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JULY 2010
AUGUST
2016 •• TAXI
TAXI INSIDER
INSIDER •• PAGE
PAGE 11
INSIDER
VOL. 17, NO. 8
“The Voice of the NYC Transportation Industry.”
Letters To The Editor
Page 3
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Insider News
Page 6
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Taxi Attorney
By Michael Spevack
Page 7
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Puzzle
Page 7
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Commissioner’s Corner
By Merra Joshi
Page 12
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The Expanding
Transportation Network
By Matthew Daus
Page 13
Fantasy Vs Reality
By Larry Fisher
Page 15
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Quotabel Quotes
Page 15
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Illegal Street Hail Law
Must Be Enforced
By Abe Mittleman
Page 23
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NYC Hotels
Page 26
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NYC Economy
Page 27 & 28
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Insider Directory
Page 29
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News From Around The World
Page 36
AUGUST 2016
EDITORIAL
By David Pollack
Chairwoman States:
Make The Medallion More
Of A Tradable Asset
Recently, I attended a four hour transportation forum held at the New School
on 12th Street in Manhattan. Panelists
included the Chairwoman of the New
York City Taxi & Limousine Commission
(TLC)- Meera Joshi, speakers from the
MTA, Port Authority, NYCity Department of Transportation (DOT), NYState
DOT, Ydanis Rodriguez-Chairman of the
NYCity Council Transportation Committee, Congressman Nadler and Assembly
members Weprin and Comrie. Additional
panelists included Denise Richardson -Executive
Director of The General Contractors Association
of NY, and, I can’t forget to mention Bhairavi De-
sai – Executive Director of the NYTaxi
Workers Alliance. I also had the honor
of speaking with Matthew Driscoll the
Commissioner of the New York State
Department of Transportation and keynote speaker. The subjects discussed
by panelists varied from the Future of
Taxis and Ride-Sharing, to Funding NY
Transportation and Emerging Trends in
Transportation.
By far, the comments which hit home
for me were those of TLC Chairwoman
Meera Joshi. It is no secret that the values of NYC
taxi medallion have dropped to lower levels over
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NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission Hearing
July 18, 2016
By Nat Goldbetter
drivers and drivers need not panic as the as the
12 hours, would be actual working hours and not
consecutive hours but twelve hours of actual working time. As pointed out in last month’s column, if
you start work at 6:AM and work four hours and
then go home for fours and return to work at 2:PM
you still have eight hours to work.
The total hours of 72 per week was a big issue
at the hearing last month as many of those of us
who spoke on that issue were disappointed. Please
remember that the 72 hours can be spread out over 7
The July Taxi and Limousine Commission meeting held
on July 18th had a relatively
short but important agenda.
The biggest issue on the agenda
was the Commission voting on
the Driver Fatigue Rule that
had an extensive public discussion at the June 23rd meeting.
The rule as it stands now will
have a12 hour maximum shift
on a daily basis and 72 hours per week. Owner
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LETTERS
NYPD Disrespects
Taxi Drivers
Dear Taxi Dave,
I have owned a medallion since 1987. Taxi
drivers face abuse from NYPD for no reason and
my personal incident shows one example of no
understanding or caring about taxi drivers. I was
stopped on John Street between WIlliams and
Water with a fare from LaGuardia Airport and
we just arrived at our destination. She was a very
old woman. While she was going to pay by credit
card, I got out of my taxi, took her luggage out of
the trunk and at the same time a police car turned
on his lights. When I got back to the drivers side
of my taxi the police vehicle turned on his siren.
I could not move on this one way street and the
police officer came over to my taxi window and
demanded my license. I told him that my passenger, the older woman was still paying by credit
card and her luggage is right outside the door on
the sidewalk. After she exited my taxi, the police
officer followed me and stopped me three blocks
away. He gave me a ticket for not yielding to an
emergency vehicle. When he gave me the summons,
I asked for my registration back and he intentionally left kepping my registration.
Janna Stroe
More And More Stickers
Dear Taxi Dave,
Lately I’ve noticed that black cars have more
and more stickers on them , trying to authenticate
themselves , but even if they put stickers on every
inch of their car, their still doing wrong when they
use the ehail to act like taxis.
Michael Simon
Employee v Private
Contractor
Dear Taxi Dave,
Given the dire situation the yellow taxi industry
finds itself in these days I think they should follow
the example of the real estate company Redfin. An
article by Nick Wimgfield published in The New
York Times July 10, 2016 issue. It reported that
ten years ago this company hired employees with
full benefits and not as private contractors and are
doing very well. I’m of the opinion that the yellow
taxi industry should go the same rout, given the
fact that Uber and other app hailing interlopers
have deep pockets and can buy all the New York
politicians they want. These app companies will
not hire drivers as employees as they are strong
believers of the gig economy.
Virgilio
Inside Or Out
Dear Taxi Dave,
The exclusive right of taxi medallions is street
hail.
What does that mean?
To be quite simple , that if your outside and
you need a car , that’s a street hail by ehail, hand
or any other method of signaling.
But it doesn’t apply to hailing a car if your
inside, a restaurant or home . That was I believe
,the intention of the legislation.
The law has to be explicit in demanding that
ehailing companies mention to their customers
that to ehail a black car you must be inside, if
the City of New York lives up to its promise to
medallion cabs.
An ehail is a hail but it is not always a street hail.
Michael Simon
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David Pollack
Think Outside The Box
Dear Taxi Dave,
The yellow taxi industry is not thinking out of
the box. Now they are trying to be like Uber, again.
They are implementing group riding. Upper east
side riders will not the entertain the thought of
sharing a cab ride to save money, good luck with
that. I doubt these riders will share a taxi ride even
in a spacious Ford Escalade which Uber can provide with ease. You guys have to stop mimicking
the behemoth that is Uber, 60b is a lot of money
to fight against. Try to do what Uber will never
do “HIRE DRIVERS AS EMPLOYEES”. From
where I’m sitting I don’t see any other way out of
your predicament. As I said before 60 billion is a
lot of money to fight against not to mention how
many greedy politicians can bought, cheap.
Virgilio
Time And Electronic
Signally
Dear Taxi Dave,
Ehailers cannot offer an arrangement to have
their services not be arranged.
That is trickery and not permitted by NEW
YORK law. A signal that is not arranged is a hail
and reserved for taxi medallions in NYC.
Time defines the difference of the identity of
the signal .
If I want a car for my brother in 45 minutes
then that’s an arrangement. If I want a car for my
brother right now then that’s a hail.
It’s common sense that there is a difference in
what the electronic signally is , depending on how
long it takes to get the car.
It doesn’t matter whether or not I hired a company to supply that service beforehand. If it illegal
it’s Illegal.
Michael Simon
Democratic Convention
Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge
Chair, Democratic National Convention
2344 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
Secretary, Democratic National Committee
250 City Hall
Baltimore, MD 21202
Dear Congresswoman Fudge and
Mayor Rawlings-Blake,
I am writing to express my deep disappointment
regarding the Democratic National Committee’s
lucrative partnership with Uber – a company that
discriminates against wheelchair users. The DNC
should immediately apologize for engaging in this
tone deaf and offensive business deal.
Without any public input, the DNC accepted a
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Chairwoman States
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the past year or so. That said, the
Chairwoman’s positive comments
regarding loosening regulation to
make the purchase of medallions more
appealing for investors and easier
for current owners to transfer, was
a bright light on the dimly lit New
School stage. Below are some of the
Chairwoman’s comments that I know
you will find interesting regarding
Medallions, Drivers, Ride- Share and
Accessibility.
Drivers: “We dictate what the
income of a taxi driver is because we
set the fare on how much a cost of a
taxi ride is and we set the maximum
amount that anyone can lease a car
and a medallion out to a driver. So we
can figure out what the income of a
taxi driver is. Doing that analysis we
know that over the last six or seven
months compared to last year, there
has been a decrease of about 3 – 5%
in income for taxi drivers, that’s not
accounting for the fact that people
may actually be leasing them out at
lower lease caps. We do our analysis
assuming that everyone is leasing
at the lease cap. But what we don’t
know, that doesn’t count for a certain
percentage of drivers, the economics
the income potential of our newest drivers in the FHV industry, the
ones that are driving a lot of the apps
where we don’t set the fare, we don’t
have the ability now to their driver’s
income. But that’s not to say that is
something that the future regulatory
scheme might have to encompass a
broader look into the economics for
all drivers not just the taxi sector. “
Medallions: “A lot of things go
into the factoring of the medallions:
Some of them have to with the fact
that it is a closed market, some of
them have to do with financing arrangements, some have to do with the
concentration and who owns medallions and financing is linked to that.
But in a lot of ways the medallion
system would probably get a boost
just from becoming more like every
other market and having liquidity
like any other market. And there
are lots of things that are today in
our own law that stymie that. There
are bureaucratic regulations for tort
letters and all kinds of thing I could
bore you with that probably are not
necessary anymore and really they
make it a closed market. That’s not
attractive for the investors. Taxi is a
brand, everybody knows about it , but
a lot of investors are scared to come
in because of all the obstacles there
are to getting into buying and selling
medallions. So that’s another area
where I can see the regulator working
with (counsel), making the medallion
more of a tradable asset so that people
who are in the market can trade it and
….invest in the market.”
Ride-Share: “From our perspective,
there is not a distinction between taxi and
ride-share. All of it is a service where
you pay the driver to take you from one
place to another. And you can do it by
Smartphone, you can do it by sticking
your hand in the air, you can do it by
calling a traditional base but the risks
and the responsibilities are identical. So
we look at this as one service and we
regulate accordingly. That means we
regulate consistently whether you are
an Uber driver, or an Uber vehicle, or
a taxi vehicle, you are going to come
under our regulatory scheme. You are
going to have be inspected by our inspectors. There are driver standards that
apply across the board. If you drive in
any one of these sectors we are going
to do criminal background checks, fingerprinted, fitness reviews, your DMV
record, outstanding parking tickets. This
is the same kind of scrutiny that every
member of the public deserves when
provided a service. So we don’t see a
distinction between rideshare and taxi.
And actually ride-share is not really in
our vocabulary. They are all For-Hire
vehicles.”
Accessibility: “We now have over
500 taxi in circulation. On the green
taxi side…. We have about 800 accessible green taxis in circulation and we
are looking to bring more and more
on. And what links all these together,
because we know going out in the
street putting your hand out is very
convenient and truly on demand in
the middle of Manhattan , but it’s not
quite as on-demand if you are in the
boroughs or other sections of Manhattan. So how do we link the service
that is needed? We do that through
an accessible dispatch program that
has been in existence in Manhattan
for two-three years now, does almost
200 rides a day, and has become very
popular and really a primary mode of
transportation for people in Manhattan that need an accessible vehicle to
get around. We are expanding that to
city-wide, which hopefully we will
see the next year.
One of the biggest features of that
is understanding the economic dynamic where drivers need compensation for the Deadhead part of the trip.
And that is one of the reasons why our
program today has been successful
and passed the test to give the things
they need. We are going to expand
that Deadhead compensation factor
as we expand the program.”
Readers, I hope you are enjoying
the summer and remember not to
overheat in your cars during the 90
degree plus days. Drink plenty of
H2O and stretch those legs and I’ll
see you in September!
NYC Taxi
need to make appointments.
Commissioner Joshi also announced that Deputy Commissioner
Allan Fromberg has completed 20
years with the New York City Ta xi
and Limousine Commission and has
survived 3 Mayors and 5 Chairman
during his time there. Allan is a great
guy who I have known for many years
and has always a pleasure to deal
with. Iam betting he will survive
at least 3 more Mayors and who
knows how many more Chairmen.
Congratulations to Allan who has
always been a friend of the League
of Mutual Taxi Owners. I, know for
sure that all the previous LOMTO
Managing Directors feel the same,
except for maybe Vinny Sapone (only
kidding Vinny).
Daily News Exclusive - July 11th
from Reporter Dan Rivoli
“The Taxi and Limousine Commission has received more than 86,000
complaints against yellow and green
taxis since 2011,while Uber has
gotten 532 and Lyft only 52”. This
is primarily due to the fact that the
Yellows and Greens have a mandatory sign in the back of every vehicle
encouraging passengers to call 311to
file complaints. The Ubers and the
Lyfts are only printing this information on a small note on the bottom of
customer receipts. This is just another
way the playing field is not level and
the App companies are treated with
less scrutiny than are the Yellows and
Greens. There are probably three or
four times as many App vehicles than
Yellows and Greens combined. This
really stinks and the TLC really does
not have the backs of our industries.
Let’s fix that TLC.
BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!
days so there is some wiggle room.
Although this rule was passed TLC
Chair Meera Joshi did qualify that
the rule would not be effective until
Nov. 1,2016 as Commission will try
to tweak this rule until they figure
out just how the hours working will
be calculated. The enforcement will
have one or two warnings before summonses are issued and that seemed fair
enough as are the penalties were not
off the charts. It seems that issues have
been brought up on this matter and
that the TLC wants to look at before
they lock this regulation down. As a
practical matter this rule should not
hurt a large percentage of the drivers,
those that are will need to make some
adjustments . We will all have to wait
and see what adjustments are made
between now and November.
The Commission also passed the
Universal Driver License now actually called “TLC Driver’ s License”.
This is a one size fits all item. If you
have the TLC Driver’s License you
a re licensed to drive Yellow, Green,
Black Car, and all For-Hire vehicles
plain and simple. This of course
would include all app based e-hail
drivers. David Pollack (AKA Taxi
Dave) representing Melrose Credit
Union spoke and commended the
Commission on finally getting this
done. The one license drives all has
been a longtime coming, but it is
here and let’s be thankful. Thank you
Commissioners.
Speaking of TLC Driver’s License
Comm issioner Joshi announced that
no action must be taken on current
licenses and announced that license
renewal can now be done on-line. Fingerprinting and photos can be done in
several locations throughout the five
boroughs by appointment and even
on Saturdays. Visit the TLC website
at www.nyc/lars for more details. You
can also call me at LOMTO (212}
947-3380 ext. #3110 and Iwill give
you locations and times for the offsite
locations and phone numbers. You
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Industry Notice #16-11
July 11, 2016
Attention Medallion Taxi Drivers:
Instructions For Receiving Refunds
For Healthcare Fund
Because of a court ruling, on April 17, 2014 the TLC instructed taxicab medallion owners to stop withholding a six (6) cents per-ride fee for the Taxi Driver
Healthcare Services Fund (HCF). The ruling by the court is now final and the
Fund is permanently closed.
