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Brooklyn, It's Your Turn To Blizzard Bitch Tonight

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Photograph of 71st Street in Brooklyn by emilydickinsonridesabmx on Flickr

Last night, Staten Island residents aired their grief about the blizzard in a City Council hearing about the city's crappy response. NY1 has a sampling of some of the statements—"This is the first time of my history of 65 years living in New York, that I ever been not able to go out of my house" and “I'm giving sanitation a break. My anger is directed at New York City Transit, in particular Staten Island buses." And tonight at 6 p.m., there will be a blizzard response hearing in Brooklyn, at Brooklyn Borough Hall.

Yesterday, the Daily News pointed out that no Sanitation Department officials were headed to the hearings, which shamed the city into sending one to the meeting. Punching bag Iggy Terranova told residents, "I would like to extend the department's apology. I will take each concern back to Commissioner [John] Doherty."

Expect some complaints about reckless sanitation workers or tow truck drivers at the Brooklyn hearing (Borough Hall is at 209 Joralemon Street); the Manhattan hearing is tomorrow night, followed by Queens on Friday night and the Bronx on Monday night (details).

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  • diablofreak

    all these town hall meetings or hearings mean nothing. nobody will show up except a few unemployed or retired people who's got too much time to kill and think the entire world is against them. i mean the snow fell on their houses!!! the nerve of this storm!!!

    Since you mentioned punching bag, give people a few REAL punching bag, put mayor bloombergs face on it, or put the sanitation assholes who started the work slowdown inside, and the entire city will line up to show up to these meetings.

    Seriously what purposes do these meetings serve? it's been 3 weeks already. What's done is done. Fingers were pointed. We have another storm Friday, why not spend the energy to prep for it? or if we know we will be overcompensating again this time around, better yet, spend the time to prevent another god-knows-what-NYC-will-fuck-up-next-time disaster.

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