Three-hour commute from Northport
On Hillside Avenue between 181st and 182nd streets some regular LIRR riders waited for NICE bus service to Mineola and Hicksville.
Xiomara Sorto, 20, a student at City University of New York Sofie Davis School of Biomedical Education in Harlem usually takes the LIRR from Northport into the city. Today she had no choice but to come in because she had a final exam in anatomy.
“It's final season,” Sorto said. “I usually study on the LIRR.”
Today that wasn't possible because this morning she drove to New Hyde Park and and caught the NICE bus to Jamaica and then took the F train into Manhattan.
Sorto said her commute is usually 60 to 90 minutes one way, but Monday it took three hours to get to college.
Even so, “I think I did good” she said of her final as a bus to Mineola pulled up.
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