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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/new-york-battles-flights-backlog.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Kevin Fagan, from San Francisco, talks on his phone while a British Airways plane sits motionless on the runway at JFK Airport in New York" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-new-york-battles-flights-backlog.jpg" alt="Kevin Fagan, from San Francisco, talks on his phone while a British Airways plane sits motionless on the runway at JFK Airport in New York"/></a></p>
<p>New York&#8217;s airports have struggled to clear a huge backlog of flights that stranded thousands of passengers across the United States.</p>
<p>More than 5,000 flights were cancelled at the three main airports on Tuesday alone.</p>
<p>But the blizzard that hit the north-east on Sunday crippled more than just air travel.</p>
<p>Streets across New York remained unploughed, with hundreds of buses and dozens of ambulances stuck in the snowdrifts.</p>
<p>Subway lines and commuter trains were running slower because of signal problems and short-circuits caused by the snow. In New Jersey, tow trucks worked to clear abandoned cars.</p>
<p>Airlines were dispatching planes to JFK without lining up gate space first, causing backups on the ground, said operator the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.</p>
<p>At JFK&#8217;s Terminal 7, exhausted would-be travellers trapped in the airport for hours &#8211; or in some cases days &#8211; had removed the rope barriers from around a British Airways advertising display touting &#8220;new, &#8220;roomier business class seats&#8221; and were sleeping, stretched out or slumped over, in the model plane seats.</p>
<p>Airport staff said a small Starbucks counter that was closed on Tuesday had yet to reopen after running out of supplies on Sunday. The one remaining vendor, a Subway sandwich shop, had huge queues throughout the day.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a bad situation and we&#8217;re working together to correct it,&#8221; Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. Around 1,000 vehicles had been removed from three major New York City-area expressways alone, the mayor said.</p>
<p>On the other side of the Hudson River, Newark Mayor Cory Booker personally helped some residents dig out their cars and was using Twitter to respond to others seeking help.</p>
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