One person was killed in East Harlem and a traffic accident blacked out 1,500 Con Ed customers in Staten Island as the city cleaned up after the winter’s first snow storm.
In the East Harlem accident, a 25-year-old man was walking across Third Avenue near 111th Street about 4:20 a.m. when he slipped and fell in the snow, police said.
He was then run over by a Dodge Durango.
The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene. The Dodge Durango’s driver stayed the scene and is not expected to be charged, said police.
About 90 minutes later in Staten Island, a car took down a utility pole at the corner of Sunset Avenue and Taft Court, blacking out about 1,500 Con Ed customers around Willowbrook. Power was restoerd at about 8 a.m.
At an 8:15 a.m. appearance at Sanitation Department headquarters in Manhattan, Mayor Bloomberg said the city got about two inches of snow — except in the Bronx, where accumulations were slightly higher.
The city has sent forward an armada of salt spreaders and plows which it’s tracking with a new GPS system.
Bloomberg expected the snow to taper by midday. “Whatever does get on the ground will disappear in a day or so,” he predicted.
