Even if it snows in NYC, they rarely close the public schools - sometimes they'll delay the start of the school day by 2 hours, but even that isn't something that happens often. I think I can probably count on one hand the number of snow days I had from kindergarten all the way through 12th grade.
"There was this one time an alarm went off - it was in the middle of '24.' That's just wrong. Everyone knows everyone was watching '24' at that time."
--NYU student quoted in the Washington Square News about students ignoring the frequent fire alarms in dorms