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A bottle of maple syrup is placed on a shelf at Judd's Wayeeses Farms in Morgan, Vt., on Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Donna Young checks the Canadian-made maple syrup evaporator in the sugarhouse at Judd's Wayeeses Farms in Morgan, Vt., on Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Tubing imported from Canada is used to transport sap from trees into holding tanks for producing maple syrup at Judd's Wayeeses Farms in Morgan, Vt., on Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
The limited-edition nutcrackers titled "Resolute Desk of the President," featuring a seated figure signing a "presidential proclamation," is seen at the Steinbach-Volkskunst nutcracker factory in Marienberg, Germany, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
From right, nutcrackers showing Britain's King Charles III, Statue of Liberty and Uncle Sam are displayed at the Steinbach-Volkskunst nutcracker factory in Marienberg, Germany, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
A stewardess walks by a seat compartment displaying a safety instruction leaflet of an Air China airlines Boeing 737-800 together with magazines on a seat compartment during a flight in China, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
A man walks by the Guangzhou Tax Service booth at the 137th Canton Fair in Guangzhou in southern China's Guangdong province on Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Visitors try out massage chairs at the 137th Canton Fair in Guangzhou in southern China's Guangdong province, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Visitors are seen at the 137th Canton Fair in Guangzhou, southern China's Guangdong province on Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
A visitor tests the AUBO therapy robot at the the 137th Canton Fair in Guangzhou in southern China's Guangdong province on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
A worker carries freshly cut sunflowers at the Phytotec flower farm, which exports to the United States, in El Rosal, Colombia, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
A worker looks after sunflowers at the Phytotec flower farm, which exports to the United States, in El Rosal, Colombia, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Shipping containers are moved along a railway near Amarillo, Texas, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Basketballs are displayed on shelves at a Walmart, Wednesday, April 16, 2025, in Groton, Conn. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Footballs are displayed on shelves at a Walmart, Wednesday, April 16, 2025, in Groton, Conn. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Bicycles are displayed at a Walmart, Wednesday, April 16, 2025, in Groton, Conn. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Shipping containers sit stacked at PortMiami, in front of the downtown Miami skyline, at sunset on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Kashmiri artisans weave hand-knotted carpets at a factory in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, on April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Mohammad Iqbal Bakshi displays a Kashmiri hand-knotted silk carpet at a showroom in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, on April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Ishfaq Ahmad Mir, left, and Altaf Ahmed shear Kashmiri hand-knotted carpets to remove protruding fibres at a workshop in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, on April 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Shipping containers are stacked at Westport in Klang on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Theodore Tanczuk, left, and Brayan Santos, right, of solar installer YellowLite, put solar panels on the roof of a home in Lakewood, Ohio, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
Shower heads on display at a Home Depot store Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Washing machines on display at a Home Depot store Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Refrigerators on display at a Home Depot store Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Shoppers look at washers and dryers at a Home Depot store Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Power tools on display at a Home Depot store Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
A Union Pacific freight train travels along the tracks, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Eloy, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Freight trucks travel along Interstate 10, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Picacho, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Shipping containers are seen ready for transport at the Guangzhou Port in the Nansha district in southern China's Guangdong province on Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
A shopper leaves an Athleta store, Friday, April 18, 2025, in Miami Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Dry foods are displayed at a market in Chinatown in San Francisco, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Food products made in Taiwan are displayed at a market in Chinatown in San Francisco, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Lyndon Lin, owner C.K. Color Stone and Beads, moves products displayed at his shop in Chinatown in San Francisco, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Products are displayed at C.K. Color Stone and Beads shop in Chinatown in San Francisco, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
