If you've been reading this blog for awhile you know that I'm big on the karma vs. coincidence thing. I'm not an extremist - I d...

Somewhere along the line, many years ago, for some reason I decided that the taxi industry in New York City was "mine". There was ...

Baseball is king in New York City and has been for over a hundred years. So when the Mets fired their manager, Willie Randolph, this week ...

Being that I am perceived by so many to be the last English-speaking, American white guy to be driving a cab in New York City, I have often...

Taxi drivers become pretty much immune to the unintended insults of passengers. Someone from out of town gives you a twenty-cent tip on a $5...

I have been tagged by my cyber buddy Jodester, author of the never-fails-to-bring-a-smile blog, DON'T PANIC , and now I am charged with ...

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...