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Tri-State Shutdown: NYC and NJ Issue Unprecedented Travel Bans as 2026 Blizzard Intensifies
Tri-State Shutdown: NYC and NJ Issue Unprecedented Travel Bans as 2026 Blizzard Intensifies For the millions of residents across the New York and New Jersey metropolitan area, the night of Sunday, February 22, 2026, will be remembered as the night the world outside went quiet. As a rapidly intensifying “bomb cyclone” slammed into the East Coast, local leaders took the extraordinary step of shutting down nearly all movement to prevent a catastrophe. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill both issued mandatory travel bans, effectively freezing the I-95 corridor...