Neighbors on Hartford Avenue say they\u2019re doing the job the city hasn\u2019t by digging out after a blizzard buried Staten Island under nearly two feet of snow.<\/p>\n
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Neighbors on Hartford Avenue say they\u2019re doing the job the city hasn\u2019t by digging out after a blizzard buried Staten Island under nearly two feet of snow
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Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella said frustration isn\u2019t aimed at workers, but at the cleanup plan from higher up
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According to the acting sanitation commissioner, the city deployed an additional 65 pieces of equipment into Staten Island Monday morning because the process was slow and tedious<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m hoping they come down with another plow. Apparently, they haven\u2019t come down since 11 p.m. last night,\u201d West Brighton resident Joseph Fiorito said.<\/p>\n
Just a block away on the main thoroughfare of Bement Avenue, traffic is moving. But on side streets like Hartford, residents say the storm never really left.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy friends in Brooklyn, they look like they can drive, no problem at this point,\u201d Fiorito said.<\/p>\n
With temperatures stuck below freezing, the snow is beginning to harden, turning the cleanup into a block-by-block grind.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year, it seems like we\u2019re the forgotten borough. I hate to say it,\u201d West Brighton resident Patricia Rizzo said.<\/p>\n
Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella said frustration isn\u2019t aimed at workers, but at the cleanup plan from higher up.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sanitation guys, they\u2019re working 12-hour shifts. They\u2019re working their tails off. They\u2019re hardly sleeping. It\u2019s not about them,\u201d Fossella said.<\/p>\n
He said city agencies later acknowledged mistakes and moved to bring in help.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of narrow streets, hilly blocks, we deployed an additional 65 pieces of equipment into Staten Island this morning because it was just slow and tedious,\u201d Acting Sanitation Commissioner Javier Lojan said.<\/p>\n
And hours after residents started digging on their own, the plows finally arrived around 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Even then, crews struggled to push through snow packed high along the street.<\/p>\n
City schools are set to reopen Tuesday, even as some private schools remain closed \u2014 a decision some elected officials say came too soon for Staten Islanders.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the decision to open schools tomorrow is both irresponsible and dangerous,\u201d Assemblymember Mike Tannousis said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neighbors on Hartford Avenue say they\u2019re doing the job the city hasn\u2019t by digging out after a blizzard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[25,1434,388,9,24,12,63,134,136,135,27,200,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-143434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-app-top-stories","9":"tag-app-weather","10":"tag-louis-finley","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-staten-island","16":"tag-staten-island-headlines","17":"tag-staten-island-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-vod","20":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143434","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=143434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}