Refund Eligibility
If you are a medallion driver who drove between October 1, 2013 and April
17, 2014 (the collection period) and your medallion/fleet owner collected the
$0.06 per trip HCF fee from you, you are eligible for a refund of the amount
you paid.
Refund Amount
Review your personal trip records to see how much you paid a medallion owner
for the HCF during the collection period. If you don’t have your trip records, you
can find out the number of trips that you completed during the collection period
by: 1) Checking the TPEP portal, 2) consulting with your TPEP provider, or 3)
asking your medallion owner/agent. Please note that neither TPEP providers nor
the TLC can provide data about the actual amounts medallion owners collected
from a driver.
Refund Process
To request your refund, contact the medallion owner/s (or the agent/s) that you
were driving for during the collection period. If the medallion was transferred
since then, for HCF amounts that were paid to the TLC, the TLC has refunded
that amount to the current medallion owner/agent on file.
If you are unable to reach the medallion owner on the phone number that you
have on file for them, the TLC can provide drivers with the 24-hour number that
we have on file for a medallion owner/s. To obtain a phone number of a fleet/
garage, please visit our “Current Licensees” page on the TLC website (http://
www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/industry/current_licensees.shtml).
July 14, 2016
TLC Announces New Online-Only
Driver Application Process, Off-Site
Fingerprints & Photos
Starting July 14, 2016, applications for a TLC Driver’s License must be submitted on-line. Fingerprints and photographs required for a license will no longer
be done at TLC. Beginning on July 19, 2016, fingerprints and photographs will
be done at ten different centers located throughout New York City.
To apply, applicants must visit the TLC website at www.nyc.gov/lars. Beginning on July 14, this will be the only way to apply for a TLC driver’s license.
Starting on July 19, MorphoTrust will be handling fingerprints and photographs
for TLC applications. Applicants who file an application between July 14 and
July 19 will need to wait until July 19 to schedule their fingerprint\photo appointment. After July 19, once drivers apply online, they will be able to immediately
schedule an appointment to have their fingerprints and photos taken.
All driver applicants must complete the fingerprint and photo process, and
submit all other licensing requirements within 90 days of applying. For a complete
list of the requirements, please visit our web site at http://bit.ly/TLClicensing.
If you have any questions about the changes, please e-mail the TLC at [email protected].
Applicants can make an appointment by going to MorphoTrust’s website at:
http://www.identogo.com/FP/NewYork.aspx. Here are ten locations in New York
City, as well as the hours, below:
July 20, 2016
Notice: Improvement Surcharge
Payment Process for Street Hail
Livery Permit Owners and Medallion
Owners and Agents Has Changed
Starting on July 25, 2016, you will no longer receive a statement from your
MORE PATH RIDERS =
MORE TAXI RIDERS
Attention Taxi Drivers: PATH ridership in June reached its highest monthly
total ever, with nearly 7 million people entering the turnstiles system-wide – a
3.6 percent increase over June 2015.
PATH reported its average weekday ridership of 277,946 in June also was
the highest for any month on record, reflecting a 4.1-percent increase from
June 2015. The stations that experienced the highest percentage increases in
average weekday ridership in June compared to June 2015 were Christopher
Street, Grove Street, Harrison and Exchange Place. On weekends, the Harrison,
World Trade Center, Grove Street and Exchange Place stations experienced the
biggest increases in average ridership.
Year-to-date, total system-wide ridership is 5.5 percent higher than the same
period in 2015, with average weekday ridership increasing by 5.4 percent, and
average Saturday ridership increasing by 2.2 percent.
Plenty of fares need taxis going to, and coming from these stations!
TPEP/LPEP provider that lets you know the amount owed for the current quarter’s
Improvement Surcharge. Instead, the TLC will post the Improvement Surcharge
amounts that are owed directly onto the TLC’s License Applications, Renewals
& Summonses system (LARS). This change will start with the second quarter of
2016 for trips that are done between April 1 – June 30, 2016.
To find out the exact amount you owe, please visit LARS. You will continue
to make payments using the TLC’s On-line Transaction system (LARS), which
can be found on our web site at https://www1.nyc.gov/lars.
The timeline for payment of the second quarter of 2016 Improvement Surcharge is as follows:
• July 25th, 2016 – Owners and Agents will be able to view amounts owed
on LARS, and begin making payments.
• July 25th, 2016 – Challenge Period begins. Owners and Agents should direct
all questions or challenges to:
[email protected] – for Taxicab Improvement Fund related issues
[email protected] – for Street Hail Livery Improvement Fund
related issues
• August 5th, 2016 – Challenge Period ends. Amounts due are finalized.
• August 15th, 2016 – Full payment is due to the TLC. Payments may only be
made using (LARS) system which can be found at: https://www1.nyc.gov/lars/.
Failure to submit full payment by August 15th, 2016 will result in fines and/or
possible suspension of your license.
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The Taxi Attorney
Hello everybody, I hope that you
are working hard and making good
money. This month I
want to talk about eight
topics.
First, please remember to treat your customers with respect and
courtesy as that is the
best way to distinguish
the yellow cab from its
competitors. If all yellow cab drivers of all
backgrounds and levels
of experience driving a
yellow, strove to provide
the highest level of customer service,
then the yellow cab’s competitors
would be forced to compete in a
different way than they are now. I
am the first one to say that driving
a yellow cab is a difficult job and is
often very, very stressful. However,
please keep in mind when you are
stressed out and tired and sick of
traffic etc, that it is ultimately, the
passenger who is the ultimate client
and consideration. Strive to provide
the highest level of passenger satisfaction that you can within current
TLC rules. I know the rules are
somewhat restrictive, but, from what
I see on a regular basis, yellow drivers must fight to keep their customer
happy. I know tickets can also be a
drag, but there are lawyers, like me,
available to help you when you have
a summons. So don’t fret, yellow
cab drivers, fight back, with kindness
and goodness innate in some of the
most professional drivers in New
York. Call me at 212.754.1011 if
you have a summons issue.
Second, I am working with a
prestigious and reasonably priced
bankruptcy firm in case you need
to file for Chapter 7, 13 or 11 of the
United States Bankruptcy Code. I
understand the Industry and am glad
to try to save your assets or liquidate your assets as the case may be
if you need that type of service. A
basic Chapter 13 which will generally allow you to keep your home
and car etc. is around $3500 for
lawyer’s fees. Chapter 11s are more
and Chapter 7, when you liquidate
your assets, are less. If you need
this type of service or if you are
considering it, I am glad to talk to
you about it and you may contact me
at my office during business hours
at 212.754.1011 or 866.LAW.MIKE
or 866.529.6453.
Third, if you are arrested and you
possess a TLC license, it is imperative that you hire the best criminal
attorney that you can afford. This
is so because TLC will hold your
license until the criminal case is
finished and the TLC will take it
permanently from you if the criminal matters is NOT resolved to the
TLC’s satisfaction. I work with a very
high quality criminal attorney who
can speed up criminal matters and
obtains excellent results, so please
call me at 212.754.1011 if you get
arrested.
Fourth, please listen
to the Taxi Dave radio
show on 710 am WOR,
on Sunday evenings
between 8pm and 9pm.
David Pollack is the
host. He is smart, entertaining, informative
and best of all, knows
the truth about what is
happening in your Industry. Moreover, he has
the highest rated show
on radio in his time slot
in the NYC Metro area! So, please
tune in to listen.
Fifth, remember to bring me your
DMV and TLC tickets. It is important
to fight all your DMV (issued by
NYPD) and TLC tickets. Be careful.
Don’t skimp on the lawyer only to
lose your license later. Please fight
every yellow or pink ticket you receive from NYPD and every TLC
ticket you receive. If you are uncertain whether to use an attorney for a
particular ticket, please come see me
and I will tell you, no charge, if the
ticket has points and you do or do
not need an attorney or representative
for a particular summons.
Sixth, please take the defensive
driver course every 18 months. Do
not wait three years to take the DDC
class that takes points off of your
NYS driver’s license. Please take
the course every 18 months so if
TLC sends you a letter to suspend
or revoke your Hack or TLC license
you will have taken the class before
you get such TLC letter. Now TLC is
allowing you to take a course which
takes 3 points off your DMV record
according to TLC calculations after
you get a letter from TLC saying
you have a suspension or revocation
coming to you. Also, if you get found
guilty of a DMV summons it may be
best to take a DDC course AFTER
the guilty finding at TVB or in other
NYS traffic court. Moreover, there
is a persistent violator course available to reduce TLC points which
are now being combined with DMV
points and can result in your losing your TLC license very quickly
if you speed or talk on your cell
phone while driving. Basically, any
moving violation now puts you in
jeopardy. Call me at 212.754.1011
if you want to discuss your DMV or
TLC tickets.
Also, please note that I will do an
excellent job advocating for you at a
fair and reasonable price, and I have
been doing this business for 20 years
now and really know what I am doing. Please call me at 212.754.1011
or 866.LAW.MIKE to discuss your
DMV or TLC problem.
Seventh, please be careful in
the warm weather as the NYPD is
out there to enforce traffic rules
of NYS and NYC. Watch out at
the following hot ticket spots: the
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Eighth, if you receive a pink summons, please call me at 212.754.1011
to discuss it. Sometimes it makes
sense to use a lawyer to help you fight
a pink summons, which is a criminal
summons with ramifications beyond
DMV points, and sometimes you can
simply pay such a summons without
any negative consequences. My fee
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please call me to discuss this with
me and don’t wait for the day before
court to call me.
Thank you for reading this article.
Call me at 212.754.1011 for all your
legal needs. Until next month, be
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MANHATTAN POLICE PRECINCTS
Precinct
1 Precinct
Address
16 Ericsson Place
Direct line
1-212-334-0611
5 Precinct
19 Elizabeth Street
1-212-334-0711
6 Precinct
233 West 10 Street
1-212-741-4811
7 Precinct
19 1/2 Pitt Street
1-212-477-7311
9 Precinct
130
321 Avenue
East 5thCStreet
1-212-477-7811
10 Precinct
230 West 20th Street
1-212-741-8211
13 Precinct
230 East 21st Street
1-212-477-7411
Midtown South Precinct
MSP
1-212-239-9811
17 Precinct
167 East 51st Street
1-212-826-3211
Midtown North Precinct
MNP
1-212-767-8400
19 Precinct
153 East 67th Street
1-212-452-0600
20 Precinct
120 West 82nd Street
1-212-580-6411
Central Park Precinct
86th St & Transverse Road
1-212-570-4820
23 Precinct
162 East 102nd Street
1-212-860-6411
24 Precinct
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25 Precinct
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26 Precinct
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28 Precinct
2271-89 8th Avenue
1-212-678-1611
30 Precinct
451 West 151st Street
1-212-690-8811
32 Precinct
1-212-690-6311
33 Precinct
2207 Amsterdam Avenue
1-212-927-3200
34 Precinct
4295 Broadway
1-212-927-9711
BRONX POLICE PRECINCTS
Precinct
Address
Direct line
40 Precinct
257 Alexander Avenue
1-718-402-2270
41 Precinct
1035 Longwood Avenue
1-718-542-4771
42 Precinct
830 Washington Avenue
1-718-402-3887
43 Precinct
900 Fteley Avenue
1-718-542-0888
44 Precinct
2 East 289th Street
1-718-590-5511
45 Precinct
2877 Barkley Avenue
1-718-822-5411
46 Precinct
2120 Ryer Avenue
1-718-220-5211
47 Precinct
4111 Laconia Avenue
1-718-920-1211
48 Precinct
450 Cross Bronx Expressway
1-718-299-3900
49 Precinct
2121 Eastchester Road
1-718-918-2000
50 Precinct
3450 Kingsbridge Avenue
1-718-543-5700
52 Precinct
3016 Webster Avenue
1-718-220-5811
60 Precinct
Address
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71 Precinct
421 Empire Boulevard
1-718-735-0511
72 Precinct
830 4th Avenue
1-718-965-6311
73 Precinct
1470 East New York Avenue
1-718-495-5411
75 Precinct
1000 Sutter Avenue
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76 Precinct
191 Union Street
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77 Precinct
127 Utica Avenue
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78 Precinct
65 6th Avenue
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79 Precinct
263 Tompkins Avenue
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81 Precinct
30 Ralph Avenue
1-718-574-0411
83 Precinct
480 Knickerbocker Avenue
1-718-574-1605
84 Precinct
301 Gold Street
1-718-875-6811
88 Precinct
298 Classon Avenue
1-718-636-6511
90 Precinct
211 Union Avenue
1-718-963-5311
94 Precinct
100 Meserole Avenue
1-718-383-3879
QUEENS POLICE PRECINCTS
Precinct
Address
Direct line
100 Precinct
92-24 Rockaway Beach Blvd.
1-718-318-4200
101 Precinct
16-12 Mott Avenue
1-718-868-3400
102 Precinct
87-34 118th Street
1-718-805-3200
103 Precinct
168-02 P.O. Edwaard Byrne Ave.
