Metro

NYC struggles as school bus drivers go on strike

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Children cross the street on their way to school in the rain in the Lower East Side, Manhattan. Stefan Jeremiah
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Martin Wallace, 41, takes his son Bruno, 5 (third from left), and a group of children from the subway at W.116th street to their school. The other children’s parents gave Martin permission to take them to school today because of the strike. Robert Miller
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Parents are forced to find alternative transportation for their kids this morning after the school bus drivers union went on strike. Paul Martinka
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Kids getting on F & G trains at the Church avenue subway train station in Kensington, Brooklyn. Paul Martinka
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Kids getting on F & G trains at the Church avenue subway train station in Kensington, Brooklyn. Paul Martinka
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A woman arrives with her children by taxi at PS 33 in Chelsea. AP
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Evan Houtrides (of Boerum Hill, Brooklyn) biked with daughter Eleni (3, in pink) and son Demetrios (7, green) to school instead of his usual morning commute by yellow school bus. Paul Martinka
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About two dozen on strike Union members gathered outside their bus depot in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Paul Martinka