The big blizzard last weekend, dumped over 27 inches of snow on the borough and its residents. Crime, according to DCPI, decreased by 40% on Saturday, January 23 and Sunday, January 24, in the borough. Arial view looking north of the snowstorm on Jerome Avenue and Minerva Place. Insert, A sanitation truck that was plowing Pelham Bay got stuck and needed to be dug out of the snow on Edison Avenue between St. Theresa and Westchester avenues.Photo by Edwin Soto
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Photo by Miriam Quin
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Snow on Bedford Park Boulevard near Lehman College left a pedestrian without a boot.
Photo by Miriam Quin
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Fire hydrants were nearly buried in the area around Lehman College.
Photo by Miriam Quin
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A tractor plows the snow on Jerome Avenue and 199th Street.
Photo by Miriam Quin