New York Cabs

An Enlightening Ride

Misha Lyuve | Posted 05.26.2012

Misha Lyuve

Every New Yorker knows how important it is for your cab driver to take the shortest and the quickest path to your destination.

Get Ready To Hail A Green Cab

Posted 03.09.2012

No need to be alarmed the next time you hail a cab ride home and start seeing green. The color is said to be a favorite pick for the Taxi and Limousin...

New Yorkers Aren't Buckling Up In Cabs

Posted 12.29.2011

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...

Cab Driver Allegedly Rapes Passenger

Posted 12.07.2011

A cab driver allegedly raped a drunken female passenger early Monday morning in Harlem, police sources tell The New York Post. After being picked ...

Undercover College Kids Expose Cabbies Who Won't Drive To Brooklyn

Posted 12.02.2011

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

Good News: Taxis Told To Stop Honking Or Face Hefty Fine

Posted 12.25.2011

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...

Yellow Cabbies Protest Livery Cab Bill; Albany Busy With Other Things

Posted 08.22.2011

Amidst the busy, busy final weekend of the legislative session in Albany, Mayor Bloomberg circumvented the City Council and slipped Albany a bill that...

PHOTOS: Awesome Decal Costumes For Taxi Figures

The Huffington Post | Grace Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Next time you're faced with a street full of cabs, take a closer look at their side doors. Notice the lonely black and yellow stick figure blankly sta...

Cab Crashes Into Cafe Habana, Injuring Three

ny.eater.com | Posted 05.25.2011

The Twitter exploded around 6 PM last night with reports that yellow cab hit a Honda on Prince Street and then ricocheted into Cafe Habana, totaling t...

Ian McFarlane, Taxi Driver Who Took New York Tourists On A Chase, Pleads Guilty

Yahoo! News | MARCUS FRANKLIN, Associated Press Writer | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK -- A man who took five French tourists on a police chase in an illegal airport shuttle van pleaded guilty Thursday to felony assault in excha...

Alleged Cabbie Stabber Indicted

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — An arts student accused of slashing a Muslim taxi driver's neck has been indicted on hate-crime charges, prosecutors said Monday as t...

Ahmed Sharif, Stabbed Cab Driver, Gets $30,000 In Donations

Posted 05.25.2011

Ahmed Sharif hoped he could garner more than sympathy after he was stabbed by a passenger last week. The long-time cabbie asked the New York Taxi Wor...

Michael Enright, Cab Driver Slasher Suspect, Taken To Psych Ward

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — A college student accused of slashing a taxi driver because he is a Muslim was moved from jail to a psychiatric ward, corrections off...

Ahmed Sharif, Stabbed Cab Driver, Meets With Bloomberg

AP | SARA KUGLER FRAZIER and TOM HAYS | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — A Muslim cab driver whose face and throat were slashed in a suspected hate crime attack appeared with Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thur...

Sam Stein

Man In Cab Driver Slashing Shot 'Funny Or Die' Video, PTSD Shorts

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Well before he was accused of slashing a Muslim cab driver across the neck, Michael Enright, the 21-year-old college student now charged with the crim...

Ahmed Sharif, Stabbed Cab Driver: I Pleaded For My Life (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Ahmed Sharif, the cab driver who was stabbed for being Muslim, says he pleaded with his attacker for his life. Ahmed Sharif spoke to reporters on Wed...

Paterson Ties Cabbie Stabbing To Park51 Controversy

Posted 05.25.2011

Gov. Paterson sees a connection between the stabbing of Muslim cab driver Ahmed Sharif and the fervor over the proposed Islamic Center near ground zer...

Michael Enright, Alleged Muslim Cab Driver Stabber, Belonged To Pro-Park51 Group (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

*SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATES* Michael Enright is not who you'd expect him to be. The man accused of stabbing New York City cab driver Ahmed H. Sharif af...

Michael Enright Charged With Hate Crime: Ahmed Sharif, Muslim Cab Driver, Attacked For Religion

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — A college student who did volunteer work in Afghanistan was charged Wednesday with slashing a taxi driver's neck and face after the d...

Man Killed After Minivan Knocks Cab Into Bus Stop

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — A cab struck by a minivan has jumped a curb and slammed into a New York City bus stop, killing a man and injuring six other people. ...

Hundreds Of New York Cabbies Routinely Overcharge

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 05.25.2011

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Denying Cab Drivers a Cell Phone Puts Them in Danger (and Makes You Late)

Melissa Plaut | Posted 05.25.2011

Melissa Plaut

When taxi drivers find themselves alone in their cabs -- as they often do -- with psychopaths, scam artists, or even just garden-variety drunken idiots, that little hands-free device can be a lifeline.

Credit Cards and "Taxi TV"

Dan Collins | Posted 05.25.2011

Dan Collins

I am a hesitant to say this, but New York's credit-cards-in-cabs system is great. My big remaining complaint is "Taxi TV" -- the boring, annoying reports and ads that are occasionally impossible to turn off.

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...