It takes about twenty minutes of driving around the city without a passenger for a taxi driver to start getting edgy. It's at about the ...

A comment I often hear from passengers just after they learn how long I've been driving a cab is, "Wow, you must have seen it all!...

I wrote in a previous post ( Running The Gamut ) that one of the spectacular things about driving a cab in New York City is that on any gi...

Among the many annoyances in the game of taxi driving is the rare passenger who has the nerve to tell you how to drive. Not where to drive o...

What's always good in the taxi business is an immediate turnover of passengers - that is, a new one gets in as the old one gets out. Tha...

There are certain people who stand there on the street looking like they want a cab, yet they do not raise their hand up as you approach the...

There are certain people who, when you see them coming toward you, you're thinking, "Oh, please, don't get in my cab. Just keep...

I was driving down Columbus Avenue on the west side of Manhattan a couple of Sundays ago at 2 a.m., doing what I am often doing at that time...

Sometimes during the course of a shift a taxi driver may notice that events of the night seem to be taking on the form of a theme. Let's...

One of the little side-benefits of driving a cab in New York City is that you occasionally have a window presented to you through which to g...

As I walked out of my taxi garage one evening last June to start my shift, a smiling young lady approached me and handed me this flier: I im...