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JULY 2010
NOVEMBER
2014 •• TAXI
TAXI INSIDER
INSIDER •• PAGE
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INSIDER
VOL. 15, NO. 11
“The Voice of the NYC Transportation Industry.” NOVEMBER 2014
Letters
Start on Page 3
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Insider News
Page 5
•
Updated Relief Stands
Page 6
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Taxi Attorney
By Michael Spevack
Page 7
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How I Became A Star
By Abe Mittleman
Page 15
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Street Talk
By Erhan Tuncel
Page 17
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Quotable Quotes
Page 19
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About Your Taxes
By Robert J. Mackle
Page 19
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IATR Release
By Matthew W. Daus
Page 21
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Economy
Page 27 & 34
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Hotel Listing
Page 28 and 30
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Insider Directory
Page 32
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Events and More
Start on Page 29
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Around The World
Page 46
EDITORIAL
By David Pollack
Taxi Drivers and Ebola
Thankfully there is a radio show where you can
get first hand information needed to answer any of
your questions whether industry related or even
health related.
Before we get into Ebola, TLC Chairwoman Joshi stated that the TLC will
be sending out warning letters to drivers
instead of summonses for a red light
camera offense. “Vision Zero is not
about penalties,” she stated. To hear this
and much more, listen to this link: http://
www.wor710.com/media/podcast-thetaxi-dave-show-TaxiInsider/the-taxi-daveshow-102614-25479519/
Folks, if you want first hand information, every Sunday evening at 8:00
PM listen to WOR-710 radio to TAXI DAVE. The
Commissioner of the DOT, Polly Trottenberg is our
guest this Sunday November 2nd. You can call or
email this live show.
Worried about contracting the Ebola virus, taxi
driver Avner called Taxi Dave’s radio show and asked
if it was ok to pick up from the JFK Terminal where
passengers arrive from Africa. So this past Sunday
Taxi Dave (that’s me!) not only had the Chairwoman
of the TLC, Meera Joshi discuss fears of the Ebola
virus, but I had Dr. Jay Varma, a spokesperson from
the NYC Department of Health answering all questions that drivers brought to “Taxi Dave’s”
attention. How does Ebola spread? What
is the best means of prevention and protection?
Chairwoman Joshi stated, “Thank you
for reaching out to the Department of
Health. The myth of how Ebola spreads is
spreading incredibly faster than the actual
disease ever could. It is really important to
separate facts from fiction and the Department of Health has been doing an amazing
job in getting that message out there and
reaching out. The spokesperson on your show is a
tremendous idea.”
“We are coordinating with the Port Authority and
with the Department of Health to make visits to JFK
and LaGuardia this week, where we here we can
have some information booths, some regular health
screening, and to get the plain facts out there on how
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Summonses
STOPPED AT, at 148th Street. He pulled me over and
gave me a summons for not stopping. I asked him how
far away he thought he was from the stop sign and he
responded the same as always, 50 yards. I measured
the distance that the officer observed me at 147 yards
away, definitely enough to impair his ability for a clear
observation.
Recently at 10:00 AM, I was turning onto 7th
Avenue from 35th Street. I waited in the left lane on
35th Street until I could turn left legally. When I finally
turned onto 7th Avenue, the vehicle in front of me was
stopped as the traffic light changed. So I went around
the car in front of me and that is when a police officer
waved me over to tell me that I did nothing wrong,
but he wanted my driver’s license. I asked him why,
and he stated that he saw me in the left lane on 35th
Street and that I turned onto 7th Avenue LEGALLY.
But when the officer returned from his car he gave me
two summonses: One for improper turn and one for
failing to yield to a pedestrian! He did this without
saying one word.
I especially feel sorry for new immigrants just beginning.We cannot be slaves any more. I now understand
why drivers do not prefer driving yellow cabs.
Youssef M. Ibrahim
See more drivers starting on page 2.
Dear Taxi Dave,
I have been driving since 1984 and it is unbelievable
what is going on with summonses in today’s driving
environment in New York city. Until very recently, it
was a rarity for me to ever get a summons. I have a
pilot’s license and I am an electrical engineer. I can
judge distances extremely well as I use this skill as a
pilot. A Port Authority police officer was about 150
yards away from a stop sign THAT I DEFINITELY
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Publisher &
Editor-in-Chief
LETTERS
More Info TLC!
NYP Targeting
Yellow Cabs
David Pollack
Columnists
Matthew Daus, Esq.
Tony Falese
Larry Fisher
Ira Goldstein, Esq.
Bob Mackle
Abe Mittleman
Alan Plafka
Michael Spevack, Esq.
Mark Twain
Layout & Graphics
Dragonfly Graphics LLC
Dear Taxi Dave,
I agree with all the regulatory changes made in
the taxi industry. I wish the TLC would have more
information about rules on their website. And another thing, many drivers do not have computers so
the TLC should have a newspaper to give drivers
information.
Atalanta Abdullah
Driver 25 years
TLC
It’s Not Our Problem
Taxi Insider
Dear Taxi Dave,
I have been driving for 14 years and I have never
seen NYPD target yellow cabs like they are today.
When you look at every police car that has stopped
a vehicle, 80% are yellow cabs. I was turning by
Junction Blvd by the Sears Mall on Queens Blvd.
and turned through a clear crosswalk. A police officer was writing a ticket to another vehicle to my
right. On the next block, that officer drove behind
me and gave me a summons for failing to yield to
a pedestrian, a complete lie. He never even looked
at the empty crosswalk. I know how to drive safely
because this license is my living. If I lose it I am not
trained to do anything else. I pay about 20-25% of
my money for TLC, DMV, parking tickets and taxi
related expenses.
