Hack Attack: Somebody Shot Out A Cab Window In Alphabet City Last Night

December 20, 2011

Well, seems like somebody didn’t like their cabbie last night. East Village Grieve this morning has two disturbing photos of a cab on 14th Street and Avenue A in which the passenger side window had been blown out. According to EVG’s source, “The police were on the scene. According to [the tipster], the driver was very shaken up… He [...]

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Please Check for Snakes When Exiting the Cab

December 17, 2011

WITH foot-deep potholes, jagged pavement and rough cobblestones reminiscent of the rough-riding streets of the meatpacking district, the road is unmistakably New York — except for the road runners and coyotes. This is New York Avenue near Stanfield, Ariz., built by Nissan engineers on the company’s 3,050-acre proving ground to test and toughen the next [...]

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TLC Industry Notice #11-33 For Immediate Release

December 16, 2011

SALES TAX MAY NOW BE ADDED TO LEASE CAP The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) hereby announces that, as a result of a decision of the New York Court of Appeals issued on December 15, 2011, a taxicab owner is now permitted to collect from a driver leasing the medallion sales tax [...]

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NYC Taxi Riders Say Fares Too High

December 14, 2011

A new survey of New York City taxi riders finds their chief complaint is that fares are too high. The Taxi and Limousine Commission unscientific survey of riders — who took the poll on the backseat video screen — found that 46 percent find the price too high. The standard rate is $2.50 plus 40 [...]

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TLC hires college students for sting on cabbies for refusing rides to outer boroughs

December 2, 2011

A sting operation — with college kids posing as taxi riders — has landed hundreds of cabbies in hot water for allegedly refusing rides, the Daily News has learned. More than 360 yellow cab drivers face $500 fines for refusing to take the young recruits to neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and northern Manhattan, [...]

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Homeless Guy Busted For Hailing Taxis For Tips

November 28, 2011

The NY Times ran across an obscure NYC rule that prohibits anyone hailing a taxi cab for someone “not in his or her social company.” Which is why Juan Bannister, a homeless man who got a cab for someone at 7th Avenue in Midtown (and received a $1.50 tip), got into trouble with the law. Wow, if [...]

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‘Future’ taxi a ‘weakling’

November 28, 2011

“The Taxi of Tomorrow” isn’t tough enough. A group of cabdrivers insists that the city’s one and only choice of vehicles for the future — the $29,000 Nissan — won’t stand up to the wear and tear of what it describes as “the poorly maintained streets of New York.” The city chose the minivan to [...]

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Handicapped? Want a Taxi? City Says Try Walking

November 24, 2011

When NYC’s ‘Taxi of Tomorrow’ – a Nissan NV200 – was first unveiled to the public last month, one of the glaring omissions was the lack of wheelchair access. Not surprisingly this prompted several disability rights groups to bring a lawsuit against the city, stating that the design violated the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). [...]

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Seeing New York By Yellow Cab

November 13, 2011

Most people’s first impression of New York City will be its charismatic yellow cabs, and their equally charismatic drivers. Some tourists even use the cabbies as an idiosyncratic albeit expensive guide to The Big Apple. Ramon Goni finds out how this way of seeing the city beats any traditional written guide, hands down.

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