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Rawley James, with her dog Violet, said "I'm all fogged up and ready to go" about the snow storm that is expected to hit New York on Jan. 26, 2015.
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New Yorkers get ready for the looming snow storm. Here, salt spreader works under the Brooklyn Bridge with Manhattan Bridge in background.
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Snow falls in Central Park as governors of New York declared states of emergency ahead of a potentially "historic" blizzard on Jan. 26, 2015.
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The entrance of a closed T station is nearly burried in snow during the blizzard on Jan. 27, 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Icy water covers home and street in Nantucket, Massachusetts after a snow storm brought around 2 feet of snow to some parts of New England.
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This is the New York City skyline. Picture was made at 7:30 PM on 1/26/15 from the Jersey City side of the river. The conditions were extremely windy with blowing snow.(Sam Costanza for New York Daily News)
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Frozen sea spray coats a house with a damaged deck the day after a winter storm in Scituate, Massachusetts on Jan. 28, 2015. Residents of Massachusetts woke up Wednesday to cars buried in several feet of snow, and secondary roads that remain covered
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Men play in the snow along 7th Ave during a storm in Times Square, New York during the early morning of Jan. 27, 2015.
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A man de-ices a plane during a light snow on the runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York, Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. Airlines cancelled thousands of flights into and out of East Coast airports as a major snowstorm packing up to three feet of snow barrels down on the region.
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Well that's one way to get around in this storm! People cross-country ski along Newbury Street in Boston, Massachusetts on Jan. 27, 2015.
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Frozen sea spray coats a house the day after a winter storm in Scituate, Massachusetts on Jan. 28, 2015.
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Icy waters cover a street in Nantucket, Massachusetts after a storm came through New England bringing as much as 2 feet of snow in some places on Jan. 27, 2015.
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An empty street in Manhattan is pictured early Tuesday morning on Jan. 27, 2015. While the sever snow storm has been downgraded from a blizzard, the subway and other forms of public transportation remain suspended.
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Lower Manhattan is shrouded in heavy clouds and snow as blizzard warnings have been issued on Jan. 26, 2015.
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New Yorkers get ready for snow storm astwo people walk with umbrellas, one inside out, on Ocean Ave in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn on Jan. 26, 2015.
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A pedestrian walks in the middle of the street following a winter blizzard in Boston, Massachusetts on Jan. 28, 2015. A powerful blizzard struck Boston and surrounding New England on Tuesday, leaving some 4.5 million people grappling with as much as three feet of snow and coastal flooding.
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Francisco Mathurine, of the Times Square Alliance, clears snow from the steps in Father Duffy Square in New York on Jan. 26, 2015.
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Police and fire personnel prepare to deploy to flooded areas on the coast in Scituate, Massachusetts early on Jan. 27, 2015. A storm packing blizzard conditions spun up the East Coast early Tuesday, pounding parts of coastal New Jersey northward through Maine with high winds and heavy snow.
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Frank DuBose, a student at Harvard University, plays football on the Quad on Jan. 27, 2015 in Cambridge, Massachusetts as snow contimues to fall.
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Manhattan's West Village is being plowed ahead of the lift on the travel ban in New York City on the morning of Jan/ 27, 2015.
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Dick Johnson removes snow from a neighboring driveway on Jan. 26, 2015, in State College. Heavy snow fell overnight, closing all Centre County schools.
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A woman cross country skis on snow covered roads during a large winter blizzard in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Jan. 27, 2015.
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The always noisy city that never sleeps got silent as residents and tourists alike hunkered down and followed a no travel alert set by the mayor which went into effect at 11 p.m. on Jan. 26, 2015. The reported heavy snow that was expected from 11pm did not arrive well after 2 a.m., but the streets were empty, no cars were on the roads and people kept indoors awaiting for what is now reported to be the heaviest snow to come late in the night and early Tuesday morning.
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A lonely passenger makes her way in a deserted subway station in New York during a snow storm on January 26, 2015. A major storm forced New York to impose driving bans and halt public transport late January 26, as snowfall pounded the northeastern United States affecting tens of millions of people. New York shut its transit system at 11pm, made non-emergency road travel a criminal offense in 13 counties and closed tunnels and bridges connecting Manhattan to New Jersey. AFP PHOTO/JEWEL SAMADJEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images
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A real estate property manager clears a sidewalk with a snow blower on Jan. 27, 2015 along Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts. Public transportation in Boston has been shut down due to a heavy snow storm with blizzard conditions set to leave over two feet of snow.
