Photos: Brooklyn Braves The Snow

Brooklyn residents woke up Sunday to a storm that blanketed streets with roughly 9 inches to a foot of snow.

There were several areas in Brooklyn that lost power, including in Bedford-Stuyvestant, Bushwick and Park Slope, according to Consolidated Edison. There are two warming centers currently open in Brooklyn: Midwood High School (2839 Bedford Ave.) and Urban Assembly for Law and Justice (283 Adams St.)

There were several reported deaths over the weekend, including two in Brooklyn. One individual died on Remsen Avenue in Canarsie, while another person passed away on Warren Street in Boerum Hill, a Police Department spokesperson confirmed. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday said it is too early to attribute the causes of death to the storm.

Over 5,000 sanitation employees traversed about 6,000 miles of roadway multiple times, using 2,500 pieces of equipment to plow snow, pour brine, and dispense tens of millions of pounds of salt, Mamdani said. Nearly 19 tons of anti-icing solution were applied to the East River bridges by Department of Transportation crews.

brooklyn-bridge-and-figures-in-snowfall — Residents and their dog by the Brooklyn Bridge on Jan. 25, 2026. Photo: Howard Weiss for BK Reader

Public schools are operating virtually on Monday, and will return to in-person learning on Tuesday. All Brooklyn Public Library locations are closed.

A Code Blue Weather Emergency notice will continue through the week, the mayor said, a declaration when city officials think the temperature drops to 32 degrees Fahrenheit or less between 4:00pm and 8:00am, including National Weather Service calculations for wind chill values. The city’s five-day forecast calls for temperatures ranging from about 5 to 30 degrees through Friday.

Since Friday, the city's outreach teams were able to move 170 individuals to shelters, safe havens, stabilization beds, drop-in centers, and hospitals, according to the mayor.

Mamdani said he was heartened to see New Yorkers helping one another through the storm on Sunday.

"And I also think the other thing I'd say is for all that's said about our city, that we are always in a hurry, that we are brash, that we are rude. What I think sometimes gets missed is just how much New Yorkers care for each other," he said. "And yesterday as I went through the city, I saw so many New Yorkers who were just lending a helping hand to people whose names they didn't know, whose stories they didn't know, but all they knew about them was that they too were New Yorkers."