New York rebounds after blizzard, Washington shuts down government

New York

NEW York City emerged on Sunday from a massive blizzard that paralysed much of the US East Coast, while snowy gridlock gripped the nation's capital and surrounding areas, where federal, state and local offices planned to remain closed on Monday.

Midtown Manhattan sprang back to life on a bright and sunny Sunday as residents and tourists rejoiced in the warming sunlight, digging out buried cars, heading to reopened Broadway shows and cavorting in massive drifts left by New York City's second-biggest snowstorm on record.

In Washington, where a traffic ban remained in effect, the recovery got off to a slower start, with the entire metropolitan transit system closed through Sunday. The US Office of Personnel Management said that federal government offices in the Washington area would be shut down on Monday, along with loc…