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Orga Cadet, a student at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, plays football with friends on the Quad, on the campus of Harvard University on Jan. 27, 2015 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Pedestrians have a snowball fight in Times Square following a mandatory shutdown of the streets at 11 p.m. on Jan. 26, 2015 in New York City.
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A woman crosses a mostly empty 42nd Street in Times Square, New York, Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. More than 35 million people along the Philadelphia-to-Boston corridor rushed to get home and settle in Monday as a fearsome storm swirled in with the potential for hurricane-force winds and 1 to 3 feet of snow that could paralyze the Northeast for days. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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A man tries to hail a taxi in front of Grand Central Terminal as it snows in the Manhattan borough of New York.
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A group of youth from Texas play snow-ball-fighting on a deserted street in New York's Times Square during a snow storm on Jan. 26, 2015.
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A man with a snow shovel stands in the middle of a snow covered street during a large winter blizzard in Somerville, Massachusetts on Jan. 27, 2015.
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The skyline of lower Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge is seen in falling snow as seagulls fly above the East River and New York Harbor as seen from the Brooklyn shore on Jan. 26, 2015. The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a blizzard warning for New York City and surrounding areas on Monday, and warned of two days of winter storms across the East Coast, from Pennsylvania to Maine.
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A couple walk down New York's Times Square during a snow storm on January 26, 2015. With deserted train stations and eerily empty streets, Winter Storm Juno emptied New York, the "city that never sleeps." The arrival of the mega snow storm was billed by authorities in New York as one of the most severe ever seen. AFP PHOTO/JEWEL SAMADJEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images
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These plastic snowmen sculptures at Madison Square Park are an ominous portent on things to come as the snow begins on Monday morning, on Jan. 26, 2015.
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Valentin Borriello, from Paris, France, has his photograph taken by a friend while lying on 7th Ave during snow storm in Times Square, New York during the early morning of Jan. 27, 2015.
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Tow trucks prepare to remove illegally parked vehicles after a parking and travel ban was put in place in New Haven, Connecticut on Jan. 26, 2015.
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Austin Cawley-Edwards a freshman, and member of the Stevens Institute of Technology Ski and Snowboard team does a jump with the aid of a bungee on campus after a major winter storm on Jan. 27, 2015 in Hoboken, New Jersey.
![Straphangers wait for the Manhattan bound 7 train as it...]()
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Straphangers wait for the Manhattan bound 7 train as it starts to snow in an expected blizzard for the Tri-State area. Photo was taken at 46 St-Bliss Street train station in Sunnyside, Queens on Monday, January 26 , 2015.
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A woman makes her way across a slushy street as a worker cleans the sidewalk in front of New York Methodist Hospital.
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Henry Reyes shovels the sidewalk on Mt. Vernon Street during a blizzard in Boston, Massachusetts on Jan. 27, 2015. A blizzard swept across the northeastern United States on Tuesday, dropping more than a foot (30 cm) of snow across Massachusetts and Connecticut.
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Empty platforms usually crowded when most stayed home or went home early to avoid the storm Monday, January 26, 2015 at the Croton-Harmon Metro North Railroad Station in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. (Robert Sabo/New York Daily News)
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Tow trucks prepare to remove illegally parked vehicles after a parking and travel ban was put in place in New Haven, Connecticut on Jan. 26, 2015.
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NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 26: An NYPD car sits on 8th avenue following road closures on January 26, 2015 in New York City. New York, and much of the Northeast, is bracing for a major winter storm which is expected to bring blizzard conditions and 10 to 30 inches of snow to the area. (Photo by Alex Trautwig/Getty Images)
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Children pull sleds down Chestnut Street during a blizzard in Boston, Massachusetts January 27, 2015. A blizzard swept across the northeastern United States on Tuesday, dropping more than a foot (30 cm) of snow across Massachusetts and Connecticut. REUTERS/Dominick Reuter (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT)
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Sanitation trucks plow the on ramp to the Brooklyn bridge early Tuesday morning as the blizzard continues to hit Manhattan on Jan. 27, 2015.
