Huge swaths of the city have spent days under two feet of snow, but East Seventh Street between Greenwood Avenue and Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn may have been the hardest hit in town.
With a large population of elderly residents struggling to buy groceries or even walk out their door, the Windsor Terrace street was buried in fear and anxiety as well as snow.
As plow after plow passed them by, the younger residents became so fed up they spray-painted “Not Plowed” on a large piece of plywood and shoved it in a snow bank.
Jennifer and Kevin Gross, who had just returned from the hospital with their newborn son, Aaron, the day before the storm, have been trapped in their homes and can’t make it to the pediatrician.
“We haven’t been able to take him to his first appointments,” the school principal said.
“Every other block around here has been plowed — I just don’t understand why ours hasn’t.”
Annette Oddo, 85, meanwhile, has been unable to make it out of her house for several days and was running low on food — until a eighbor took her to the grocery store.
“This is just so unreasonable. It has never been like this before,” she said.
But the residents’ ordeal may finally be over. Early this morning, a plow trudged through.