From the monthly archives:

December 2009

Canon Powershot Silver Camera

December 26, 2009

Name *
Robert Sarmiento

Phone Number
(863) 206-6262

Email *
maxbull11@yahoo.com

Pickup / Drop off Location

Port Authority Bus Terminal / Radio City Music Hall

Date
Friday, December 25, 2009

Time

2:20:00 PM

Taxi Details

Ford SUV Explorer driven by driver from Africa - Zimbawe–in US approx 7 years

Additional Information

Lost a small Canon Powershot digital camera approx [...]

Soon You Can Hail an Artist as You Hail a Cab

December 25, 2009

Those moving advertisements atop taxis generally deliver not-so-subtle messages, like which airlines to fly or movies to see, who makes the sexiest blue jeans or the coolest sunglasses.
High art they most certainly are not.
But for the month of January, Show Media, a Las Vegas company that owns about half the cones adorning New York City’s [...]

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It’s quiet a ride

December 22, 2009

Crackdown on chatty hacks
Time to quiet down, cabbies.
Taxi officials approved a sweeping crackdown of cellphone usage for hacks yesterday, promising an end to dangerous chatty drivers once and for all.

After the unanimous vote by the Taxi and Limousine Commission, the regulations will go into effect in mid-January.
Newly forbidden will be the use of any electronic [...]

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TaxiHack Lets New Yorkers Rate Their Ride

December 18, 2009

New Yorkers know they can dial 311 for help with most municipal problems, but what do you about a bad taxi ride?
Randy Meech has created a site called TaxiHack that lets unhappy passengers post their cab comments, via email or tweet, in real time. A director of engineering at Patch, an AOL-owned local news site, [...]

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Taxi of Tomorrow Solicitation

December 17, 2009

The Department of Citywide Administrative Services, on behalf of the Taxi and Limousine Commission, is undertaking a major initiative, herein referred to as the Taxi of Tomorrow Project.  New York City seeks upgrades to its existing taxi fleet and is proactively exploring vehicle possibilities that more appropriately reflect the needs of its diverse stakeholders – [...]

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Night and Day

December 13, 2009

Pema Sherpa was opening the door of his rented yellow cab when the first blow came. A meat cleaver sliced open the back of his head and everything flashed white. The sun had not yet risen over the stretch of attached brick two-story houses on 62nd Street in Woodside, Queens; it was 5 a.m.
The cleaver [...]

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Cabbies flushed with anger about a lack of access to bathrooms

December 7, 2009

For the city’s cabbies, the quest for a bathroom is no potty joke.

Finding bladder relief is a daily dilemma for the city’s 44,000 cabbies, who typically work 12 hour shifts and cruise miles away from their garages. And the hunt for a toilet is getting harder as new bike lanes and MUNI meters make it [...]

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