From Gothamist:
Mayor Bloomberg spent yesterday getting finger-wagged by angry taxpayers over the snow removal failure, and he let everyone know just how lousy he’s feeling about it on his radio show this morning. “This year is not ending the way I would have preferred, but it’s still been a good year. Nobody has a career that goes straight up,” he glumly pronounced. He also added that the city’s failure to plow the streets days after the blizzard was “character building.”
Yeah. It’s been a real journey in personal growth. Unless, of course, you died, in which case your voyage of self-exploration is over…
A 3-month-old Queens boy was left brain dead last night after snow-clogged routes prevented medics from reaching him quickly — and unplowed streets later forced the EMS workers to ditch their ambulance and sprint with the ailing baby to the hospital.
As little Addison Reynoso hovered at death’s door, a priest performed last rites, and his family considered pulling him off life support.
The baby’s heartbroken father fumed at the city’s lax clean-up response to last weekend’s monster blizzard.
“Clean the streets,” Luis Reynoso said, “because that’s why the ambulance came too late.”
I’m sure Mr. Reynoso is comforted by your character-building experience, Mr. Mayor.