Go Knicks! Fans relieved to ride rails to MSG
Omar Ahmed, Aun Abbas and Steve Mandola waved a Knicks flag on the westbound train platform in Hicksville as they headed to Madison Square Garden for Tuesday’s NBA playoff game.
All was good — especially after the LIRR strike was settled.
But if it hadn’t ended Monday night?
“To be honest, we would have Uber-ed or we would have driven,” said Ahmed, 21, a Stony Brook University junior from Hicksville.
It would have fallen on Abbas, 21, who goes to Farmingdale State, to fill up his gas tank if they took the car.
“It would have been a lot of money,” said Abbas, like his friends decked out in blue-and-orange Knicks gear. “We’re a bunch of college kids.”
Carl MacGowan is a Long Island native who covers Brookhaven Town after having previously covered Smithtown, Suffolk County courts and numerous spot news and feature stories over his 20-plus year career at Newsday.
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