Scenes from Midtown
A few express bus lines were not shut down by the strike. Here, police direct a large crowd of commuters to Brooklyn-bound buses.
Despite the cries of chaos and paralysis by uninformed out-of-town right wingers, anti-union agitators and the Archie Bunker-pandering Post, people who need to get around are doing so, whether by bike, on foot or in a carpool. At 6:30, the FDR Drive at 53rd St. was moving steadily in both directions. Right after I took this photo, an ambulance sped downtown with little trouble.
The more I walk around, the more I think my Homeric trip home last night was a result of two unusual circumstances: 1) Going against the rush hour is harder than going with it because of all the lanes that switched direction to accomidate downtown workers, 2) Nguyen, my cabbie, is an idiot.
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rj3 | 6:54 PM |
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