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A ticket agent waits for customers in a lightly trafficked LaGuardia Airport on Monday morning on Jan. 26, 2015, in New York.
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Passersby walk through an accumulation of snow on Jan. 27, 2015 on the Upper East Side of New York City. Snow levels from winter storm Juno in New York has ranged from 7.8 inches in Central Park to more than 28 inches in Eastern Long Island.
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A worker pushes a snow blower down Lexington Avenue near Grand Central Terminal as the snow continues to fall.
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Dressed in grizzly bear garb, Cicero Goncalves looks to be well prepared for snowy weather as he waits in New York's Penn Station for a train to Vermont on Jan. 26, 2015.
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A cross country skier makes his way along the Charles River past the Boston skyline following a winter blizzard in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Jan. 28, 2015.
![People cross a car-free snow covered West 38th street at...]()
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People cross a car-free snow covered West 38th street at 6th avenue in midtown Manhattan in New York City early on Jan. 27, 2015
![Cars are buried by drifted snow along Marlborough Street in...]()
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Cars are buried by drifted snow along Marlborough Street in Boston, Massachusetts on Jan. 27, 2015.
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Long Island Railroad workers clear the platform of snow at the Glen Head station on the morning of Jan. 27, 2015, in Glen Head, New York. Travel on the railroad was suspended due to a blizzard that hit the New York area overnight into this morning.
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Water floods a street on the coast in Scituate, Massachusetts on Jan. 27, 2015. A storm packing blizzard conditions spun up the East Coast early Tuesday, pounding parts of coastal New Jersey northward through Maine with high winds and heavy snow.
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A vendor steers his cart through a street in New York's Times Square during a snow storm on Jan. 26, 2015. A winter storm pounded the northeastern United US on Jan. 26 hitting tens of millions of people and forcing the rare cancelation of Broadway shows in a "historic" New York blizzard.
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People walk down a clear Lexington Ave. a early Tuesday morning on Jan. 27, 2015 in Manhattan, New York. The ban on travel was lifted public transportation will gradually begin to run.
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A plow is driven through Times Square on Jan. 26, 2015 in New York City. New York, and much of the Northeast, is bracing for a major winter storm which is expected to bring blizzard conditions and 10 to 30 inches of snow to the area.
![A worker pushes a snow blower down Lexington Avenue near...]()
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A worker pushes a snow blower down Lexington Avenue near Grand Central Terminal as it snows in the Manhattan borough of New York January 26, 2015. A swath of the U.S. East Coast from Philadelphia to New York City to Maine was bracing for a potentially historic blizzard on Monday with a winter storm that is expected to dump as much as 3 feet (90 cm) of snow and snarl transportation for tens of millions of people.
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A tractor clears snow from the parking lot of North Shore Golf Car on Glen Cove Avenue on Jan. 27, 2015, in Glen Cove, New York. A storm packing blizzard conditions spun up the East Coast early Tuesday, pounding coastal eastern Long Island into Maine with high winds and heavy snow.
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A snow plow clears the road down Lexington Avenue near Grand Central Terminal as it continues to snow in New York.
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Bainee Parsaud spreads salt on a sidewalk outside his workplace before heavy snowfall arrives on Jan. 26, 2015, in New York. Northeast residents are girding for a heavy snowstorm that could bury communities from northern New Jersey to southern Maine in up to two feet of snow.
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Michael Marchand snowboards down the steps at Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn during a city-wide snow day on Jan. 26, 2015.
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Sanitation trucks drive down the nearly clear Flushing Avenue in Brooklyn on Jan. 27, 2015
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A New York City snowplow, loaded with salt, sits parked in midtown Manhattan as light snow falls on Jan. 26, 2015. Northeast residents are girding for a heavy snowstorm that could bury communities from northern New Jersey to southern Maine in up to two feet of snow.
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People rush to catch their train at Penn Station while a major snowstorm begins on Jan. 26, 2015 in New York City. The storm is expected to bring 1-3 feet of snow to the New York City region over the next 36 hours.
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An aerial view of 7th Avenue in Times Square shows snow covering the streets of New York on Jan. 26, 2015.
