As would-be Long Island Rail Road riders scrambled to make it out of Manhattan just after midnight Saturday, MTA police officers waited to deliver bad news at the bottom of the towering escalators inside Grand Central Madison. Close to 3,500 workers on the country’s largest commuter railroad went out on strike at 12:01 a.m. — […] The post LIRR Strike Strands Midnight Commuters as Union Leaders Talk Tough appeared first on THE CITY - NYC News .