A flag of the United States flies next to a flag of China in Chinatown in San Francisco, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Shipping containers are seen at Port Jersey, Friday, April 18, 2025, in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Shipping containers are seen at Port Jersey, Friday, April 18, 2025, in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Paul Ivanov chants slogans during a protest against the Trump administration, Saturday, April 19, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
An American Giant logo tag is shown on pants at the company's showroom in San Francisco, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Elizabeth Mahon, owner of baby store Three Littles, unpacks strollers and other inventory ordered by customers ahead of tariff-driven price increases at her Union Market location in Washington, on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)
A "Made in China" sticker is seen on inventory at the baby store Three Littles Union Market location in Washington, on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)
Cars ready for export are parked in Tangier Med Port, Morocco, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
A cargo ship crosses the Gibraltar Strait near Tangier Med Port, Morocco, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Clothes sit for sale at a shopping market in the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles, Monday, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Bao)
A protester wearing mask of U.S. President Donald Trump, center, attends a news conference against Trump's tariffs policy and demand South Korean acting President Han Duck-soo and Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok to resign, in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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A bottle of maple syrup is placed on a shelf at Judd's Wayeeses Farms in Morgan, Vt., on Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Donna Young checks the Canadian-made maple syrup evaporator in the sugarhouse at Judd's Wayeeses Farms in Morgan, Vt., on Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Tubing imported from Canada is used to transport sap from trees into holding tanks for producing maple syrup at Judd's Wayeeses Farms in Morgan, Vt., on Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
The limited-edition nutcrackers titled "Resolute Desk of the President," featuring a seated figure signing a "presidential proclamation," is seen at the Steinbach-Volkskunst nutcracker factory in Marienberg, Germany, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
From right, nutcrackers showing Britain's King Charles III, Statue of Liberty and Uncle Sam are displayed at the Steinbach-Volkskunst nutcracker factory in Marienberg, Germany, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
A stewardess walks by a seat compartment displaying a safety instruction leaflet of an Air China airlines Boeing 737-800 together with magazines on a seat compartment during a flight in China, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
A man walks by the Guangzhou Tax Service booth at the 137th Canton Fair in Guangzhou in southern China's Guangdong province on Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Visitors try out massage chairs at the 137th Canton Fair in Guangzhou in southern China's Guangdong province, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Visitors are seen at the 137th Canton Fair in Guangzhou, southern China's Guangdong province on Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
A visitor tests the AUBO therapy robot at the the 137th Canton Fair in Guangzhou in southern China's Guangdong province on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
A worker carries freshly cut sunflowers at the Phytotec flower farm, which exports to the United States, in El Rosal, Colombia, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
A worker looks after sunflowers at the Phytotec flower farm, which exports to the United States, in El Rosal, Colombia, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Shipping containers are moved along a railway near Amarillo, Texas, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Basketballs are displayed on shelves at a Walmart, Wednesday, April 16, 2025, in Groton, Conn. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Footballs are displayed on shelves at a Walmart, Wednesday, April 16, 2025, in Groton, Conn. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Bicycles are displayed at a Walmart, Wednesday, April 16, 2025, in Groton, Conn. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Shipping containers sit stacked at PortMiami, in front of the downtown Miami skyline, at sunset on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Kashmiri artisans weave hand-knotted carpets at a factory in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, on April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Mohammad Iqbal Bakshi displays a Kashmiri hand-knotted silk carpet at a showroom in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, on April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Ishfaq Ahmad Mir, left, and Altaf Ahmed shear Kashmiri hand-knotted carpets to remove protruding fibres at a workshop in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, on April 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Shipping containers are stacked at Westport in Klang on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Theodore Tanczuk, left, and Brayan Santos, right, of solar installer YellowLite, put solar panels on the roof of a home in Lakewood, Ohio, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
Shower heads on display at a Home Depot store Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Washing machines on display at a Home Depot store Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Refrigerators on display at a Home Depot store Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Shoppers look at washers and dryers at a Home Depot store Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Power tools on display at a Home Depot store Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
