New Yorkers should find love in the latest snowstorm, Mayor Adams said.
The biggest Big Apple snowstorm in years is a good excuse to draw the blinds and crawl back into bed, according to Hizzoner.
“Stay home. This is a good baby-making day … As my son would say, just do Netflix and chill — that’s all and just enjoy the day,” Adams said live on WABC’s “Eyewitness News This Saturday Morning.”
Adams then doubled down on the joke when host Pedro Rivera asked if New York would get a “baby boom” in the spring.
“We want to improve the population,” Hizzoner joked.
“But in all seriousness, really hats off to the Department of Sanitation, FDNY, and our other emergency response [teams] … Because we were expecting 11 inches and really we got about four inches and by 6 a.m., all of our streets had at least one pass from our plows. So, a really great job.”
Adams appeared on the morning show to caution New Yorkers and tourists alike about the icy conditions that are likely to accompany the overnight dumping, which has been paired with below-freezing temperatures.
New Yorkers woke up Saturday morning to a roughly 4-inch blanket, a far cry from the nearly 11-inch pummeling city officials had warned was incoming.
The snowstorm was slowed down after running into dense, cold air, dramatically reducing the amount of forecasted precipitation.
Queens saw the biggest snowfall of the five boroughs, with Howard Beach recording 4.6 inches, according to the National Weather Service.
But the other boroughs were just a hair behind, with Fordham, Williamsburg and Central Park each measuring 4.3 inches.
The storm marks the biggest snowfall since 8.3 inches were dumped in Central Park in 2022.
Despite the drop since the initial forecast, the Department of Sanitation has been ordered to continue plowing and salting every street as if the city had received nearly a foot of snowflakes.
The roads should be significantly cleared by 10 p.m., according to the mayor.
“Whenever you fall, you never forget it. So we want to make sure that folks are safe as they move through the streets. So probably around about 9-10-ish, we’re going to see the roads fairly clear,” Adams said.
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