City's first big snow turns commute into a slog

A quick-moving nor’easter tied up air traffic across the U.S. Northeast, closing government offices in Washington and blanketing New York with enough snow to make the morning commute a slog.

New York’s first winter storm of the season will start to taper off by mid-morning Friday, but as of 4:30 a.m. local time, close to 4 inches had fallen in New York City, and there was still more snow to drift across the surrounding region, said Bill Goodman, a National Weather Service meteorologist. Meanwhile in Boston, where schools have been canceled, heavy snow was set to continue through the afternoon.

Government offices in Washington were closed after 2

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