Snowstorms that buried Long Island, NYC over the past 100-plus years
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Credit: Huntington Historical Museum
1888: Snow covered the corner of Stewart Avenue and Main Street in Huntington.
Credit: The New York Historical Society
March 1888: A grocery store on West 11th Street in Manhattan was damaged in this storm.
Credit: Queensborough Public Library
March 1888: The Long Island Rail Road struggles to operate during this blizzard in Rockaway.
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1930s: This blizzard brought LIRR service to a standstill in New Hyde Park.
Credit: Newsday
Dec. 26, 1947: A Long Islander struggles to move her car along Main Street in Hempstead.
Credit: Newsday / Bill Sullivan
February 16, 1958: Workers remove snow along Main Street in Huntington.
Credit: Newsday / James O'Rourke
December 13, 1960: Kids sled down Semon Road in Huntington on a snow day.
Credit: Newsday / Dick Morseman
December 12, 1960: Traffic is stalled on the entrance to the Meadowbrook Parkway and Hempstead Turnpike after a snow storm.
Credit: Newsday / Max Heine
March 3, 1960: Cows graze outside during a snow storm near the corner of Rte 25 and 25A in Smithtown.
Credit: Newsday / James O'Rourke
March 3, 1960: The streets of Hempstead were at a standstill during a snow storm.
Credit: Newsday / Jim Nightingale
January 14, 1964: Cars sit in snow drifts at a lot on Hempstead Turnpike in Levittown.
Credit: Newsday / Dick Morseman
January 13, 1964: A car is covered by snow drifts on Hempstead Turnpike in Levittown.
Credit: Newsday / Ike Eichorn
January 14, 1964: Stalled cars sit in snow on the Northern State Parkway looking east from the Broadway Hicksville overpass.
Credit: Newsday / Bob Luckey
January 25, 1965: A man trudges through snow and slush on Main Street in Hempstead.
Credit: Newsday / Stan Wolfson
January 9, 1974: A Nassau County patrolman and two commuters push a panel truck out of the snow and back onto the Long Island Expressway in Old Westbury.
Credit: J. Michael Dombroski
1978: Motorists stranded in the eastbound lane of the Long Island Expressway at Exit 49 in Melville.
Credit: Newsday / Thomas R. Koeniges
March 5, 1981: Commuters clear snow from their cars at the Smithtown LIRR station.
Credit: Newsday / Karen Wiles
March 5, 1981: Allison Becker, 4, enjoys the swing in her backyard in Bellerose.
Credit: Newsday / Karen Wiles
February 12, 1983: Shoppers trudge through the snow with their groceries on Jericho Turnpike in Bellerose.
Credit: Newsday / Ari Mintz
February 12, 1983: Newsday carrier Parry Vienna, 15, of Huntington Station, breaks through a snow bank to demonstrate her delivery technique.
Credit: Newsday / Audrey C. Tiernan
February 12, 1983: An intrepid jogger waves to the camera in Roslyn Heights after a blizzard.
Credit: Newsday / Ari Mintz
January 20, 1985: Youngsters sled downhill at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow.
Credit: Newsday / Thomas R. Koeniges
March 12, 1993: Colleen Murphy of West Islip is helped by her limo driver on the way to her wedding to James Tapia at St. Joseph's Church in Babylon.
Credit: Newsday / George Argeroplos
March 12, 1993: A motorist cleans his windshield on Route 112 and County Road 83 in Coram.
Credit: Newsday / John Keating
March 12, 1993: Stranded motorists work to free their cars from the snow on the exit ramp from Sunrise Highway to Brentwood Avenue.
Credit: Newsday / Don Jacobsen
March 12, 1993: Several people help dig out a car that was snowed in just off North Wantagh Avenue in Bethpage.
Credit: Newsday / Don Jacobsen
March 12, 1993: Residents of Bethpage Road in Hicksville dig their cars out of the ice and snow.
Credit: Newsday / George Argeroplos
March 14, 1993: LILCO lineman John Keegans works on one of the seven downed poles on Hospital Road in Patchogue.
Credit: Newsday / Ken Spencer
March 14, 1993: Joan and Ernest Schultz work to make a path in the middle of Sheep Lane in Lattingtown.
Credit: Newsday / Ken Spencer
March 14, 1993: John Waldman of Sea Cliff looks at the damage to his car after a huge tree fell in his yard.
Credit: Newsday / Dick Kraus
March 15, 1993: Bob Olenuk, the sexton at St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Northport, chops ice with an ax to clear the walk in front of one of the church's buildings.
Credit: Nancy Opitz
December 5, 2003: A pedestrian crosses the Brooklyn Bridge during the afternoon of the snowstorm.
Credit: AP/JOE KOHEN
Dec. 6, 2003: A group of people cross a slush-filled street in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Credit: NEWSDAY/DANIEL GOODRICH
January 15, 2004: Luke Attisani, 9, and Chris Piccininni, 10 enjoy a hill in West Islip.
Credit: David Pokress
Dec. 20, 2009: Chris Wolf clears the snow off the roof of his Kings Park home.
Credit: James Carbone
Dec. 20, 2009: Abilio Oliveira uses a snowblower to clear away deep snow in Coram.
Credit: Ed Betz
Dec. 20, 2009: Shahhan Raheel helps dig out his parents' car in Central Islip.
Credit: Newsday / Emilio Guerra
Dec. 27, 2010: An SUV is stuck on a guardrail on Route 110 in Melville after a storm that slammed the region the day after Christmas.
Credit: Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara
Dec. 28, 2010: A payloader moves snow from a church's parking lot in Center Moriches.