Call For Photos: SNOW!

Are you ready for the biggest snowstorm of the decade?! Here's all you need to know about handling the white stuff tomorrow. And if you venture out and take some photos, send them to us—let us know how you would like to be credited—or tag them with "Gothamist" on Flickr!

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By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events on February 9, 2010 8:00 PM

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valeriob

SNOMG!

ides_of_march

Just looked out the window: It's coming down like carbon credits right now.

ed_Extinct

if it does snow, i will be out n about shooting film!

usernamee

we arent going to get any snow.

it's too warm out there.

pinball29

The little house on 5th Ave???? Does anyone know the history of it, when it was torn down?

And yes, I well remember the winter of 1994, where a storm like whats comng tomorrow would not even have made the news, only the weather report, but that was before the media started getting completely hysterical over a common and normal event like a snowstorm in winter.

Jen Carlson

update: http://gothamist.com/2010/02/11/flashback_about_that_house_on_5th_a.php

Hardy

Oh please. The storm has barely even started. The nasty stuff comes tomorrow morning.

babyhitler

It's the biggest sleetstorm that aint even sticking to the sidewalk of the century.

thefacts

Never believe the hype.

theevilone

NYC is a blessing and a curse. The tremendous resources, manpower and efficiency of the city will enable me to get to work tomorrow. I live perhaps 50 blocks from where I work.

While I mocked our metropolitan neighbors to the south for not being able to react or cope with snow at all, I find a small amount of envy. I would like to be held captive by the snow for approximately 24 hours, and then I would like to sally forth!

lucyvanpelt

I remember the wonderful winter of 1994, where we just kept getting pummeled by one snowstorm after another.

I have a photo, somewhere, of a friend of mine and I standing on top of a snowpile around a light pole in or near Central Park. We were leaning on the pole. The top of the pole, that is. I think that photo is with a bunch of others that show completely buried cars on the UWS. You couldn't tell where one car ended and another began--it was just a solid wall of snow. The sidewalks looked like trenches.

It was awesome. I love snow.

learnedhand

I remember that storm. There was a water main break on my street a day or two before, so the plows couldn't get down the block because of the crater on the corner. I have a picture of me and my sister standing in the middle of the street with the snow practically up to our necks. Snow wasn't so bad back then when I didn't have to drag my sorry a$$ to work.

SP

I'm betting this is just more BS hype, and we'll get maybe six to eight inches tops.

seven

What's most amazing about this photoset is that it appears there was a freestanding house at 5th Ave and 48th Street in 1947.

narsy

Agreed! I never expected that house. These photos amaze me, but I know my students, who were born in the mid 1990's. will absolutely stare in awe.

justthinkin

Love that 60's shot outside the Plaza..."We're rich...we're underdressed...we're in Life magazine! Woohoo!!!"

zincink

they act like we are all going to die!

- charging my camera battery -

Greenpoint60

1960, that was great we had a day off of school, I was out all day playing in the snow!!

Greenpoint60

When I was a kid I spoke to real old people who told me about the blizzard of 1888. The city was shut down for three days

harrisgraber

The only thing that I like about the coming snowstorm is the chance to take photos. I'm going to go out instead of staying home where it's warm & cozy and there are lots of DVDs that need watching. Let's hope the weather isn't too bad during the day. Any photos will be of Astoria, not Midtown Manhattan though. I'm not crazy enough to venture that far.