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.

Millions of people in New York City and a large swath of the northeastern U.S. were stuck at home under road travel bans and blizzard warnings Monday as a fierce winter storm barreled into the densely populated region with heavy snowfall and high winds.

A travel ban has been lifted, but a state of emergency remains in effect in New York City after a blizzard battered the region Sunday into Monday afternoon.

A state of emergency and a travel ban were declared ahead of the powerful nor'easter storm.

The Mamdani administration is enforcing rules that require food and yard scraps to be separated, with fines ranging from $25 to $300.

It comes as cities and towns across the U.S. east coast brace for a major late-winter storm.

Mariia Vainshtein never heard the noise and slept straight through that horrible night four years ago. She didn’t have her phone near bed when she woke the next morning — it probably had been taken by her parents for some teenager's misbehavior,

NEW YORK - Track flight delays and cancellations for airports in the New York City area. A ground crew de-ices an Embraer ERJ-175 American Eagle passenger plane at LaGuardia Airport in New York on February 22, 2026. A fast-developing storm is threatening to pummel the US East Coast with a foot or more of snow beginning Sunday, bringing M