A Union Pacific freight train travels along the tracks, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Eloy, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Freight trucks travel along Interstate 10, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Picacho, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Shipping containers are seen ready for transport at the Guangzhou Port in the Nansha district in southern China's Guangdong province on Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
A shopper leaves an Athleta store, Friday, April 18, 2025, in Miami Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Dry foods are displayed at a market in Chinatown in San Francisco, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Food products made in Taiwan are displayed at a market in Chinatown in San Francisco, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Lyndon Lin, owner C.K. Color Stone and Beads, moves products displayed at his shop in Chinatown in San Francisco, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Products are displayed at C.K. Color Stone and Beads shop in Chinatown in San Francisco, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
A flag of the United States flies next to a flag of China in Chinatown in San Francisco, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Shipping containers are seen at Port Jersey, Friday, April 18, 2025, in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Shipping containers are seen at Port Jersey, Friday, April 18, 2025, in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Paul Ivanov chants slogans during a protest against the Trump administration, Saturday, April 19, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
An American Giant logo tag is shown on pants at the company's showroom in San Francisco, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Elizabeth Mahon, owner of baby store Three Littles, unpacks strollers and other inventory ordered by customers ahead of tariff-driven price increases at her Union Market location in Washington, on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)
A "Made in China" sticker is seen on inventory at the baby store Three Littles Union Market location in Washington, on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)
Cars ready for export are parked in Tangier Med Port, Morocco, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
A cargo ship crosses the Gibraltar Strait near Tangier Med Port, Morocco, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Clothes sit for sale at a shopping market in the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles, Monday, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Bao)
A protester wearing mask of U.S. President Donald Trump, center, attends a news conference against Trump's tariffs policy and demand South Korean acting President Han Duck-soo and Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok to resign, in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
New Jersey Transit train engineers went on strike, leaving train terminals quiet for Friday's rush hour and an estimated 350,000 commuters in New Jersey and New York City to seek other means to reach their destinations or consider staying home.
Groups of picketers gathered in front of transit headquarters in Newark and at the Hoboken Terminal, carrying signs that said “Locomotive Engineers on Strike” and “NJ Transit: Millions for Penthouse Views Nothing for Train Crews.”
Friday’s rail commute into New York from New Jersey is typically the lightest of the week. In New York, some commuters from New Jersey said they could not work remotely and had to come in, taking busses to the Port Authority bus terminal in Manhattan.
David Milosevich, a fashion and advertising casting director, was on his way to a photo shoot in Brooklyn. At 1 a.m. he checked his phone and saw the strike was on.
“I left home very early because of it,” he said, grabbing the bus in Montclair, New Jersey, and arriving in Manhattan at 7 a.m. “I think a lot of people don’t come in on Fridays since COVID. I don’t know what’s going to happen Monday.”
The walkout comes after the latest round of negotiations on Thursday didn’t produce an agreement. It is the state’s first transit strike in more than 40 years and comes a month after union members overwhelmingly rejected a labor agreement with management.
“We presented them the last proposal; they rejected it and walked away with two hours left on the clock," said Tom Haas, general chairman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen.
NJ Transit CEO Kris Kolluri described the situation as a “pause in the conversations.”
“I certainly expect to pick back up these conversations as soon as possible,” he said late Thursday during a joint news conference with New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy. “If they’re willing to meet tonight, I’ll meet them again tonight. If they want to meet tomorrow morning, I’ll do it again. Because I think this is an imminently workable problem. The question is, do they have the willingness to come to a solution.”
Murphy and Kolluri planned a Friday morning news conference.
A few blocks from the Port Authority bus terminal, the NJ Transit train terminal was quiet, with an NJ transit worker in an orange hoody on hand to warn riders it was closed, Signs read: “service suspended.”
The South Amboy train station, an express stop on the NJ Transit rail line, was vacant. But the Waterway ferry that began service only 18 months ago from a waterside launching point that’s a 10-minute walk from the train station was busier than usual for its 6:40 a.m., 55-minute nonstop trip to Manhattan.
