Delivery workers get ready to brave the winter snowstorm
As the city advises many to stay indoors, delivery workers are getting ready for long work hours in the cold and snowy conditions.
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As the city advises many New Yorkers to stay indoors, delivery workers told News 12 on Friday they are making sure they are ready for this weekend's snowstorm.
"Every time there are these kinds of extreme weather conditions, we always feel afraid," said delivery worker William Medina.
News 12's meteorologist forecast more than 8 inches of snow to hit several neighborhoods, starting Sunday and lasting until Monday. Medina has worked as a delivery worker for seven years and said the bad weather will increase the demand for deliveries.
"It can be between a 12-, 14- or even 16-hour day outside working," he said.
The Worker's Justice Project, a nonprofit organization in Brooklyn, works with more than 60,000 app-based delivery workers as part of their Los Deliveristas Unidos campaign. Co-founder Yadira Sanchez, said customers need to be patient and consider the conditions delivery workers may face that are out of their control.
"Some people, they're expecting their delivery and they may think that it's a delivery person, but it might be that the restaurant is very busy," she said.
Another delivery worker, making calls at the center, advising his colleagues of the hazardous conditions expected over the weekend said, "If you used to do a delivery for five minutes, in this storm, you have to add at least ten minutes."
The Department of Sanitation shared on X, in part, "Bike lane plows are ready to service lanes that NYers rely on to get to work, or do their work."
