Massive hot tubs
Gothamist on what's being done about all that snow:
The sanitation department on Wednesday showed off part of its elaborate snow-melting operation on Broad Street on Manhattan's southern tip, where a steady stream of dump trucks hauls snow from collection sites throughout the borough. The powder is then lifted and dumped into the massive hot tubs — which can melt up to 120 tons of snow per hour — and spewed into the sewers as water.
Read it all: NYC sanitation races to get snow into giant hot tubs, thaw the city