The National Weather Service is forecasting dangerously cold temperatures and wind chills tonight through Saturday morning. These conditions are dangerous to health and can worsen pre-existing medical conditions. Limit your time outdoors and dress in layers. Be sure to check on neighbors, particularly the elderly and medically frail. Report loss of heat/hot water, and un-domiciled individuals in need of sheltering and/or assistance by calling 3-1-1.
STRONG WINDS AND VERY COLD WIND CHILLS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON...
Hazardous Travel Conditions are now in effect until this afternoon. Winds of up to 40 mph will keep snow blowing and drifting, but temperatures will br in the teens, and tonight to a bone-chilling single digits in the city and zero in suburbs. Wind chills will make it feel much colder. Our camera lens shows frost.
Everyone should stay off the roads. If absolutely necessary, drive slowly, monitor weather and traffic, use major streets or highways, and keep the name and number of at least one local towing service.
Webcams can be found everywhere. They are on the streets, sidewalks, beaches, inside stores, amusement parks, restaurants, bars, they're all around us and also available in midtown City Island.
After all, webcams are nothing new. There are now millions streaming live, compared to the 500 or so that were around in the mid-1990s.
City Island Images provides a live video streaming camera just for you to view 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year.
NY Governor Andrew M. Cuomo will activate the State Emergency Operations Center (EOC) tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. to monitor a potent winter storm that will impact New York State Thursday and Friday. This storm will likely produce moderate to heavy snowfall across a large portion of the state, and may also result in coastal flooding and beach erosion. This system will also add to the bitter cold already being experienced statewide. There is a windchill watch for the southern and western Adirondacks with values from -30 to -40 degrees on Thursday and Friday.
And just like before, the world will watch as we succeed. All along the way, we will remember what makes New York, New York.
A city that fights injustice and inequality — not just because it honors our values, but because it strengthens our people. A city of five boroughs — all created equal. Black, white, Latino, Asian, gay, straight, old, young, rich, middle class, and poor. A city that remembers our responsibility to each other — our common cause — is to leave no New Yorker behind.
Text of Bill de Blasio’s Inauguration Speech http://nyti.ms/1dU7OZ8
For this new year, it still applies and apparently it'll always be necessary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fahg2q9IrAs
Today is The Bronx 100th anniversary... Happy New Year, and Happy 100th Birthday. Back In 1914, The Bronx became a NY county, being officially separating from New York County.
The Bronx gained its legal identity when it became a borough of Greater New York in 1898. Bronx County, with the same boundaries as the borough, was separated from New York County after that time, coextensive with the Borough of Manhattan officially on January 1, 1914.
Following a rigorous 10-month selection process involving 25 proposals from 24 states, the Federal Aviation Administration has chosen six unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) research and test site operators across the country.
In selecting the six test site operators, the FAA considered geography, climate, location of ground infrastructure, research needs, airspace use, safety, aviation experience and risk. In totality, these six test applications achieve cross-country geographic and climatic diversity and help the FAA meet its UAS research needs.
NY Governor Andrew M. Cuomo is considering closing some state highway on Thursday afternoon before a major blizzard hits the region during the evening commute, causing whiteout conditions and a deep freeze.
By tomorrow, several weather systems are expected to converge toward the Mid-Atlantic resulting in large amounts of snowfall.
Let the image of Mayor 108 fade, so the one of NYC's new Mayor 109 may finally begin to shine.
52 year old NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio was formally sworn in shortly after midnight during a ceremony in front of his family’s Brooklyn home.
Later today, Mayor Bill de Blasio was sworn in by former President Bill Clinton. They used a bible once owned by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Bill de Blasio is the first Democrat to be sworn in as Mayor of NYC in twenty years and his administration will surely be closely scrutinized.