End of MTA taxi service leaves overnight commuters waiting
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Grace Kalmus stepped out of her Sheepshead Bay apartment building a few minutes before 3 a.m. Thursday and walked in the darkness toward the green taxi waiting to take her to the Queens-Nassau line.
For more than three months during the pandemic, the ride has been a key part of her daily commute to 178th Street and Hillside Avenue in Jamaica, where she then catches a Nassau Inter-County Express bus to the start of her 6 a.m. shift at a Hempstead Home Depot.