Parvez M. Essani
Driving 14 Years without a problem till recently
Fare Stealing
14 Alexander Drive
Washingtonville, NY 10992
Phone: (718) 706-TAXI(8294)
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Dear Taxi Dave,
My father had Parkinson’s Disease which naturally deteriorated his body and ultimately he could
not move. I was with him most days for two years
lifting him, doing his cleaning etc. This was the
documented reason I could not drive 180 shifts over
a two year period. I spoke with officials at the TLC
who did not want to hear my problems. The TLC
would not negotiate the $6,000 and $7,000 settlement
letter amounts.
Terence Canahan
Driver
Dear Taxi Dave,
Although I believe the fare structure is good from
an owner operator point of view, there are a few things
the Taxi Commission needs to know. Town cars and
UBER cars are stealing our fares. On any given day
one can see this from 2:30 - 8:15 PM on 5th Avenue.
I also see town cars with license plates from Carolina,
New Jersey and private plates getting Out-Of-Town
and airport fares from doormen at many hotels. Green
TAXI DAVE’S RADIO SHOW
WOR-710AM
8:00 – 9:00 PM
EVERY SUNDAY!
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taxis with their roof-lights off are constantly soliciting fares with their roof-lights off and their windows
down, below 96th Street.
Finally, I used to average driving between 100 110 miles every day. NOW I average only 70 miles
driven each day. You simply cannot move anywhere
with this traffic.
Michael Chan
Taxi Driver for 28 years
Illegal Advertisements
Dear Taxi Dave,
As a Yellow Cab Driver I always come to JFK to
drop or pickup passengers. But on October, 20th, 2014
the Monday morning I came to Terminal 4 to pickup my
wife. But when I saw the following ad just in front of
the welcome center and ground transportation counter it
really hurt me by thinking that how it’s possible to hang
an ad like this which is totally lie.
Anwar
Avoided Robbery
Taxi Damage Instead
Bronx River Parkway, where I noticed a group of about
15 teenagers. Half of them held large rocks or stones
and the other half held antennas. I had that feeling that
something would happen so I locked my doors and
closed my windows. As I approached one teenager asked
me to open the window. At this point I felt extremely
threatened. All I could think about was my three children
and my wife as all of the teens started punching my cab
and hitting my cab with the antennas. I pulled away and
they threw those stones at me, smashing the entire rear
windshield and making dents on the body of my cab. I
called the police, but in the 8 minutes it took the NYPD
to get to me, the teenagers had already left the area.
Subeg Singh
Proud Driver for 11 Years
You’re Right The City
Is Shrinking
Dear Taxi Dave,
On October 28th I picked up a fare at JFK Airport
that took me to 232nd Street and White Plains Road.
After I dropped off the passenger, I was approaching
230th Street and Carpenter Avenue in order to go to the
Dear Taxi Dave,
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Street has been changed from 4 lanes of traffic to one
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Insider News
Muni-Meters Changing Times
By David Pollack
In case you did not know, muni- city over the coming months to accept
meters will NOT accept any money payments an hour before they go into
until they actually go into service for service.
Hikind said when you deposit
the day. “The meter is there. It doesn’t
work until 9 o’clock,” Assemblyman money an hour early, your clock won’t
Dov Hikind. “You’re in your car at start ticking until the meter goes into
8:30 parked at the meter. You can’t do effect.
“This makes life very, very simple,
anything.” Hikind said the city’s Department of Transportation has agreed and it’s sort of a no-brainer,” Hikind
to reprogram every muni-meter in the said. “It makes sense.”
25 MPH Press Conference
Article and Photo By David Pollack
UPDATE
WC Insurance in the
Taxi / Livery Industry
By Alan Plafker, PRESIDENT & CEO Member Brokerage Service LLC
A Melrose Credit Union Service Organization
One year ago, I wrote an article
The “Outer Boro Street Hail” Taxi
about the Workers Compensation and is a new license that was recently
Disability Benefits Law as it applies approved despite much controversy,
to the TLC Licensees. At that time, and presents more challenges to WC
the “Boro Taxis” were just beginning compliance because licensees must
to operate and a lot has evolved since be affiliated with a dispatch base and
then including many types of vehicles drivers can now also do non-dispatched
trying to operate within the NYC mar- street hails. This Dual use complicates
ketplace.
the definition to determine if, how, and
Beginning this month, the TLC has when a driver is subject to coverage
informed us:
under workers compensation, and who
They are beginning to enforce is to provide it.
regulations requiring DBL (Disability
In general, a Medallion Taxi driver
Benefits Law) coverage in addition to that is an owner and the only driver,
WC (Workers Compensation) for the without any other drivers can file an
Taxi Industry.
exemption and does not need WC or
They are beginning to enforce regu- DBL coverage. Recently, the TLC and
lations requiring WC coverage for Boro Workers Compensation Board (WCB)
Taxis that are have drivers other than have agreed that any non-exempt owner
an owner driver.
(one that has drivers) must also cover
I have included the following ex- DBL for drivers, in addition to WC.
cerpts from last year to better explain This has not been the understanding
regulations from the Workers Com- or practice until now, but they have
pensation Board and the TLC. Please informed us it will be required and
contact me if there are any questions. enforced.
Over the past 20 years, the evolution
Here is a recap of how WC relates
of the Taxi / Livery industry has caused to each type of license:
challenges for owners, bases, and drivYellow Taxi Medallion - Owner/
ers to be in compliance with the NY Drivers are exempt, but all other drivers
State Workers Compensation laws.
must be covered by the owner for WC
Simply: The law says that all and now also DBL.
employers are required to cover their
Black Car & Luxury Limousine
employees for Workers Compensation Base License - Drivers are independent
(WC) and Disability Benefits Law and affiliated with a licensed base.
Coverage (DBL).
