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Photos: Intrepid New Yorkers Brave Winter Storm Kenan

These New Yorkers bundled up and hit (or slushed) the city streets.

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A soccer player prepares for a match in Prospect Park.
A soccer player prepares for a match in Prospect Park. (Rider Film LLC, used with permission.)

NEW YORK CITY — The major Winter Storm, dubbed Kenan by forecasters, frosted New York City with a thick layer of snow Friday and Saturday.

But even as forecasters warned of near white-out conditions across the tristate area and snow accumulation of nearly a foot in the city, New Yorkers hit the streets.

Well, we clomped anyway.

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Here are just a moments few of the intrepid city dwellers who pulled on their boots, wrapped up their scarves and braved the storm.

Some New Yorkers sported fur coats to stay warm and dry in the snow. (Kathleen Culliton/Patch)
Snow covers the entrance to the subway station in the Bushwick section of the Brooklyn borough of New York on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022. People from New York City to Maine are awakening to deep snow and high winds as a powerful nor’easter kicks up blizzard conditions.(AP Photo/Brittainy Newman)
Lawn animals survive and thrive. (Kathleen Culliton/Patch)
A man carefully walks down the snow covered subway stairs during a snow storm in Bushwick section of Brooklyn borough of New York on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022, in New York. People from New York City to Maine are awakening to deep snow and high winds as a powerful nor’easter kicks up blizzard conditions. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman)
Two Brooklynites makes their way through the snowy streets of Prospect Park South in the borough of Brooklyn on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022. (Kathleen Culliton/Patch)
Snow began to fall Friday morning as thousands of police officers gathered outside St. Patrick's Cathedral in Midtown to mourn the loss of Officer Jason Rivera, who was shot in the line of duty earlier this month. (Nick Garber | Patch)
Winds gusted at 45 mph in New York City sending swirls of snow into the air across Brooklyn. {Kathleen Culliton | Patch)

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