Book Signing And Reading The Checker Car Club of America will be having its annual convention in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, this weekend. On F...

I am thrilled to announce that I will be a guest on The Leonard Lopate Show tomorrow (Monday, May 19). Here are the details: it’s on the ...

We live lives of small unanswered injustices. You come home from the supermarket and notice that you were overcharged a dollar and a half...

This post is quite different from what you would expect to find here. A few weeks ago you may have heard about a story which ran across th...

I have done a pre-recorded interview which will be aired on television in the New York City region on NBC's The Debrief With David Usher...

It’s quite common in New York City to see people kissing each other on the sidewalk, like this: What’s not common is to s...

I've had an article published in the online edition of Time Magazine. Click here . It's called "The Art of Hailing a Cab...

I will be interviewed by long-time radio personality Joan Hamburg tomorrow, Sunday, Feb. 2, at "11:30ish" in the morning. The int...

To my (and everyone else's) astonishment, the New York Post, in addition to a two-page spread in the January 19th Sunday paper, put a le...

With the U.S. publication of Confessions Of A New York Taxi Driver approaching on January 28, I will occasionally be deviating from the kin...

I picked up a twenty-something fellow a few nights ago in Chelsea who was on his way to 57th Street and 3rd Avenue in Midtown. For five minu...

As you can see, a makeover has occurred. How do you like it? Please take a look around. Aside from the new colors and the header with th...

Quite often during the course of a ride a taxi driver gets to learn - either by being a fly on the wall or through direct conversation - som...

Something occurred a couple of Sundays ago - at nine-thirty in the evening - of short duration - but one of those things you realize almost ...

“There was something in the air that night.” Looking back at it later, that’s the way it seemed. Someone less familiar with the...

I wrote something in my book that already needs to be revised.  It's what I consider to be my favorite type of ride.  Favorite Type...

Well, off she goes on her own into the big old world.  Confessions Of A New York Taxi Driver was officially published in the U.K., with dis...

My dear friend from Liverpool, Jodie Schofield, for whom I would swim the River Mersey if she asked, has requested that I lend my voice to ...

...and you'd like to hear it, here's a link that will bring you to the station's website:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/...

A quick announcement for anyone who may be interested... I will be doing an interview tonight on a late-night radio show in the U.K., BBC Ra...

Oh my God, how I have been longing to write this post.  Here's a story about something that's been in the making for a very long tim...

As I entered the voting booth yesterday here in the United States, I was, as happens every year, reminded of what was for me a very special...