2021-05-24 17:31
I subscribe to the online edition of the New York Times. There's a feature in it of which I'm particularly fond -- the comments section. Roughly half the articles, and nearly all of th… Read More
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Observations, opinions, and advice from a New York City taxi driver
2021-05-24 15:21
I had been waiting in the taxi lot at American Airlines for half an hour or so on a pleasant evening in June, 1990, when suddenly the line started moving -- two flights had come i… Read More
2020-06-08 02:32
Here's a story from the vault. I've told it many times to passengers in my cab over the years, but I've actually never written it up. It's about a rhinoceros. Why should a… Read More
2020-01-20 23:53
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 these cabs everywhere you look there must cert… Read More
2020-01-19 04:28
For several years now the most talked-about topics of conversation with passengers have been Uber and the fate of the once coveted taxi medallion. How an established commodity selling… Read More
2019-12-20 04:06
I picked up a couple of passengers in my cab the other day on the Upper West Side who told me with some enthusiasm that they wanted to go to Carnegie Hall. I could see they were in a… Read More
2019-02-24 15:24
Note: Best to read Parts 1 and 2 before reading this one. Epilogue (noun) -- a section or speech at the end of a book or a play that serves as a comment on or a conclusion to… Read More
2018-10-04 17:55
You know, having a conversation is a lot like playing tennis. A statement is made from one person to another, then it's responded to, tossed around, back and forth, each person trying… Read More
2018-09-08 02:37
For most of us today, sports are a part of our lives. As toddlers we are already playing catch and kicking balls around. As children we play in games with our friends and idolize… Read More
2017-12-07 04:04
Baseball.It's the one sport I am really a fan of, and I have suffered much because of it. As a kid I was raised as a fan of the New York Giants (baseball, not football) by my father, himself… Read More
2016-12-18 01:09
November 24th was the tenth anniversary of my street photography blog, Pictures From A Taxi.You know, New York could be called a street photographer's heaven. People of every desc… Read More
2016-11-15 18:19
I appeared recently on British television in an episode of the popular reality show Educating Joey Essex. The idea of the show was that Joey comes to America to learn about the Am… Read More
2016-11-08 17:13
Below is a post I wrote and published the day after the election of 2012. It is a reminiscence of an extraordinary experience I had while casting my vote for President and Vice-Preside… Read More
2016-11-08 17:13
Below is a post I wrote and published the day after the election of 2012. It is a reminiscence of an extraordinary experience I had while casting my vote for President and Vice-Preside… Read More
2016-11-08 17:13
Below is a post I wrote and published the day after the election of 2012. It is a reminiscence of an extraordinary experience I had while casting my vote for President and Vice-Preside… Read More
2016-11-08 17:13
Below is a post I wrote and published the day after the election of 2012. It is a reminiscence of an extraordinary experience I had while casting my vote for President and Vice-Preside… Read More
2016-11-08 17:13
Below is a post I wrote and published the day after the election of 2012. It is a reminiscence of an extraordinary experience I had while casting my vote for President and Vice-Preside… Read More
2016-11-08 17:13
Below is a post I wrote and published the day after the election of 2012. It is a reminiscence of an extraordinary experience I had while casting my vote for President and Vice-Preside… Read More
2016-11-08 17:13
Below is a post I wrote and published the day after the election of 2012. It is a reminiscence of an extraordinary experience I had while casting my vote for President and Vice-Preside… Read More
2016-11-08 17:13
Below is a post I wrote and published the day after the election of 2012. It is a reminiscence of an extraordinary experience I had while casting my vote for President and Vice-Preside… Read More
2016-11-08 17:13
Below is a post I wrote and published the day after the election of 2012. It is a reminiscence of an extraordinary experience I had while casting my vote for President and Vice-Preside… Read More
2016-11-08 17:13
Below is a post I wrote and published the day after the election of 2012. It is a reminiscence of an extraordinary experience I had while casting my vote for President and Vice-Preside… Read More
2016-11-08 17:13
Below is a post I wrote and published the day after the election of 2012. It is a reminiscence of an extraordinary experience I had while casting my vote for President and Vice-Preside… Read More
2016-11-08 17:13
Below is a post I wrote and published the day after the election of 2012. It is a reminiscence of an extraordinary experience I had while casting my vote for President and Vice-Preside… Read More
2016-11-08 17:13
Below is a post I wrote and published the day after the election of 2012. It is a reminiscence of an extraordinary experience I had while casting my vote for President and Vice-Preside… Read More
2016-11-08 17:13
Below is a post I wrote and published the day after the election of 2012. It is a reminiscence of an extraordinary experience I had while casting my vote for President and Vice-Preside… Read More
2016-11-08 17:13
Below is a post I wrote and published the day after the election of 2012. It is a reminiscence of an extraordinary experience I had while casting my vote for President and Vice-Preside… Read More
2016-11-08 17:13
Below is a post I wrote and published the day after the election of 2012. It is a reminiscence of an extraordinary experience I had while casting my vote for President and Vice-Preside… Read More
2016-11-08 17:13
Below is a post I wrote and published the day after the election of 2012. It is a reminiscence of an extraordinary experience I had while casting my vote for President and Vice-Preside… Read More
2016-11-08 17:13
