This is a made-up story. I have spent the past few hours in lower manhattan and brooklyn, and nothing seems out of the ordinary compared to previous storms. I haven’t been up to the UES, but I looked at the snow map (the one cited in the article), and there does not appear to be any difference between the UES and anywhere else in the city.
Bloomberg was notorious for having the area around his house (on the UES) plowed faster than anywhere else — the people who are complaining today are probably just used to that favorable treatment, and are complaining now that they’re not getting it.
Yeah, but in fairness, Bloomberg had to be able to get out in a hurry to catch his jet to the Caribbean every weekend.