South Brooklyn Responsible For 40 Percent of Blizzard Complaints

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio released a report on Friday that showed nearly 40 percent of complaints received by his office about last week's blizzard and aftermath were from South Brooklyn. Additionally, 65 percent of calls from Brooklyn overall were specifically from South Brooklyn.

The report was based off of data from 933 calls (and emails, web and facebook comments) received by his office between 9 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 27 and 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 29.

The full report, available here, includes many pages of testimony from New Yorkers. 

Here's one:

What was worse this morning at 8:00 AM, the subway steps had not been cleared on the Coney Island bound F-train stop located on President and Smith. People were crawling up the steps and they were impossible to descend.

de Blasio's office is also asking the mayor for information in order to evaluate "...what steps need to be taken in the future during and in advance of severe storms." The report also says the blizzrd response "...raises questions about some of the decisions that were made."

In an important aside, the researchers in the report noted:

"While alarming, the neighborhoods [in the report] do not necessarily represent those that were the most negatively affected by the storm. These numbers merely represent the percentage of complaints that were received by the Office."