The folks over at The Daily News compiled an amazing gallery of New York City snowpocalypse photographs from past decades. It was a simpler time when snowdrifts were melted with flamethrowers, back in 1947.
https://gizmodo.com/tell-me-you-wouldnt-buy-this-snow-fighting-fire-plow-1519897386
An abandoned train on an elevated pass in Third Avenue.
Here are some firefighters trying to “free up equipment completely encrusted in ice” after a fire alarm in 1983.
Cars trapped in the Brooklyn Queens Expressway in 1983.