{"id":141176,"date":"2026-02-21T19:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T19:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141176\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T19:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T19:16:09","slug":"nyc-mayor-mamdani-braces-new-yorkers-for-more-hazardous-snow-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141176\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Mamdani braces New Yorkers for \u2018more hazardous\u2019 snow storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/\" title=\"Navigate to News\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Updated: Feb. 21, 2026, 1:50 p.m.|Published: Feb. 21, 2026, 1:50 p.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Winter Weather New York\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/LCPF2ACWCJDVNGYZSKEPYAEX5Q.jpg\"  \/>New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani waves at supporters during a visit to the Department of Sanitation&#8217;s snow melting operations in New York, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026. (AP Photo\/Yuki Iwamura)AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"V2NGODN45RHY3CJKDODMQVIXB4\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Saturday that New Yorkers should brace themselves for the winter storm set to start Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BGUFTXYIINCXXLRO7TSDN2GWTI\">The mayor said the city could get hit with over 20 inches of snow from the first blizzard the city has seen in close to a decade, and that his administration is expecting it to be worse that January\u2019s Winter Storm Fern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"IW67NBXMLBFUHHQ3SGG7H6JYYQ\">\u201cI am asking all Nee Yorkers to stay inside and off the roads for your safety,\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cThese have the potential to be even more hazardous conditions than we faced the last time around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ILK7OUDE65HLBEFOKLQHA7KV3M\">Mamdani has yet to make a final decision on the closure of city schools but has taken a number or preparation measures ahead of the storm. <\/p>\n<p>Paul Liotta is the New York City Hall reporter for the Staten Island Advance covering the day-to-day happenings of Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Council. In journalism for almost a decade, Liotta&#8230; more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NewsUpdated: Feb. 21, 2026, 1:50 p.m.|Published: Feb. 21, 2026, 1:50 p.m.New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani waves at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-141176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141176","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=141176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}