Someone Else's Money
What was motivating the hundreds of people to prefer to stand on a taxi line at one in the morning rather than share a taxi?
What was motivating the hundreds of people to prefer to stand on a taxi line at one in the morning rather than share a taxi?
Posted 11.28.2011
Comedian Mark Malkoff likes to do social experiments over at My Damn Channel from time to time, and this week he decided to rent out a New York City t...
Peter Mandel | Posted 10.24.2011
I could've just taken the train, but on a whim, and packing my sense of adventure, I was going from D.C. to New York by taxi cab.
Posted 10.19.2011
They say that entrepreneurial inspiration can come from just about anywhere, but for 32-year-old Chicago-based smartphone app developer Adam Saffro, i...
AP | By DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 09.20.2011
DETROIT -- New York City has approved the Ford Taurus sedan and Ford Transit Connect van for use as taxis for the next two years, allowing the carmake...
nytimes.com | MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM | Posted 07.16.2011
Eight million New Yorkers. Thirteen thousand yellow cabs. It is a ratio that can flummox a person, particularly during a rainstorm at rush hour. A ne...
Bed-Stuy, NY Patch | Cleon Alert | Email the Author | 12:47pm | Posted 06.14.2011
In a bid to increase taxi service for residents in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island, Mayor Bloomberg and the Taxi and Limousine Commissio...
Posted 05.25.2011
There's been quite a few undercover video stings recently, like when Mayor Bloomberg sent undercover investigators to a gun show in Arizona to show ho...
AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 05.25.2011
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Greg Selkoe | Posted 05.25.2011
What is the most overlooked key issue of our time? A nuclear Iran, America's failing education system, the need for better dental hygiene? The answ...
Melissa Plaut | Posted 05.25.2011
When you swipe your card, the driver has to pay a hefty 5% extra. Why are New York's cabbies paying so much? Because of all the middlemen. A few people are making truckloads of money on drivers' backs.
nydailynews.com | By Oren Yaniv | Posted 05.25.2011
A pilot program at three locations where two or more riders can hop into a cab for a discounted fare should be rolling out next month, the Taxi & Limo...
New York Times | Andrew Keh | Posted 05.25.2011
Twenty cabdrivers from around the country, including seven from New York City, were honored in a ceremony Wednesday afternoon by the International Ass...
USA TODAY | Taylor McGraw | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK -- As Wall Street still wobbles under the pressure of a weak economy, one New York asset class stands firmly on all four wheels. Taxi medalli...
New York Times | Peter Khoury | Posted 05.25.2011
Tales of lust, sorrow, crime, brushes with fame and just plain weirdness all seem to find their way to New York City's cabbies, who have a front-row s...
Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.04.2012