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The Bay Ridge Shoveling Connection has helped residents dig out of the icy roads.<\/p>\nA week and a half after a winter storm that brought over 10 inches of snow in the area, frigid temperatures have left Brooklynites digging out longer than expected.<\/p>\n
In 2022, lifelong Bay Ridge resident Bernie Hoban started a Facebook group to help people, especially seniors, find others to shovel snow outside their homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The group is called Bay Ridge Shoveling Connection.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe shoveling connection was established by me in 2022 after I noticed on the Bay Ridge Talk page seeking people to shovel while also seeing separate posts about people looking for work to shovel,\u201d she told this paper. \u201cSo, my solution was to establish this group and invite people who may want to shovel or who need shoveling.\u201d<\/p>\n
The group started early with 100 members and now has over 1,000. Following the storm, new members are requesting to join daily.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am thrilled that it works and connects people who may have elderly parents living in Bay Ridge and they have been able to arrange assistance for them,\u201d Hoban said. \u201cIt was an easy task that has paid off tremendously.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Bay Ridge Shoveling Connection has helped residents dig out of the icy roads.<\/p>\n
Photos courtesy of Bernie Hoban<\/p>\n
Because the city has had sub-32-degree days, the snow hasn\u2019t melted and much of it has turned into ice, making it difficult for locals to dig out their vehicles, get on the buses and cross the street.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe requests are still coming in mostly for cars to be unburied and not so much for homes,\u201d said Hoban. \u201cMostly cars and driveways.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, the page has been very helpful for locals.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy husband has a bad back and this group is good because we can hire someone and it gives him a break,\u201d said Bay Ridge resident Lisa D. \u201cThat\u2019s something we didn\u2019t have before I joined the group. People like us need to drive to doctors\u2019 appointments.\u201d<\/p>\n
People are leaving their phone numbers to help connect and schedule times and prices to shovel their property.<\/p>\n
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The Bay Ridge Shoveling Connection has helped residents dig out of the icy roads.<\/p>\n
Photos courtesy of Bernie Hoban<\/p>\n
Alternate Side Parking is suspended through Feb. 8. It is scheduled to be back in effect Feb. 9.<\/p>\n
The conditions have made it difficult for the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) to collect trash and clear snow.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was like dealing with rock boulders that the workers were out there trying to chop up to try to open up the walkway,\u201d acting DSNY Commissioner Javier Lojan told ABC 7 on Feb 2. \u201cSo that definitely slowed down some of the progress. And obviously that was a big priority for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A week and a half after a winter storm that brought over 10 inches of snow in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-124424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124424","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=124424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}