15 Things NYC Can Buy With The Money They Saved From Having Almost No Snow This Winter

    With a budget of $42.8 million and almost no snow this year, it makes me wonder, what are some things New York City could do with all that extra cash?

    Samir Mezrahi
    by Samir Mezrahi

    BuzzFeed Staff

    1. A Bronze Statue of Ryan Gosling for $50,000

    If Detroit is spending $50k on a Robocop statue, then why can't NYC get one of Ryan Gosling, NYC's own super hero for the same price?

    2. A New Maybach Landaulet Limousine for Mayor Bloomberg for $1.4 Million

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    3. Give each resident in the city $5.25

    4. Buy a Picasso Painting for $40 million and let a different lucky resident keep it in their house every year.

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    5. Put carpet on The Brooklyn Bridge

    These guys are charging $2.10 a square foot. So 5,989 feet of road at 85 feet wide, I calculate that it would only cost about $1 million to install it. What a deal!

    6. Shatter the Guinness record for largest hamburger by making an 8 million pound burger.

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    The previous record is only 777 pounds.

    7. Hire the Colorado Avalanche for one season

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    8. Hide these diamond rings somewhere in central park for a scavenger hunt

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    9. Buy this $42 million dollar condo on 5th Avenue and use it for whatevz

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    10. Pay off all local radio stations not to play "Moves Like Jagger" anymore

    11. Hire a company to just make it fake snow

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    12. Invest it in 74,000 shares of Apple Stock

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    13. Give $42 million dollars worth of free taxi rides at random

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    14. Cover subway turnstyles with Swarovski crystals

    15. Fill up the East River with dirt

    Note: I know this would probably cost a lot more than the amount of money NYC has and am willing to look at budget cuts elsewhere to get this done.