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Wednesday did it. More than three inches of rain soaked pedestrians, bicyclists and roller skaters on the streets of New York City. They sloshed to work in the morning through ankle-deep puddles and returned home that evening in a tropical downpour. Cars and school buses clogged the streets. At one point, police in Manhattan narrowly averted a "grid lock," the ultimate traffic jam, in which no motor vehicle can move in any direction. An angry bicyclist bit a policeman; an upset motorist tried to run down a policewoman. It was the ninth day of the transit strike...
...last week. A transit strike had closed down New York's celebrated subway system and driven its lumbering buses off the streets. As a result, New Yorkers were walking, running or riding just about anything availablebicycles, helicopters, roller skates, unicycles, ferry boats, mopeds, minibuses. Some 200,000 people cycled around town one day, and 6,600 hoofed it across the Brooklyn Bridge. The New York Road Runners Club stationed members along the way to dispense water to the weary during the rush hour...
Manhattan was alive with eye-stopping incongruities: a man in a blue pinstripe suit and ten-gallon hat roller skating on the Avenue of the Americas; a distinguished, elderly man tooling along 57th Street in a motorized chair, his briefcase tucked under the seat; a woman decked out in designer dress and gold jewelry plodding down Fifth Avenue in sneakers. Mayor Edward Koch paid rush-hour visits to the Brooklyn Bridge, whooping like a cheerleader and shouting encouragement to the passing throngs...
...NOTEBOOK: Bobby Kelley's 20-game hitting streak ground to a halt as the second baseman suffered an 0-8 day... The play of the afternoon was Pearce's barehanded grab-and-throw of a slow roller in the first game that nipped Carroll by a step
...There's the contrast--Carter is now on his sixth version of where he stands on the budget. He's on a roller coaster, lurching from left to right.... People are starting to say, 'I'm not sure I trust Carter...