Lest we forget: Last year, we and our neighbors were trapped for FOUR DAYS with no access (except wading through thigh-deep drifts on foot for more than a full city block) by FDNY, EMS, or NYPD. On night two, a taxicab burned to a crisp in the night on our corner, surrounded the next morning by blocks of untracked snow…and this was on CATON, which is (absurdly) a de-facto truck route and highway between the Verrazano and eastern LI. We brought food and water to truckers stranded in their cabs for more than 24 hours. And we passed streets STILL unplowed on DAY 6, at which point Bloomie was lying cheerfully  about how everyone had been plowed. A Sanitation Dept. worker who lives on our block assured us it was indeed a work action, but one by pissed-off supervisors (logical, since they call the shots on sending out plows)…the full story has, I’m convinced, never been told and probably never will. Whatever, let’s just not have a repeat; last time, lives were lost, and I can only thank God we and our immediate neighbors were not among them.

That’s very interesting Brenda. There are lots of NY stories like this one that will never be told, I’m sure- but I agree with you, let’s not have a repeat.

Like you, my neighbors and I were only moderately inconvenienced, but people did die as a consequence of this “work action.” A shame if the supervisors got what they wanted over, literally, a woman in MIdwood’s dead body when no one could come to her aid.

“Enforcement”? When the dollar cabs do “Church Avenue U-Turns” with impunity all the livelong day??

Yes, there are plenty of things that need enforcement, and this is one if them.