nyc: I'm writing a scene for a book set in NYC during a snowstorm like the ones that happened this last winter. I need to know how long it takes residents and the NYC DOT to get the sidewalks and roads more or less clear after a foot or more of snow. Any ideas?|||Main streets are passable overnight, sidewalks by noon, Huge piles of snow tend to hang around for a week or more though.|||It doesn't all get cleared by the next morning, if that's what you mean. When we had the big snowstorm this year, I was still stepping in snow and slush a few days later. It piles up when you step off the curb. Midtown Manhattan's streets were pretty clear, but outer bouroughs like Brooklyn, had snowed packed down on the side streets.|||i do not know the time but you can do that