Once again, Scott Tuner, a graphic desinger and writer, who runs the Pub Quiz at Rocky Sullivan's honors us with one of his magical missives.

Greetings, Pub Quiz Snowdrift Searchers…

The two most magic works in children's ears rang through New York City yesterday.

No, not "Pub Quiz!"

It was "SNOW DAY!"  A simple two-word reminder that no matter how
buried in the past, some things claw their way back to the present. 
They catch us be surprise before, gently, making us smile.

Of course, given our susceptibility to hype and dire-if-baseless
prognostications, Sunday evening's "one for the ages" snowstorm
rhetoric fell well short.  Officially, the city got eight inches of
snow.

It wasn't like the 1888 blizzard…

The run of big storms in the '60s…

…or the big supermamma in 1996":

The '96 storm was so bad Brooklyn's streets had to be excavated with steamshovels and earthmovers. 
Trucks drove back and forth to the East River, backing up to the
water's edge and dumping the snow into the watery currents.  It was the
only way to clear the streets.  This was no "wait 'til it melts"
operation.

"Official" snowfall measurements are taken in Central Park, by Central Park Zoo employees directed by the National Weather Service.  The measurements used to be taken at Belvedere Castle.

But Central Park is hardly the center of New York City.  That distinction goes to Bushwick, Brooklyn.  It's not surprising that New York's never-vanquished  Manhattancentricity continues
to base its meteorological standing on Central Park.  "But, the
National Weather Service's equipment was at Belvedere Castle!!"  Yeah,
but they moved to Brookhaven, NY in 1995.

It's high time we beamed NYC's stats to the world from the true
center of the city — Bushwick, Brooklyn.  Same with rainfall,
temperatures and sunrises and sunsets.

Always remember: Central Park…a misnomeratic moniker, if ever there were one.