NEW YORK — Raising your arm and yelling "taxi!" is the old-fashioned way to nab a New York City cab. Soon, all you'll need is a smartphone app. ...

By Jill Colvin, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer NEW YORK CITY — A Manhattan Supreme Court judge has ruled that the city's Five-Borough Taxi Plan — wh...

The next time you're stuck on the corner fruitlessly searching for the next available cab in sight, getting upstreamed by one of your fellow New Yorke...

The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission has agreed to hear a proposal on May 31 to raise cab fares 20 percent. According to The Times, "Such h...

NEW YORK -- In a cab and your cellphone just died? No problem. Just plug it in. New cabs hitting the streets of New York City next year will have cha...

Currently the lights atop New York City taxi cabs can signify four things: 1) If the center light's on, the cab's in service. Take it. Put your han...

There have been taxi cab births before--it happened twice last year--but this is the first time an expecting father had the wherewithal to film the oc...

A good chunk of New York City cab riders might grumble over aggressive driving, but that doesn't mean they've been buckling up. According to the T...

In an undercover operation involving college students, more than 360 cab drivers have been fined for refusing rides requiring long distances to outer ...

With just one email, the city's soundtrack may have one less familiar sound soon, and we're guessing New Yorkers won't be missing it. After the ch...

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...

This just in: the Taxi Limousine Commission is voting Thursday whether or not to amend an existing dress code to require cabbies have "a professional...

The leaders of the Charter Commission did not understand what the struggle was really about: the popular will and the necessity to resist retrograde attempts to subvert it or postpone it into oblivion.

Why don't the black cabs or other transit vehicles take over and serve the locations that the MTA has abandoned?

Former City Councilman David Yassky has been nominated by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to head the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission, the mayor anno...

I speak for thousands of Working Families Party members when I say that we are thrilled to have played a part in the victories of John Liu and Bill de Blasio.

More people went to the ballpark over the weekend to watch the Yankees play the Red Sox than are likely to elect New York's next chief money man on Tu...

All along Sugar Hill Harlem, we think it began with Caroline. The slide, the trenchant derision, the Partied and, some hope, parting exile. "He shou...

Because of a quirk in the calendar, Monday is both the last day of campaigning before the Democratic runoff election and the holiest day on the year f...

Imagine how surprised and delighted New Yorkers must have been when they awoke to find the city is embarking on a Democratic runoff -- a two-week political steel cage match to decide the nominations for public advocate and comptroller.

After four years of fund-raising and campaigning, candidates for mayor, comptroller, public advocate, distract attorney and City Council will face Dem...

Last Thursday, Russell Simmons announced his support of David Yassky for New York City Comptroller.