From the monthly archives:
Talk about music piracy.
Uniformed JFK Airport officers forced a teary-eyed, 20-year-old woman to surrender her red iPod Nano as cab fare - or be “taken downtown” - when her credit card was declined, The Post has learned.
Natalie Lenhart, of Sacramento, Calif., said the $140 music player, full of “oldies” by The Beatles and James Taylor, [...]
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When they hit a dead end in their research, scientist unraveling the mysteries of memory turned to a unexpected source for help. Do taxi drivers grow bigger brains by remembering routes?
Watch the Video at National Geographic
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About 6,300 words into his State of the City address on Jan. 15, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg spent three sentences on a new proposal, under discussion in his office and at the city Taxi and Limousine Commission, to set up a limited system of cab-sharing at designated locations throughout the city.
Owing to the space constraints [...]
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Turns out an honest and resourceful cabbie returned the lost wedding day memories that were left behind in the trunk of his ride.
The canister full of checks, cards and other mementos from the nuptials of Christine Herrick and David Fitzhenry became lost early Sunday, nearly ruining the couple’s wedding and sparking a frantic search.
The dragnet [...]
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Lynne Lenhart’s daughter had her $140 iPod taken from her on a recent visit to New York. The thief was a taxi driver who remains at large, with the apparent blessing of the government and the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission.
This sad — and apparently unsolvable — case raises some important questions about [...]
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Cabbies are getting bigger tips thanks to their new credit-card machines, according to statistics obtained by The Post.
Both the Taxi and Limousine Commission and a drivers union said cash transactions on average result in a 10 to 15 percent tip for drivers.
But credit-card customers are bigger spenders. They gave an average 16 percent tip during [...]
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New York’s cabbies have learned to give credit where credit’s due.
One year after taxis were outfitted with machines so passengers can pay with plastic, drivers admit they might not like the new system, but they can live with it.
When the high-tech GPS and credit card devices were first installed in the city’s 13,000 cabs, there [...]
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As the man who hands out the keys for 165 yellow cabs for a fleet company on West 44th Street, Enrique Sandoval has an interesting little take on the New York City cab scene.
Mr. Sandoval hands the keys out to drivers renting the taxis from the fleet company for 12-hour shifts, from 5 a.m. to [...]
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