If the storm is bad enough, the mayor will drop by the sanitation garages to speed the hero plowpeople on their way.

She added that "it's very difficult in Manhattan to find vacant space that is acceptable or appropriate for a sanitation garage."

He visited a sanitation garage under the Williamsburg Bridge, where a crew was girding for the evening ahead.

He stopped in Brooklyn to greet sanitation workers shoveling snow, and then went to visit a sanitation garage in Astoria, Queens.

Among the many problems to be resolved are new guidelines governing the "fair-share distribution" among communities of city projects from sanitation garages to libraries.

There were makeshift dormitories set up in sanitation garages, and a gymnasium at Mount Sinai Medical Center was converted into a bedroom with 41 cots.

It also happens to be near a sanitation garage on a triangle of land at the intersection of Spring and Canal.

The customers come from the nearby sanitation garage, the post office, the community college, the Bronx Terminal Market and the neighborhood.

After library representatives returned from the sanitation garage on Wednesday, they posted on the library's website that most of its collection and equipment had been destroyed, damaged or lost.

Paulina said he was 18 and used to live on the streets, taking shelter in sanitation garages or warehouses.