1-718-657-8181
104 Precinct
64-02 Catalpa Avenue
1-718-386-3004
105 Precinct
92-08 222nd Street
1-718-776-9090
106 Precinct
103-53 101st Street
1-718-845-2211
107 Precinct
71-01 Parsons Boulevard
1-718-969-5100
108 Precinct
5-47 50th Avenue
1-718-784-5411
109 Precinct
37-05 Union Street
1-718-321-2250
110 Precinct
94-41 43rd Avenue
1-718-476-9311
111 Precinct
45-06 215th Street
1-718-279-5200
112 Precinct
68-40 Austin Street
1-718-520-9311
113 Precinct
167-02 Baisley Boulevard
1-718-712-7733
114 Precinct
34-16 Astoria Boulevard
1-718-626-9311
115 Precinct
92-15 Northern Boulevard
1-718-533-2002
STATEN ISLAND POLICE PRECINCTS
Precinct
Address
Direct line
Direct line
120 Precinct
78 Richmond Terrace
1-718-876-8500
1-718-946-3311
122 Precinct
2320 Hylan Boulevard
1-718-667-2211
123 Precinct
116 Main Street
1-718-948-9311
BROOKLYN POLICE PRECINCTS
Precinct
Police Precincts
In New York City
61 Precinct
2575 Coney Island Avenue
1-718-627-6611
62 Precinct
1925 Bath Avenue
1-718-236-2611
63 Precinct
1844 Brooklyn Avenue
1-718-258-4411
66 Precinct
5822 16th Avenue
1-718-851-5611
67 Precinct
2820 Snyder Avenue
1-718-287-3211
68 Precinct
333 65th Street
1-718-439-4211
69 Precinct
9720 Foster Avenue
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70 Precinct
154 Lawrence Avenue
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• Always be prepared to take defensive, evasive actions if you observe a
bicycle in your area.
• Bicyclists must obey the same traffic laws as a motorist. The number of
accidents involving bicyclists has increased with the increase cost of fuel. Many
people are now using bicycles as their primary source of transportation.
• Always respect bicycle lanes and a bicyclists right to the same streets you
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• Bicyclists often pass through red lights, stop signs, travel the wrong way
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• Always call the police and make a report if you are involved in an incident
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HOW TO IMPROVE SENIORS’ DRIVING SKILLS
Self-Improvement, Education and Rehabilitation, and
Tougher Licensing Are All Parts of a Formula for Change
The dangers posed by senior drivers — combined with the difficulty of
Driving Skills
figuring out when they have reached
the point of posing a risk — are spurring unprecedented efforts to come up
with solutions.
These initiatives to improve seniors’ driving skills include more
self-limited driving, improvement
classes, vision adjustments, physical rehabilitation, cognitive-skills
enhancement and tougher licensing
laws.
Here’s a look at some of what researchers, insurers, not-for-profit associations, health-care organizations,
government agencies and seniors
themselves are doing in each area:
Self-Limited Driving
Many members of the over-65
generation limit their own driving as
they recognize some deterioration
in their capabilities. Typical selflimiting includes avoiding crowded
thoroughfares and taking alternate
routes, though this makes trips longer.
Seniors also try to find intersections
with protected left turns. Many decide
to travel only a handful of close-tohome, highly familiar routes — and
nowhere else — behind the wheel.
Other elderly drivers decide to give
up driving altogether in the interests
of their own and others’ safety; more
than 600,000 drivers age 70 or older
do just that each year, according to a
2002 study published in the American
Journal of Public Health.
A surprising surge in self-limita-
tion seems to be behind the 21-percent
improvement in the number of crash
deaths among drivers 70 and older in
a new Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study of the 10 years that
ended in 2006. The declines were most
dramatic for drivers 80 and older. If
the fatal-crash involvement rates for
older drivers had mirrored the trend
for younger ones in the same time
period, the Institute said, nearly 7,000
additional older drivers would have
been in fatal crashes.
The older a driver is, and the more
physically and cognitively impaired
he or she is, the more the senior tends
to self-limit driving, according to
Institute interviews that accompanied
the broader study.
The willingness of many aging motorists to regulate themselves prevents
countless accidents. In fact, seniors’
tendency to self-limit is one of the
main reasons that insurance rates are
generally only slightly higher for drivers 75 or older than for the generation
just beneath them — and far lower
than rates for teenage drivers. Another
reason insurers don’t see older drivers
as a particular liability menace is that
they tend to injure themselves more
than others in accidents.
Driving Improvement Classes
Older drivers are finding more
ways to gauge their own effectiveness behind the wheel. The American
Automobile Association Foundation,
for instance, has an online self-rating
form for drivers 55 and older. Several
other organizations are making simi-
lar resources available on the Web.
More seniors also are taking it
upon themselves to improve their
driving by attending self-help classes.
The American Association of Retired
Persons (AARP), for example, offers
a driver safety program at sites around
the country and online. The 8-hour
class is for drivers 50 and older.
Typically, participants can take their
certificate of completion and show
it to their insurance company to get
a discount of 5-10 percent on their
premiums, according to Jack Stegeman, a volunteer AARP instructor in
Madison Heights, Michigan.
One emphasis of the classes is
to urge seniors to step up to their
own responsibility for driving. For
instance, “We don’t talk about ‘accidents’ but rather about ‘crashes,’
because an accident just says, ‘It’s
too bad it happened,’” says Stegeman,
a retired schoolteacher. “A ‘crash’ is
where someone didn’t see something
or reacted inappropriately, and we
need to get class members thinking
that way.”
Another theme stresses “taking
a little more time to make decisions
as you drive, because that’s how our
body functions as we get older,” says
Nancy Stegeman, a retired nurse who
teaches with her husband.
Vision Adjustments
The declining vision of seniors is
the most difficult aspect of driving
to mitigate. “Ninety to 95 percent of
the information you get in driving is
visual information,” said Dr. Philip
Hessburg, president of the Detroit
Institute of Ophthalmology.
Yet many vision-impaired older
people take a big swipe at the problem simply by declining to drive at
twilight or later. Others realize major
improvements after having cataract
or other eye surgery. And some researchers believe that more diligent
instruction of senior drivers actually
can help them use their vision more
effectively, even if they can’t restore
their eyes physically.
“A common problem with seniors
is that they fail to scan appropriately
by moving their eyes completely
through the driving environment,”
said Richard Backs, a psychology
professor who is developing a visual
attention test for drivers at Central
Michigan University. Seniors may
spend too long focusing on changing
lanes, for example, risking an accident
by not shifting their attention to traffic
approaching in their rearview mirror.
Some seniors invest in the handful of
devices that have proven to improve
senior road vision, such as special
eyeglasses that reduce glare and have
a telescopic function.
“But even with any of those, you
really have to work with your doctor
and maybe a low-vision specialist and
with a driving instructor,” said Judy
Scott, director of the Center on Vision
Loss for the American Foundation for
the Blind.
Physical Rehabilitation
The elderly can actually improve
Commissioner’s Corner
By Meera Joshi
a lot happening at the TLC, and I am
pleased to share the latest developments
with you.
DRIVER FATIGUE
While it will not go into effect before
November 1, 2016, TLC Commission
members unanimously approved a package of rules aimed at preventing driver
fatigue and making our streets safer for
all, drivers included. Between now and
November 1, we will analyze additional
data and continue to meet with stakeholders to see if any adjustments need to
be made, with the goal of fashioning the
most precise system possible that truly
reflects the daily realities that drivers and
Greetings, everyone! I hope you other stakeholders have shared with us.
are enjoying the summer and as stay- We very much appreciate the perspecing cool as possible. There has been tives that drivers, industry leaders and
other experts have given us in testimony,
as well as in the many discussions that
followed. We hope that you continue to
share your valuable feedback with us,
and we will keep you informed about
our progress.
CONNECTIVITY CHALLENGES
IN LONG ISLAND CITY
While I am very hopeful that, by the
time you all read this, the heatwaverelated technical difficulties we’ve been
facing at our Long Island City Licensing
offices will have been alleviated, but I
did want to take this opportunity to thank
you all for being so understanding. As I
write these words, the facility has been
closed for two days and we are about
to announce a third. Of course, we’ve
been through emergencies of every
stripe before, and as always, TLC staff
has dug in and put their best efforts into
the full restoration of services (with
some dedicated staffers even working
tirelessly through the wee hours this past
weekend!). But this time around, I am
so grateful that we’ve invested the time,
resources and know-how in creating
more on-line transactional functionality – like LARS -- than we’ve ever had
available before. And I have a strong
feeling that there are many licensees out
there who are just as grateful as I!
In the event that the connectivity
problems are still an issue by the time
you read this, please visit the TLC’s web
site at www.nyc.gov/taxi for updates.
DISABILITY PRIDE
ON DISPLAY!
I am proud to say that the TLC had a
sizable contingent at the recent Second
Annual Disability Pride Parade – pictured below – led by our Accessibility
Program Manager Alexander Elegudin
(seated, third from left).
TAXI DAVE’S
RADIO SHOW
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8:00 – 9:00 PM
EVERY SUNDAY!
“The Expanding Transportation Network
Company (TNC) Equity Gap & Social
Irresponsibility: Adverse Effects on Passengers
with Disabilities, Underserved Communities, the
Environment & the On-Demand Workforce”
By Matthew W. Daus, Esq.
commodate electric wheelchairs and
scooters; and
•TNCs are not held to the same
accessibility mandates as the
traditional For Hire Vehicle
industry;
Underserved, Low
Income & Minority
Communities Left at the
Curb by TNCs
• Communities that
may desire to utilize a
TNC service, but currently
have limited or no access,
include low-income communities and minority communities,
both of which may be “redlined” or
dis-incentivized from serving due to
the effects of surge pricing;
• Rural communities, where low
population density and a host of other
factors dis-incentivize drivers from
expanding service;
• Unbanked and under-banked
communities, which have little or
no access to the financial institutions
required to pay for TNCs; and
• Individuals without smartphone
access, who do not possess the technology expertise necessary to request
TNC service.
TNCs Cause Traffic Congestion,
Harm the Environment & Augment
Negative Externalities
• TNC proliferation threatens cities’ efforts to reduce the number of
Personal Motor Vehicles on the road,
setting back decades of transportation planning and policy aimed at
mitigating congestion and pollution,
and encouraging shared mobility and
mobility management;
• Unregulated TNC growth could
cause congestion and harmful environmental impacts through the
proliferation of nitrogen oxides, Fine
Particulate Matter, volatile organic
compounds, carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide, greenhouse gases and
air toxics;
• Said congestion has resulted in
massive losses to local businesses and
government taxpayers impacted by
it, with additional time spent on road
repair, while labor force activity and
business or government operations
are negatively impacted by traffic
jams and gridlock;
• Congestion is further exacerbated by TNC’s usage of so-called
“surge pricing” due to the incentive
for all or most part-time on demand
economy TNC vehicle drivers being
fiscally rewarded by working already
congested areas during peak business
period (a/k/a rush hour in central
business districts of urban environments); and
•Urban areas are projected to continue growing at a rapid rate, and, as
a result, policy makers must take into
I am pleased to announce that
we have recently completed a comprehensive report, that is scheduled
to be published in a book
published by the New York
University School of Law’s
Labor and Employment Law
Center, edited and facilitated
by the Cornell University
School of Industrial and
Labor Relations, entitled:
“The Expanding Transportation Network Company
(TNC) Equity Gap & Social
Irresponsibility: Adverse Effects on the Disabled, Underserved
Communities, the Environment & the
On-Demand Workforce.” (“The TNC
Equity Gap Report”). This report was
both co-authored and peer reviewed
by experts in the fields of labor and
employment law, sustainability, economics, disability and civil rights,
including a national and international
group of professors, former high-level
government officials, and disability
advocacy groups.
In addition to the playing field
being skewed in favor of Transportation Network Companies (“TNCs”)
at the detriment to the traditional
taxicab and for-hire vehicle industry, an alarming result from the
proliferation of such TNCs is the
undeniable adverse impact on people
with disabilities, underserved communities, the environment, social
responsibility, and the labor force
of the so-called “on-demand sharing economy”. This comprehensive
report provides stunning revelations
concerning the disturbing underbelly
of the TNC business model, with
recommendations for policy-making
and addressing the concerns raised
by the authors and peer reviewers.
This report demonstrates that the
TNC template is nothing more than a
privileged access model that operates
to the detriment of those in most need
of their services. As is fully explained
in the report with concrete data and
evidence, the following are a list of
the unfortunate results and social
consequences that continue to result
from the continued proliferation and
existence of TNCs:
Wheelchair Accessibility Not a
TNC Priority
•The proliferation of TNCs has
greatly slowed, if not halted, progress
being made to convert a large portion of taxicabs in New York City to
wheelchair-accessible vehicles;
•TNCs continue to argue that
the Americans with Disabilities Act
(ADA), a law designed to provide
inclusiveness for all, does not apply
to their operations in any way;
•TNCs do not, except in rare
instances, have the capability to ac-
consideration how they will allow
TNCs to continue to grow to avoid a
“collision course” with environmental
and sustainability policy.
TNCs Lack Social Corporate
Responsibility & Ethics
• TNCs market themselves as socially responsible businesses when,
in reality, they have built a highly
sophisticated crafted web of tax
avoidance depriving cities and nations out of hundreds of millions in
tax revenue;
• Local taxicab and for-hire vehicle
transportation providers are obliged to
pay their local taxes, which increases
their cost burden and forces them to
charge higher fares than the TNCs are
able to offer, putting the traditional
industry at a competitive disadvantage
for fulfilling its civic duty;
• Without the advantage of a TNC’s
tax structure, local taxicab and forhire vehicle providers are forced out
of business, further decreasing the tax
revenue to the government; and
• TNCs have led to the proliferation of ever-smaller jobs (“gigs” and
“micro-gigs”) performed by independent contractors, freelancers, temps
and part-timers (collectively termed
as “the disposable workforce”), where
workers, who must go out of pocket
for vehicle loan payments, gasoline,
vehicle maintenance, car insurance
and health insurance, are faced with
no safety net such as unemployment
or injured workers’ compensation,
paid sick or vacation leave while
operating in a reality that they can
be disconnected from the TNC app
platform at any time without any
recourse, thus leaving them “holding
the financial bag”.
The contents of this report have
been reviewed and approved by
the following independent panel
of experts: Hon. Patricia Gatling,
the longest serving Commissioner/
Chair of the NYC Commission on
Human Rights, former Deputy Secretary to the NY State Governor for
Civil Rights and former Kings County
(Brooklyn, NY) First Assistant District Attorney; Professor Jonathan
Peters, an academic researcher with
Accounting and Finance at the City
University of New York/College of
Staten Island, an economist whose
work has focused on transportation
economics, equity and congestion
management/performance metrics;
and representatives of and officials
from Keroul, an international tourism
and cultural organization based in
Canada which focuses on advancing
the rights of people with restricted
physical mobility, including Keroul
Board Chair Isabelle Ducharme,
whose background is in accessible
business and tourism, with personal
experience since 1988 with mobility
restrictions caused by an automobile
related spinal injury, has been an advocate for disability rights for decades;
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Deputy Secretary for Civil Rights under New York State Governor Andrew
Cuomo. She oversaw the operations
of the Department of Civil Service,
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and the Public Employee Relations
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U.S. State Department’s International
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as an attorney, federal policymaker,
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Fantasy Vs Reality?
