You may have heard that we had a blizzard in New York City on December 26th. They say it was in the vicinity of 20 inches and was the 6th la...

There are certain characteristics that make someone a "New Yorker". One of them, for example, is that a New Yorker must be a conno...

(This is a post I originally published on Dec. 8th, 2006, the 26th anniversary of John Lennon's death. I am putting it out again today, ...

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...