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Vin, a Border Collie, finds some running room on the snowy steps of the Bunker Hill Monument in Boston's Charlestown section on Jan. 28, 2015, one day after a blizzard dumped about two feet of snow in the city.
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A passer-by uses an umbrella while walking along a snow-covered path in the Boston Common on Jan. 26, 2015, in Boston. New England is bracing for a blizzard threatening more than two feet of snow, hurricane-force winds and coastal flooding.
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Snow blankets the South End neighborhood during a blizzard on Jan. 27, 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts. Up to three feet of snow is expected to hit parts of Massachusetts.
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Snow piles up at the entrance of a closed T station is seen during the blizzard on Jan. 27, 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts.
![Snow-removal crews plow Memorial Drive during a blizzard in Cambridge,...]()
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Snow-removal crews plow Memorial Drive during a blizzard in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Jan. 27, 2015 after a blizzard swept across the northeastern United States dropping more than a foot of snow across Massachusetts and Connecticut.
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The skyline of lower Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge is seen in falling snow as seagulls fly above the East River and New York Harbor as seen from the Brooklyn shore, January 26, 2015. The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a blizzard warning for New York City and surrounding areas on Monday, and warned of two days of winter storms across the East Coast, from Pennsylvania to Maine. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT)
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A man strolls on a walking path at Liberty State Park, with the Statue of Liberty in the distance, Monday, Jan. 26, 2015, in Jersey City, N.J. The Philadelphia-to-Boston corridor of more than 35 million people began shutting down as a monster storm, that could unload a paralyzing 1 to 3 feet of snow, moved through the northeast.
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NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 26: Times Square is mostly empty following road closures on January 26, 2015 in New York City. New York, and much of the Northeast, is bracing for a major winter storm which is expected to bring blizzard conditions and 10 to 30 inches of snow to the area. (Photo by Alex Trautwig/Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 26: Pedestrians gather in Times Square following road closures on January 26, 2015 in New York City. New York, and much of the Northeast, is bracing for a major winter storm which is expected to bring blizzard conditions and 10 to 30 inches of snow to the area. (Photo by Alex Trautwig/Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 26: A plow is driven in Times Square following road closures on January 26, 2015 in New York City. New York, and much of the Northeast, is bracing for a major winter storm which is expected to bring blizzard conditions and 10 to 30 inches of snow to the area. (Photo by Alex Trautwig/Getty Images)
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New York prepares for a looming blizzard that is expected to pummel the city with up to three feet of snow. Here, people bundle up as they brace the severe weather in Flatbush, Brooklyn on Jan. 26, 2015.
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NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 26: Pedestrians walk through a mostly empty Times Square following road closures on January 26, 2015 in New York City. New York, and much of the Northeast, is bracing for a major winter storm which is expected to bring blizzard conditions and 10 to 30 inches of snow to the area. (Photo by Alex Trautwig/Getty Images)
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Strong winds begin to kick up already fallen snow in Zuccoti park in Lower Manhattan during the snow storm on Jan. 27, 2015.
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Cars are buried by drifted snow from a winter snowstorm in Marlborough, Massachusetts on Jan. 27, 2015.
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Thousands of commuters wait at Penn Station as a more than 3 feet of snow is expected to fall on the city on Jan. 26, 2015.
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Fishing boats ride out the storm at dock in Scituate, Massachusetts on Jan. 27, 2015. The winter storm packing blizzard conditions spun up the East Coast early Tuesday, pounding parts of coastal New Jersey northward through Maine with high winds and heavy snow.
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New Yorkers get ready for snow storm. HERE, city gives warning to motorists while driving on Brooklyn Queens Expressway. January 26, 2015 (by Todd Maisel, New York Daily News)snow
![Pedestrians make their way through driving snow in midtown Manhattan...]()
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Pedestrians make their way through driving snow in midtown Manhattan in New York on Jan. 26, 2015. More than 35 million people along the Philadelphia-to-Boston corridor rushed to get home and settle in Monday as a fearsome storm swirled in with the potential of 1 to 3 feet of snow that could paralyze the Northeast for days.
![People walk by Penn Station as a major snowstorm begins...]()
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People walk by Penn Station as a major snowstorm begins on Jan. 26, 2015 in New York City. The storm is expected to bring 1-3 feet of snow to the New York City region over the next 36 hours.
