NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Several blocks of New York's outer boroughs remained buried in snow despite a promise from the city to have the Christmas 2010 blizzard fully cleared Thursday.
Amid allegations sanitation workers slowed down cleanup efforts to protest budget cuts, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. David Paterson called for an investigation into the city's response to a mammoth holiday snowstorm that dumped 2 feet of snow up and down the East Coast, the New York Daily News reported.
"Our response was inadequate and unacceptable. Clearly, the response to the storm has not met our standards," Bloomberg said at a Queens news conference, while noting the city hired 2,000 day laborers to augment the 1,600 snowplows on the city streets.
Harry Nespoli, who leads New York's sanitation workers' union, said it was one of the biggest blizzards he's ever seen, and visibility was next to zero during much of the work.
Paterson said it would be a "very, very serious breach" if a slowdown had been ordered, CNN reported.
Bloomberg acknowledged some streets were still snow-filled, though he said every street had been plowed at least once.
