NYC is sort of mild a very weird winter!
Our weather is weird also resty. Snows one day, sunny the next. Dreary and wet for a few days but mild, then boom, a freeze. It's nuts!! I don't feel like winter has come yet and it's almost over. We have had several winters like this now and the aphids in the spring and summer are getting rather hardy. My poor cherry tree leaves are black with aphids not matter how much I spray. The cherries have been good tho!!