Making up for a remarkably mild winter, the first major snowstorm of the season charged up the East Coast on Saturday, a blizzard propelled by tropical-storm-force winds that brought much of the Northeast to a standstill and left more than two feet of snow in New York City, where Mayor Bill de Blasio called it “very likely one of the worst snowstorms in our history.”

A travel ban, imposed Saturday afternoon in and around the city to keep drivers off streets, was lifted at 7 a.m. on Sunday.

Four Hudson River crossings — the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels and the George Washington and Tappan Zee Bridges — that were shut down in conjunction with the ban re-opened at 7 a.m. as well. The city’s public bus service also began operating again with limited service. But suburban commuter railroads in New York, as its elevated subway lines, remained closed, following the lead of mass transit systems in Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia.