Now here's something different. I was taking a fare of three cheerful ladies from the Upper West Side to Central Park South last Saturda...

This Karma Vs. Coincidence thing seems to have a karma of its own. What I mean is, ever since I wrote that post a few weeks ago I've h...

It's hard to drive a cab in New York on a Saturday night without seeing something or hearing about something that's basically outrag...

It's springtime in New York and a young dog's fancy turns to thoughts of dragging his owner out into the beautiful weather for a str...

Isn't it amazing what can happen when you put your attention on something? Within 24 hours of writing in my last post that I sometimes s...

Contact - some would say it's the most basic of human needs, perhaps even more important than food. As a taxi driver I am often witness ...

I was traveling south on Broadway a few days ago with a passenger in the cab when I unexpectedly hit bumper-to-bumper traffic at around 83rd...

I recently drove a woman to Brooklyn who was quite interested in knowing which celebrities I've had as passengers in my cab over the yea...

Here's a story from the vault - April 1, 2003, 8:30 pm. The war in Iraq had just begun. A young guy and his girlfriend, both about 19 ye...

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...