A New York street is shown during the blizzard of 1888. The blizzard that occured March 12-14 paralyzed the city with 40″ of snow and winds that reached up to 60 miles per hour, creating drifts ...

Piano maker William Steinway woke up on March 12, 1888, and discovered "the most fearful snowstorm . . . I ever experienced" had buried New York City. Before the day had ended, he wrote in his diary, ...

In the end, nearly 400 people died during the Great Blizzard of 1888, including 200 in New York City. Communications, commerce and travel were interrupted for days.

During the American Revolution, New York Harbor had frozen hard enough that the British army could move its cast-iron cannons across the ice. The infamous Blizzard of 1888 buried us in 22 inches ...

NEW YORK — The New York City subway system is celebrating its 120th anniversary this week. ... it's called the Great White Hurricane of 1888. It was a blizzard.

Schools were also closed in major cities, including New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. There have been other historic storms throughout history, like the Great Blizzard of 1888: ...

As of this writing, 137 years later, the blizzard of 1888 remains among the top five recorded snowstorms in New York City, one of only four March snowstorms to produce a foot or more of snow a the ...

New York City's Central Park picked up 21 inches of snow, in an age that predated snowplows, a subway system and burying wires underground. Travel ground to a halt for days.