It's dog time once again. Traveling with me recently from Hell's Kitchen to the Upper West Side were Peanut, a long-haired chihuahua...

Some recent ones... Sunday night, 3:48 am, 49th and Broadway . A twenty-something, good-looking female comes out of the Playwrights Tavern, ...

Well, I had my two and a half minutes of fame last week (I don't get the full fifteen). I did an interview for a television show called ...

Usually when I write a post I'm trying to make some kind of a point - choosing certain people or incidents which illustrate a theme - bu...

I suffered through two humiliations recently, both of them occurring in the same shift. The first was at the hands of a 14-year-old boy who ...

My first fare of the night last Saturday went from Midtown to the Upper West Side with three passengers in the back seat: a young woman name...

Take a look at this picture. What do you see? Good guess, but you're wrong! It's actually a police car. I mentioned in my last post ...

It's often been said that New York is a city of infinite variety but, to be more accurate, I prefer to say it's a city of infinite r...

Bad karma is like bad weather. You're doing nothing out of the ordinary, or at least that's how it seems, and then suddenly out of n...

A few days ago Art Buchwald , the American polical satirist, died at the age of 81. I had him in my cab once and, in recalling that ride, I ...

Every night one or two passengers, on the average, will tell me they're in a BIG rush. The implication (or direct message) being that I ...

Are you a people-watcher? Do you ever look at people walking by on the street and wonder what they've been doing all day? In New York, w...

Here's a street in Tribeca that always asks a question... This street, also in Tribeca, is for people who can't get to it on time......

Last night I had a "thing on the street" that involved a pedestrian. I'll tell you about that in a moment, but first a few wor...

And now for the year's first dog. I recently picked up Lady Jane (the Rottweiler-Shepherd mix with the big nose) and Amy (the human wit...

Tonight's fare of the night was a man in his 30s who approached my cab at 3 AM while I was waiting at one of my "strategic spots...

Driving on New Year's Eve is not like driving on any other night. It's in a category of its own. It's the night that every othe...

When I started this series of pictures of the department stores' Christmas windows, I promised to show them all: Macy's, Bloomingdal...

I guess it shouldn't come as any great shock when someone who's 73 dies of natural causes. Still, the sudden departure of James Bro...

I was heading down 2nd Avenue a few nights ago around midnight when I picked up a young guy at 31st Street. He told me he was heading for 19...

The Saks Fifth Avenue department store is located exactly in the middle of New York City at 5th Avenue and 50th Street, directly across the ...