Below is a post I wrote and published the day after the election of 2012. It is a reminiscence of an extraordinary experience I had while casting my vote for President and Vice-Preside… Read More
2016-11-08 17:13
Below is a post I wrote and published the day after the election of 2012. It is a reminiscence of an extraordinary experience I had while casting my vote for President and Vice-Preside… Read More
2016-11-08 17:13
Below is a post I wrote and published the day after the election of 2012. It is a reminiscence of an extraordinary experience I had while casting my vote for President and Vice-Preside… Read More
2016-11-08 17:13
Below is a post I wrote and published the day after the election of 2012. It is a reminiscence of an extraordinary experience I had while casting my vote for President and Vice-Preside… Read More
2016-11-08 17:13
Below is a post I wrote and published the day after the election of 2012. It is a reminiscence of an extraordinary experience I had while casting my vote for President and Vice-Preside… Read More
2016-10-14 01:56
In looking through my journals recently (I've kept journals of my most interesting fares since I started driving a taxi in 1977) I came across two more Donald Trump stories, both from 2… Read More
2016-09-24 18:11
No, I’ve never had Donald Trump in my cab. Now that would be an interesting story, of course, because it would be firsthand data for me, secondhand data for you, as opposed to in… Read More
2016-09-01 19:14
There was an announcement in the worldwide media several days ago that Uber and Volvo have been working together to develop the technology for a driverless taxi and that the first of these c… Read More
2016-08-06 19:30
You never know who will show up in the back seat of a taxicab. It’s like a talk show on wheels, really. A guest enters, we chat for a while, then he or she exits and the ne… Read More
2016-04-12 04:10
The great Harry Belafonte and his wife Pamela Frank were passengers in my cab yesterday. Cheerful and exuberant, he took a minute to oblige my request for a picture.If you are not… Read More
2016-04-07 11:34
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 your life -- noticed a McDonald's that, once it was ther… Read More
2016-03-31 16:40
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: that is, you may pick up people who are able repr… Read More
2016-02-11 05:49
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 the streets are not only at their emptiest, but when t… Read More
2015-05-07 21:45
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 drunk, is drunk, and you’ve got a feeling t… Read More
2015-01-30 04:04
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 these cabs everywhere you look there must cert… Read More
2014-07-16 01:37
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 East Side, and to the Flying Cosmopolitans, mostl… Read More
2014-06-19 07:42
Book Signing And ReadingThe Checker Car Club of America will be having its annual convention in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, this weekend. On Friday, June 20th, there will be over 40 Checkers, som… Read More
2014-05-19 01:35
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 public radio station WNYC - 93.9 on the FM dial… Read More
2014-04-05 21:20
We live lives of small unanswered injustices.You come home from the supermarket and notice that you were overcharged a dollar and a half for the tomatoes. It’s not right, you know, but… Read More
2014-02-01 21:08
I will be interviewed by long-time radio personality Joan Hamburg tomorrow, Sunday, Feb. 2, at "11:30ish" in the morning. The interview was actually recorded last Thursday so what will be b… Read More
2014-02-01 11:14
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 lead-in to the article, with my picture on Page One! I a… Read More
2014-01-18 06:52
With the U.S. publication of Confessions Of A New York Taxi Driver approaching on January 28, I will occasionally be deviating from the kind of content I usually publish here to make announc… Read More
2014-01-08 06:47
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 minutes there were no words spoken between us except f… Read More
2013-12-15 07:14
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 the picture of that taxi driver who might be me, there'… Read More
2013-12-05 03:56
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 - something about a passenger’s interesting story… Read More
2013-10-10 06:47
Something occurred a couple of Sundays ago - at nine-thirty in the evening - of short duration - but one of those things you realize almost immediately you will never forget. It was a sound… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
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 the USA on national news stations such as CNN and Fox… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
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 Ushery at 5:30 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 23. What's that, you s… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
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 see someone hailing a cab while kissing someone. Imagine on… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I've had an article published in the online edition of Time Magazine.Click here.It's called "The Art of Hailing a Cab". In it I offer sage advice as to the proper way of executing this vit… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
What's that? You still haven't bought my book, Confessions Of A New York Taxi Driver?Well, good news, your holding out is about to pay off, at least if you own a Kindle. For a limited… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
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 situated in the rear compartment of all yellow and green (out… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Why rushest thou so, Robin Williams?Come on back.I am hereby requesting an encore of your Frances McDormand.And I would certainly appreciate an opportunity to thank you... for the kindness b… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
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 morning, June 8th, at 6:00 a.m., U.K. time (1:00 a… Read More
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