It really is a tale of two cities â this time with the tony Upper East Side getting the shaft!
Huge swaths of the cityâs wealthiest neighborhood had been not been plowed by early Tuesday evening, leaving 1-percenters out in the cold, according to the cityâs own map of snow-plower activity.
âHe is trying to get us back. He is very divisive and political,â said writer and Life-long Upper East Sider and mom Molly Jong Fast of Mayor de Blasio.
âBy not plowing the Upper East Side, he is saying, âIâm not one of them.â But we have everyone in this area on the Upper East Side. We have rich people, middle class people, and housing projects. We have it all.â
There appeared to be no snow plowing between East 59th and 79th Streets and between Second and Fifth Avenues.
âI canât believe de Blasio could do this. He is putting everyone in danger,â said Barbara Tamerin, who was using ski poles to get around 81st Street and Lexington Avenue.
âWhat is he thinking? Weâre supposed to get up to a foot of snow and nobody on the Upper East Side is supposed to blink an eye? I can barely get around and Iâm on snow shoes! All of the buses are stuck and canât go anywhere. Heâs crazy. We need Mayor Bloomberg back!â
Martin Cisse, 45, who works at a flower shop near 85th and Lex, said he canât understand why the city would fail to plow the UES.
âDe Blasio is trying to hurt the more wealthy people by ignoring us but thereâs no logic to that,â Cisse said.
âThere are a lot of blue collar working people out here driving trucks and trying to get around too.â
Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty, at an evening press briefing, defended the handling of the Upper East Side â claiming that one spreader had a busted GPS and was not reporting progress to the PlowNYC Web site.
âThe GPS was not working,â he said. âAlso, traffic created a lot of problems for us in that area.â
At the same press conference de Blasio stood by his performance. âAll city agencies are acting [like] usual very, very effectively and in a coordinated fashion.â
Huge swaths of the cityâs wealthiest neighborhood had been not been plowed by early Tuesday evening, leaving 1-percenters out in the cold, according to the cityâs own map of snow-plower activity.
âHe is trying to get us back. He is very divisive and political,â said writer and Life-long Upper East Sider and mom Molly Jong Fast of Mayor de Blasio.
âBy not plowing the Upper East Side, he is saying, âIâm not one of them.â But we have everyone in this area on the Upper East Side. We have rich people, middle class people, and housing projects. We have it all.â
There appeared to be no snow plowing between East 59th and 79th Streets and between Second and Fifth Avenues.
âI canât believe de Blasio could do this. He is putting everyone in danger,â said Barbara Tamerin, who was using ski poles to get around 81st Street and Lexington Avenue.
âWhat is he thinking? Weâre supposed to get up to a foot of snow and nobody on the Upper East Side is supposed to blink an eye? I can barely get around and Iâm on snow shoes! All of the buses are stuck and canât go anywhere. Heâs crazy. We need Mayor Bloomberg back!â
Martin Cisse, 45, who works at a flower shop near 85th and Lex, said he canât understand why the city would fail to plow the UES.
âDe Blasio is trying to hurt the more wealthy people by ignoring us but thereâs no logic to that,â Cisse said.
âThere are a lot of blue collar working people out here driving trucks and trying to get around too.â
Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty, at an evening press briefing, defended the handling of the Upper East Side â claiming that one spreader had a busted GPS and was not reporting progress to the PlowNYC Web site.
âThe GPS was not working,â he said. âAlso, traffic created a lot of problems for us in that area.â
At the same press conference de Blasio stood by his performance. âAll city agencies are acting [like] usual very, very effectively and in a coordinated fashion.â
It is really sad to see sheep, lunatics (liberals), and parasites continue to DESTROY their cities by continuing to vote for democommunists, but it's FAR too late at this point to stop it from continuing. I find NYC to be a beautiful place at Christmas, and the food there is second to none. Won't be long, IMO, they look just like Detroit, however, and that's so sad.