27 Jan 2015, New York- New York, Philadelphia and other cities are shutting down as a monster blizzard threatens to bring misery to some 35 million Americans in the region.
Officials have ordered workers to go home early, banned travel and closed bridges and tunnels. The snow threatened to affect people in a dozen states.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo banned travel from 11pm for all butemergency vehicles on roads.
As snow fell steadily early on Tuesday, the city was eerily quiet, with no planes in the sky and a few municipal trucks rumbling down empty streets.
Mayor Bill de Blasio urged New Yorkers to go home and stay there, adding: "People have to make smart decisions from this point on."
Schools closes early, Broadway stages went dark and subway trains were halted.
Shoppers stocking up on food jammed supermarkets and elbowed one another for what was left.
Officials have called the blizzard "crippling" and "potentially historic".
Some earlier estimates that the storm could dump up to 3ft (90cm) of snow were revised down, with officials now saying that the worst would be about 2ft (60cm).
Boston and Providence, Rhode Island, could get the most snow. New York could see up to 20in (50cm).
In Boston, the blizzard halted jury selection on Tuesday in the trial of suspected Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Travel was snarled for millions.
More than 7,700 flights in and out of the Northeast were cancelled, and many of them may not take off again until Wednesday. New Yorkairports are among the worst affected.
Amtrak suspended rail service on Tuesday between New York and Boston, and into New York state, Vermont, Massachusetts and Maine.
Stuck at home, many Easterners turned to social media to give voice to their frustration, adopting such storm-related hashtags as #blizzardof2015, #Snowmageddon2015 and #Snowpocalypse.
"Across NE, millions are panicked they may lose internet and have to talk to their families. Trying hard to remember names. #Snowmageddon2015," tweeted Stuart Stevens, who goes by the Twitter handle @stuartpstevens.
On Wall Street , however, the New York Stock Exchange stayed open and said it would operate normally on Tuesday as well.
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