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Chip Stern

Communication Breakdown Part One

November 17, 2008

“Talk to people about themselves and they will listen for hours” -Benjamin Disraeli Recently, deep into the morning, as I lingered with my fellow drivers, waiting on line to consummate our payment ritual with the night dispatcher, one of my colleagues eyeballed me and blurted out: “Don’t you just love it when passengers spend the [...]

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Get this obnoxious TV out of my cab

April 7, 2008

Is nothing sacred? Is there no place left where New Yorkers may briefly sequester themselves from our stressful urban landscape? Apparently not, because in an ironic example of “love me, love my dog,” let us present our candidate for worst of breed – those obnoxious new screens in the backseats of cabs. This invasive, abrasive [...]

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Chip Stern on NYC traffic

December 10, 2007

I drive a yellow cab on the night shift, and let me assure you that Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing proposal is a cynical game of three-card monte that unfairly targets working people who can least afford it.

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