From the monthly archives:
The city is launching a major offensive against limos and livery cabs that illegally pick up fares.
The Taxi and Limousine Commission is marshaling its forces for the pending crackdown on drivers who illegally stop when hailed - in addition to cabbies who pay kickbacks to hotel doormen to steer tourists into their cars, Commissioner Matthew [...]
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Disgruntled tourists who feel they’ve been slighted by a cabbie may be able to extract some payback even after they leave the city.
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Two cars and a taxicab crashed Sunday in midtown, leaving a mess of metal and two people in serious condition, cops said.
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He’s not even 40 yet, but Gene Freidman is fast becoming one of the taxi kings of New York.
The Russian immigrant has dominated recent medallion auctions and now owns 200 of the lucrative licenses, making him one of the biggest players in the business.
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Cuss and be fined, a foul-mouthed Manhattan cabby discovered.
Zbigniew Sobczak dropped the f-bomb on another hack on the Upper West Side, jumping out of his cab at Central Park West and 65th Street and cussing a blue streak at driver Malik Rizwan.
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Cabbie Zaman Kamrul sees the soaring price of gas and the falloff in fares and the numbers don’t add up.
While the cost of filling up his taxi has doubled from $20 to up to $40 a day in the decade Kamrul has been driving, he’s picking up fewer passengers to cover the cost.
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A taxi driver known as the city’s most honest cabbie for returning $70,000 in rare jewels he found in the backseat has died at age 51.
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