A ‘Blizzard’ Gives Mayor Zohran Mamdani Pretext For A ‘Climate Lockdown’ – OpEd

It’s snowing. 

Outside the big picture windows of the flat where we stay when we come to Brooklyn, a gentle snow falls. 

It gusts in the bare tree branches that reach up to the grey-yellow sky. The trees shake back and forth in the wind.

The snow-laden branches stand between us and what are the usually chaotic backyards of the row of dilapidated late 19th century townhouses across from us. The backyards, and their everyday detritus, have receded under the snowfall, to reconfigure into a vague elegance.