City Council Speaker Christine Quinn called the city's snow-clearing efforts "unacceptable" Tuesday, and she said the council will hold hearings on the matter next month.

Quinn said that the council's oversight hearings will begin on January 10.

Queens City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. said many streets in his district remain unplowed, and that the situation may become dangerous for New Yorkers.

"This is a very dangerous situation. The emergency vehicles can't get through. God forbid somebody has a heart attack while they're shoveling or something like that. Our hospitals are short staffed, the buses have been stuck. A snow plow crashed on my block yesterday," said Vallone.

Councilman Daniel Dromm, whose district is also in Queens, is calling on Mayor Michael Bloomberg to send plows to his borough immediately.

Many residents in Astoria, Richmond Hill and Ozone Park, Queens told NY1 that they had not seen any snow plows until this morning, if at all.

The president of the Richmond Hill Economic Development Council is asking local residents and business owners to document when snow plows first arrive at their streets, so the concerns can be later brought to city leaders.

"The only thing we have left is to start digging out ourselves, and let it be publicly known that we have been overlooked yet again," said Vishnu Mahadeo of the Richmond Hill Economic Development Council. "Richmond Hill's community has been neglected."

"I feel like, am I a New Yorker, or what? You know, look. They get the tax from our income, and then we can't even go to work," said Astoria resident Cesar Cardoza.

"It's a disgrace. They should be embarrassed that they're handling this operation this way," said Tony DiMarco, a Queens resident.

The mayor defended the city's efforts in a news conference earlier in the day.