Plenty of New York City mayors have faced blowback over their handling of blizzards. In several appearances this week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has sought to show he is prepared.

He got a flurry of reactions. Mayor Zohran Mamdani was mocked online for seemingly playing it safe in his announcement to New Yorkers that “3–16 inches of snow” could fall this weekend — after past City Hall administrations have created their own political nightmares for their handling of winter storms.

Former Mayor Eric Adams notably received an “A” from the New York Post for his first snowstorm. The paper noted that Adams was out “ bright and early ” visiting all five boroughs. He even made good on his promise to shovel his own sidewalk outside his Brooklyn home.

Gov. Kathy Hochul advised New Yorkers to stock up on groceries and other essentials, adding that with 12 to 18 inches of snow in the forecast, no corner of the state would be “immune from Mother Nature’s wrath.

The 20 million people of the New York City metro area are bracing for the impacts of the winter storm that's now predicted to bury the city under up to a foot of snow, snarling travel, closing schools,

Mayor Zohran Mamdani, amid snow flurries drifting through High Bridge Park in the Bronx, on Saturday announced longtime public servant Tricia Shimamura as his pick to lead New York City’s vast parks system.