{"id":142001,"date":"2026-02-22T20:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/142001\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T20:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:05:07","slug":"new-york-other-states-under-state-of-emergency-as-snow-falls-amid-blizzard-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/142001\/","title":{"rendered":"New York, other states under state of emergency as snow falls amid blizzard warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NEW YORK, Feb 22 (Reuters) &#8211; New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts governors \u200cissued state of emergency orders and a \u200chalt to non-essential travel as a major storm was \u200bexpected to bring up to 24 inches of snow and strong winds to the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">* Around 15,247 flights were delayed by early afternoon \u200conSunday, and 3,509 \u2060were cancelled. The largest number ofcancellations were at JFK, La Guardia and \u2060Newark airports. * New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani ordered the closure ofcity streets to non-essential \u200bvehicular \u200btraffic, includingbicycles and scooters, from \u200b9 p.m. Sunday \u200cto 12 p.m. Monday andclosure of all school buildings. * Similar restrictions were adopted by Connecticut, asGovernor Ned Lamont banned commercial vehicles on highways inthe state from 5 p.m. on Sunday. * \u200cMassachusetts Governor Maura Healey has \u200bdeclared a stateof emergency \u200band activated up \u200bto 200 National Guard members \u200ctohelp. The state also restricted \u200bnon-essential travel \u200bfrom Sundayevening. * New York Governor Kathy Hochul activated 100 NationalGuard members to deploy in \u200bLong Island, \u200cNew York City and theLower Hudson Valley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting \u200bby Tatiana Bautzer, editing by Michelle \u200bNichols and Chizu Nomiyama)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK, Feb 22 (Reuters) &#8211; New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts governors \u200cissued state of emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22126,1066,9,11,10,59765,1080],"class_list":["post-142001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-inches-of-snow","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-non-essential-travel","tag-state-of-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142001","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=142001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}