It looks like the Broadway stage hand strike is over. That will add a lot of money back into the local economy.
Estimating the exact losses during the strike was difficult, but most agreed that the shortfall from the nearly three week strike was in the many millions. Here are some estimates about what was lost:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/estimating-the-broadway-strikes-economic-cost/
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/112698.html
--Noel Rubinton