Striking taxi drivers claim success so far:

The alliance’s organizer, Bhairavi Desai, said the action was a “resounding success,” adding that a vast majority of drivers stayed away from work.

“Look at the roads,” she told reporters.

Ed Ott, the executive director of the New York City Central Labor Council, an A.F.L.-C.I.O. umbrella group for the city’s unions, joined her at a news conference and said the strike was effective.

“If you can’t tell the difference between yesterday at Penn Station,” he said, “and today, you’re blind or you’re a tourist.”

If the mayor wants to get creative, he can perhaps play off of that theme during the press conference . . .