Some recent "fares of the night"... Sunday, April 6, 10:20 pm - My long dog-less streak finally ended with the arrival of Jake, a ...

I am a person who knows quite a bit about license plates - it's one of the little bonuses you get when you've been sitting in traffi...

Driving a cab in New York City is like having a private little observation booth from which to observe that most peculiar of the Earth's...

Back in December of 2005 the Transit Workers Union in New York was making a lot of news with threats of a subway and bus strike if a settlem...

Rudy Giuliani has dropped out of the presidential race and, like the Munchkins who showed up after Dorothy's house came in for a landin...

Quite often, after a passenger learns that I've been driving a cab in New York City for thirty years, they will ask me if I've ever ...

There are certain subjects that are common grounds for conversation in a taxicab - the weather, traffic, sports, politics, whatever's in...

You know, this blogging phenomenon has to be one of the greatest things that's ever happened to humanity. We are living in an age of fr...

People come from far and wide to see the window displays at the major New York City department stores. Here's a sampling... Bloomingdale...

Something happened a few days ago that has only happened three other times in the 30 years I've been driving a cab: I had the same passe...

There was a taxi driver killed in a road rage incident last week here in New York City. His name was Mohammed Elwaleed. I didn't know h...

Since the writers at Letterman are on strike, many Americans are currently suffering from Top Ten List withdrawal syndrome. Hopefully this ...

I was waiting in the taxi line at Flashdancer's at 4 am recently when a young woman and a guy hurried out of the place and got into my c...

Halloween was on a Wednesday this year so that meant there were two Halloweens in New York. One on the Saturday night before Halloween (Oct...