New York
A Northwest tired of winter was a return to normal by the morning after a storm dumped a thick blanket of snow across the region.
The buses were returned to service in New York on Friday morning after being suspended on Wednesday and Thursday. City schools were also expected to reopen after classes were canceled Thursday.
However, in Philadelphia, students were given a day off as school officials announced that bad weather caused the closure of the schools again.
A major snow storm pelted the Wednesday flight to the northeast of ground, closing government buildings and airports, before tapering off on Thursday.
It extended from the southern Appalachians on the coast of Massachusetts, the latest in a series of frosts that continues to blanket much of the region.
The storm caused serious problems in some regions, and made a record amount of snowfall across the region, according to the National Weather Service.
New York's Central Park, 19 inches of snow fell during the night on Thursday, beating the record of one day in 1925, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
Forecasters said the Newark, New Jersey, has 19 inches of snow, but Philadelphia had 15 inches.
Hundreds of flights were canceled as airports tried to manage the onslaught of snow.
In New York, people have tried many ways to keep warm during the storm. Subway passengers who are trapped in Coney Island has refused to get off a train on Thursday because they had no way to keep warm, brokers said.
The passengers remained in a "sweeper" train, which had followed clear and make sure none of the passengers or train was stuck between stations, said Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
employees of the Transportation Authority has tried to get off the train at the terminal N of Coney Island, a passenger said.
"I said, I have to go, I will not," Mahoney said Eva NY1 passenger told CNN affiliate. "No way I'm going to go home because I remember snow storm (December)."
Most passengers were sleeping or just waited for several hours until they can catch a train at 6 am "he said.
The drama began when pilots left Manhattan for Brooklyn, NY1 reported. They were told to descend and take the train to Coney Island. When they arrived, there was no bus service and decided to stay in the sweep train.
Transportation Authority spokesman Kevin Ortiz said the agency has put in place measures to ensure passenger safety and promote a rapid return to service. He said the transport authority to close the service to avoid stranding passengers.
"In the case of the N train, we could safely park the train at the Coney Island terminal as planned," Ortiz said in a statement.
"The agency could have done a better job of communicating with customers" about the need to send one of the trains trains nonpassenger sweeper to clear the tracks and make them comfortable in the terminal until this service has been restored, "he said.
A Northwest tired of winter was a return to normal by the morning after a storm dumped a thick blanket of snow across the region.
The buses were returned to service in New York on Friday morning after being suspended on Wednesday and Thursday. City schools were also expected to reopen after classes were canceled Thursday.
However, in Philadelphia, students were given a day off as school officials announced that bad weather caused the closure of the schools again.
A major snow storm pelted the Wednesday flight to the northeast of ground, closing government buildings and airports, before tapering off on Thursday.
It extended from the southern Appalachians on the coast of Massachusetts, the latest in a series of frosts that continues to blanket much of the region.
The storm caused serious problems in some regions, and made a record amount of snowfall across the region, according to the National Weather Service.
New York's Central Park, 19 inches of snow fell during the night on Thursday, beating the record of one day in 1925, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
Forecasters said the Newark, New Jersey, has 19 inches of snow, but Philadelphia had 15 inches.
Hundreds of flights were canceled as airports tried to manage the onslaught of snow.
In New York, people have tried many ways to keep warm during the storm. Subway passengers who are trapped in Coney Island has refused to get off a train on Thursday because they had no way to keep warm, brokers said.
The passengers remained in a "sweeper" train, which had followed clear and make sure none of the passengers or train was stuck between stations, said Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
employees of the Transportation Authority has tried to get off the train at the terminal N of Coney Island, a passenger said.
"I said, I have to go, I will not," Mahoney said Eva NY1 passenger told CNN affiliate. "No way I'm going to go home because I remember snow storm (December)."
Most passengers were sleeping or just waited for several hours until they can catch a train at 6 am "he said.
The drama began when pilots left Manhattan for Brooklyn, NY1 reported. They were told to descend and take the train to Coney Island. When they arrived, there was no bus service and decided to stay in the sweep train.
Transportation Authority spokesman Kevin Ortiz said the agency has put in place measures to ensure passenger safety and promote a rapid return to service. He said the transport authority to close the service to avoid stranding passengers.
"In the case of the N train, we could safely park the train at the Coney Island terminal as planned," Ortiz said in a statement.
"The agency could have done a better job of communicating with customers" about the need to send one of the trains trains nonpassenger sweeper to clear the tracks and make them comfortable in the terminal until this service has been restored, "he said.