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Ah, the end of the year. A time to look back and reflect on the things that have happend. Also, a time to get wasted. But that's neither here nor there (ok, it's a bit here, but it's ok to start drinking past noon, right?). We've already looked back at the year as we wrote it, but what about the year as you commented on it? Seems a reasonable enough request. So without further ado, we bring you, the Top 10 Commented Gothamist Posts of 2005:

Hoorah, the strike is over! But, boo, you don't have a reason not to go to work tomorrow (?). With bus and subway service slowly easing back to normal over the next day or so, Gothamist imagines the sidewalks will be relatively less crowded tomorrow, with more restaurants and shops filled and some people might try to kiss the subway floor - only to be dragged away in a straitjacket by other straphangers. But for today, we'll share one more walk/ taxi journey brisk ride/ LIRR flaying with all of you and never ever forget it.

Some of the most striking images during yesterday's strike were not of commuters walking across the Brooklyn Bridge (though those are always gorgeous) but of commuters trying to enter LIRR stations. Hundreds of people queuing up outside the Jamaica, Queens station, thousands of people just trying to get into Penn Station. One person told WNBC that the Penn Station experience was "like being the mosh pit of a Metallica concert," and the crowds got so bad, some LIRR workers waived fares. There were reported waits of an hour and a half just to get tickets, which later prompted officials to suggest commuters get their tickets the night before - or commute in the off hours! The MTA even issued new strike contigency information for the LIRR, asking workers to "stagger" their work day and therefore stagger their commutes in.