By Larry Fisher
The Democratic and
Republican Party conventions are history,
and I cannot resist the
temptation to comment.
Although there are probably other topics readers
of this monthly newspaper would like me to
discuss, the conventions
provide so much fresh
material. On the other
hand, it is significant that today’s business news headline is Uber merging
with Didi, the leading transportation
app company in China. The significance of this news is that after burning
through billions of dollars in China,
Uber is basically giving up.
Another headline today in the
NY Post is the release of photos of
Mrs. Trump in suggestive poses with
another woman on the heels of naked
photographs of Mrs Trump over the
weekend. Are these photos in keeping with the tenor of the Republican
Convention? I think so. After all,
Mrs. Trump was selling a fantasy in
those photos, as is her husband on the
campaign trail. Name the issue, and
only Donald Trump can fix it. Isis,
trade, immigration, are his signature
issues. Few details have been forthcoming, but trust him, he’ll make
all the problems disappear. Fantasy?
You betcha.
It would be criminal of me not
to mention some of the other more
frightening aspects of Trump’s utterings and behavior. He wants to be the
“Law and Order” candidate, similar to
Richard Nixon’s 1968 proclamation.
Please excuse me if I get bent out of
shape when a man of German descent
deems himself the “law and order
candidate”. Six million of my brethren learned the hard way. Muslims,
Latinos, and immigrants have been
targets of Trump’s barbs during this
crazy campaign season. His penchant
for speaking off the top of his head
and spewing hatred and prejudice has
been reviewed and criticized by more
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intelligent politicians
and editorialists than
me. Let me just reiterate that he is capable of
anything, including 1st
amendment suspension,
which includes freedom
of the press and freedom
of speech. The slippery
slope devolves from
there.
That’s not to say that
the Democrats are any shining stars.
Mrs. Clinton has been a trouble
magnet and her demeanor only exacerbates her problem candidacy. Voters
already expressed their Bush fatigue
by marginalizing Jeb’s candidacy during primary season, and the same can
be said for Mrs. Clinton by virtue of
the large support for Bernie Sanders.
Beyond the idea that it’s about time
for a woman president, the scandals of
the Bill Clinton era, and the unseemly
fund raising of the Clinton Foundation are potential liabilities that could
derail Mrs. Clinton’s ascension to the
presidency.
But, what about us? Did either
party address issues that affect our
industry? Was there any discussion
of the gig economy and its impact
on benefits and full-time workers?
Were there any speeches that referred
to the structural unemployment that
technology has caused? How about
the deal the Democrats struck with
Uber in Philadelphia so that delegates
could be transported to and from the
convention?
To sum up, on the one hand, we
have the fantasy candidate. On the
other hand, we have the troubled candidate. Not much of a choice. Still, if
you believe that one is significantly
worse than the other, your choice is
easy. Throwing away your vote on a
third party candidate might be a real
option if you believe that the risk of
disaster is minimal. But, when push
comes to shove, one candidate must
be crushed so that we never have to
listen to the mad ravings again.
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ATO Steers GST Legal Case
Away From Uber
The Australian Taxation Office has
contested Uber’s argument that the
definition of taxi and limousine needs
to be examined
The Australian Taxation Office
(ATO) has disputed Uber’s attempts to
raise doubt around the “ordinary” definition of “taxi travel” as outlined by the
Goods and Services Tax (GST), saying
that the connotation of the phrase along
with the words taxi and limousine need
to be considered.
During the second hearing day at
the Australian Federal Court, counsel
representing the ATO said during his
closing statement that Uber’s argument
that the definition of taxi travel under
the GST Act is only applicable to taxis
and limousines is not plausible.
He proposed for Justice John
Griffiths to consider the connotations
associated with the words taxi and
limousine.
Pointing to the specific case of
Sydney-based UberX driver Brian Fine
as an example, counsel representing
the ATO said Fine revealed during
cross-examination that he would drive
around -- much like a taxi would -- until
someone wanted his service, before
picking up a passenger, driving them
to their destination, and charging a fare
for the service.
“Like a taxi driver, [Mr Fine] pry the
streets, and really effectively is hailed.
We say functionally, he’s hailed by users
of the app,” he said.
This goes against the argument that
counsel representing Uber declared on
Wednesday, which said the “real point
of distinction” between UberX versus
taxis and limousines is that taxis are the
only vehicles that can pick up passengers
from the curb side or be hailed.
Counsel representing the ATO further argued that regardless of whether
taxi travel is provided by a taxi, limousine, or any form of other vehicle
service, it does not mean that UberX is
part of a different industry, and therefore
its drivers should not be exempt from
having to register for GST.
Blair Davies, Australian Taxi Industry Association CEO, told ZDNet that
the case is addressing the “heart of the
issue”, which is creating a level playing
field for taxi drivers in Australia.
“We’re not running away from the
fight. In fact, we are keen to take up the
challenge and contest it in the marketplace based on everybody playing by
the same rules, not by one side having
an unfair advantage,” he said.
“The case at the moment is the ATO
is treating Uber drivers much like taxis,
and we commend for that. We hope the
court upholds that.”
Uber lodged legal action against the
Australian Taxation Office (ATO) back
in August last year in the hope that the
ATO would overturn its decision requiring Uber drivers to register for GST.
Last May, the ATO issued a directive
that advised those providing a ridesharing service must have an Australian
Business Number and be registered
for GST.
However, in documents lodged to the
Federal Court, Uber argued the public
issue by the ATO “unfairly targets Uber
driver-partners”.
An Uber spokesperson previously
told ZDNet that it believes the ATO’s
guidance should not have been issued,
given that a federal tax review is currently under way.
“To be very clear, we believe all our
driver-partners should pay their appropriate share of tax and meet their tax
obligations,” the company said.
“However, we feel they have been
unjustly singled out by the ATO for
different tax treatment than truck drivers, bike messengers, Airbnb hosts, or
any other participant of the sharing
economy.”
The company went on to express its
disappointment in the ATO, saying that
it is unfairly targeting Uber’s driverpartners, who “must register and remit
this tax from the first dollar earned”.
This is in comparison to individuals
who are only required to register for
GST once they reach a turnover of more
than AU$75,000 a year.
“The guidance by the ATO has tried
to fit a new technology model from today
into a 1990s regulatory framework that
was written long before this technology
ever existed. Common sense would
tell you that isn’t going to work,” the
company said.
On Monday, the NSW government
announced that it is offering AU$20,000
in compensation grants to taxi drivers
who have lost business due to Uber and
other ridesharing services.
The AU$250 million industry transition package will allow the drivers to
apply for upfront payments for up to
two licences, AU$100 million of which
will be paid for by a AU$1 levy on all
taxi and ridesharing trips, meaning that
NSW ridesharing and taxi users will
have to collectively contribute AU$100
million to pay for the scheme. AU$142
million has also been set aside for hardship claims.
According to the Transport NSW
website, eligible drivers’ licences must
include a condition that it may be transferred, and drivers have to have held
their licence prior to July 1, 2016. Applications for the payments are currently
open until January 13, 2017.
Uber was officially legalised in NSW
by the state government in December
last year, with a new regular and commissioner put in place to oversee the
industry. A transition period was also
put in place for a number of months
for ridesharing drivers to obtain the
correct accreditation to drive legally
on NSW roads.
This was after the ACT became
the first Australian state or territory to
legalise ridesharinglast October. This
included the same regulatory conditions
that are enforced for taxi drivers, such
as driver history checks and vehicle
Project M
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Yellow rubber ducks could be one
way of avoiding deadly accidents
with self-driving cars, such as the
one in which a Tesla Model S was
involved in Florida earlier this year.
Commonly found in bathtubs, the
little toys also populate the streets of
Duckietown, an advanced autonomy
class taught at MIT.
Built and programmed by students,
the 50 robot-controlled ducks have
to recognize traffic lights, road signs
and other obstacles that challenge
auto engineers and drivers in the real
world. Each robot taxi is equipped
with a single camera and navigates
the model roads without using preprogrammed maps. In a playful yet
clever way, the ducks are there to test
how self-driving cars might interact
on public roads in the future.
“One of the major challenges for
autonomous driving research is the
safety and logistics associated with
this work,” says Liam Paull, who
leads the project. “If we can develop
a smaller, safer, cheaper platform
where the same algorithms work as
for real cars, we can carry out research
more efficiently.”
In the meantime, Google is running a self-driving car project with
a testing program in four US cities
using cars that have autonomously
driven over 1.5 million miles.
Three types of sensors enable the
prototype to “see” its surroundings,
even at night, to predict the behavior
of what it sees and to make decisions
about how to react by comparing
what’s happening in real time with
its models. Cars are taught to detect
unfamiliar objects or other road users, and are given practice on how
to respond.
The challenge is to translate the
complex technology behind autonomous cars into a product that
is accessible to user groups such
as the elderly, says Timo Möller,
automotive consultant at McKinsey,
Germany. “It will have to be a case of
a senior citizen giving the car simple
instructions, such as ‘take me to the
doctor’s.’ The car might then ask if
the driver wants the fast or the slow
route. It should be as simple as getting onto a bus.”
Self-driving robo taxis might be
an attractive form of transport for the
elderly. These fully autonomous vehicles, currently under development
for commuting short distances, could
be ordered for that weekly trip to the
doctor’s surgery, for example.
Overall, autonomous vehicles
could offer individual mobility for
the elderly despite physical, health
and other handicaps that may come
with old age, says Sven Beiker, of
McKinsey, a former executive director of CARS, the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford University.
“Mobility is a human need, on a par
with a desire to communicate. Being
mobile is key to having an active
lifestyle and to leading the life you
want: if a car takes over the driving,
then it doesn’t matter if you are able
to drive or not.”
More than 90% of road accidents
include human error as a contributing
factor but introducing self-driving
cars will not necessarily prevent all
those accidents, says Beiker. “There
is this huge expectation that once we
have this technology, we have a high
chance of getting rid of a large share
of accidents based on human error.
Yet how good we can get overall is
still not decided.”
One problem is that computers
can’t think outside the box and are
ill prepared for non-standard traffic
situations. A human is experience
and intuition based, cutting corners
here and there, explains Beiker.
A computer doesn’t know how to
react to a situation that hasn’t been
programmed.
Google experienced its first collision in February, when one of its
self-driving Lexus SUVs drove into
the side of a bus. The question of
safety remains – until it might be
answered by a duck.
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M from Allianz”
safety checks.
Uber was then deemed to be legal
in Western Australia under major taxi
industry reform in December, with the
proviso that drivers had to obtain special “omnibus” licences in addition to
their standard driving licences; while a
decision passed by a Victorian County
Court judge in favour of a Melbourne
Uber driver effectively gave the service
the green light to operate in Victoria
in May.
While South Australia followed suit
at the start of this month, Uber is still
battling the Queensland government to
become legal in that state. The Queensland government last month passed
new legislation to crack down on Uber
drivers, which included increased fines
and more powers for traffic enforcement
officers.
The Northern Territory government is still refusing to allow Uber to
operate.
Reprintedwith permission from
ZDNet.
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deal that handed Uber a free, private lot for its vehicles
outside the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia and
gave the company inside access to transport party
VIPs at the convention. The RNC declined the same
proposal from Uber, leaving the company to rent
space at the Republican convention in Cleveland
earlier this month.
I am a Democrat and a wheelchair user. I feel
the impact of Uber’s discrimination every day. In
my home city of New York, Uber has more than
30,000 cars on the road but none are wheelchair
accessible. Uber disregards our civil rights and
devalues our lives by refusing to provide accessible vehicles in New York and other cities across
the nation.
Uber’s shameful business practices do not align
with the Democratic Party Platform, which opposes
discrimination against people of color, the LGBT
community and people with disabilities. At this
year’s convention, the DNC notably featured a
powerful speech from Anastasia Somoza, a fellow
New York wheelchair user who is an incredible
advocate for our community.
That is why I am shocked that the Democrats
– my party – would cut a deal with a $60 billion
company that increases its profits by violating
my civil rights. I expect better from Democrats. I
can only hope that your candidates, Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine, will respond by taking swift
action to disavow the deal and condemn Uber’s
discrimination.
Sincerely,
Dustin Jones
United for Equal Access New York
sign on his dashboard, working on New York City
streets, God bless America.
Tom
Driving a Star
Dear Taxi Dave,
DNC
Dear Taxi Dave,
I just watched Bloomberg’s speech at the DNC.
Where does he get the nerve to say that Donald
Trump will threaten the retirement savings of all
Americans. Even if that is true, look who’s saying it, a man who funneled millions of dollars
through a hedge fund to help start UBER’s drive
to devalue the medallions that we worked so hard
to build for our retirement. How can he speak with
a straight face?
Abe
How Is This Possible
Dear Taxi Dave,
Look at this Texas license plate, he has UBER
Look Who was in my car today! Ali Velshi
John
Driving Skills
their driving skills and help stave off decline through
various types of exercise and physical therapy.
New research by the Yale University School of
Medicine, for example, found that even a moderate
regimen of physical therapy specifically designed for
the task — only 15 minutes of exercises a day — could
significantly improve flexibility, coordination and speed
of movement of extremities in drivers 70 years old
and older who were afflicted with various limitations
such as arthritis. The success of the therapy, in turn, is
projected to improve driving performance by at least
an 8 percent lower crash occurrence over two years.
“Our hope was to make small improvements
in several areas of physical functioning that, taken
together, were meaningful, and that’s essentially
what we found,” said Dr. Richard Marottoli, associate professor of medicine at Yale. “Next, we want to
look at whether people who might not yet have these
limitations could relatively easily incorporate some
of these activities and prevent [driving] problems
down the road.”
