Transit “Hometown Heroes” Honored at Star-Studded Daily News Breakfast

January 29 -- Union members who made the City proud by saving lost children, stopping a man with a container of gasoline in a subway car, catching a baby falling from a third floor window, rescuing a customer on the tracks and other heroics great and small were honored today by a star-studded cast of prominent New Yorkers. The likes of Daily News Publisher Mort Zuckerman, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, Channel 7 Eyewitness News anchor Liz Cho, Daily News Columnist Mike Lupica, Pro Football great  Carl Banks, and Top Chef Marcus Samuelsson served up tributes to 11 MTA employees, represented by TWU Local 100 and ATU Locals 726 and 1056. To honor transit workers, the Daily News put a special 16-page section in today’s paper. You can see a rotating slide show of some of the breakfast’s best moments in the upper right hand corner of our website. Each winner received a check for $1,000 from the Daily News and their moment in the sun. More on the story here.