The effects of the first Long Island Rail Road strike in over three decades reverberated throughout the region on Monday as New Yorkers struggled to get between the five boroughs and Long Island while the nation’s busiest commuter rail is out of commission.
At New York’s Penn Station, a hub normally bustling with LIRR riders on any given weekday, one of the main concourses was noticeably less crowded than a typical Monday morning. MTA customer service agents, doning orange vests, stood in clusters throughout the mezzanine to help riders looking to get to Nassau or Suffolk Counties — including by handing out informational pamphlets on the replacement shuttle bus service.
