Now, this was a deep snow, purportedly from Indiana/Ohio in 1978. http://www.pic2fly.com/Mansfield+Ohio+Blizzard+Of+1978.html I guess the picture is real, it probably did not fall all at once.
This may have been a fizzle in NYC.
That is true. It fell over two days/and a half. I was a cop at the time and we had volunteer 4WD owners who ferried us all over town to answer emergency calls (when people get stranded with each other in such circumstances, many get vicious.). I remember running over an abandoned car on a street. We thought it was a drift.