How Queens and Brooklyn Are Coping with the Blizzard
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Laira show on WNYC. |
| 0:13.5 | Good morning again, everyone. |
| 0:15.6 | You have National Weather Services reporting 15 inches so far in Central Park, 15 at LaGuardia and JFK in IceSlipp, |
| 0:26.4 | toward the east end of Long Island on the south shore along the ocean, 22 and a half inches |
| 0:32.2 | in Islip, Long Island. Let's check in with how some of the elected leadership in the city is |
| 0:38.9 | handling this and what they think you need to know and we'll let you report on conditions to them as |
| 0:43.5 | well. We're happy to have with us, Queensboro President Donovan Richards and Brooklyn Borough |
| 0:49.1 | President Antonio Renoso. President Renoso, President Richards, welcome back to WNYC. Thank you for having us on, |
| 0:57.8 | and we know who's the better borough. There you go. There you go. And listeners call in. You |
| 1:07.4 | don't have to be in Queens or Brooklyn, but if you want to speak to your borough |
| 1:11.0 | president about a particular condition, anywhere in Queens or Brooklyn, you certainly can. |
| 1:16.7 | Let us know what the conditions are where you are or what you need, wherever you are. |
| 1:22.6 | 212-433, WNYC, 212, 433, 9692. How are the streets? How is your heat? Are you worried about someone vulnerable on your block? |
| 1:36.2 | And not sure they're getting the outreach from the city or anything like that. 212, 433. WNYC, 212, |
| 1:44.5 | 433-9-6-92, |
| 1:48.4 | call or text. |
| 1:50.6 | All right, |
| 1:51.0 | Borough President Richards, |
| 1:51.9 | where are we just start |
| 1:52.8 | to just describe conditions |
| 1:54.4 | around the borough of Queens right now? |
| 1:57.2 | Well, I have two power outages |
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