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

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...

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 ...

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...