First major winter storm of 2014
A pedestrian uses his cross-country skies on 58th Street during his morning commute, Jan. 3, 2014.
New
York City public schools were closed Friday after up to eight inches of
snow fell by morning in the first snowstorm of the winter.
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Two people dressed as Disney characters talk under falling snow in Times Square, in New York, Jan. 2, 2014.
The storm is expected to bring snow, stiff winds and punishing cold into the Northeast.
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A tattered flag flies by a flooded yard along the shore in Scituate, Mass., Jan. 3, 2014.
A blustering winter storm that dropped nearly two feet of snow just north of Boston, shut down major highways in New York and Pennsylvania and forced U.S. airlines to cancel thousands of flights nationwide menaced the Northeast on Friday with howling winds and frigid temperatures.
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A pedestrian walks through morning snow, in Albany, N.Y., Jan. 2, 2014.
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A pedestrian walks in the snow in Albany, N.Y., Jan. 2, 2014.
Up to five inches of snow had fallen in eastern New York early Thursday, but the National Weather Service said some areas from Buffalo to Albany could get up to 12 inches by the time the storm subsides on Friday.
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A pedestrian walks through morning snow, in Albany, N.Y., Jan. 2, 2014.