CLIMATE OF CHANGE

Changing the face of 'old' New York

Winter, the weather folk decree, begins on a particular date in late December and spring is due to blossom on 20 March.
But when I step outside our apartment onto Riverside Drive, with the Hudson rolling grandly past Manhattan's Upper Westside, it is hard to stand up, let alone advance in a freezing 30mph wind. And the second snowstorm of the week serves notice that the winter furies have ignored the script and arrived early.