Cabbie Finds
Inheritance in
Backseat, Returns
$187G to Passenger
A Boston cabbie is being praised as a Good
Samaritan after finding and returning a passenger’s inheritance — nearly $200,000 in cold
hard cash — accidentally left in the in the back
of his taxi.
“Fifty percent of people say yeah, you should
have done that, the other fifty percent say you
should have took it, but I’m not a crook,” said
Raymond MacCausland, who found the green
backpack full of approximately $187,000 in cash
in his cab on Saturday. “I always return things.”
MacCausland, 72, a taxi driver for fifty years,
said he picked up the passenger on Massachusetts Avenue and Tremont Street, and took him
to a nearby stop so the man could run an errand.
When the passenger didn’t return after 20 to 30
minutes, MacCausland said, he left. It was only
later he said, that he found the backpack in the
back seat.
“I zipped down a little bit on the bag, and I
saw three bundles of money, right away I zipped
it up,” MacCausland said. “I just thought it was
clothes.”
MacCausland said he took the bag to the
police station, and turned it over to the police
hackney unit.
“I didn’t know if I should go look for him. It
might have been stolen money, it might have been
bank robbery money, I had no idea,” MacCausland
said. “I only saw three packs, three bundles, but
I knew the whole bag was full of money.”
By law, taxi drivers must return forgotten
property to BPD’s hackney unit. Once at BPD
headquarters officers unpacked the bag, laid the
cash on a table, and began counting. In the end,
police said, there was roughly $187,000.
“It had to be about 30 bundles, maybe 40
bundles, one bundle had ten thousand dollars,
another bundle had $20s and $50s,” MacCausland
said. “It really is something to see.”
BPD spokeswoman Rachel McGuire said
the passenger was tracked down and reunited
with the money, which turned out to be a recent
inheritance. She said police detectives were able
to confirm the money was rightfully his.
“He had proof that it was his, he had the trust
agreement, he provided the proof the money was
his,” McGuire said. “Thank goodness for the
honest cab driver.”
Reached by phone after the money was returned, the passenger declined to comment.
For MacCausland, the episode brought back
memories of 30 years ago.
“Thirty-something years ago, I took a man
to the airport and he left $10,000 in a briefcase
on the front seat,” MacCausland said. The briefcase was returned but wasn’t exactly met with
gratitude, he said.
This time, when he reunited with the passenger
at police headquarters, MacCausland said, he was
rewarded with $100.
“Thirty-something years ago, I took a man
to the airport and he left $10,000 in a briefcase
on the front seat,” MacCausland said. The briefcase was returned but wasn’t exactly met with
gratitude, he said.
This time, when he reunited with the passenger
at police headquarters, MacCausland said, he was
rewarded with $100.
UBER
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – An Uber
driver has been arrested after Miami
police conducted an anti-gun violence
operation in Coconut Grove.
Miami police said they received
a tip that a narcotics deal was going
down Tuesday at the Quick Stop on
Grand Ave. in Coconut Grove.
Several units converged on the
location where they arrested Ilitch
Muñoz who they said was selling
cocaine.
Detectives said upon further review, Muñoz – who is an Uber driver
– was in possession of a handgun.
Of the 40 busiest U.S. airports,
10 don’t allow pickups unless drivers
have a chauffeur’s license or livery
plates, including Atlanta, Orlando,
Detroit, Boston and Philadelphia.
Uber and Lyft are aggressively negotiating agreements with airports,
agreeing to pay the same fees taxis
pay for pickups in many cases, usually
about $2 to $4 per ride.
MUMBAI STRIKE
UBER
Mumbai’s traditional taxi drivers
went on strike yesterday, protesting
against the car-hailing service Uber
that they say is undercutting their fares
and threatening to drive them out of
business. Drivers of Mumbai’s “black
and yellow” cabs, as well as fleet
taxi and auto rickshaw drivers, took
part in the strike in their thousands,
organisers said. Hundreds of drivers
gathered at Azad Maidan, the sports
ground in south Mumbai, to protest
against Uber and its Indian rival,
Ola. The drivers are demanding that
the app-based companies bring their
fares in line with the rates set by the
local government authorities. Failing
that, the companies should be shut
down completely, say the local taxi
drivers. While the local traditional
taxis charge 15 rupees (81 fils) per
kilometre, Uber and Ola charge as
low as 8 rupees and 6 rupees a kilometre respectively. “We will organise
another strike in July if our demands
are not met,” said Balasaheb Sanap,
the president of the Jai Bhagwan Taxi
Rickshaw Sanghatana, a union that led
the protest against what it described
as an unfair pricing strategy. Santosh
Singh, 39, a fleet taxi driver who took
part in the strike, said that before
Uber and Ola came into the market
he was generating revenues of 80,000
to 90,000 rupees a month – but now
his revenues amount to only 25,000 to
30,000 rupees a month. “I have a loan
on my taxi to pay off, 18,000 rupees
a month, but I haven’t been able to
pay the instalments for the past two
months,” he said. “I’m worried that
the bank will take my car from me.”
He has a son and daughter who are
teenagers and he said he could no
longer afford to pay for their education, so he has been forced to borrow
money from the bank earlier this
month. “There are some people who
want to hang themselves because of
Ola and Uber,” he said.
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Illegal Street Hail Law
Must Be Enforced
By Abe Mittleman
In New York City Medallion Taxis didn’t listen to the show on July 31,
have the exclusive right to passengers 2016 you are still able to listen.
Taxi Dave had as his guest the
that hail them from the street. Other
For Hire Vehicles are licensed to do Honorable Peter Mazer. Mr. Mazer is
pre arranged passenger work. This is an attorney with lots of experience.
the law. There is no arguing that if a He formally was the Chief Council
person raises a hand that this work is for the TLC and presently is the Legal
Representative for the Metropolitan
for a Medallion Taxi.
For many years other vehicles, Taxicab Board of Trade (MTBOT). Mr
some not licensed by the TLC, but Mazer knows a lot about how things
mostly For Hire Vehicles that are li- work at the TLC.
Here is what was explained:
censed to do pre arranged work have
When a TLC licensed driver rebeen stealing passengers that are
hailing from the street. As a poten- ceives a summons he first receives
tial passenger raises a hand, an FHV a notice encouraging the driver to
vehicle will often approach and the plead guilty and pay a reduced fine. In
driver will attempt to negotiate a deal the case of a driver who violated the
with the potential passenger. This is law in subject here the fine would be
illegal. And, the driver knows it. But $250, not $2000. If the driver instead
with out heavy handed enforcement chooses to continue to trial then the
the driver will not fear chancing it. $2000 fine would be in play. NatuThis happens every day of the week, rally, this driver knows he has very
hundreds if not thousands of times. little chance of winning this case. So,
The TLC was doing a very good job the $250 fine is paid and there are no
of discouraging this illegal activity by penalty points. So, the driver is free
setting up and stinging these drivers. to continue this illegal activity.
Why is this done? It is done for the
They were seizing the vehicles and
putting them out of business until most ridiculous reason imaginable. It
fines and towing costs were met. Even is done because there is a competition
so, that wasn’t enough because the for the revenue between the TLC and
amount of these expenses were just The Office of Administrative Trials and
not enough to discourage this illegal Hearings (OATH). If the case goes to
activity from continuing. And further trial OATH gets the money. If the driver
more, a court ruling ended the seizing pleads guilty by mail and pays the reduced fine the TLC gets the money.
of these vehicles.
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! WHAT
So, the New York City Council
stepped in with a bill that would GOOD IS A LAW IF IT CAN’T BE
raise the fine for this illegal activ- APPLIED! WHO IS OUR CITY
ity. Local Law No. 52 was passed G OV E R N M E N T W O R K I N G
and signed by Mayor DiBlasio on FOR?
Government is supposed to protect
April 21, 2016. The fines passed for
violation of the law were as follows. the citizens rights and enforce the laws
$2000 for the 1st offence, $4000 for that are on the books that are created
the 2nd offence and $10,000 plus loss for this purpose. We have rights and
of drivers DMV license for the 3rd they are being violated day after day.
offence. So, finally the law had teeth When and how will this injustice end?
and it would figure that this blatant If a law is passed to protect citizens
violation of the property rights of rights there should be not be a back
medallion taxis would have a chance door way around it.
Editor’s Note: The TLC had an
of being controlled.
But no, not so fast! And this writer opportunity to read this before publication and TLC Spokesperson Allan
can not believe the reason why.
Many of us listen to the Taxi Dave Fromberg responded with the followShow on Sunday night. We can listen ing:.... in fact, we are not offering
live on WOR radio at 8PM. If we miss $250 fines for $2,000 violations. We
the show archived shows are available review these summonses on a caseany time you want to listen on the by-case basis and thus far, offers have
WOR Taxi Dave archived page and ranged between $1,000 and $1,250
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Taxi relief stands allow drivers to park their vehicles for up to one hour. This
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Jerome Ave. (E. Side)
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MANHATTAN EAST SIDE ABOVE 23RD STREET
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Taxis & FHVs
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Taxis & FHVs
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E.77th St.(N. Side)
E. 86th St. (N. Side)
E. 78th Street (N. Side)
E. 78th St. (S. Side)
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E. 27th St. (N. Side)
E.28th St. (N. Side)
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Lexington & Third Ave.
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MANHATTAN WEST SIDE ABOVE 23RD STREET
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W. 55th St. (S. Side)
Sixth Ave. (W.Side)
Eighth Ave. (E. Side)
Broadway (E. Side)
Eighth Ave. (W. Side)
Sixth Ave. (W. Side)
Broadway (E. Side)
Ninth Ave. (E. Side)
West 39th St. (S. Side)
Ninth Ave. (E. Side)
Tenth & Eleventh Aves.
W. 55th & 56th Sts.
W. 52nd & 53rd Sts.
W. 48th & 47th Sts.
W. 46th & 47th Sts.
W. 39th & 40th Sts.
W. 38th & 39th Sts.
W. 43rd & 42nd Sts.
W. 42nd & 41st Sts.
Eighth & Ninth Aves.
W. 30th & 29th Sts.
MANHATTAN BELOW 23RD STREET
Taxis
Taxis & FHVs
Taxis
Taxis & FHVs
Taxis & FHVs
Taxis
Taxis & FHVs
Taxis
Taxis & FHVs
Taxis & FHVs
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E. 23rd St.
Third Ave. (W. Side)
Third Ave. (W. Side)
Canal St. (N. Side)
Park Row (SE. Side)
Fulton St. (S. Side)
South St. (N. Side)
Water St. (W. Side)
Whitehall St. (W. Side)
Taxis
Taxis
N. Sixth St. (N. Side)
Fourth Ave. (W. Side)
Taxis & FHVs
Taxis
Taxis & FHVs
Taxis
Taxis & FHVs
Taxis
Taxis
Taxis
Taxis
Taxis & FHVs
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Taxis
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43rd Ave. (N. side)
44th Rd. (N. Side)
Hunterspoint Ave.
31st St. (W. Side)
43rd Ave.
34th St. (W. Side)
Skillman Ave.
Queens Blvd. (S. Side)
Queens Blvd.
45th Ave. (S. side)
Pearson St. (W. Side)
49th St.
55th St.
Van Dam St.
36th St.
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W. 22nd & 23rd Sts.
E. 14th & 15th Sts.
E. 15th & 14th Sts.
W.13th & 14th Sts.
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11th & 12th Sts.
21st & 11th Sts.
27th & 30th Sts.
34th & 35th Aves.
36th & 37th Sts.
37th & 38th Aves.
37th & 36th Sts.
50th & 51st Sts.
55th & 54th Sts.
Jackson Ave. & 23rd St.
Jackson Ave. & dead end
Newtown Rd & Northern Blvd.
Queens Blvd & Roosevelt Ave.
Queens Blvd & Skillman Ave.
Skillman & 43rd Aves.
Don’t risk a summons trying to find a Relief Stand on the list
that the TLC web site provides. Texting or searching on-line
while in your cab is against the law. Keep this list in your taxi
for future use!
My Solution
By Abe Mittleman
In New York City the number of
hours that taxi drivers have to drive to
earn an acceptable living along with
the availability of taxicab service during high demand times have been a
problem for both taxi drivers and the
general public for a very long time.
The solution to these problems seems
to have evaded the regulators of this
industry for many years Despite efforts to solve this problem, it seems
to go on and on. . But is this really a
complicated problem to solve?
There are 24 hours in a day. There
is demand for taxi service around the
clock, all of these 24 hours. Statistics show that the high point of the
demand is during the morning rush
and the evening rush hours. Drivers
for many years have been generally
working 12 hour shifts beginning at
4am to 6am and ending 12 hours later
at 4pm to 6 pm. The morning rush
hour is covered with this arrangement. However, the times of change
over 4pm to 6pm leaves a gap in
availability of service at the highest
demand time of the day.
So, I am proposing this idea for all
to think about: 9 or 10 hour shifts.
A shift can start at 4am-6am then
end at 1pm-3pm. The next shift can
start at 1pm-3pm then end at 10pmto1am. The over night hours from
12am- 4am when taxi service is still
needed but diminished could be available to drivers who only want to work
those hours. So, not only will the
evening rush be covered but all hours
will be covered, even during switch
times that would be staggered.
But, this wouldn’t work if a driver
can’t earn a decent living wage. Based
on the current fare structure. If a driver
switches hours from 12 to 9 hours the
earning potential is reduced by 25%. If
a driver switches hours from 12 to 10
hours the earning potential is reduced
by 16%. The average between the two
scenarios is 20.5%. Therefore a fare
increase of 20.5% should give incentive
for drivers to accept this change. And
still drivers can at times still work 12
hours if they needed to. But, the pressure
for a driver to work more than 9 or 10
hours will be greatly diminished.
Now, one may argue that there
are not enough drivers to do all this.
That may be true with the way things
are now. But, the ability to work less
hours and still earn decent money
will attract many new drivers to the
industry as well as bringing back
drivers that have left. I might even
renew my hack license that I retired
4 years ago afer 42 years!
I think this is worth considering ,
How about you?
You Be The Judge !
