We're here to give our gift for the holiday season to the tourists of New York. We're here on good faith to play. We intend to go to work.

We are ready to play unconditionally and immediately, but apparently we've been locked out. We're putting New York and the audience of Radio City first.

It's a sad day in New York.

This is a very sad, sad day for New York and one of her most wonderful institutions.

The holiday season is one of the busiest times of the year for New York City's travel and tourism industry, and the strike severely affects tourism to the boroughs, to Harlem and to lower Manhattan.

Business visitors, tourists, students - in the context of New York all those are sizable streams of people. The city has 60,000 hotel rooms, and with an average occupancy of 80 percent, that's 40 to 50,000 people right there.