At Flatbush LIRR, taking storm forecast in stride

Some of the Long Island Rail Road commuters at the Flatbush station said Tuesday they had made tentative plans ahead of Wednesday's snowstorm, but most seemed to be taking the chilly news in stride.

"Is the weather really going to be that bad?" asked Joyce Bigelow, 44, an attorney from Rockville Centre, who had a court appearance in the city Tuesday morning.

Regarding Wednesday, she said she "lucked out" and will be appearing in a Long Island court. But she would have made the trek to the city if she had to.

"I would have tried to come in unless the courts are closed," she said. "It's up to the courts, but if they are open, you should try to come."

Larry Katz, 68, an attorney from East Northport, had already been absolved of his court work Wednesday - a hearing had already been canceled.

"If you are going to try and rob me tomorrow, I am going to be home," joked Katz, who was returning from Manhattan following a deposition hearing. "The last big snowstorm we had, my car had to be pushed out of snowdrifts four or five times."

Charles Ramsey, 41, of Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, who teaches private music lessons weekly in Woodmere, said the storm wasn't on his radar. "I don't really believe it until it happens," he said.

But regardless of what Mother Nature may throw at him, he has faith he would get home somehow.

"You don't want to get stranded, but it's not so far away that I can't make my way over to the A train at Far Rockaway," he said.

Greg Murphy, 22, an Island Park native studying at Brooklyn Law School, said he was hopeful he would not have to make the trek to his internship at a Hempstead law firm.

"I am just, like, an intern, so I might not have to go tomorrow," he said. "We'll see. I'm hoping. That would be nice."

Anthony Sykes, 50, a custodian at Brooklyn Public Library, is one person who will likely have to go to work if the library remains open.

"If it snows heavy, tomorrow is a big day for me," said Sykes, of Springfield Gardens, Queens. "But then again, they may close the library and tell us not to come."

He won't know until he calls the city emergency line in the morning, but in his three years on the job, he has yet to have a snow day.

He is not concerned. He said with the economy the way it is, he is just happy to have a job.

While city schools will be closed, Ireen Ahmed, 21, of Mineola, said she had no word if she would have to go to class at Brooklyn College. "They never cancel a class unless there is an MTA strike. But not for a snow day."

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