| New York Transit Strike: City Faces Crisis In Subway-Bus Tieup | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1744 |
| Catalog #: | 493569 | |
| Clip Number: | 493569-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 039-002-01 | |
| Timecode: | 00:06:59 - 00:09:10 | |
| Location: | New York, NY | |
| Year Shot: | 1965 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DEMONSTRATIONS: Labor LABOR UNIONS: Strikes LABOR UNIONS: Transportation LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, New York, New York TRANSPORTATION: Traffic Scenes TRANSPORTATION/MASS TRANSIT: Stations TRANSPORTATION/MASS TRANSIT: Subway & Underground | |
| Description: | Six thousand subway cars lie idle, 230 miles of track lead nowhere. A strike of transportation union workers almost brings New York City to a stop as they walk out over a new contract with the Transit Authorities. Subways and busses are the artery that keep Gotham alive, when they pulse - the city lives and whey they stop - the city dies a little. The threat of a subway strike seems to threaten every two-years at contract time, but never before has this marvel of mass transportation ground to a stop with the men on the picket lines as a new Mayor takes office. Not a subway car or a bus rolls as some New Yorkers get to work the best they can - only an estimated 25% showed up on the first working day. The strike is a monumental headache to New York's new Mayor, John Lindsay, who assumed office in the midst of the strike. Monumental traffic jams and heavy pedestrian traffic is the hallmark of a subway strike in New York - the city could only begin to roll again to the click of subway wheels. New York, NY Totally void of people are the train platforms and railroad tracks that has no trains traveling on them. Camera pans - Empty staircase, no people. MS - A train terminal that is completely empty, no workers and no passengers. CU - Entrance way to the subway station has tape with the word CLOSED going across the entrance turnstiles. High Angle Shot - Trans are parked and the tracks are completely empty of workers and trains. MS - Men walking with picket signs, "TWU ON STRIKE." High Angle Shot - New York City at night time all the lights are turned on in the buildings. High Angle Shot - Throngs turn out to see Mayor John Lindsay sworn in a Mayor on the steps of City Hall. CIS - Mayor holding his little boy on his lap, wife is at his side and their all smiling. CU - Sign "TWU - TA Negotiation Liberty Hall - Press - Radio & TV." MS - Transit Authority and Union Leaders. High Angle Shot - Traffic, New York and its evening. MS - New York traffic day time. MS - Throngs queue up for the Subway. High Angle Shot - Daytime traffic. | |
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