Wish you had snow of your own? Eat your heart out!

Upper West Side (Manhattan)

DNAinfo caption: Instagram user Alex Tarhini (@alextnyc) took this photo of a snow-blanketed Upper West Side street. (Click to enlarge.)

by Ken

Some of you have probably had recent snowstorms of your own, while others haven't and are probably feeling mighty jealous. I suppose there are some of you who haven't and are just feeling Schadenfreude for us, which is really mean, but you may enjoy these pictures even more, you rats. Here in the Big Apple we've had a pretty frosty weekend following our big storm of Thursday-into-Friday, which made it regrettably unmanageable for me to get to work Friday, so I worked at home. (Shucks!) The upshot was that my weekend walking tours featured that special Manhattan post-storm ground configuration of a sleek hard-ice glaze and warm streetsides piled with deep slush and equally deep lake-size puddles.

Now, facing a regular workday negotiating that lovely combination, I thought the least I could do was to share some pictorial representations of our storm, gathered by DNAinfo.com from Instagram. So you can either commiserate, envy, or else pity us.


Washington Heights (Manhattan)

DNAinfo caption: "There's nothing prettier than untouched snow up in Washington Heights," wrote Twitter user @stephenweisbrot.

42nd Street (Manhattan)

DNAinfo caption: Harlem Spirituals (@HSNYV_Tours) got a shot of 42nd Street during the storm. (Click to enlarge.)

Astoria (Queens)

DNAinfo caption: "Lowest Rates! Will work for cookies and hot chocolate!" Twitter user @JLa_NYC captures a couple of pint-sized shovelers in Astoria.

Long Island City (Queens), unplowed

DNAinfo caption: Kevin Lynch (@Caoimhin_L) snapped a haunting picture of Long Island City after the night's snowfall.

Long Island City (Queens),  plowed -- sort of

DNAinfo caption: "This is *after* 3 fleets of plows came through," wrote Twitter user @kambri of this shot from Long Island City. (Click to enlarge.)

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