Saturday, January 08, 2011


Video of sanitation bosses boozing during blizzard had been erased, city investigatiors say
Surveillance video caught Sanitation Department supervisors buying six-packs of beer at a Brooklyn bodega and then heading back to their official car during last week’s blizzard chaos — but the footage has since been taped over, and officials want to know why, The Post has learned....


Infant Death One of the Casualties of Blizzard-Crippled Government-Hobbled NYC
Not that there’s anything wonderful about the tragedies that have occurred because emergency personnel were unable to reach victims on streets that should have been cleared of snow by now. The latest and so far youngest victim was a baby born last night inside the lobby of a snowbound Brooklyn apartment building. Calls to 911 by a young mother in labor went unanswered for 10 hours because the EMTs were unable to negotiate the unplowed streets. By the time help arrived, the newborn was dead.

The grieving woman’s mother told the New York Daily News:

The mayor was spouting nonsense to say Crown Heights was plowed. It wasn’t. No one could get to her … Any other day she would have gotten to a hospital....