By Shayna Jacobs
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
UPPER EAST SIDE — They stomped through slush and parked on snow piles, but Upper East Siders were out on Friday despite the snowicane.
A school day off gave seven-year-old Emi Bauman an excuse to build a snow fort in Cark Schurz Park on the East River.
Emi kept her large purple sled nearby, planning to take it down a giant hill around the bend.
The P.S. 158 student had a normal Friday in mind when she fell asleep Thursday night, but awoke to a delightful surprise — her doorman clearing nearly a foot of snow off the sidewalk, a sure sign that the city was calling a snow day.
"Mom look at this!" Emi shouted.
But how much snow would it take to shut down a business in the Upper East Side?
"Not for anything," said Johann Wolf, owner of Little Wolf Cabinet shop on First Avenue at 82nd Street.
Wolf claimed he has never shut down the shop for snow in 53 years of business. Only two of 25 carpenters and delivery men, both of whom live out of state, did not make it into work on Friday.
As Wolf went over his Feb. 26 delivery schedule a FedEx employee hurriedly delivered a package with a smile and jogged back out to his truck, which was parked in inches of cold slush.
"That's the best FedEx delivery guy in New York City," Wolf proclaimed.