Those drivers may be covered for WC
WC - covers injuries on the job for through the New York Black Car Fund.
medical expense and loss of earnings. The Fund was created by statute (ChapDBL
- covers injuries off the ter 49 of the laws of 1999) to provide
job for loss of earnings to a maximum workers’ compensation coverage for
of 6 months.
Black Car operators in New York State,
Here is the complexity:
and signed into law by Governor George
In our taxi /livery industry, drivers Pataki in May of 1999. If the base does
do not simply get a paycheck like other not qualify for membership in the fund
employment. There are many rules, (more than 50% of vehicles are owned
interpretations and guidelines to deter- by the base or any other reason) then
mine when workers are considered em- they must have a WC policy.
ployees or independent contractors and
Livery Base License – Drivers
to determine who the employer is.
are independent and affiliated with a
The NYC TLC has definitions for licensed base. Those drivers may be
various types of “For Hire” vehicles. covered for WC through the New York
Now another type has been added to the Independent Livery Drivers Benefit
list to make things more complicated Fund (NYILDBF). This fund was
and has caused changes to the WC created by Statute (Chapter 392 of the
requirements.
On October 15th, just 25 days
before the 25 Mile Per Hour New
York City speed limit begins, the New
York City Department of Transportation held a PRESS CONFERENCE
on Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect
Heights. In attendance was NYC Taxi
& Limousine Commissioner Meera
Joshi, DOT COmmissioner Polly
Trottenberg, NYPD Transportation
Chief Thomas Chans, Transportation
Chairman of the NYC Council Ydanis
Rodriguez, Amy Cohen- a founding
member of Families for Safe Streets,
and community members.
“As the ‘Safest Big City’ in the
nation, it is time to extend that safety
to our city’s roadways,” said NYPD
Chief Chan. “Speed is a leading factor
in traffic fatalities across our city. Adhering to the speed limit will decrease
both the probability and severity of
injuries and damages.
“As part of the TLC’s Vision Zero
effort, we’ve been communicating to
both passengers and drivers that the
priority for every taxicab and for-hire
vehicle ride must be safety and not
speed and the change to 25 mph as a
default speed limit will certainly help
us to magnify that message,” said TLC
Commissioner and Chair Meera Joshi.
“Many of our driver licensees have
already shown themselves to be effective partners in the Mayor’s Vision
Zero plan, and the new speed limit will
bring many more of our drivers into
that very important fold.”
“Going from 30 mph to 25 mph is
not just a speed reducer—it is a life
saver,” said DOT Commissioner Polly
Trottenberg. “We are embarking on a
broad public awareness campaign in
order to establish 25 mph into New
Yorkers’ minds. Our leaders and
communities are united in putting
the brakes on the culture of excessive speeding and reckless driving in
the city.”
“The change to a 25-mile-per-hour
citywide speed limit is a lifesaving
change. It makes everyone who uses
our streets, especially the most vulnerable, safer and sends an important message to all New Yorkers: slow down
and help stop the epidemic of traffic
violence on our streets, said Amy
Cohen, founding member of Families
for Safe Streets. “For those of us who
drive, this change should be seen as
an opportunity to become a lifesaver.
A 25 mph speed limit gives motorists
more time to react when the unexpected happens, as it so often does on
our streets. And even if a crash can’t
be avoided, it’s less likely to be fatal
at 25 mph. If this new and safer speed
limit is obeyed and properly enforced,
New York City can reduce the number of people senselessly killed and
seriously injured in traffic. Families
for Safe Streets exists to remind the
public of our shared responsibility to
slow down so that no more New Yorkers need to know the serious injuries
or loss that we have been forced to
live with.”
Telephone
Scams Alert
Be vigilant when receiving telephone solicitations or emails from
persons identifying themselves as
employees of the Internal Revenue
Service.
TAXI AND FOR-HIRE VEHICLE
RELIEF STANDS
DOT is not responsible regulating taxis. Taxis are regulated by the New York
City Taxi and Limousine Commission. DOT does regulate taxi relief stands
Taxi relief stands allow drivers to park their vehicles for up to one hour. This
affords drivers the opportunity to leave their vehicles and take care of personal
needs. Taxi relief stands should not be confused with taxi stands, which are
locations where drivers can wait, in their cars, to pick up passengers.
The type column indicates if the relief stand is for taxis alone, or both taxis
and For-Hire Vehicles (FHVs). Staten Island currently has no relief stands.
BRONX
TYPE
LOCATION
Taxi
Taxi
Jerome Ave. (E. Side)
Metropolitan Ave. (N. Side)
CROSS STREET
Eliot Pl. & E. 170th St.
Purdy St. & Red Oak Dr.
MANHATTAN EAST SIDE ABOVE 23RD STREET
Taxis
Taxis
Taxis
Taxis
Taxis & FHVs
Taxis
Taxis & FHVs
Taxis & FHVs
Taxis
E.77th St.(N. Side)
E. 86th St. (N. Side)
E. 78th Street (N. Side)
E. 78th St. (S. Side)
E. 29th St. (S. Side)
E. 27th St. (N. Side)
E.28th St. (N. Side)
Madison Ave. (W. Side)
E. 26th Street (S. Side)
First & Second Aves.
Henderson Pl. & York Ave.
Lexington & Third Ave.
Lexington & Third Ave.
Madison & Fifth Ave.
Park Ave. S. & Madison Ave.
Park Av. S. & Lexington Ave.
E. 26th & 27th St.
Third & Second Aves.
MANHATTAN WEST SIDE ABOVE 23RD STREET
Taxis
Taxis & FHVs
Taxis & FHVs
Taxis
Taxis
Taxis & FHVs
Taxis & FHVs
Taxis
Taxis
Taxis
Taxis
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
Taxis & FHVs
Taxis
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
Taxis & FHVs
Taxis
Taxis
Taxis
Taxis & FHVs
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.
