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While New York's land use pattern is heavily dependent on mass transit, it's also resiliant to a strike in some ways. People will be able to bike to work. It's safe to say that more New Yorkers walk to work than do people who live in any other part of the country. (For better or for worse, I live 300 feet from my office.) And the strike will encourage people to carpool and to take the many transit services that won't be affected: the Long Island Rail Road (to or from Queens and Brooklyn), the Metro-North Railroad (to or from Harlem and the Bronx), the Staten Island Ferry, and New York's "other" subway, the PATH, which would operate special service between Midtown and the Financial District.
The city's plan to prohibit all but four-person high occupancy vehicles makes a lot of sense - maybe even when there's no strike happening! It seems somewhat similar to London's groundbreaking Congestion Pricing program.
Speaking of the SI Ferry, it has great bike facilities.
Yes, that's my bike...
Larry Reilly, president of Transportation Alternatives, directed bicycle traffic on 34th Street.