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in the right lane all driving about 30
CHARGES:
miles per hour. The taxi saw a man
2-21A reckless driving
on the right hand sidewalk hailing for
2-21B3xi improper passing
a cab. Without waiting for the traffic
2-21B3xii unsafe lane change
to pass and without signaling, the taxi
2-21Bvi fail to yield right of way
2-61A2 action against public interest raced diagonally across three lanes to
get the fare. He almost caused a three
car accident by being very greedy or
FINES:
2-21A $350-$1,000 and/or 30 day very careless or both.
susp 4 pts
DEFENSE:
2-21B3xi $250 3 pts
I did pick up that fare but there was
2-21B3xii $250 3 pts
no danger. There were no sounds of
2-21Bvi $250 3 pts
2-61A2 $150-$350 and/or 30 day brakes, no horns, nothing out of the
ordinary happened I don’t remember
susp 3 pts
the traffic from three months ago. Since
nothing happened, I apparently made a
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Algonquin Hotel
59 W 44th Street
between 5th & 6th Avenues
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69 W 38th Street
Best Western Hospitality House
145 E 49th Street
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31 W 71st Street between
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234 W 48th Street
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42 W 35th Street
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230 W 54th Street at Broadway
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40 W 40th Street
Amsterdam Inn Hotel
340 Amsterdam Avenue
at W 76th St.
Carlyle Hotel
35 E 76th Street
between Madison & 5th Avenues
Beacon Hotel
2130 Broadway at 75th Street
Carnegie Suites Hotel
229 W 58th Street
Belvedere Hotel
319 W 48th Street
Benjamin Hotel
125 E 50th Street at York Avenue
Bentley Hotel
500 E 62nd Street at York Avenue
Best Western
Convention Center Hotel
522 W 38th Street
Casablanca Hotel
147 W 43rd Street
Chelsea Hotel
222 W 23rd Street
Chelsea Savoy Hotel
204 W 23rd Street
Chelsea Star Hotel
300 W 30th Street at 8th Avenue
Comfort Inn Midtown Hotel
129 W 46th Street
Doubletree Times Square Hotel
1568 Broadway
between 47th & 48th Streets
Holiday Inn Midtown Hotel
440 W 57th Street
Edison Hotel
228 W 47th Street
Holiday Inn Wall Street Hotel
15 Gold Street at Platt Street
Elysee Hotel
60 E 54th Street
between Park & Madison Avenues
Hudson Hotel
356 W 58th Street
Between 8th & 9th Avenues
Embassy Suites Hotel
102 North End Ave.
World Financial Center, Manhattan
Inter-Continental Barclay Hotel
111 E 48th Street
between Lexington
Park Avenues
Fairfield Inn & Suites Chelsea116 W. 28th St
(near 6th Ave)
Iroquois Hotel
49 W 44th Street
Four Points Manhattan SoHo66 Charlton St.
(near Spring St)
JW Marriott Millennium
160 Central Park South
between 6th & 7th Avenues.
Fairfield Inn & Suites Times Square
330 W. 40th St
(near 9th Ave)
Kitano Hotel
66 Park Avenue at 37th Street
Comfort Inn New York Hotel
442 W 36th Street
between 10th & Dyer Avenues
Fairfield Inn & Suites Fifth Avenue
21 W. 37th St
La Quinta Manhattan Hotel
17 W 32nd Street
Courtyard Manhattan 5th Avenue
3 E 40th Street
Four Points Sheraton Chelsea Hotel
160 W. 25th Street
Le Parker Meridien Hotel
118 W 57th Street
Courtyard Midtown East Hotel
866 3rd Avenue
between 51st & 52nd Streets
Four Points Midtown Times Square
326 W. 40th St (near 9th Ave)
Lucerne Hotel
201 W 79th Street at
Amsterdam Avenue
Courtyard Times Square Hotel
114 W 40th Street
Crowne Plaza Times Square Hotel
1605 Broadway
Crowne Plaza UN Hotel
304 E 42nd Street
between 1st & 2nd Avenues
Four Seasons Hotel
57 E 57th Street
between Park & Madison Aves.
Flatotel International Hotel
135 W 52nd Street
Gramercy Park Hotel
2 Lexington Avenue at 21st Street
Grand Hyatt New York Hotel
Park Avenue & 42nd street
Grand Union Hotel
34 E 32nd Street
between Park & Madison Avenues
Manhattan Broadway Hotel
273 W 38th Street
Manhattan Seaport Suites Hotel
219 Front Street
between Pine & Wall Streets
Maritime Hotel
Marriott Financial Center Hotel
85 West Street
between Albany & Carlisle Streets
Marriott East Side Hotel
525 Lexington Avenue
between 48th & 49th Street
(Hampshire Hotel)
Quality Times Square Hotel
157 W 47th Street
Marriott Marquis Hotel
1535 Broadway at 44thStreet
Hampton Inn
Times Square Hotel
851 8th Avenue at 51st Street
Mayfair Hotel
242 W 49th Street
Hampton Inn SoHo
54 Watts St
(near Varick St)
Metro Hotel
45 W 35th Street
Helmsley Carlton House Hotel
680 Madison Ave
between 61st & 62nd Sts.
Doubletree Metropolitan Hotel
569 Lexington Avenue at 51st Street
Michelangelo Hotel
152 W 51st Street
Helmsley Middletowne Hotel
148 E 48th Street
between Lexington & Park Aves.
Helmsley Park Lane Hotel
36 Central Park South
Hilton Garden Inn Time Square
790 8th Avenue
Hilton New York Hotel
1335 6th Avenue
between 53rd & 54th Streets
Hilton Times Square Hotel
234 W 42nd Street
Holiday Inn
Downtown Hotel
138 Lafayette Street
between Howard & Canal Streets
Holiday Inn Martinique Hotel
Broadway & W 32nd Street
Milford Plaza Hotel
Millenium Hilton Hotel
55 Church Street
between Fulton & Day Streets
Millennium Broadway Hotel
145 W 44th Street
between 6th & 7th Aves
Millennium UN Plaza Hotel
1 United Nations Plaza
at 1st Avenue & 44th Street
Murray Hill East Suites Hotel
149 E 39th Street
Murray Hill Inn Hotel
143 E 30th Street
between Lexington & Park Avenues
Average Gas Prices
NYC ECONOMY
Employment
Private sector jobs in New York City rose by 26,400, following May’s decline
of 6,700. Government jobs in the city increased by 600, resulting in a net overall
increase of 27,000 jobs between May and June 2016.
Employment gains were led by the Educational Services sector, which saw
an overall increase of 14,200 jobs (note: this sector is historically erratic with
gains or losses fluctuating heavily with the seasons).
The Information sector, which lost 3,500 jobs largely due to the Verizon strike
the previous month, saw an increase of 5,700 jobs as striking workers returned
to work in June.
Other notable job increases were in the Accommodation and Food Services,
where 15,900 jobs were added since June 2015.
Private sector employment has risen by 98,500 jobs since June 2015, an
increase of 2.7% (compared to the national growth rate of 2.0%).
New York City’s unemployment rate fell to 5.0% in June 2016 from May’s
5.1%.
Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Mathematics in New York City
STEM refers to educational and professional fields in science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics. STEM is a key driver of innovation, and is vital
to New York City’s status as a leader in the global economy. STEM education
is on the rise in New York City, with 29,080 students enrolled in science and
engineering disciplines in 2015 (an increase of 13% from 2006). This growing
education pipeline is vital for expanding the City’s talent pool, as STEM employment typically requires a high level of education. For example, of the City’s
217,000 STEM workers, 36.4% hold a postgraduate degree and 81.9% hold at
least a bachelor’s degree.
As of August 4, 2016
New York
Regular
Mid
Premium
Diesel
Current
$2.473
$2.722
$2.901
$2.763
Week Ago
$2.494
$2.741
$2.926
$2.781
Month Ago
$2.555
$2.790
$2.984
$2.797
Year Ago
$2.993
$3.231
$3.406
$3.429
Construction
For the 12-months ending June 2016: The number of residential construction projects rose by 12.4% between the 12-months ending June 2016.
Despite a nearly 24.0% decline in non-building construction projects over
this time period, the total number of construction projects was up 6.5%.
In spite of growth in project numbers, both the value and square footage
of construction projects were down from last year’s June totals. Total new
building square footage was down 25.7%, while the corresponding value of
new projects was down 28.3%.
Transit Ridership
Total ridership on MTA subways, trains, and buses was 208.5 million in
May 2016, a decrease of 0.3% from May 2015. While subway ridership was
up 0.22% since last May, bus ridership declined 1.8% over this time period.
The MTA Long Island Railroad saw the greatest growth in ridership with
an increase of 3.0%.
Source: Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Air Traffic
In May 2016, 11.4 million passengers passed through the region’s airports,
an increase of 4.9% from May 2015. There were 79,805 domestic flights,
carrying nearly 7.5 million passengers in May 2016. This compares to the
25,144 international flights carrying nearly 4 million passengers in the same
month last year. There were over 700,000 taxis dispatched, 713,625 parked
cars, and 920,000 passengers riding the Air Train at the region’s airports.
Source: Port Authority of New York.
Broadway Ticket Sales
Total Broadway attendance was approximately 1,020,886 during the
four weeks ending July 17, 2016, up 1.9% from the same period last year.
Broadway revenues during this period were about $106.9 million, down
2.1% from last year.
Source: The Broadway League Note: Gross revenue and attendance figures
may not include all shows.
Hotel Occupancy
In April 2016, the average daily hotel room rate was $271, a 5.3% decrease
from April 2015. Hotel occupancy was 89% in April 2016, down from 91.3%
in April 2015. The average daily hotel room rate decreased the most in the
Midtown West submarket, falling 6.3% from last year.
Source: PKF Consulting.
Business Opportunities In NYC
Driving a NYC Taxi has allowed for drivers to make their Dreams a Reality. I know
of scored of former drivers who saved money from driving a yellow cab and opened
another business while leasing their medallions. That said, rom time to time, leasing
opportunities become available for City-owned properties. Find out about these opportunities in select commercial or industrial properties and retail or wholesale food
markets. For more information, please call NYCEDC at (212) 312-3603.
Essex Street Market Retail
Essex Street Market is meeting the ever-changing needs of the neighborhood and
the City as a whole, making it a premiere leasing opportunity and a great place to do
business.
La Marqueta Building 3
NYCEDC is redeveloping Building 3 at La Marqueta to provide three commercial kitchen spaces and eight walk-in cooler spaces for food manufacturers.
La Marqueta Retail and Production Space
Underutilized market space was recently converted and modernized, giving
way to added retail space as well as fully-equipped kitchen facilities.
Moore Street Market
Moore Street Market is one of Brooklyn’s oldest indoor markets serving East
Business
Political News
Mayor de Blasio finds loophole to spend campaign money on lawyers.
City politicians aren’t allowed to use their campaign cash to pay lawyers
representing them in criminal matters, but Mayor de Blasio has found a way
around this problem.
The mayor – now facing multiple investigations of his campaign fund-raising
tactics – is using an obscure loophole in campaign finance laws to pay the lawyers
defending him.
Mayor de Blasio lies again about info kept from investigators in Rivington
House probe.
Mayor Bill de Blasio denied Friday that his team withheld from investigators
a crucial memo about a Lower East Side nursing home that would up as condos
– but a document obtained by the Daily News shows that’s not true.
THE BOWERY PRESENTS
156 Ludlow St. 5th Floor, NYC 10002
212.260.4700 (p) / 212.780.9418 (f)
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Saturday, August 6
JULIETTE LEWIS
The New Regime
Brooklyn Bowl
61 Wythe Ave,
Brooklyn, NY
Doors 6pm / Show 8pm
Brooklyn Bowl
61 Wythe Ave,
Brooklyn, NY
Saturday, August 13
Summer Residency
GIGAMESH
Sammy Bananas
Brooklyn Bowl
61 Wythe Ave,
Brooklyn, NY
Doors 11pm / Show 11:30pm
BKLYN Army Terminal Space
BKLYN Army Terminal is the premier location for companies seeking to lease
commercial, light industrial, or back office space in NYC.
Brooklyn Wholesale Meat Market
Brooklyn Wholesale Meat Market, located in the Sunset Park neighborhood,
consists of wholesale companies, engaged in wholesale meat and poultry processing, fish, produce as well as distribution.
Bush Terminal Industrial
Campus Space
Bush Terminal Industrial Campus is located on the waterfront in the Sunset
Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York within the Southwest Brooklyn
Empire Zone.
Industrial, manufacturing and back-office spaces available for leasing in the
East New York Incubator Industrial Space in Brooklyn.
Staten Island Ferry Terminals Retail
In addition to providing a welcoming and state-of-the-art experience for travelers, the new Whitehall Terminal in Lower Manhattan and St. George Terminal
in Staten Island present an exceptional opportunity for retailers seeking a steady
and reliable stream of potential customers.
You Be The Judge !
Tuesday, September 13
A Residency With
TOBACCO (electronic set)
The Stargazer Lilies
Brooklyn Bowl
61 Wythe Ave,
Brooklyn, NY
Saturday, August 13
DONAVON FRANKENREITER
Unruly Mane
Brooklyn Bowl
61 Wythe Ave,
Brooklyn, NY
2724 Broadway
Located in the heart of Manhattan’s trendy Upper West Side neighborhood,
this ground floor retail opportunity is one block from the 103rd subway stop as
well as many city bus routes.
East New York Incubator
Industrial Space
Thursday, August 18
Fueled by Lagunitas
ALO
The Hip Abduction
Brooklyn Bowl
61 Wythe Ave,
Brooklyn, NY
Sunday, August 7
MAD DECENT BLOCK PARTY
MCU Park @ Coney Island
1904 Surf Ave,
Brooklyn, NY
Doors 1:30pm / Show 2pm
Williamsburg and the surrounding neighborhoods for close to 70 years.
Insider News
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I believe the complainant’s version of a dangerous driving incident. I believe
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at the wee hours of the morning. Guilty of 2-21A. Fine: $350 + 4 pts.
Wednesday, September 14
EOTO
Diamond Saints
Brooklyn Bowl
61 Wythe Ave,
Brooklyn, NY
Wednesday, August 17
JESSE BOYKINS III PRESENTS
BARTHOLOMEW
Manhattan Hotel List
Muse Hotel
130 W 46th Street
between 6th & 7th Aves.
