A student's struggle to get home

Abbie Zheng, 18, of Queens, expressed relief the strike was over as she wheeled a black suitcase to a shuttle bus just after 7 a.m. at Ronkonkoma.

The Stony Brook University student said she had just completed her freshman year and was going back home andto move her things from her dorm.

“I'm pretty excited I'll be able to go on the trains now,” Zheng said.

While she didn’t think too much of the strike before leaving school, she now recognized its importance.

“I thought that [the strike would] go down in history,” she said. “We haven't had this in a long time, right? But I'm just glad the strike is over now.”