NEW YORK (VINnews) – Nearly a week after Winter Storm Fern dumped over a foot of snow, New York City is still reeling. Streets are blocked by mountains of snow and piles of uncollected garbage. Sidewalks are impassable, buses struggle to run, and residents are navigating a city that feels paralyzed. Trash bags sit uncollected for more than a week, rats scavenge through overflowing refuse, and snow mountains loom on nearly every corner. For a city of 8 million, this is unacceptable.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani planned for the storm. He held meetings, referenced his predecessors’ failures, deployed press conferences, social media campaigns, and even volunteers to shovel snow. Yet the result on the ground is chaos. Planning and publicity cannot substitute for execution. Streets remain poorly cleared. Trash piles up. Public transportation is crippled. Residents’ patience is wearing thin.
Contrast this with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who may have been arrogant but knew how to manage crises. When New Yorkers faced emergencies, Cuomo coordinated agencies and delivered results. Mamdani, by contrast, presides over a city that looks more like a disaster zone than a metropolis.
Preparation alone does not equal competence. A mayor’s job is results—and right now, Mamdani is failing. NYC’s first crisis under his watch proves what many warned before the election: political talent cannot replace managerial skill. Words and appearances will not clear streets, move buses, or pick up trash. Leadership is about action, not optics.
Grade: F
This is what happens when someone who has never had any experience managing anything, let alone the largest city in the world, comes into power.
14 homeless died in the streets.
The streets are still not fully cleared from snow.
Garbage has piled up. https://t.co/rUXC1PPmZJ— Mike Lawler (@lawler4ny) February 1, 2026
14 homeless already froze to death thanks to the new Administration. https://t.co/m0f61sqMQJ
— Kalman Yeger (@KalmanYeger) February 1, 2026
Ah, the warm embrace of collectivism is taking hold. Make sure to indicate your preferred pronouns.
He also didn’t clean up the the homeless people before the storm. Now at least 10 are dead.
Im still scratching my head over his latest city govt appointment of a former armed robber who sat years in jail as head of the NYC bureau of prisons
and no one say boo… is it only me???
Keep voting Democrat
very well said – he’s a DISASTER and won’t last long
Welcome to Mamdanistan!
I’m so glad even though I’m suffering from this mismanagement all those who voted for him hope they suffer the worst this is they wanted
So 14 homeless froze to death due to Mamzerdani’s policies. Is he planning to give them free funerals?
More then a week after this huge snowstorm, the roads still look like the storm was yesterday and not a week ago already. If this new administration is trying to impress residents of NYC, they’re doing a lousy job. For the City of NY to be so incapacitated from a storm that befell over a week ago, is SHAMEFUL and that’s putting it mildly. FEH !
Very unbiased opinion.
What are these opinionated politicians doing for the homeless except criticism. That is all they are good for.
You voted for him……
“Contrast this with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who may have been arrogant but knew how to manage crises “… don’t you think it’s a bit late for that !!!
WHERE ARE most of THE RABBIS? I HAVE BEEN THREATED, TOLD TO F OFF, AND SLANDERED. BUT I WILL NEVER GIVE UP. Mamdani is a young Hitler. Most of the rabbi’s pre-Holocaust were silent, my parents were in the concentration camps, I lost my grandparents, aunts and uncles and siblings. Never again must mean never again. Another holocaust can happen. The only way to silence me is to assonate me like so many true leaders have been . Please support me and ask your rabbis to speak out loudly. rabbi
I think Mamdani is a great threat to New York and many New Yorkers. His insistence on bringing his pro Hamas politics into New York is no good for the city. His job is to run New York as it’s Mayor not advance his pro Palestinian agenda for a small swath of land adjacent to the State of Israel. However suggesting that he could have singlehandedly dealt with one of the largest snow storms in decades is simply nonsense. The relevant departments of the city responsible for snow clearance are under the same professional management as they were before Mamdani was elected. It is the heads of those departments whose performance needs to be examined.
Cuomo knew how to manage crisis….. just look at Covid nursing homes. What a clown article. It’s been freezing for 10 days of course the snow hasn’t melted
The NYC Sanitation Department used to have a very tall machine (similar to a crane), which extended about 35 feet into the air. Snow was sucked into that machine, and then it was expelled by that machine into waiting flat bed trucks. The truckers would haul the snow to the East River, and dump it into the river. This ensured that snow would not be piled up in large mounds, and block streets. I witnessed that machine being used on Coney Island Avenue, near Avenue H, following a 16 inch snowfall, which occurred years ago. In my community, for the first time inyears, my residential street was plowed by a snow plow. Also, on the first day of the storm, our garbage was actually collected by a local sanitation truck; and, the recycling personnel came the next day, to haul the recycling materials away.
I live upstate. The roads are nice, the busses can drive and our garbage is being picked up! Yay to us! We don’t have a mamdani leadership!!!
“NYC’s first crisis under his watch proves what many warned before the election ” …& he still got elected !!!
I thought he did a pretty good job shoveling the snow off the streets as soon as possible. And i had my garbage picked up too. Don’t know what your talking about.
I guess i needed a vinnews article to convince me otherwise. And a magic wand for warmer weather.
The question is whether your hatred blinds you to everything.
He’s been mayor less than a month. Yet, in general, the streets were plowed, heating centers opened, and the city is digging out.
I’ve seen no evidence of “collectivism” at work with this nor any major failures.
And, yes, Bloomberg did drop the ball during the storm of 2011.
I’m not a Mamdani fan. I have tremendous concerns.
At the same time, we can’t be like “the boy who cried wolf” for every single, little thing.
This was a terrible storm. No mayor would have done much better. Regardless, mandani is an incompetent
Stam gehockt! Remember when Mike Blumberg didn’t shovel BP for a week after a storm!
It’s all just Zohran Syndrome
I had trash pickup. What are you comparing this too.