For the first time in my memory - and I've lived in this neighborhood a long time - the Sanitation Dept. really screwed up and left many major neighborhoods in Brooklyn untouched by their plows. Usually by this time, the city plows would have been down the side streets at least once, possibly twice. Not this year.
Do you remember the big storm from February, 1969? It got to be known as the "Mayor Lindsay" storm after the Sanitation Dept. did a TERRIBLE job of clearing the snow away. The then mayor, John Lindsay, took the blame for the poor effort of the City's Sanitation Dept. and it ended up costing him a lot of backing in political circles.
Streets remained unplowed for days... it's beginning to look like this storm will be a repeat of that.
