Cabs

Someone Else's Money

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.04.2012

Howard Steven Friedman

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?

WATCH: Comedian Offers Free Cab Rides To New Yorkers

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...

A $425 Cab Ride From D.C. To New York City

Peter Mandel | Posted 10.24.2011

Peter Mandel

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.

New App Warns Users Of Smelly Taxis, Cabbies

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...

New York Approves New Cabs

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...

NYC Considers Adding 1,500 Yellow Cabs

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...

Plan To Legalize Livery Car Pickups Angers Yellow Cab Drivers

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...

WATCH: Going Undercover To Ensure Cab Rides For All

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...

Hundreds Of New York Cabbies Routinely Overcharge

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 05.25.2011

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Grand Theft Auto- Part 1

Greg Selkoe | Posted 05.25.2011

Greg Selkoe

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...

Cash or Credit? In a Taxi, It Depends Which Side of the Partition You're On

Melissa Plaut | Posted 05.25.2011

Melissa Plaut

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.

Taxi Share-a-ride Pilot Program Planned

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...

Cab Drivers Honored

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...

Cost Of NYC Taxi Medallions Soars To $766,000

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...

Taxicab Confessions: Cab Drivers Share Weirdest Stories

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...