Thursday's parting shots

EVG reader Danny shared these photos from today... East Village-style sledding on the small slope of the lawn in Tompkins Square Park ...

2 scenes from Winter Storm Gail in black and white

And a few more photos from Winter Storm Gail... these are courtesy of EVG reader Stephen Kent Jusick...  

The top photo is looking south on Broadway at 14th Street, 2:24 a.m. Long exposure, low angle, shot from the street. 

And below, the Alamo at Astor Place, 2:36 a.m. ... (click on the images to go big!)...

The snowpeople of 7th Street

Some scenes from Seventh Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue. The block is still closed to through traffic because of the post-fire work at Middle Collegiate Church... so the street provided extra space to do things, like, build a snowman to resemble a remote worker in 2020...

... and this...

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A post-storm look at East Village curbside dining

Based on an early-morning walk on several side streets and avenues... it appears that the curbside dining structures (streetearies!) passed their first major winter test during the nor'easter...

The City suspended curbside dining as of 2 p.m. yesterday when the Department of Sanitation's snow alert took effect. Per Eater:

In a snow alert situation, restaurants are required to secure their furniture, remove electric heaters from the road, and remove overhead coverings, if possible. Restaurants don’t, however, need to remove any structures or barriers this time around.

It's possible that restaurants will be able to resume roadside dining this evening at the earliest. 

The city recently imposed more guidelines on restaurants, such as requiring that streetside barriers being filled with 10,000 to 20,000 pounds of sand or soil.

And the structures, many of them quite elaborate, looked to have made it through Winter Storm Gale...

... and even some of the less-sturdy-looking structures along St. Mark's Place between Second Avenue and Third Avenue seemed to fare OK...

The next question is whether NYC bars-restaurants will be able to survive winter with a ban on indoor dining, reluctance on behalf of patrons to eat outside in cold weather and other ever-changing restrictions that will make staying open extremely difficult, owners and operators have said. 

Restaurant industry officials point to the state's own data showing that restaurants and bars made up 1.4 percent of COVID-19 cases in the last three months, compared to private gatherings, which constituted nearly 74 percent.

11 p.m. in the East Village, and scenes from Winter Storm Gail

As of this posting (5:42 a.m. — good morning!), a snow-sleet combo continues to lash the city as the nor'easter — Winter Storm Gail — slowly moves on.

Forecasts for final snow totals range from 8-12 inches to a Jake Gyllenhaal/"The Day After Tomorrow"-type event ... we'll have more on the particulars in one of the 78 upcoming snow posts this morning.

Meanwhile, EVG contributor Stacie Joy shared these photos from a stroll around the neighborhood last night at 11...

... and in Tompkins Square Park...

Updated: It's still snowing

Gail says hi from First Avenue and Seventh Street...

And we're off...

The nor'easter dubbed Winter Storm Gail is here, as you likely already noticed. Photo from Tompkins Square Park this early evening by Steven.

Snow joke: Why you saw plows out on the streets today

There were some puzzled queries today after residents spotted snow plows around the neighborhood... as these photos by Vinny & O show...

The city's Sanitation Department provided some clarity via a tweet — training!

See a snow plow or salt spreader in the street? Snow training is underway! Snow training will take place every Sunday for the next few weeks: https://t.co/H8RfirnHwL pic.twitter.com/6ev7i5K4mg

— NYC Sanitation (@NYCSanitation) October 11, 2020

Hopefully they'll do some training around the many curbside dining set ups too.

It snowed for awhile today

And it marked the first snowfall of the year, of the decade... it eventually turned to sleet... before then, a few familiar snowy scenes from around the neighborhood...







... and here are two street scenes via Vinny & O...





... and Salim shared this from outside Josie's on Sixth Street...

A few scenes from the snow squall

Late this afternoon, courtesy of Vinny & O... from Astor Place...





... to Tompkins Square Park...

Sunday's slow melt

Here are two early morning scenes from Tompkins Square Park via Vinny & O...



And snow is on the way...

Winter storm watch: 4-6” expected for NYC. Snow starts after 3pm today. Heaviest 8pm to 3am. Snow ends by 8am Monday pic.twitter.com/4WykAINhIY

— NY1 Weather (@NY1weather) March 3, 2019

The additional snow might be good news to the developers behind this new venture — currently at a standstill — in Tompkins Square Park...

March 2!

Tompkins Square Park this morning...

Wednesday's parting shot

A view of Tompkins Square Park this afternoon via Bobby Williams...