An Enlightening Ride
Every New Yorker knows how important it is for your cab driver to take the shortest and the quickest path to your destination.
Every New Yorker knows how important it is for your cab driver to take the shortest and the quickest path to your destination.
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 05.25.2011
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Melissa Plaut | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Dan Collins | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
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...
Misha Lyuve | Posted 05.26.2012