid the streets of, city officials have said.<\/a><\/p>\n

Department of Transportation is responsible for clearing roughly 3,400 bus stops with shelters through a third-party contractor. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n

As of Thursday morning, the DOT said JCDecaux had cleared 98% of the bus shelters \u2013 though nearly 200 311 complaints about bus shelter snow removal are still \u201cin progress,\u201d according to city data.<\/p>\n

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Complaints represent all five boroughs, including about 70 in both Manhattan and Brooklyn; 63 in Queens; 40 in the Bronx and 21 in Staten Island.<\/p>\n

Of those, only about 160 complaints across the city have since been forwarded to the DOT\u2019s contractor for snow removal operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several city bus stops \u2014 including one right outside Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center \u2014 were still dangerously plagued…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5459,15893,1948,15478,57,9,24,55,197,54,56,1578,58],"class_list":["post-117835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-department-of-transportation","tag-disabilities","tag-hospitals","tag-memorial-sloan-kettering","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-life","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-seniors","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117835","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=117835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}