New York Transit Strike Hurts Small Businesses

Thousands of entrepreneurs will feel the pinch of a New York City Transit Strike. From Inc.com:

Many of the city’s 468 subway stations contain newsstands, barbershops, and shoeshine stands. In interviews at Grand Central Station, Times Square, Columbus Circle, Union Square, and 86th Street and Lexington Avenue, small businesses in the underground stations said they hoped to avoid the loss of workdays that a strike would force.
“I would have no choice but to go home,” said Tariq Sheikh, behind the booth of one of his four newsstands in the Columbus Circle station. “How are we going to survive if we have to feed our families and pay the bills?”