Snowstorms that buried Long Island, NYC over the past 100-plus years
1888: Snow covered the corner of Stewart Avenue and Main Street in Huntington.
March 1888: A grocery store on West 11th Street in Manhattan was damaged in this storm.
March 1888: The Long Island Rail Road struggles to operate during this blizzard in Rockaway.
1930s: This blizzard brought LIRR service to a standstill in New Hyde Park.
Dec. 26, 1947: A Long Islander struggles to move her car along Main Street in Hempstead.
February 16, 1958: Workers remove snow along Main Street in Huntington.
December 13, 1960: Kids sled down Semon Road in Huntington on a snow day.
December 12, 1960: Traffic is stalled on the entrance to the Meadowbrook Parkway and Hempstead Turnpike after a snow storm.
March 3, 1960: Cows graze outside during a snow storm near the corner of Rte 25 and 25A in Smithtown.
March 3, 1960: The streets of Hempstead were at a standstill during a snow storm.
January 14, 1964: Cars sit in snow drifts at a lot on Hempstead Turnpike in Levittown.
January 13, 1964: A car is covered by snow drifts on Hempstead Turnpike in Levittown.
January 14, 1964: Stalled cars sit in snow on the Northern State Parkway looking east from the Broadway Hicksville overpass.
January 25, 1965: A man trudges through snow and slush on Main Street in Hempstead.
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.
1978: Motorists stranded in the eastbound lane of the Long Island Expressway at Exit 49 in Melville.
March 5, 1981: Commuters clear snow from their cars at the Smithtown LIRR station.
March 5, 1981: Allison Becker, 4, enjoys the swing in her backyard in Bellerose.
February 12, 1983: Shoppers trudge through the snow with their groceries on Jericho Turnpike in Bellerose.
February 12, 1983: Newsday carrier Parry Vienna, 15, of Huntington Station, breaks through a snow bank to demonstrate her delivery technique.
February 12, 1983: An intrepid jogger waves to the camera in Roslyn Heights after a blizzard.
January 20, 1985: Youngsters sled downhill at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow.
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.
March 12, 1993: A motorist cleans his windshield on Route 112 and County Road 83 in Coram.
March 12, 1993: Stranded motorists work to free their cars from the snow on the exit ramp from Sunrise Highway to Brentwood Avenue.
March 12, 1993: Several people help dig out a car that was snowed in just off North Wantagh Avenue in Bethpage.
March 12, 1993: Residents of Bethpage Road in Hicksville dig their cars out of the ice and snow.
March 14, 1993: LILCO lineman John Keegans works on one of the seven downed poles on Hospital Road in Patchogue.
March 14, 1993: Joan and Ernest Schultz work to make a path in the middle of Sheep Lane in Lattingtown.
March 14, 1993: John Waldman of Sea Cliff looks at the damage to his car after a huge tree fell in his yard.
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.
December 5, 2003: A pedestrian crosses the Brooklyn Bridge during the afternoon of the snowstorm.
Dec. 6, 2003: A group of people cross a slush-filled street in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn.
January 15, 2004: Luke Attisani, 9, and Chris Piccininni, 10 enjoy a hill in West Islip.
Dec. 20, 2009: Chris Wolf clears the snow off the roof of his Kings Park home.
Dec. 20, 2009: Abilio Oliveira uses a snowblower to clear away deep snow in Coram.
Dec. 20, 2009: Shahhan Raheel helps dig out his parents' car in Central Islip.
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.
Dec. 28, 2010: A payloader moves snow from a church's parking lot in Center Moriches.
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