Julia Marsh
Mayor Bloomberg riding the subway to City Hall Monday morning, one week after Sandy devastated the New York area.
Mayor Bloomberg kept his word about taking mass transit to work today as thousands across the area returned and work and school for the first time since Sandy devastated the New York area.
He was spotted riding the 5 train to City Hall this morning.
Commuters streaming into New York today endured long waits and crowded trains, giving the recovering transit system a stress test a week after Superstorm Sandy ravaged the New Jersey and New York coast lines.
Bloomberg left his East 79th Street town house just before 7 a.m. and was driven in a black Chevy Suburban to the express 5 train stop at 59th St.
He walked briskly through the station and arrived at the train just as it was entering the station and boarded with a half dozen security guards and City Hall photographer Spencer Tucker.
He read the front page of the Financial Times and was silent during the commute with his head down.
TRAINS, BUSES WILL BE PACKED DURING TODAY'S COMMUTE
In a black jacket and black suit he blended in with commuters on the loosely-packed train.
When a Post reporter tried to ask the mayor how his commute was going a security guard asked her to step back.
He arrived at City Hall at 7:20 a.m.
Fellow commuter Cheryl Mowatt, a scheduler from the Bronx was delighted to see the Mayor on her train. "It's great. It's wonderful show of support. It shows he can relate to the people."
Mowatt said her commute was normal. "I'm just glad the train is back."
Rider Annette Vargas gasped "Is that really him?" when she saw the mayor across the train and snapped cell phone photos.
"I had to take a double take I can't believe it was him," Vargas, 44, said.
Vargas, an NYCHA employee, also said her commute was normal.
"This is the first time we don't look like sardines. We're recuperating slowly but surely this is the worst thing that's ever happened to us. Slowly but surely well be okay. It's going to be real tough."
A steady stream of commuters has emerged from the subway station for the A and E trains across from the World Trade Center site.
They include Tommy Williams. He took an E train straight from Jamaica, Queens, where he lives.
Last week, he had to drive into Manhattan.
The 49-year-old was looking forward to the first regular day of construction at the site since the storm.
Last week, he says, "it was all about pumping out the water."
The temperature as he spoke was around 38 degrees. But he had steaming hot coffee. And he was smiling broadly.
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