Bloomberg Says Plows Have Hit Every Street

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said Thursday that snow plows had been down every street in the city except for those still blocked by stuck cars. He said that tow trucks would have those vehicles clear in the afternoon, and that plows would return to streets still buried.

But, as he did the day before, Mr. Bloomberg acknowledged that the city’s response was “inadequate and unacceptable” and said that his office would conduct an extensive review of what went wrong.

“We’re not making excuses,” he said. “The response to the storm has not met our standards or the standards that New Yorkers have come to expect from us.”

“When something goes wrong we find out why it went wrong and we roll up our sleeves and fix it,” he said. “The response to this snowstorm was inadequate and unacceptable.”

Mr. Bloomberg held a news conference in Queens after visits to Staten Island and Brooklyn where he spoke with residents about their snowbound plights. (He is to go to the Bronx in the afternoon.) He said that 1,600 plows and other equipment were clearing streets Thursday alongside 2,000 day laborers hired to shovel out bus stops and snow piles. The last of the 600 buses that were stuck have been freed, he added.

John J. Doherty, the sanitation commissioner, said he would look into claims that his department’s rank-and-file deliberately slowed down the cleanup work to protest budget cuts.