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The entrance to the World Trace Center PATH station in Lower Manhattan is shuttered during the snow storm on Jan. 27, 2015.
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A train passenger carries a bag he left behind on Jan. 26, 2015 on an Amtrak train north of Providence, Rhode Island. Outward bound trains between New York and Boston were traveling full due to an expected heavy snow storm with blizzard conditions leaving over two feet of snow and the threat of coastal flooding closer to the Boston area.
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An uptown E train is parked at the Chambers St. station. The E train along with other lines have been running empty trains through the subway system.
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A view looking up 7th Avenue in Times Square in falling snow near dusk in New York, January 26, 2015. The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a blizzard warning for New York City and surrounding areas on Monday, and warned of two days of winter storms across the East Coast, from Pennsylvania to Maine. REUTERS/Mike Segar (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT)
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Officials cautioned Northeast residents to not be misled by a relatively smooth Monday morning commute, and pressed their cautions to prepare for a "crippling and potentially historic" storm that could bury communities from northern New Jersey to southern Maine in up to two feet of snow starting later in the day. Here, the 7 train is shown traveling above Queens Boulevard in Sunnyside, Queens on Jan. 26 , 2015.
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Snow swirls in white out conditions during a blizzard on Jan. 27, 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts. Twenty-six inches of snow fell on Boston by the late afternoon, and up to 33 inches in other parts of Massachusetts.
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Frozen sea spray coats houses the day after a winter storm in Scituate, Massachusetts on Jan. 28, 2015. Residents of Massachusetts woke up Wednesday to cars buried in several feet of snow, and secondary roads that remain covered.
![Pedestrians make their way through heavy snow in midtown Manhattan...]()
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Pedestrians make their way through heavy snow in midtown Manhattan in New York on Jan. 26, 2015. The Philadelphia-to-Boston corridor of more than 35 million people began shutting down as a monster storm, that could unload a paralyzing 1 to 3 feet of snow, moved through the northeast.
![Commuters stand under an umbrella next to snow which was...]()
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Commuters stand under an umbrella next to snow which was being plowed to the street edge from a walkway in Times Square, New York on Jan. 26, 2015.
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Charlie Glover leaves a two foot tall path as he uses a snow blower to dig himself out of the snow in New Bedford, Massachusetts on Jan. 27, 2015.
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A tug boat pushes a barge down the East River as pictured from the United Nations building as it snows in the Manhattan borough of New York on Jan. 26, 2015. The U.S. Northeast on Monday braced for a massive, crippling blizzard that could dump as much as three feet of snow as tens of millions of people were urged to stay home and airlines canceled thousands of flights.
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Jamina Goop, from Liechtenstein, does a handstand as she is photographed by a friend (unseen) during a snow storm in Times Square, New York during the early morning of Jan. 27, 2015.
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Margaret Naneder of Argentina takes a "selfie" as the snow falls in New Haven, Connecticut on Jan. 26, 2015.
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A man shovels snow from a deserted street in New York's Times Square during a snow storm on Jan. 26, 2015.
![A man begins cleanup at his house in Scituate, Massachusetts...]()
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A man begins cleanup at his house in Scituate, Massachusetts on Jan. 28, 2015, the day after a winter storm left his neighborhood coated in frozen sea spray and sand.
![Snow falls around the Empire State Building in midtown Manhattan,...]()
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Snow falls around the Empire State Building in midtown Manhattan, on Monday, Jan. 26, 2015, in New York. Tens of millions of people along the Philadelphia-to-Boston corridor rushed to get home and settle in Monday as a fearsome storm swirled in with the potential for hurricane-force winds and 1 to 3 feet of snow that could paralyze the Northeast for days.
![A snow plow clears the road down Lexington Avenue near...]()
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A snow plow clears the road down Lexington Avenue near Grand Central Terminal as it snows in the Manhattan borough of New York City on Jan. 26, 2015. A swath of the U.S. East Coast from Philadelphia to New York City to Maine was bracing for a potentially historic blizzard on Monday with a winter storm that is expected to dump as much as 3 feet (90 cm) of snow and snarl transportation for tens of millions of people.