BROOKLYN
QUEENS
First & Second Aves.
W. 22nd & 23rd Sts.
E. 14th & 15th Sts.
E. 15th & 14th Sts.
W.13th & 14th Sts.
Thompson & Grand Sts.
E. Broadway & Essex St.
Ann & Beekman Sts.
Broadway & Church St.
Old Slip & Broad St.
Whitehall & Broad Sts.
South & State Sts,
Berry St. & Wythe Ave.
Third & Sixth Sts.
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.
Thousands Hospitalized
(Ebola) it is spread. I was not 100%
convinced (oh how hard it is to catch)
until I asked -What does it mean - the
Exchange of Bodily Fluids?” The fact
is, you get Ebola Virus if you exchange
bodily fluids with someone who is
symptomatic. That is, bodily fluids that
spread by entry through some mucus
membrane. So that’s your nose and your
eyes. If somebody sweats and you rub
them, you are not going to get Ebola
virus that way. Getting information
from the Department of Health will
give confidence with the message that
it is ok to pick up passengers at JFK,”
she continued.
My next guest was Dr. Varma from
the Department of Health who cleared
up a number of Ebola related issues.
Here was ours first question: If I am
at the holding lot at JFK Airport, is
it safe for me to pick up passengers
from a Terminal where planes from
Africa have landed? “I would say it is
absolutely safe! People need to understand this outbreak only affects three
small countries in Africa and in those
countries the vast majority of people
are completely healthy. Even though
this outbreak has been going on for
six months, there have only been two
cases of this disease imported, and it is
SAFE. All the other cases people hear
about are people who contracted the
disease in Africa and made the decision to bring the disease back here for
medical care. So yes, it is perfectly
safe for taxi drivers to continue doing
their jobs that they always have.”
I asked the Dr. how we can protect
ourselves and prevention from getting
the Ebola virus. Here is the Dr.’s answer:
“One of the most important things is
for people not to be worried. The only
way to get it, is to have direct physical
contact with body fluids. Even though
people are worried about crowded
subways, or taxis having lots of people
coming into them, the frequency in
which you would come into contact
with someone very ill and their body
fluids is really close to zero.”
“I think it’s important for your listeners to know that there are lots of things
in the world to be worried about, and if
they are concerned about their health
and infectious diseases, we would say
that Ebola is NOT the highest priority.
Our highest priority this time of year
is a virus that circulates a lot, that infects a lot of people, that hospitalizes
thousands of people and there is a way
to prevent it! And this is the flu! We
encourage taxi drivers and other adults
to get a flu-shot. It is one way to protect
yourself against a virus that we know
gets a lot of people sick,” Dr. Varma
concluded.
Some local politicians along with
the Mayor and two Governors held press
conferences reporting on the prevention of EBOLA spreading. Since those
press conferences, some have changed
their messages. Was this virus used as
a scare tactic and a platform before
the election. What do you think? We
never from Connecticut, but that state
has instituted a mandatory 21 day
quarantine for folks with symptoms
returning from certain areas in Africa
without any fanfare.
••••••••
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
Attention Yellow Taxi Drivers!
You MUST TAKE A WHEELCHAIR
ACCESSIBLE COURSE WHEN RENEWING YOUR HACK LICENSE or
it will not be renewed!
Attention FHV drivers: You can no
longer drive for a car service, black
car or luxury limo with a hack license!
YOU WILL GET SUMMONSES.
Get an FHV license before you get
penalized.
Many drivers are now reporting
driving a maximum of 70 miles per
day compared with 100 miles a day
before the bike lanes and pedestrian
malls were constructed.
The SHL’s were supposed to stop illegal passenger solicitations throughout
lower Manhattan. UBER cars are now
doing the same thing, soliciting passengers off the street.(5th Avenue anybody?)
Getting reports of SHL’s verbally soliciting passengers below 96th Street with
their roof-lights off. HELP!
2015 Camry Hybrids were approved
by the TLC. Of course ONLY yellow
cabs need approval, everyone else can
put virtually ANY four door sedan on
the road.How fair is that?
Have a Happy Thanksgiving. I am
thankful for life itself! Enjoy our numbered days as best you can, and LOVE
what you do! Tell someone you love
them each day!
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!
Taxi Driver Puzzle
The Taxi Attorney
Hello everybody, I hope that you are
working hard and making good money.
The busy season is upon
us with Christmas and
New Years within view.
First, all drivers need
a will and important estate documents such as a
power of attorney, living
will, health care proxy,
etc. If you own a medallion, you must have a will;
otherwise your family
will have trouble with,
among others, the TLC,
after you die. Also, if you
have young children – you need a will.
Even if you don’t own a medallion, you
need to do a will and a power of attorney.
IF YOU TRAVEL OUT OFTHE US,
YOU NEED A POWER OF ATTORNEY EVEN IF YOU DON’T OWN
A MEDALLION. Every driver needs
these documents. PROTECT YOU
AND YOUR FAMILY!
Second, if you are arrested and you
possess a TLC license, it is imperative
that you hire the best criminal attorney
POSSIBLE. The 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.
Third, please listen to the Taxi
Insider 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. So, please
tune in to listen.
Fourth, As my ad states, there is a
special price for readers of this publication. You can reach me at 212.754.1011
to set up an appointment.
Fifth, pick up a copy of a great new
novel: Matthew Thomas’s “We are Not
Ourselves.”
He is a friend of mine and a great
author. He is a friend to taxi drivers and
he is a credit to New
York City, having grown up in
Queens. Buy the book and recommend
it to your customers.
You will be happy that you did
and you will likely get great tips from
educated customers for your winning
recommendation of this fine book
which was recently on the New York
Times bestseller list for hardcover fiction books.