Pennsylvania Hotel
401 7th Avenue
between 32nd & 33rd Streets
Palace Hotel
455 Madison Avenue
between 50th & 51st Streets
Pierre Hotel
2 E 61st Street at 5th Avenue
Novotel Hotel
226 W 52nd Street
Paramount Hotel
235 W 46th Street
Park Central Hotel
870 7th Avenue at 56th Street
Plaza Hotel
768 5th Avenue at Central Park South
Plaza Athenee Hotel
37 E 64th Street
Radio City Suites Hotel
142 W 49th Street
Park Savoy Hotel
158 E 58th Street
Radisson Lexington Hotel
511 Lexington Avenue at 49th Street
Ramada New Yorker Hotel
Peninsula Hotel
Renaissance Hotel
Regency Hotel
540 Park Avenue at 61st Street
45 Park Avenue at 37th Street
Sherry Netherland Hotel
TriBeCa Grand Hotel
2 6th Avenue
between White & Walker Streets
Roger Williams Hotel
131 Madison Avenue at 31st Street
Shoreham Hotel
33 W 55th Street
Trump International Hotel
1 Central Park West
at Columbus Circle
Roosevelt Hotel
45 E 45th Street at Madison Avenue
Skyline Hotel
725 Tenth Avenue at 49th Street
Salisbury Hotel
123 W 57th Street
Sofitel Hotel
45 W 44th Street
W Court Hotel
130 E 39th Street
between Lexington & Park Avenues
W New York Hotel
San Carlos Hotel
150 E 50th Street
SoHo Grand Hotel
310 W Broadway
between Canal & Grand Streets
Waldorf Astoria Hotel
301 Park Avenue
Sheraton Manhattan Hotel
790 Seventh Avenue
between 51st & 52nd Streets
Solita SoHo Hotel
159 Grand St
Warwick Hotel
St. Regis Hotel
2 E 55th Street at 5th Avenue
Westin NEw York Grand Central
212 E 42nd Street
between 2nd & 3rd Avenues
Roger Smith Hotel
Sheraton New York Hotel
811 Seventh Avenue
between 52nd & 53rd Streets
Sheraton Russell Hotel
Travel Inn Hotel
515 W 42nd Street
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97-77 Queens Blvd., Suite 1120
Rego Park, NY 11374
(212) 754-1011
Karen Friedman, Esq.
30 East 33rd Street • 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
(212) 213-2145
NYCDAC
34-11 Queens Blvd.
(718) 729-4700
Celeste Katz, Esq.
Law • DMV • Criminal TLC
[email protected]
(917) 548-9907
ACCIDENT ATTORNEYS
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(347) 472-5080
www.MSAINJURYLAW.com
ACCOUNTANTS
Action Tax Services
21-03 44th Avenue
LIC, NY 11101
(718) 932-3737
TOW TRUCK
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Call 718-926-0616
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BUY A TAXI CAB
Koeppel Nissan
74-15 Northern Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11372
(718) 898-7800
Hudson Toyota
599 Route 440
Jersey City, NY
(877) 422-0289
Lees Toyota
139-65 Queens Blvd.
Jamaica, NY 11435
(718)
Plaza Toyota
2721 Nostrand Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
(347) 554-6215
(347) 554-6000
MV-1
(877) 681-3678
LEASE A TAXI
All Taxi Management
41-25 36th Street
(718) 361-0055
TLC#202
LICENSED BROKERS TO
BUY MEDALLIONS
Briarwood Transfer Services LLC
@Melrose Credit Union Center
139-30 queens Blvd.
Briarwood, NY 11435
(718) 658-9800 ext. 1019
TLC# R0057
D&J Management of Queens
34-14 64th Street
Woodside, NY 11377
(718) 458-6609
TLC#236
Chelsea Taxi Brokers
287 10th Avenue
NY, NY
(212) 947-9833
(212) 695-0601
TLC#R0004
Eddie’s Management
40-08 24th Street
LIC, NY 11101
(718) 707-0072
TLC#A0280
Jericho Taxi Brokers
(718) 392-7000
TLC#R0001
JTL Management
(718) 392-7000
TLC#213
LOMTO Generation Brokerage
New York, NY 10036
(212) 582-5721
TLC#R0018
McGuinness Management
330 McGuinness Blvd.
Brooklyn, NY 11222
(718) 349-8448
TLC#A0259
Mystic Brokerage Inc.
Brooklyn, NY 11222
(718) 349-7610
TLC#R0050
On Our Way Management Corp.
6814 5th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11220
(718) 833-8125
TLC# A0249
Pearland Transfer Corp.
36-01 43rd Avenue
LIC, NY 11101
(718) 361-0033
TLC#R0020
S & R Medallion
New York, NY 10019
(212) 957-9200
TLC# A0224
Westway Medallion Sales
657 Tenth Avenue
NY, NY 10036
(212) 977-4590
TLC#R0039
Woodside, NY 11377
(718) 779-5000
TLC#307
Friendly Group Ltd.
287 10th Avenue
New York, NY 10001
(212) 947-9833
34-14 31st Street
LIC, NY 11101
(718) 361-6363
TLC#A0308
Winners Garage
34-14 64th Street
Woodside, NY 11377
(718) 458-7000
TLC#110
INSURANCE
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Hereford Insurance Company
36-01 43rd Avenue
(718) 361-9191
LOANS/FINANCING
All Boro Funding, LLC
Brooklyn, NY 11222
(718) 349-8448
Bay Ridge Federal Credit Union
1750 86th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11214
(718) 680-2121
LOMTO
Federal Credit Union
Woodside, New York 11377
(212) 947-3380
Melrose Credit Union
Briarwood, NY 11435
(718) 658-9800
Rapid Funding
657 Tenth Avenue
NY, NY 10036
(212) 977-4083
TLC FACILITIES
TLC Headquarters
33 Beaver Street,
NY, NY 10006
(212) 676-10003
Licensing and Adjudications
LIC, NY 11101
(212) 852-4636
Uniformed Services Bureau
24-55 BQE West
Woodside, NY 11377
(718) 267-4555
TAXI TECHNOLOGY
VeriFone Transportation Systems
(d/b/a Taxitronic)
37-01 21st Street
LIC, NY 11106
(718) 752-1656
CMT
(Creative Mobile Technologies)
11-51 47th Avenue
(718) 349-7700
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4 Court Square • 2nd Floor
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Movie Guide For New York City
Sunday, August 7
“Rocky Business” (Habana Outpost Events): Habana Outpost 757 Fulton
Street, Fort Greene - 8 p.m.
Monday, August 8
“High Plains Drifter” (Bryant Park Summer Film Festival): Bryant Park Lawn,
42nd Street - 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Tuesday, August 9
“Reservoir Dogs” (Red Hook Flicks): Valentino Park and Pier
8:30 p.m. or as soon as it’s dark enough
“My Blind Brother” (LOFT’s The LOL Movie Series), Solar One at the pier,
23rd Street and FDR, Peter Cooper Village - 7:45 p.m.
Audience selection (SummerScreen): McCarren Park, Williamsburg
Sundown
Audience vote: “Mary and Max” vs. “Carol” vs. “The Warriors” (Summer on
the Hudson): Pier I, Riverside Park South, Upper West
Seating starts at 6:30 p.m.; screening begins at dusk around 8:30 p.m.
“Suzhou River”: International Film Festival at Socrates Sculpture Park, Astoria
Pre-screening performance at 7 p.m.; film screening at sundown
Thursday, August 11
“Selma” (Movies with a View): Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park, DUMBO - 6
p.m.
“August Rush”: LIC Landing and Hunters Point South Park, Long Island
City - Sundown
“Grease”: (Summer in the Square): Union Square Park, North Plaza (17 Street
and Union Square East) - Film begins at dusk
Sunday, August 14
“The Land Before Time” (FMCP Movie Night): Lawrence Playground, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Corona - 8 p.m.
“The Good Dinosaur” (Outdoor Movie Night): Randall’s Island Connector,
Randall’s Island Park - 8 p.m.
“Viva Las Vegas” (Habana Outpost Events): Habana Outpost 757 Fulton
Monday, August 15
“The Big Chill” (Bryant Park Summer Film Festival): Bryant Park Lawn,
42nd Street - 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Tuesday, August 16
“Pitch Perfect” (Red Hook Flicks): Valentino Park and Pier, Red Hook
“Auntie Mame” (Summer on the Hudson): Pier I, Riverside Park South, Upper West Side
Seating starts at 6:30 p.m.; screening begins at dusk around 8:30 p.m.
“Aguirre, the Wrath of God”: International Film Festival at Socrates Sculpture
Park, Astoria
Pre-screening performance begins at 7 p.m.; film screening at sundown
Thursday, August 18
“A League of Their Own” (Movies with a View): Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge
Park, DUMBO - 6 p.m.
Saturday, August 20
“Rooftop Shots: Closing Night Shorts” (Rooftop Films): Industry City, Sunset
Park - Doors open at 8 p.m.
Monday, August 21
“Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” (Bryant Park Summer Film Festival): Bryant Park Lawn, 42nd Street - 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.
“The Last Dragon” (Habana Outpost Events): Habana Outpost 757 Fulton
Tuesday, August 23
“Norm of the North” (FMCP Movie Night): 111th Street Parking Lot, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Corona - 8 p.m.
“Labyrinth” (Red Hook Flicks): Valentino Park and Pier, Red Hook
“Embrace of the Serpent”: International Film Festival at Socrates Sculpture
Park, Astoria
Pre-screening performance at 7 p.m.; film screening at sundown
NYC
Thursday, August 25
Screening choice to be selected by public vote (Movies with a View): Pier 1,
Brooklyn Bridge Park, DUMBO - 6 p.m.
“Zootopia”: LIC Landing at Hunters Point South Park, Hunts Point
Sundown
Sunday, August 28
“Inside Out” (Outdoor Movie Night): Touchdown of the 103rd Street Footbridge, Randall’s Island Park - 8 p.m.
“House Party” (Habana Outpost Events): Habana Outpost 757 Fulton Street,
Fort Greene - 8 p.m.
Tuesday, August 30
“Aliens” (Red Hook Flicks): Valentino Park and Pier, Red Hook
Thursday, September 8
“Girlhood” (Films on the Green): Columbia University, Morningside Heights
- 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, September 16
“Ghost”: LIC Landing at Hunters Point South Park, Hunts Point, Long Island
City - Sundown
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Upcoming Events Around Town
Harlem Week
(July 31st - August 27th)
Harlem is one NYC neighborhood with a rich cultural history, and even a
month-long celebration doesn’t cover it all. Throughout August, Harlem is offering a jam-packed schedule of more than 100 events, which includes a gospel
showcase, fashion show, auto show, free gallery tours, outdoor film screenings, a
small-business expo, and more. With activities fit for any age and attendees from
around the world, this celebration is sure to highlight this incredible neighborhood’s continued accomplishments.
Tap+Cork Brooklyn Beer & Wine Fest
(August 4th - 6th)
NYC Island Hopping
Move over, Manhattan. The 13-mile long island may be the city’s most
famous (and populated), but with dozens of tiny islands littering NYC’s
waters, it’s certainly not alone. Most of these are owned by the government
and kept as bird sanctuaries to protect the local wildlife, but a handful are
open to the public—and accessible by public transit.
City Island
With its perfect combination of boutiques, restaurants, and scenic
strolls, City Island makes a great date night or daytime getaway. You can
even get a 2-for-1 island deal by crossing over to High Island; at low tide,
the two isles are connected by sandbar.
Roosevelt Island
Taste your way through more than 30 brews and 25 wines (all on tap) at this
annual event in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The celebration begins on August 4th, with
two days of free parties to kick off the festivities. The main event on August 6th
offers six hours of sampling various craft beers and wine, snacks from dozens of
local vendors, plus live music performances and guest DJs. Admission comes
with 15 sample tastings and a commemorative sampling cup, and additional sets
of tasting tickets can be purchased for $5 once you get there.
Restoration Plaza - 1368 Fulton Street, Bed-Stuy
Getting to Roosevelt Island is as easy as swiping your MetroCard. But
instead of a sweaty underground slog, prepare yourself for a scenic, romantic
tram ride over the East River. The island is only two miles long, so you can
easily stroll from The Octagon at its northern tip to Four Freedoms Park
in the south in your summer sandals—no walking shoes required. On the
way, stop by Main Street Sweets for a cold scoop and Island Shakespeare
for an outdoor show in the beautiful Eastwood Amphitheatre.
Summer Streets
(August 6th, 13th & 20th)
Take a free ferry from Manhattan to this scenic little spot, home to
festivals like Pig Island, 4Heads, and Fête Paradiso. When the circus isn’t
in town, the island makes the perfect place for a relaxing picnic—sans
wicker basket, thanks to the tasty dishes served up at the Liggett Terrace
Food Court.
After the 2015 turnout of more than 300,000 participants, Summer Streets is
returning to Manhattan. For three Saturdays this month (between 7AM and 1PM),
almost seven miles of city streets from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park will
be free of cars and open to runners, walkers, cyclists, and rollerbladers. What else
can you look forward to aside from a car-free road? How about a 300-foot-long
inflatable slide, plus a zip line, hammocks, and fitness classes?
LIC Block Party
(August 2oth)
Come one, come all to Long Island City’s SculptureCenter, which, along with
the full length of Sculpture Street, will be transformed into a block party later
this month. Spend the afternoon enjoying live dance performances and DJ sets,
art activities for all ages, and even an Artists’ Market. Try your hand at one of
the creative activities being offered like donut-making, coffee ground readings,
balloon twisting and creating mixed media sculptures, and be sure to visit the
social media photo booth.
SculptureCenter - 44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City
Brooklyn Comedy Festival
(August 21st - 28th)
Sit back and laugh your way through Brooklyn during this fourth annual comedy festival, featuring a diverse mix of known and up-and-coming comedians.
Created to celebrate comedy and give newcomers the opportunity to perform in
numerous Brooklyn venues, this eight-day festival features special editions of
the borough’s comedy staples (like Night Train at Littlefield), a charity event, a
rooftop show in Williamsburg, daytime panels, shows from IFC Comedy Road
Tour, and even a children’s festival.
