Complete Coverage: NYC Transit Strike, Day 1
December 21, 2005
A long, cold, dark day
They rose before dawn, hearing news that finally, the transit strike was on: Walk, ride, bike, skate, stay home. But prepare for what could be the first of many long, grim days.
9:51 AM EST, December 21, 2005
Angry rhetoric and big fines on first day of strike
The New York City transit strike entered its second day Wednesday as lawyers for the city and state looked to the courts to dole out more punishment against union leaders, and commuters piled into cabs and walked the streets in the blistering cold.
December 21, 2005
Union determined to stay on strike
Bundled against the cold at picket lines across the city, transit workers hoisted strike signs and chanted union slogans -- full of bravado, anger and anxiety at what the coming days may hold.
December 21, 2005
Tales from a nightmare commute
They walked. They cycled. They carpooled. And they waited.
December 21, 2005
Pataki staying behind the scenes on talks
On Day 1 of the strike, Gov. George Pataki, who in his job picks the top mass transit bosses, struck a less militant public tone than New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg even as both condemned the Transport Workers Union.
December 21, 2005
Walking to work, Bloomberg denounces strike
Mayor Michael Bloomberg responded to the city's first transit strike in 25 years with an early morning photo-op procession over the Brooklyn Bridge, denouncing the shutdown of subways and buses as "unconscionable and reprehensible."
3:00 AM EST, December 21, 2005
Schools open, but few kids show up
Facing long, cold walks, circuitous car pools and mammoth traffic jams, hundreds of thousands of city students and their teachers stayed away from the classroom Tuesday, derailed by New York's first transit strike in 25 years.
December 21, 2005
Other public unions watch, cheer transit union
The unions representing city workers are flocking to support striking transit workers who have taken on the establishment with a militancy that is rare for local public sector unions.
December 21, 2005
Telecommuters feel lucky
Gotta get to work in a transit strike? No problem if you're a telecommuter. Just fire up the laptop in the virtual office and work away.
December 21, 2005
Small businesses hit hard by strike
Mardy Sitzer hired a van to make several trips back and forth from the outer boroughs to pick up her employees and bring them to her small printing and packaging business, at 18th Street and First Avenue, and then take others home.
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