Sixth, please read this newspaper
and this column for advice about how
to deal with the new Vision Zero rules
that are coming or have recently come
into effect. The TLC has modified its
rules and enforcement is sure to ramp
up with these modifications.
Remember, 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 lose
your license. Fight every yellow or pink
ticket you receive from NYPD and every
TLC ticket you receive. I
will do an excellent job
advocating for you at a fair
and reasonable price and
I have been doing this for
about 20 years now. Please
call me at 212.754.1011
or 866.LAW.MIKE to
discuss your DMV or TLC
problem. Visit my website
at www.trafficticketnyc.
com. I am here to help
you.
The bottom line. Be
careful. Watch out for speeding tickets,
red light tickets, turn tickets, fail to yield
to pedestrian tickets, etc. It is a time of
change at TLC and that means drivers
must be extra careful in their attempt
to make a living. I understand how difficult the job is and how tough the City
makes earning a living for drivers of
taxicabs. Do your best and I am always
here to help if a problem arises. Take
care this month and I wish you the best
of luck and happiness.
Thank you for reading this article.
Until next month, be well.
Mr. Spevack thanks you for reading
this article which is for entertainment
purposes only and does not constitute
legal advice. For legal advice, contact
Mr. Spevack.http://www.trafficticketnyc.com .
See his advertisement on page 36
of this issue.
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NYPD Officer Anthony J. Coyne,
The Most Evil Cop Alive
By Mark Twain
Former mayor Mike Bloomberg,
Through Thursday, October 9, 2014,
NYPD officer Anthony J. Coyne has mayor Bill de Blasio, NYPD commisshattered and traumatized over 2000 sioners Ray Kelly and Bill Bratton; 51
mostly innocent, inarticulate Bengali, NYC council members, NYC council
Bangladeshi, West African and Haitian president Melissa Mark Viverito, public
little people. As an editorial writer for advocate Letitia James, U.S. District
the NYC transportation industry trade Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., New York
newspaper, the Taxi Insider, I have writ- State Attorney General Eric Schneiten two front-page, four-page, 4000- derman, U.S. Attorney GeneralEric
word articles about Coyne, published Holder, New York governor Andrew
Cuomo, senators Chuck Schumer
in July 2013 and January 2014.
I mailed, with cover letters, com- andKirsten Gillibrand, the NYPD
plete 60-page copies of each Taxi Civilian Complaint Review Board, the
Insider issue to the following recipi- NYPD Department of Chief of Police
ents, with the title of the January issue Self-Investigative Unit, NYPD 17th
being “Dear Mayor de Blasio, Please precinct captainJames T. Sheehan – and
Anthony Coyne himself.
Help us”:
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
1-212-678-1811
25 Precinct
1-212-860-6511
26 Precinct
1-212-678-1311
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
Except for the Republican-turnedindependent Bloomberg, all are liberal
Democrats. None responded.
There is documented proof of
Coyne’s abuse of power in the form
of hundreds of sets of three New York
State DMV website printouts, of sets of
three moving violation tickets written
by Coyne in single traffic stops. Coyne
stops a Yellow Medallion cab in the
early a.m. every night in Lexington,
3rd or 2nd Avenue traps in the East 40s,
near the 17th Precinct headquarters at
167 East 51st Street.
All cab drivers get the same three
or four illegible yellow tickets for the
same redundant unsafe lane change,
failure to signal and crossing a solid
white line. There is no solid white line
between 57th Street and 42nd Street on
Lexington Avenue, where most of the
Police Precincts
In New York City
Taxi Insider Info
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
1-718-827-3511
76 Precinct
191 Union Street
1-718-834-3211
77 Precinct
127 Utica Avenue
1-718-735-0611
78 Precinct
65 6th Avenue
1-718-636-6411
79 Precinct
263 Tompkins Avenue
1-718-636-6611
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
BROOKLYN POLICE PRECINCTS
Precinct
Address
60 Precinct
1-718-946-3311
122 Precinct
2320 Hylan Boulevard
1-718-667-2211
61 Precinct
2575 Coney Island Avenue
1-718-627-6611
123 Precinct
116 Main Street
1-718-948-9311
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
1-718-257-6211
70 Precinct
154 Lawrence Avenue
1-718-851-5511
Questions? Comments?
E-Mail Taxi Insider at
[email protected]
tickets are written. Some tickets are
for failure to provide documentation of
insurance, which every driver gets at the
beginning of his shift. Coyne frequently
confiscates drivers’ licenses.
Seven DMV points in single traffic stops have resulted in operating
license suspensions of medallion cab
drivers, who are independent contractors and have no unemployment
insurance. Some drivers have been
rendered unemployed and destitute.
Sheehan, Coyne’s boss, has ignored
three detailed registered letters, from
which proof of Sheehan’s receipt has
been received.
David Pollack, publisher of the Taxi
Insider, and I along with 6 other drivers
met for 90 minutes with the NYPD’s
Internal Affairs Unit and I met with
the Civilian Complaint Review Board
at NYPD headquarters two years ago.
The CCRB promised action. We call.
No one is ever in. Voice mail messages
are never returned.
The meat-grinder NYC government
money extraction conspiracy could
care less. They want money. Everyone
in power knows that everyone else
doesn’t care one bit. Our letters and
newspapers were probably tossed into
the garbage, unread.
Coyne spends most of his time at the
fifth floor traffic court at 2 Washington
Street in Manhattan. All medallion cab
drivers plead innocent to their sets of
three unjust tickets issued in one traffic stop. All get lawyers and pray for a
righteous judge. All attempt to defend
against Coyne’s felony abuse of power
to enforce the law.
Coyne commits perjury at every
hearing. He lies and fights like a hyena
to get convictions on all three tickets.
Each of the 20 New York State DMV
administrative law judges at Washington Street has seen Coyne with three
clearly unjust, frivolous redundant
tickets — at least 100 times. All tickets
penalize cabbies for the same driving
violations at the same place, at the same
early a.m. hour.
