I had a passenger the other day who asked me if I'd ever had an animal in my cab other than a dog or a cat. What a great question! I tho...

I have a theory about Manhattan. It's that even though there are something like two and a half million residents on the island and it se...

Last Tuesday night was going along like any other night shift... -- a ride to Grand Central -- people going out for the evening -- some guy ...

The "American Aristocracy". Now there's an oxymoron for you. We're not supposed to have an aristocracy here in the USA. We...

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...