New York in 2011, back to the 1980's? Authorities off the map?

This is an MTA bus stranded in the middle of an important Queens street (not a "tertiary" street) for two days during the recent snow blizzard. It was "abandoned" there, like hundreds of other public buses in the city, some time on Monday 27 December 2010 and removed from the street only on Wednesday 29, time enough for graffiti vandals to stamp their signature... this could only happen in New York, a city I heard more than once  being called the World Capital of the Third World... But we still love this little town blues... Happy New Year!