Mayor Bill de Blasio admitted Friday that it�s not just the Upper East side that deserved better plowing during this week’s snowstorm, but also parts of Staten Island and other neighborhoods across the City.

�In the first storm, I think there was a broad consensus that neighborhoods were served well all over the city. In the second storm, many, many neighborhoods felt they were served well. There were some places that weren�t served as well,” the mayor told reporters at a press conference Friday. “The particular concerns about the Upper East Sides caused me to see what was happening immediately. I�ve heard more and more since about the situation in Staten Island and I�m going to pursue that as well.”

But the mayor also seemed to shift some of the blame to Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty – a holdover from the Bloomberg administration � as well.

“The orders were given; the execution was not what it should have been. And when I saw it with my own eyes, I was thoroughly dissatisfied and I gave new orders and clear orders to beef up the efforts,” he said. “Whatever it was, it wasn�t up to snuff and we�ve got to figure it out. But we do know this much: The equipment was available, the personnel was available, the orders were given. So now we have to figure out what went wrong.�

Meanwhile, Councilman David Greenfield delivered a blistering defense of the mayor, telling Upper East Side residents to stop being spoilt.

�I�ll tell you overall, I thought Brooklyn was good. The people on the Upper East Side, quite frankly, they, they�re complainers. You know they�re not used to this idea that we�re gonna share resources in New York City,� Greenfield said on his weekly radio show Thursday night. �So then you have the streets that are passable, but they weren�t what I would call �lickable.� They couldn�t eat off the streets. They said, �Oy vey, there�s a little bit of ice on the street.��

�Do me a favor, we�ve been contending with ice on our street for the last hundred years,� he continued. �So you�re finally getting some equity which means that the resources are being spread around, but this really didn�t leave them alone. There certainly was no scandal that was involved and the mayor.”

(Jacob Kornbluh – YWN)