Strike likely to hurt businesses at Penn, MSG
Maddie’s Boba Lab, tucked between track stairs in a side corridor of Penn Station, opened just three months ago and is still trying to attract customers, said William Leong, a manager.
Now, a looming strike would hurt Maddie’s, a play on Madison Square Garden upstairs.
It’s already challenging enough: commuters are typically in a hurry, hybrid work schedules mean business isn’t strong on certain days of the week, the business is tucked away off the main corridors, the tip jar has been stolen.
A strike won’t help the business.
“Very slow as is,” he lamented as a customer waited for a boba drink, which came to America from Taiwan.
An important clientele, he said, are MTA and other workers, but if there’s a strike, that business will diminish.
Matthew Chayes, a Newsday reporter since 2007, covers New York City.
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