Kathleen Sullivan, a retired public school teacher in Jackson Heights, told the Eagle that, as a former educator, she thought the retro snow day call was the right one to make. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m happy for my friends still working who get a day off,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cI\u2019m happy for the kids too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sullivan walked around her neighborhood Monday morning after unsuccessfully trying to get some of her neighbors to join her. <\/p>\n
She praised the city\u2019s response to the storm but said she felt sidewalks and street crossings needed to be shoveled at a faster clip. In the past, students freed from school would perform the service. That was no longer the case, she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI do wish that more residents would take a stand and just shovel,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cWhen I grew up here, there were more kids walking around with shovels. I don\u2019t know if parents won\u2019t allow them to do that, or if they just don\u2019t think about it. But [kids] can make a couple extra bucks, go knock on somebody\u2019s door and say \u2018I\u2019ll shovel for you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Pedestrian crossings were cleared quickly along Steinway Street in Astoria, where Youssouph Houma shoveled the sidewalk for the Steinway Astoria Partnership, the local business improvement district. <\/p>\n
Houma said he had been performing the difficult task for the BID for four years. He\u2019s been particularly busy this winter, which has seen measurable snow multiple times since the start of December, not to mention the two major storms that slammed the city this month. <\/p>\n
He began shoveling around 8 a.m. and planned to make his way south down Steinway Street throughout the day. <\/p>\n
\u201cI like the job,\u201d Houma said. <\/p>\n
As Houma was speaking with the Eagle, Pajazit Hot, Houma\u2019s boss and the owner of the contracting company that works with the BID, pulled up to the corner in a pickup truck to deliver his employee some food. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kathleen Sullivan, a retired public school teacher in Jackson Heights, told the Eagle that, as a former educator,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-143185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143185","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=143185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}