Start shoveling, Eric!
There’s nothing mayors in New York City fear more than a snowstorm — unless it’s The Post’s coverage of how they handle it!
Newly minted Big Apple boss Eric Adams said as much during a Friday press conference, just hours before the expected arrival of a doozy of a snow storm that meteorologists say may drop a foot of snow in the five boroughs before it clears out Saturday afternoon.
Former Mayor Bill de Blasio talks to reporters while shoveling snow in front of his house on Jan. 3, 2014. AP Photo/Seth Wenig
De Blasio was known for botched City Hall’s response to a 2014 snowstorm. Getty Images
Mayor Eric Adams addresses the heavy snowfall expect in NYC this weekend a press conference at the Department of Sanitation’s Spring Street Salt Shed in Tribeca on Jan. 28. Stefan Jeremiah for NY Post“If I don’t, The New York Post will be outside my house making sure they take a picture of snow I didn’t shovel, so I’m going to be there bright and early to shovel snow,” the mayor cracked to reporters when asked if he would be clearing the snow on the sidewalk outside the house he owns in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Mayor Bill de Blasio attempted to get ahead of any potential criticism at the beginning of his time in office in 2014 by arranging photo ops where he shoveled snow off the walk of his Park Slope home.
But it didn’t allay the avalanche of criticism he had to dig out from under just a few weeks later when his administration botched the snow removal during the second major snow storm of his first term, leaving neighborhoods — including the posh Upper East Side — unplowed.
NYC is expected to be dumped with a foot of snow Saturday. Getty Images
Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg was slammed for failing to clean all five NYC boroughs during blizzards. NY Post Illustration
De Blasio had arraneged photo-ops of himself shoveling snow near his home. AP Photo/Seth WenigDe Blasio’s predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, saw his approval rating crater after his administration botched its response to a December 2010 blizzard.
