Has anyone ever told you that you look like a certain celebrity? Over many years of taxi-driving, I have found this question popping up f...

Was it karma? Or coincidence? That is the question, and if you've been reading this blog for a while you know this is a little, pet recu...

Many people in New York assume that the taxicabs are busy all the time. It just ain't so. During any twenty-four hour period, there are ...

I was interviewed last week in the online edition of The Village Voice, New York's "alternative weekly" newspaper. Here's...

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...