Each judge knows that Coyne is a
criminal. All judges are complicit in
this intricate NYC criminal conspiracy
themselves.
Some drivers get lucky. If a driver
has a good lawyer and catches a merciful judge, he gets two of his three
tickets dismissed. Hanging judges nail
drivers on all three tickets, with $500
in fines and seven DMI penalty points.
Coyne rakes in millions of dollars for
NYC. No one knows what Coyne gets
out of it.
Coyne is the only one of his kind
in NYPD history. He is the only
scumbag of his kind in the history of
the world.
Do you to want to live in NYC?
Mayor de Blasio knows everything
there is to know about Anthony J.
Coyne. He doesn’t care. Do you want to
work in NYC and be a victim yourself?
Do you want to commute to, or visit
NYC? Do you want to start a business
in NYC?
Taxi Insider Newspaper neither
agrees or disagrees with the views of
the above writer.
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How I Became a Star
By Abe Mittleman
One weekday afternoon in September 1991, while driving my taxi,
I happened to be cruising east on East
94th street in search of a fare. I turned
my attention north as I began to cross
3rd Ave. I saw a man standing on the
corner of East 95th street. I then made
left turn and picked him up. “JFK” he
said, and off we went.
After my passenger was seated
comfortably, I began to talk. I don’t
always talk to my passengers. But, on
this day the ”Gift of Gab” was with
me. I talked about myself. I talked
about the taxi business. I talked about
life in New York City. Whatever was
on my mind that day was food for
conversation. My captive passenger
listened and said very little. But, he
was interested and would maybe inject a word or two here and there to
keep me talking. I didn’t know who
he was. A few months later I would
find out why he was very interested
in my conversation a lot more than I
would assume at that time.
In 1991 I was already a 22 year veteran of the taxi business. In my early
days as a taxi driver I wouldn’t ask
too many questions about the personal
lives of my passengers. But, a few
years later I decided that I would from
time to time ask my passengers what
they did for a living. What I did for a
living was obvious to my passengers
and we all know how often we are
questioned about our business. So, I
wanted to know what other people did
to earn money. Perhaps I could get an
idea from the answers should I ever
want to change my profession.
So, as we were getting close to JFK
airport, I asked this man what he did
for a living. He told me he was in TV
Production and was currently doing
some projects for MTV. Back in 1991
MTV broadcast mostly music videos.
So, I half jokingly asked him if he was
ever in need of a taxi to shoot a video.
He said, that he was coming back to
New York in a few months to do a project called “Real World” and he may
be able to use me. I then gave him my
contact information. Although I could
sense he was being entertained by my
conversation, I didn’t really believe he
took me seriously. I dropped him off
at JFK then drove away. I didn’t give
him a second thought after that.
Five months later, long after I had
forgot about this ride I arrived home
one morning at 6AM after working the
night shift. There was a note with a
telephone message waiting for me. It
was from a woman named Ellen Lewis.
I read the note that asked if I would
be available for a TV shoot with my
taxi on Sunday? A telephone number
was given for me to call back. I hadn’t
a clue who it was from or how they
got my number. I thought maybe they
wanted to do a commercial with my
taxi. I wondered how much money I
could get.
After a few hours sleep, I called
Ellen Lewis. The conversation was
short and Ellen Lewis didn’t tell me
much about the TV show. She asked
if I could pick up a girl at La Guardia
airport on Sunday and take her to
Manhattan. She said she wanted me
to talk to this girl during the ride. She
said the ride would be video taped and
I would be paid $100 for this. I said
OK. I could do this. She then told me
she would call me back a little later.
The rest of the day went by and I
didn’t get a call back. I thought perhaps
I didn’t make a very good impression
on Ms. Lewis. So, the next day I called
her back. This time I reached a voice
mail. The Voice Mail said that I have
reached “MTV’s “Real World.” I
froze and hung up without leaving a
message. It was then that I recalled
the ride to JFK.
It was now apparent to me that the
producer, who I would later find out
was Jonathon Murray, was auditioning
me on that ride to JFK five months
earlier. I was being hired to be in the
TV show! They didn’t just want my
taxi. Yes, they wanted a taxi. But, the
taxi they wanted was the one that had
me as the driver! They wanted me to
play myself in a “Reality” TV show
to be broadcast on MTV, one of the
most popular TV stations at that time.
This was a great opportunity.
I picked up the phone and called
once again. This time Ellen Lewis
answered. We then had a lengthy
conversation. Ellen confirmed to me
that yes, it was Producer Jonathan
Murray who had rode in my taxi to
JFK. She told me that my role was to
just talk naturally as I would to any
of my passengers. She said yes, if it
went well I would be in the show on
MTV. “This is your big shot, Abe”
were the exact words she used. After
we spoke, I could tell that she knew
she had the right person for the job.
We then arranged the TV shoot. We
would meet in Manhattan on Sunday
at 4:45 PM.
On Sunday, the day of the shoot, I
made sure I felt good. I was too excited
to sleep well the night before. Still I
felt good. I made sure I gave myself
enough time to prepare for the meeting. I wanted to be in a talkative mood.
I stopped driving at 3PM and went to
the Cheyenne Diner on 9th avenue. I
wanted to make sure I wouldn’t be
hungry. Being hungry would interfere
with my talkative mood. So, I had a
good dinner. Also, I had a brand new,
never been worn before, shirt that I
purchased the day before just for this
occasion. While at the Cheyenne Diner
I changed into this shirt.
When I was done at the diner, I
headed for 3rd avenue and 94th street,
the same location where I had picked
up Jonathan Murray five months earlier, to meet the camera crew and Mr.
Murray who was with them.
