CITYWIDE - NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDINGS WILL BE OPEN ON TUESDAY, JAN. 27, following a massive weekend snowstorm that led to classes being held remotely on Monday. NYC Public Schools issued the notification late Monday afternoon, and Notify NYC distributed it at 5:03 p.m. The City University of New York (CUNY), which had held classes remotely on Monday, also announced on its Graduate Center website that classes would return to being held in-person on Tuesday.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday that the city plans to reopen public schools for in-person learning on Tuesday, but emphasized that the decision is not final and depends on overnight weather conditions following the city's most significant snowstorm in years. That is our hope, and that's what we're planning for right now, Mamdani said during a lengthy Jan. 26 press conference, cautioning that refreezing temperatures overnight remain the biggest variable.