Great Scott, Robin, it's a skier from Gotham!
One of my friends had a good time at Fahnestock last weekend. As I was in the Adirondacks, I can't personally vouch for the conditions. Paul Kuznia (Fahnestock manager) has a newsgroup on, I believe, Yahoo, where you can sign on to get conditions reports. He's a straight shooter, no BS.
For that manner, good conditions at both Dewey Mt and Mt van Ho last weekend. They have way less snow than we do (did) but they've groomed the living daylights out of it. Downhills at van Ho were terrifyingly fast Sunday AM.
For ice climbing, I'm sorry, but I can't help with that… One of these years, if I can ski 100 days a year, then I'd check out ice climbing too. One can always dream.