We followed in two vehicles, my
taxi and the vehicle with the camera
crew over the Triborough Bridge to
a diner on Astoria Boulevard where
I was presented with a contract. The
contract stated that I would be paid
$100. for this job and that I had no
right to ask for more at anytime in the
future. I had never before been a part
of a TV show. I had no idea that this
TV show would be broadcast in reruns
for years to follow. I was giving up
my rights to residual royalties. But,
had I not done that, they would have
called off the TV shoot and produced
the show without me. So, I signed.
Next we went to La Guardia airport
main terminal upper level. They had
already arranged with the authorities
to do this TV shoot. So, there was
no problem with me waiting with
my taxi for a prearranged fare at this
location. It wouldn’t be too long until
“Julie” one of the main characters of
the show, who had just arrived on a
plane from Alabama, was escorted
by the crew to my taxi. The TV shoot
would now begin.
They wanted me to talk, and talk I
did. I was on a roll. For the next hour
and a half my mouth wouldn’t close. I
knew that they were only looking for
a minute or two of video to put into
the show. So, I gave them a lot more
than they needed to choose from. I
was very entertaining to my passenger
and I could tell she was really enjoying the ride.
If you saw the show on TV it would
appear to you that Julie and I were
the only ones in the taxi. But, sitting
next to Julie in the back of the taxi
was a camera man who was taping
every word we said. In order to keep
the conversation going they had me
take the streets in Queens to the 59th
street bridge. We would stop several
times along the way in order to let the
rest of the crew that was taping from
outside the taxi, to catch up.
The ride ended in Soho at Broadway and Prince street. Julie paid me
the taxi fare in addition to the $100
I was paid to be in the show. I was
permitted to keep that. She was a very
generous tipper.
At this time, I had no idea what the
show was about. I would later find out
that it was about five young unmarried
people, both male and female, who
had never met before. These young
adults would be put together in an
apartment in New York City. Their
everyday life and interactions with
each other would be recorded and
made into a story for broadcast. It
was a big hit that they would produce
in different places for years to come
with different people.
The show I was in was the very first
edition of the very first production.
My spot was broadcast over the years
more times than I could guess. I only
got 39 seconds of air time, but to the
millions of people that watched it, it
was very memorable. The part I had
can be seen on You Tube . If you go
to this web site and do a search for
The Real World New York- Episode
1 Part 1 you will find it.
After this experience, I would later
go on to do some other film and TV
work. I had gotten a bit of the bug.
It was a fun hobby for a while that
didn’t amount to much. But that’s
another story for another time.
NYS DMV Point System
Speeding (mph over posted limit)
1 to 10 . . . 3 points
11 to 20 . . 4 points
21 to 30 . . 6 points
31 to 40 . . 8 points
More than 40 . . 11 points
Reckless Driving . . . . 5 points
Failure to stop for a School Bus . 5 points
Following too closely (tailgating) 4 points
Inadequate Brakes . . 4 points
(while driving employer's vehicle)2 points
Failing to Yield Right-Of-Way . . . 3 points
Violation Involving Traffic Signal,
Stop Sign, or Yield Sign . . . 3 points
Railroad Crossing Violation 3 points
Improper Passing or Lane Use . . 3 points
Leaving scene of an incident involving property
damage or injury to an animal . .
3 points
Safety restraint violation involving person
under 16 . 3 points
Any other moving violation 2 points
Note: Speeding when speed not indicated is 3 points
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the middle of West End Avenue and
if another truck stops, you can’t go
around them without going into the
safety zone which is against the law.
Thanks to the stupid DOT and mayor
for this one. And, many other major
streets also got smaller.
Avner
Bikes
Dear Taxi Dave,
Bikes are still riding on sidewalks,
bikes are going the wrong way, bikes
are going through red lights. I see it
every day in Manhattan. This city
threw SAFETY out the window!
Where’s the enforcement? If the
streets of NYC was an OSHA shop,
they would write them up everyday.
Anti-safety actions continue every
day because the police never write
tickets to bikers.
Charbel
For The TLC &
Port Authority
To whom it may concern,
On Monday September 24, 2014,
at approximately 2:00 a.m. I arrived
on Delta Flight #1728 from Las Vegas, Nevada. (The flight had been
delayed for two hours.) I retrieved
my luggage and was struggling with
it. As I approached the taxi line, I
removed one of those retractable
By Appointment
Only
* At Beaver
Street ONLY!
belts to make it easier to facilitate
obtaining a taxi. As I moved past the
belt with my luggage, and towards a
taxi, I heard someone screaming obscenities at me from a Port Authority
vehicle. He wanted me to replace the
retractable belt. I had every intention
of doing so, and I told him to mind
his own business. He told me that it
was his business. jumped out of the
Port Authority vehicle and continued
verbally abusing me with words I have
never used in my entire life.
A taxi dispatcher then directed me
to Taxi Medallion 9V37 and apologized to me for the horrible behavior
of the Supervisor. He also stated that
he would be more than happy to come
forward to make a statement verifying the atrocious behavior displayed
by the Supervisor. After entering the
taxi, my driver said that the person
screaming and cursing at me was a
supervisor for the Port Authority Taxi
Dispatchers.
I would appreciate your investigating this incident in an effort to prevent
others from being subjected to such
horrible behavior. I thank you for
your attention to this matter.
Yvonne U.
(Agencies may contact Editor for
writer’s information)
Chivalry
Is Not Dead
Dear Taxi Dave,
Years ago, I had just come from
a doctor’s appointment and had to
get back across town to my office. I
was in front of an A-list Central Park
West building and time was short.
At the curb, I paused to check my
BlackBerry and used the other hand
to hail a taxi.
As a taxi emerged, a man in a
short navy jacket and cap came from
behind the cars parked a few yards
north of where I was standing. Distracted, but focused on my lack of
time, I watched the taxi slow down
for him, not me.
