Ferries, subways and a bus ride to Bay Shore
Joseph Terrusa leading a strike protest by LIRR workers at the Bay Shore station. Credit: Nicholas Grasso
After a pair of ferries from Astoria to Rockaway, two subways to Howard Beach and most recently a two-hour MTA shuttle ride to Bay Shore, Aneta Holanova and Jammie Cuadrado’s trip to Fire Island was far from over.
“We rented a place, but then we realized we couldn't get there,” Cuadrado, 32, told Newsday about 5 p.m. as she and around 20 others departed the first evening eastbound shuttle from Queens to Bay Shore.
“We should get some money because it was very uncomfortable,” Holanova, 31, added.
Also hoping for more money were the 20 members of the Local 56 Brotherhood of Signalmen picketed alongside County Road 50 at the southeast edge of the Bay Shore station.
“I don't think we're asking for the world,” union member Joseph Terrusa told Newsday in between chants of “no contract, no trains” into a megaphone at passing cars and trucks, many honking their horns. He thinks fellow blue collar Long Islanders understand they’re “not asking for the world,” noting that even with the contested ask for a 5% raise in the fourth year of the contract comes to an average between 3 and 4%.
“We've had a huge majority of support,” Terrusa added. “The thumbs down or the middle finger has been few and far between.”
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