(Bloomberg) — Reopen Broadway, start up the trains again and get the commuters back on the road. The great New York City blizzard of '15 was, alas, a bust.
Not that there was no snow — Manhattan's Central Park had 7.9 inches (20 centimeters) as of 7 a.m. — but the dire forecasts of as much as 36 inches never came to pass. What happened?
It was a fine line, meteorologists said, between this storm being a direct hit on New York and just grazing it. The storm's path was off about 50 to 75 miles and that was all it took. Just 85 miles east of Central Park, over in Mattituck on the north fork of Long Island, they got 24 inches, said David Stark, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Upton, New York.
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