Cabs Are For Kissing
Monday, April 11, 2016

Harry Belafonte

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The great Harry Belafonte  and his wife Pamela Frank were passengers in my cab yesterday.  Cheerful and exuberant, he took a minute to obl...
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Monday, March 28, 2016

What It Takes To Get Rid Of A McDonald's

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Here's a question I've asked dozens of passengers in my cab over the years, and I'll ask it to you now: have you ever --  in yo...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2016

The Weeknd

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Tuesday nights at around 3 A.M. -- that's an interesting time of the night for a taxi driver in New York City.  It's the time when ...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

The Taxi TV And Me

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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...
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Saturday, June 06, 2015

On The Radio In The U.K. Monday Morning

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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 ...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2015

Well Worth The Eighteen Bucks

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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...
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Sunday, January 25, 2015

The One Good Thing That Happened To Taxi Drivers After Uber Invaded New York City

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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...
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Sunday, September 21, 2014

Running The Gamut, Number Three

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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...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Come On Back

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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...
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Saturday, July 12, 2014

We Create Our Own Karma

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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...
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Thursday, June 19, 2014

Two Announcements

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Book Signing And Reading The Checker Car Club of America will be having its annual convention in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, this weekend. On F...
Sunday, May 18, 2014

On The Radio Tomorrow In NYC

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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 ...
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Saturday, April 05, 2014

Miracle On 10th Avenue

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We live lives of small unanswered injustices. You come home from the supermarket and notice that you were overcharged a dollar and a half...
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Sunday, March 02, 2014

Help Find Harry

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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...
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Saturday, February 22, 2014

On Early Morning TV Sunday, Feb. 23

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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...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

The Kissing Hail

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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...
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Eugene Salomon
New York City, United States
NYC taxi driver since 1977. Contact: nycgene@msn.com
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