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Never seen anything like the sheets of ice on the streets and sidewalks of the Bronx this morning. I’m just glad I didn’t bust my ass getting to the subway. All I could think of was Cloris Leachman saying, “The stairway…can be treacherous.” By the time I reached midtown, it was raining and there wasn’t much ice to be found, just slush.

But the ice uptown, man, that was crazy. I told one of the security guards in my building about it and she said, “Welcome to the ‘hood.”

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6 comments

1 ms october   ~  Feb 2, 2011 8:56 am

word, that ice was no joke.
my feet slipped a couple of times but thankfully i never fell.
this slightly chubby kid, probably about 9 or 10 was running on the ice on the way to the train at 116th and announced he was great at running on the ice. had to agree, it was pretty impressive.

2 Alex Belth   ~  Feb 2, 2011 9:06 am

NICE

3 Jon DeRosa   ~  Feb 2, 2011 9:28 am

Tough day to live on a hill.

4 Diane Firstman   ~  Feb 2, 2011 10:40 am

Ice Ice Baby ... feh!

5 RIYank   ~  Feb 2, 2011 11:45 am

Still sub-freezing here, so the roads are sheets of ice. Amazing. I can't go anywhere -- can't go to work. They understood.
Good thing I like my house.

6 thelarmis   ~  Feb 2, 2011 12:30 pm

atlanta was a freakin' hockey rink for about a week straight. it was pretty brutal.

careful up 'ere!

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