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But you should totally build a Helipad for Jeff Bezos and Co. #portauthority #mta #pennstation @NYCMayor @andrewcuomo pic.twitter.com/FSwpfcr1D1

— Bkaester (@BKaes) November 15, 2018

Elsewhere, twin toddlers bundled up for the early winter weather were seen driving through snow-covered sidewalks in a miniature replica of a New York City Police Department patrol car, which their father had custom converted from a toy Range Rover.

\"Please drive carefully and get home safe. Stay indoors if you can, we got this covered, literally,\" the father wrote on Twitter with a video showing one of his cop-obsessed twins in the car.

#snowday is finally here! Please drive carefully and get home safe. Stay indoors if you can, we got this covered, literally.#Snowvember #snow #nyc #nypd pic.twitter.com/j9Xncgvuds

— Aaron Evan (@pair_up_) November 15, 2018

It was the city's mysterious Mandarin duck who appeared to be enjoying himself the most during the season's first snowstorm. The spectacularly colorful male duck was spotted Thursday happily swimming through the snowfall in Central Park's pond where he has recently made himself home, though the species is native to East Asia.

Speaking to NY1 on Friday morning, de Blasio acknowledged that the storm had crippled the city's transportation system but blamed it on \"bad luck.\"

\"I am upset the way everyone else is upset. I was out in the middle of traffic stuck with everyone else and it was a horrible experience,\" the mayor told the local news channel. \"This was a bad, bad situation. There were definitely some things we need to learn from this and some things we need to do better. But it's important to note we got just about every form of bad luck we could have gotten yesterday.\"

De Blasio said he would have advised drivers to stay off the roads if the city knew there would be accumulating snow. He urged New Yorkers to avoid driving on Friday and to leave work early, if possible.

\"The problem was, Wednesday night, the word was a couple inches of snow, nothing exceptional,\" he added. \"When it finally became clear we were going to get very fast, heavy, intense snow, rush hour was already beginning.\"

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