New Yorkers awoke to their first genuine snowfall of the season on Saturday from a storm that deposited a little more than 4 inches before tapering off around midday.

The first snow of what had been a noticeably whiteless winter set up a slippery day of shoveling and sledding, but left subways and buses running on schedule.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his team, determined to avoid a replay of their botched response to the “Bloomberg-Blizzard” in 2010, took no chances.

The city placed nearly 1,800 sanitation workers on duty overnight, positioned snow-clearing equipment near highways and bus routes, suspended street cleaning, and deployed nearly 400 salt spreaders, the mayor reported at a morning briefing on the city’s plan to tackle the snow, which measured 4.3 inches in Central Park.

While the city plowed streets in some sections of the Bronx, salt spreaders proved sufficient to melt snow from most streets throughout the city.

The storm also gave the city an opportunity to test a new tracking system that relays the location of snow removal vehicles. The storm produced the first snowfall since the freak pre-Halloween storm on Oct. 29 left 2.9 inches in Central Park.

No matter: Mother Nature will help wash it all away. On Monday, the city is expecting rain with a high of 51.

(Source: NY Daily News)