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...
Melissa Plaut | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York
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.
Melissa Plaut | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York
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.
nydailynews.com | By Pete Donohue and Leo Standora | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York
The Taxi and Limousine Commission will unveil tough new proposals Friday to crack down on chatty cabbies who yak on their mobile phones while driving....
Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York
I wrote this poem years ago as way to deal with the attacks of September 11. On the the anniversary of that horrible day, I am posting it in commemora...
USA TODAY | Taylor McGraw | Posted 09.06.2009 | New York
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 07.30.2009 | New York
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...
The Brooklyn Paper | MIKE MCLAUGHLIN | Posted 07.12.2009 | Local
A city crackdown on livery cab drivers who cruised for furniture-lugging passengers at the remote Ikea in Red Hook has led the Swedish home-furnishing...
Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 07.10.2009 | Living
People like to bemoan the dearth of customer service in America. But is there anything you can do to get better service in out there in the cold cruel world of indifference?
mjperry.blogspot.com | Mark J. Perry | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business
Additionally, taxi medallions are one of the few assets that have appreciated in value in 2008, increasing in every one of our operating markets, and ...
Lauren Hilgers | Posted 01.05.2009 | World
I've had near-death experiences as a pedestrian in China, but inside taxis, drivers have educated me on topics from the financial crisis, aliens and, of course, the difficult business of being a taxi driver in China.
New York Times | WILLIAM NEUMAN and SEWELL CHAN | Posted 12.02.2008 | Green
A federal judge dealt a blow on Friday to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's efforts to improve air quality in the city, blocking a rule that all new taxis ...
nydailynews.com | By Oren Yaniv | Posted 11.20.2009 | New York