August Bus Tours
Hop on the Pizza Bus for Outer
Borough Adventure
Our big yellow school bus leaves
Manhattan to explore at least one of
the outer boroughs. Our stops rotate
weekly, but always include a variety
of styles and locations fit for the
serious pizza adventurer. This tour
covers the most ground and tackles
more slices than any other on our
public schedule. Tours are already
scheduled through June 2017, but
here’s a look at where we’re going
this month.
August 7 - Manhattan + Queens
Adventure. Excitement. A pizza
lover craves BOTH these things!
August 14 - Tri-Borough Pizza
Bonanza
Let’s make use of the open roads
and hit three different boroughs while
all the New Yorkers are chillaxing in
the Hamptons.
August 21 - Manhattan + Brooklyn
It’s my mom’s birthday! Bring a
birthday card for her and I’ll give you
an extra slice.
August 28 - Manhattan + the
Bronx
The only time the bus has ever taken
off without the whole group was on a
Bronx trip. Just letting you know.
Walking Tours
Walk the Path of Pizza History
*Crosstown Pizza Walk - Mon, Fri,
Sat @ 11am
The history of pizza in NYC as
Governors Island
Canarsie Pol
Also known as Small Marshland Island, this miniscule patch of land
is accessible by kayak. Rent a boat from Canarsie Pier and trek out alone
or on one of many ranger-led paddle trips. Just be sure not to disturb the
birds, the islands only inhabitants.
Randall’s Island
While it may be best known as home to some of New York’s biggest
(and rowdiest) music festivals, Randall’s Island offers family-friendly fun
all summer long. Come visit the Urban Farm on one of their Exploration
Days for a peek at the world of sustainable city agriculture, stroll through
the island’s scenic themed gardens, or walk along the East River enjoying
the yearly FLOW art installation, open all summer long.
Broad Channel
Formally known as Rulers Bar Hassock, this Queens neighborhood
boasts one of the prettiest—and longest—subway rides in all five boroughs. Hop off the A train and straight to Smitty’s Fishing Station to rent
a boat and line, or visit Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge to wander through
the wilderness. Once you’ve worked up an appetite, be sure to swing by
All American Bagel for a bite.
Brooklyn has loads of great
pizza! We’re concentrating on Cobble
Hill every Saturday afternoon and
Williamsburg Thursday afternoon &
Saturday evening.
Private Tours
told through three pizzerias in Soho and
Greenwich Village.
*Greenwich Village Pizza Walk Thurs + Sun @ 11:15am
The global history of pizza as told
through three pizzerias in Greenwich
Village and Soho.
*LES / East Village Pizza Walk - Sun
@ 4:30pm
Pizza hot spots in the Lower East
Side and East Village. Super popular
with New Yorkers.
*Brooklyn Pizza Walk - Sat @
11:45am in Downtown Brooklyn, Sat
@ 5pm in Williamsburg, Thurs @ noon
in Williamsburg
Create Your Own Custom Pizza
Journey.
• Flexible start times available
• Tour by bus or on foot
• DELUXE option includes wine
pairings
• SUPREME option includes
wine pairings, salads, appetizers, and
MORE!
• All group sizes welcome
Check out Tours @ https://www.
zerve.com/PizzaTours/Bus/calendar
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DUBAI
Drivers Must Pass English Test
Prospective taxi drivers must now pass a series of psychometric and
English-language assessments to work in the emirate as part of a new program introduced in advance of Dubai Expo 2020.
The Roads and Transport Authority said it expects about 5,000 prospective drivers each year to sit the Test of English for International Communi-
cation (TOEIC) Bridge, a one-hour
multiple-choice exam consisting of
50 listening and 50 reading questions.
The language testing is needed to
ensure that the drivers’ English skills
are proficient enough to allow them
to properly communicate with their
customers, according to the RTA.
The drivers’ English language
skills are being tested even before
they arrive in Dubai, said Rula Dajani,
country director for Amideast, which
administers the assessments on behalf
of the RTA.
“If they need to hire drivers from
India, they are being tested there –
India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Kenya,
Uganda, Nepal. So they are being
tested over there and, if they pass,
then they provide them with a resident
visa,” said Ms Dajani.
Amideast also issues a psychometric assessment to prospective
drivers to ensure they have the right
professional attributes to work as a
taxi driver.
“They do something called the
WorkFORCE Assessment for Job Fit,”
said Ms Dajani, who added that the
UAE is the first country in the region
to use the assessment. “It’s a psychometric but it analyses six attributes of
behaviours for a taxi driver.”
Spain
Madrid To Get
World’s Largest
Electric Taxi Fleet
Of Nissan Leafs
Choose Your Car
Defensive Driving Class
Available Free
The Nissan Leaf is not only the world’s
best-selling electric car, but also probably
the world’s most popular electric taxi.
Leaf taxis operate in several European
countries, enduring the same demanding
conditions as gasoline, diesel, and hybrid
cabs.
One of those countries is Spain, and
it’s about to get a whole lot more Leaf
taxis. At the 2016 Madrid Motor Show,
Nissan and taxi company Ciudad del Taxi
announced an order of 110 Leaf taxis for
service in the Spanish capital.
This is the largest fleet order for electric taxis so far, according to Nissan. It
will also put Madrid in contention with
Amsterdam—which has around 100 Leaf
taxis in operation—for the world’s largest
fleet of the vehicles.
All of the Leafs in the Madrid order
have the larger 30-kilowatt-hour battery
pack that was introduced for the 2016
model year.
Spain is already one of the largest
markets for Nissan electric taxis, along
with The Netherlands and the U.K. In
addition to the Leaf, Nissan sells a taxi
version of the e-NV200 electric van.
That model is actually built in Spain,
at Nissan’s Barcelona plant. The internalcombustion version of the e-NV200—
just called NV200—is New York City’s
standardized taxi.
Nissan has demonstrated Leaf taxis
in the U.S. before, but there has been no
large-scale attempt to deploy them here.
New York studied electrification under
the administration of previous mayor
Michael Bloomberg, but the effort seems
to have lost traction under current mayor
Bill De Blasio.
Elsewhere, Nissan claims to have sold
more than 800 Leaf and e-NV200 taxis,
most of which operate in Europe. Taxi
Hochelaga said last year that it would
deploy 2,000 electric taxis in Montreal
by 2019.
If owners follow through with those
plans, that would likely give the Canadian
city the world’s largest electric-taxi fleet.
Given its popularity elsewhere, it wouldn’t
be surprising with the Leaf made up a
large portion of that fleet.
In Canada, a Montreal taxi company
has also discussed adding a fleet of electric cars.
Events For You and Your Passengers in The Big Apple
Broadway Shows
Off Broadway Shows
ALADDIN
New Amsterdam Theatre
LES MISERABLES
Imperial Theatre
AVENUE Q
New World Stages
AN ACT OF GOD
The Booth Theatre
LONG DAY’S JOURNEY
INTO NIGHT
American Airlines Theatre
BLACK ANGELS OVER
TUSKEGEE
Actors Temple Theatre
LOVE. LOVE. LOVE
Laura Pels Theatre
BLUE MAN GROUP
Astor Plae Theatre
424 Lafayette Street
MATILDA
THE MUSICAL
Shubert Theater
CAGNEY
Westside Theatre
407 West 43rd Street
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Palace Theatre
1564 Broadway
BEAUTIFUL
THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL
Stephen Sondheim Theatre
BLACKBIRD
Belasco Theatre
BRIGHT STAR
Cort Theatre
CATS
Neil Simon Theatre
CHICAGO
Ambassador Theatre
CIRQUE DU SOLEIL
PARAMOUR
Lyric Theatre
DEAR EVAN HANSON
Belasco Theatre
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Broadway Theatre
1681 Broadway
FINDING NEVERLAND
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
FUN HOME
Circle in the Square Theatre
West 50th Street
HAMILTON
Richard Rodgers Theatre
226 West 46th Stret
HOLIDAY INN
Studio 54
JERSEY BOYS
August Wilson Theater
KINKY BOOTS
Al Hirshfield Theater
NAPOLI, BROOKLYN
Laura Pels Theatre
NATASHA, PIERRE AND THE
GREAT COMET OF 1812
Imperial Theatre
ON YOUR FEET!
THE STORY OF EMILIO AND
GLORIA ESTEFAN
Marquis Theatre
1535 Broadway
DRUNK SHAKESPEARE
The Lounge at Roy Arias Theatre
FUERZA BRUTA
The Daryl Roth Theatre
GAZILLION BUBBLE SHOW
New World Stages
HIMSELF AND NORA
Minetta Lane Theatre
18 Minetta Lane
SCHOOL OF ROCK
Winter Garden Theatre
1634 Broadway
IT’S JUST SEX
Actors Temple Theatre
SHE LOVES ME
Studio 54
MONDAY NIGHT MAGIC
Theatre 80
80 Saint Marks Place
SHUFFLE ALONG, or THE
MAKING OF THE MUSICAL
SENSATION OF 1921 AND ALL
THAT FOLLOWED
Music Box Theatre
MY BIG GAY ITALIAN FUNERAL
St. Luke’s Theatre
SOMETHING ROTTEN
St. James Theatre
THE BOOK OF MORMON
Eugene O’Neil Theatre
THE CHERRY ORCHARD
THE COLOR PURPLE
Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
THE CRUCIBLE
Walter Kerr Theatre
MY BIG GAY ITALIAN WEDDING
MY SON THE WAITER:
A JEWISH TRAGEDY
Stage 72 at The Triad Theatre
NAKED BOYS SINGING
Kirk Theatre
NEWSical
Kirk Theatre
PERFECT CRIME
Snapple Theatre Center
RUTHLESS
SAM EATON’S
THE QUANTUM EYE
MENTALISM & MAGIC SHOW
Theatre 80
80 St. Marks Place
SEX TIPS FOR STRAIGHT
WOMEN FROM A GAY MAN
The 777 Theatre
777 Eighth Avenue
SHEAR MADNESS
New World Stages
SISTAS: THE MUSICAL
St. Lukes Theatre
STOMP
Orpheum Theatre
126 Second Avenue
THE BERENSTAIN BEARS
The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theatre
5 West 63rd Street
THE FANTASTICKS
Snapple Theater Center
THE JACKIE MASON MUSICAL
THE LION, THE WITCH AND
THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM
Laura Pels Theatre
111 W 46th Street
THE MARVELOUS
WONDERETTES
Kirk Theatre
THE VERY HUNGRY
CATERPILLAR SHOW
Acorn Theatre
THE WONDERFUL WIZARD
OF SONG: THE MUSIC OF
HAROLD ARLEN
June Book Signings
Museums along Museum Mile
El Museo del Barrio at 104th Street
Museum of the City of New York at 103rd Street
Jewish Museum at 92nd Street
Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design at 91st Street
National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts at 89th Street
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum at 88th Street
Metropolitan Museum of Art from 82nd to 86th Streets
Goethe House German Cultural Center at 82nd Street
Other Museums
Asa Akira, adult film star,
signing copies of Dirty Thirty
8/8/16 6:00 PM at Barnes & Noble
Union Square. New York, NY
Kiefer Sutherland, star of “24”,
signing copies of Down In A Hole
Union Square. New York, NY.
Amy Schumer, star of “Trainwreck”,
signing copies of The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo
Union Square. New York, NY.
8/17/16 7:00 PM at WORD
Newark Avenue. Jersey City, NJ.
8/18/16 7:00 PM at Book Revue
New York Avenue. Huntington, NY.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,NBA Hall of Famer,
signing copies of Writings On the Wall
Union Square. New York, NY
James “Slim Jim Phantom” McDonnel, drummer for The Stray Cats,
signing copies of A Stray Cat Struts
8/23/16 6:00 PM at BookEnds
East Ridgewood Avenue. Ridgewood, NJ.
8/24/17 7:00 PM at Book Revue
New York Avenue. Huntington, NY.
Jamie Lee Curtis, film and TV star,
signing copies of This Is Me
9/19/16 7:00 PM at BookEnds
East Ridgewood Avenue. Ridgewood, NJ.
Left to right- Abraham, Arthur and Ely Bangiyev. The Bangiyev family has been in
the yellow taxi industry in NY since 1991 and in Russia for 49 years.
The Museum of American Finance, the nation’s only independent public ...
Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall Street
African Burial Ground - corners of Duane and Elk Streets
American Folk Art Museum 45 W. 53rd St.
American Museum of Natural History 77th St Central Park West
Children’s Museum of the Arts 250 Lafayette St # A,
Children’s Museum of the Arts
Free Art Island Outpost Program at Governors Island
Harbor Defense Museum - 230 Sheridan Loop, Brooklyn
Italian American Museum-155 Mulberry St
Kehila Kedosha Jania Museum-280 Broome St
Luxce Project 53 Stanton St
The Morgan Library and Museum-225 Madison Ave.
Museum of Chinese In America-211 Centre St
Museum of Jewish Heritage- Holocaust
Edmond J. Safra Plaza - 36 Battery Place
Museum at FIT-Seventh Ave.
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W 53rd St
Museum of Modern Art Design-81 Spring St # A
National Museum of the American Indian
Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, 1 Bowling Green
New Museum of Contemporary Art-235 Bowery
New World Art Ctr-250 Lafayette St # 5
New York City Police Museum-100 Old Slip
Poets House - Ten River Terrace
Queens Museum of Art-49th Ave. and 111th St.
Rubin Museum of Art-150 West 17th Street
Skyscraper Museum - 39 Battery Place
South Street Seaport Museum - 12 Fulton Street
The Tenement Museum-108 Orchard St
Whitney Museum of American Art-945 Madison Ave
Broadway Shows
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT
OF THE DOG IN
THE NIGHT-TIME
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
THE LION KING
Minskoff Theatre
THE ENCOUNTER
Golden Theatre
THE PHANTOM OF
THE OPERA
Majestic Theatre
THE HUMANS
Helen Hayes Theatre
THE PRICE
THE ILLUSTIONIST
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
WAITRESS
Brooks Atkinson Theatre
256 West 47th Steet
THE KING AND I
Lincoln Center
70 Lincoln Center Plaza
WICKED
Gershwin Theater
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