The ferry runs once an hour during the morning and evening commutes. With about three dozen people aboard, more than half the seats in the ferry’s lower deck were empty.
Murphy said it was important to “reach a final deal that is both fair to employees and at the same time affordable to New Jersey’s commuters and taxpayers.”
"Again, we cannot ignore the agency’s fiscal realities,” Murphy said.
The announcement came after 15 hours of nonstop contract talks, according to the union.
NJ Transit — the nation’s third-largest transit system — operates buses and rail in the state, providing nearly 1 million weekday trips, including into New York City. The walkout halts all NJ Transit commuter trains, which provide heavily used public transit routes between New York City’s Penn Station on one side of the Hudson River and communities in northern New Jersey on the other, as well as the Newark airport, which has grappled with unrelated delays of its own recently.
The agency had announced contingency plans in recent days, saying it planned to increase bus service, but warned riders that the buses would only add “very limited” capacity to existing New York commuter bus routes in close proximity to rail stations and would not start running until Monday.
However, the agency noted that the buses would not be able to handle close to the same number of passengers — only about 20% of current rail customers — so it urged people who could work from home to do so.
Earlier, even the thread of a strike caused travel disruptions. Amid the uncertainty, the transit agency canceled train and bus service for Shakira concerts Thursday and Friday at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.
The parties met Monday with a federal mediation board in Washington to discuss the matter, and a mediator was present during Thursday’s talks. Kolluri said Thursday night that the mediation board has suggested a Sunday morning meeting to resume talks.
Wages have been the main sticking point of the negotiations between the agency and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen that wants to see its members earn wages comparable to other passenger railroads in the area. The union says its members earn an average salary of $113,000 a year and says an agreement could be reached if agency CEO Kris Kolluri agrees to an average yearly salary of $170,000.
NJ Transit leadership, though, disputes the union’s data, saying the engineers have average total earnings of $135,000 annually, with the highest earners exceeding $200,000.
Kolluri and Murphy said Thursday night that the problem isn’t so much whether both sides can agree to a wage increase, but whether they can do so under terms that wouldn’t then trigger other unions to demand similar increases and create a financially unfeasible situation for NJ Transit.
Congress has the power to intervene and block the strike and force the union to accept a deal, but lawmakers have not shown a willingness to do that this time like they did in 2022 to prevent a national freight railroad strike.
The union has seen steady attrition in its ranks at NJ Transit as more of its members leave to take better-paying jobs at other railroads. The number of NJ Transit engineers has shrunk from 500 several months ago to about 450.
Associated Press reporters Cedar Attanasio and Larry Neumeister in New York, Hallie Golden in Seattle and Josh Funk in Omaha, Nebraska, contributed to this report.
An information screen informing commuters of the rail service suspension, due to the strike by Union members from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, inside Newark Penn Station on Friday, May 16, 2025 in Newark, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)
An information screen informing commuters of the rail service suspension, due to the strike by Union members from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, inside Newark Penn Station on Friday, May 16, 2025 in Newark, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)
An empty PATH train platform with an information screen informing commuters of the rail service suspension, due to the strike by Union members from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, inside Newark Penn Station on Friday, May 16, 2025 in Newark, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)
Union members from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen form a picket line outside the NJ Transit Headquarters on Friday, May 16, 2025 in Newark, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)
An electronic display advises commuters of NJ Transit service disruptions at the Secaucus Junction station in Secaucus, N.J., Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
An NJ Transit train pulls into the Secaucus Junction station in Secaucus, N.J., Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
An electronic display advises commuters of potential NJ Transit service disruptions at the Secaucus Junction station in Secaucus, N.J., Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Union members from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen form a picket line outside the NJ Transit Headquarters on Friday, May 16, 2025 in Newark, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)
Union members from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen form a picket line outside the NJ Transit Headquarters on Friday, May 16, 2025 in Newark, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)