As the forecast rapidly worsened, Mayor Zohran Mamdani urged his staff to implement new policies and emphasized the need to communicate aggressively about the snow.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Monday that his administration had taken lessons from the city’s last storm, when at least 20 people died after exposure to the cold.
A homeless encampment in Queens. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Monday that so far, no outdoor deaths had been reported in New York City during the blizzard.