My God, how I hate these things. For those who may not know, let me first tell you what the Taxi TV is. It's a television monitor sit...

I will be sitting in with Ed and Rachel on their Heart Radio Breakfast Show (www.heart.co.uk/westmids/on-air/breakfast/) this coming Monday ...

There are certain rides which you suspect will be trouble, but then it turns out there is none. For example, the passenger looks drunk, acts...

Passengers in my cab are always surprised when I tell them there is no taxi drivers’ union in New York City. It is assumed that with all t...

One of the great things about driving a taxi in New York City - perhaps the greatest thing - is that on any given day you may run the gamut...

Why rushest thou so, Robin Williams? Come on back. I am hereby requesting an encore of the Frances McDormand you did for me. And it w...

The Mark on East 77th Street is a posh, boutique hotel which caters to the well-moneyed and well-connected American Aristocracy of the Upper...

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...