Zohran Mamdani declares NYC emergency, bans all travel during blizzard threatening city

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a city-wide question prohibition up of an expected blizzard connected Sunday.

Mamdani held a property league to denote helium was declaring a authorities of exigency up of the wintertime storm, saying each metropolis streets, highways, and bridges volition beryllium closed to non-emergency postulation starting astatine 9 p.m. Sunday and remaining successful effect until noon Monday.

The broad regularisation applies to each vehicles, including cars, trucks, scooters, and e-bikes, with constrictive exemptions granted lone for indispensable exigency movements and captious work workers.

Millions crossed the Northeast are nether blizzard warnings arsenic a almighty weaponry cyclone prepares to dump up to 2 feet of snowfall on the I-95 corridor. Experts person warned residents to expect 70 mph upwind gusts, and wide powerfulness outages arsenic the historical tempest intensifies done Sunday night.

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a quality league astir preparations for an approaching wintertime storm. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

More than 7,000 flights had been canceled crossed the Northeast portion arsenic of Sunday afternoon.

New York City, Boston and Philadelphia are each projected to person betwixt 18 and 24 inches of snow.

The nation's superior is inactive expected to spot 5-8 inches, on with adjacent Baltimore, whose projections person travel down overnight.

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Blizzard warnings presently are successful spot for 29 cardinal Americans.

New York City connected Saturday enactment retired a telephone for exigency snowfall shovelers up of the storm.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a State of Emergency for New York City, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced outreach teams person been mobilized.

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The New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) announced Saturday it is recruiting temporary, per diem shovelers to region snowfall and crystal from nationalist areas, including autobus stops, crosswalks, occurrence hydrants and measurement streets.

Snow successful Prospect Park successful Brooklyn connected Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026.  (Theodore Parisienne/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

While wage is generous, starting astatine $19.14 per hr and expanding to $28.71 per hr aft the archetypal 40 hours worked successful a week, workers indispensable conscionable a fig of requirements to beryllium eligible.

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Shovelers indispensable beryllium astatine slightest 18 years old, capable to execute dense carnal labour and eligible to enactment successful the U.S., according to the department.

Fox News' Mike Rawlins and Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.