![A father and daughter in Somerville, Massachusetts enjoy the snow...]()
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A father and daughter in Somerville, Massachusetts enjoy the snow by building an igloo during a winter snowstorm on Jan. 27, 2015.
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The Brooklyn Bridge is barely visible during the snow storm during the early morning of Jan. 27, 2015.
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Two people walk along a snow covered street during a large winter blizzard in Somerville, Massachusetts on Jan. 27, 2015.
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NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 26: A pedestrian walks across 8th avenue following road closures on January 26, 2015 in New York City. New York, and much of the Northeast, is bracing for a major winter storm which is expected to bring blizzard conditions and 10 to 30 inches of snow to the area. (Photo by Alex Trautwig/Getty Images)
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A man makes a snow angel in an almost empty Times Square during the early morning of Jan. 26, 2015.
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A woman waits for a B train on the snow covered Sheepshead Bay platform at the start of what is expected to be a record setting snowfall on Monday, Jan. 26, 2014 in Brooklyn, NY.
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A worker clears snow from an overnight storm on Jan. 27, 2015, in Newtown, Pennsylvania. A storm packing blizzard conditions spun up the East Coast early Tuesday, pounding parts of coastal New Jersey northward through Maine with high winds and heavy snow.
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A man de-ices a plane during a light snow at a gate at LaGuardia Airport in New York on Jan. 26, 2015. Airlines canceled thousands of flights into and out of East Coast airports as a major snowstorm packing up to three feet of snow barrels down on the region.
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Police and fire personnel prepare to deploy to flooded areas on the coast in Scituate, Massachusetts early on Jan. 27, 2015.
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The streets of New Haven, Connecticut are deserted after a travel ban was put in place on Jan. 26, 2015. A massive, wind-whipped blizzard slammed into the U.S. Northeast on Monday. States of emergency were declared in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire as people were urged to stay home with transit systems, including the New York City subway, suspending services and roadways closed amid white-out conditions.
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NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 26: A man walks down mostly empty streets following road closures in Times Square on January 26, 2015 in New York City. New York, and much of the Northeast, is bracing for a major winter storm which is expected to bring blizzard conditions and 10 to 30 inches of snow to the area. (Photo by Alex Trautwig/Getty Images)
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People cross a car-free snow covered 7th Avenue in midtown Manhattan in New York City early on January 27, 2015. A "life-threatening" blizzard barreled into the U.S. Northeast, affecting up to 20 percent of Americans as it kept workers and students housebound, halted thousands of flights and prompted officials to ban cars from roads and shut down public transport.
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New Yorkers make their way around the city amid concerns that a blizzard could dump more than three feet of snow on Jan. 26, 2015.
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The Long Island Rail Road shows delays as people head home to prepare for a historic snow storm that is expected to bring over 2 feet of snow overnight on Jan. 26, 2015.
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Hundreds of children and parents sled down the hills of Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn during a city-wide snow day on Jan. 26, 2015.
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A child enjoys the snow in Breezy Point in the Rockaways after a snow storm pummeled the East Coast on Jan. 27, 2015.
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Pedestrians cross Queens Boulevard at 46th Street in Sunnyside, Queens as it starts to snow on an expected blizzard for the Tri-State on Jan. 26 , 2015.
The city that never sleeps was rendered a ghost town.
One of the world’s most vibrant cities at night was desolate and barren early Tuesday morning after New Yorkers, staring down what was anticipated as a monster of a winter storm, heeded the dire warnings of city and state government officials and stayed indoors.
From Times Square to Penn Station, the most iconic and well-traveled parts of the city remained unblinking in their luminosity – albeit it devoid of life.
State of emergency was declared and experts predicted the blizzard would eclipse the 26.9 inches that fell on the city Feb. 12, 2006.
“This is literally the calm before the storm,” Mayor de Blasio warned Monday afternoon.
Port Authority and MTA officials shut down bridges and tunnels along with subway and bus service after 11 p.m. Monday, a de facto travel ban that had the intended effect. New York was a ghost town by midnight.
While parts of Long Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island got pounded by the nor’easter, snow accumulations in the city were modest overnight: 5.5 inches recorded in Central Park after midnight, according to the National Weather Service.
Snow plows alone roamed empty streets as commuters made a quick exit by mid-afternoon and locals emptied grocery shelves and hunkered down.
