Last Tuesday I had one of those rare nights that actually live up to the romanticized hype of the glory of being a New York City taxi driver...

There's been a lot of talk in New York City recently about a plan put forward by Mayor Bloomberg to create an electronic vehicle entry f...

"The dwindling spiral" - it's a figure of speech used to describe a situation in which someone is headed on a path toward inev...

I got into one of those convoluted conversations with a passenger a few days ago that somehow led onto the subject of comeback lines. And it...

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...