What Happened to the Plows? A Letter From a Concerned Bed-Stuy Resident

Patricia Connelly is a Special Education Advocate and Bed-Stuy resident. She recently wrote this open letter to Senator Velmanette Montgomery and City Councilman Al Vann, addressing the lack of snow removal in the neighborhood.

What are your thoughts on the letter? Tell us how you feel in the comments section below.



Dear Elected Representatives:

Not one NYC sanitation truck with a snow plow has been down our street or any of our surrounding "secondary" - or is it "tertiary"? -  streets here in our neck of Bed-Stuy since the blizzard began -- and there are now sections of these roads where high winds have created drifts more than two and a half feet deep.  

I guess the Mayor doesn't believe that my neighbors and family have anywhere important to get to anytime soon.  And what about my elderly neighbors with limited mobility and other shut-ins needing food and other household necessities?  Has anyone at City Hall thought of them?

I ask you to ask the Mayor why is Bed-Stuy still buried under snow when friends and family of mine who live in Manhattan have had their streets cleared since early yesterday afternoon?  

Yours truly,
Patricia Connelly