We’ve all been there. Sometimes
you yell and say, “Excuse me, you
saw me standing here,” and other
times you might let it go. This time,
I decided to just talk to myself and
stomp one foot.
As I focused my gaze beyond the
man and his taxi, I noticed the taxi
was now in front of me. The gentleman then walked to the taxi, grabbed
the handle and opened the door for
me. It was Robert De Niro.
In true New York fashion, I didn’t
make a fuss and thanked the incredible and very polite movie star. After
I told the driver my destination, I
proceeded to call my husband, mother
and sister: “Guess who just opened a
cab door for me?”
L. Johnson
Tolls
Dear Taxi Dave,
The problem seems to be that scraping up $10 at a time is easier than a $400
a month replenishment for an EZ-Pass
account. The powers that be tried an
ALL EZ-PASS Henry Hudson Bridge
with no cash lanes and soon realized
that the poorest drivers were being
discriminated against. New Yorkers are
smart and know they can save $ with
EZ-Pass but just can’t afford another
mortgage while living day to day with
maxed-out credit cards.
Cromanous
What If An
Ebola Patient
Took A Cab
Dear Taxi Dave,
Bodily fluids where do they come
from?I’m not an expert on ebola but
is perspiration a form of bodily fluids?
The “Ebola Czar” made no mention
of that. As a matter of fact, I think if
we just do nothing and wait for the
next iphone everything will be okay.
Iguess it’s okay to handle a suitcase
that has perspiration from an infected
person.Meera joshi told us on Sunday
night that she’s concerned about the
ebola but didn’t offer any precautions
that drivers should take. Where’s
my driver health care fund ? Over
1.2 million dollars collected from the
drivers,and we can’t even get some
bleach or latex gloves.
R. Goolcharran
Gas Thief
Dear Taxi Dave,
Last Monday I went to my assigned
Fare Hikes and Taxi Tax?
Editor’s Note: The writer of the blog
below, enforces my editorial belief in
last month’s Taxi Insider, believing the
state legislature may raise the TAXI
TAX on each fare.
Without a commitment from the
state to close the $15.2 billion gap in
the MTA’s capital program, the cost
of a MetroCard is likely to spike as
the MTA adds to its cumbersome debt
load, according to a new report from
Comptroller Tom DiNapoli [PDF].
The warning comes as Governor Andrew Cuomo and the legislature begin
the very early stages of negotiations
over funding the capital plan, which
maintains, upgrades, and expands the
transit system.
By some measures, the MTA is doing
well: Ridership is reaching new highs,
the authority is making progress on cost
savings, and an improving economy has
buoyed its finances. But there’s trouble
around the corner: Labor and health care
expenses are already rising faster than
the MTA can pay for them even as new
labor deals pile on more costs, federal
funding isquestionable, debt is at record
levels, and the next capital plan is only
halfway funded. Without new sources
of revenue, issuing more debt to pay
for system upkeep and expansion will
translate into more fare hikes.
The authority is already planning
on issuing $6.2 billion in debt for the
next capital plan. Even with that borrowing, there’s still a $15.2 billion gap.
Without action in Albany to bring in
new revenue, the MTA will likely do
what it did last time: Cut the capital
program while issuing even more debt.
That means fare hikes.
Fares are already scheduled to increase faster than inflation, with back-
Street Talk
to-back four percent hikes scheduled
for 2015 and 2017. If the MTA has to
issue more debt to pay for the capital
program, DiNapoli calculates that riders
should expect an additional 1 percent
hike for every $1 billion borrowed.
MTA debt is already set to exceed
$39 billion by 2018, according to DiNapoli, more than double the amount in
2003. Servicing that debt consumes an
ever-greater share of the MTA’s operating budget, which is already squeezed
by rising labor and health care costs.
Who pays? Transit riders, who have to
deal with higher fares and suboptimal
service, as the agency spends more on
interest payments and less on running
trains and buses.
Adding more debt could also
threaten the authority’s bond rating and
ability to borrow down the road. Avoiding that scenario would likely require
new revenue sources. Transit advocates
are backing theMove New York plan,
which adds tolls to crossings into the
Manhattan business district while
reducing them on outlying bridges.
While the de Blasio administration
hasn’t ruled it out, Cuomo has been far
cooler to the idea.
Yesterday, Cuomo offered a glimmer of hope. “I think everything is on
the table, from my point of view. And
that’s where the conversation should
start, with all options,” he told Capital
New York. MTA Chairman and CEO
Tom Prendergast, a Cuomo appointee,
has urged the creation of new funding sources instead of an increasing
reliance on debt. Can Cuomo actually
lead on transit? We’ll see in the months
ahead.
Reprinted with permission by Stephen Miller and Streetsblog NYC.
By Erhan Tuncel - Managing Director LOMTO
MAYOR DE BLASIO
APPOINTS FIDEL DEL
VALLE AS COMMISSIONER AND CHIEF
JUDGE OF THE OFFICE
OF ADMINISTRATIVE
TRIALSAND HEARINGS
*** !!! ***
We applaud Mayor De
Blasio for his decision and
feel that there is no one better
suited for the position. We
wish Mr. Del Valle all the best.
CENTRAL PARK LOOP: The
City is looking to close the Central Park
Loop to vehicles during the summer of
2015 and do a study during this closure
to determine its impact on the vehicular
street traffic around Central Park. Many
believe that this will lead to a year round
full closure of the Central Park Loop to
vehicles – only time will tell. We do not
need a study, we know that the closure of
the loop will have a very negative impact
on the vehicular street traffic around the
park. We feel that any decision for a full
closure would lack common sense, especially if it’s done without the necessary
alterations to traffic regulations in order to
alleviate the increased traffic in residential
neighborhoods around the park.
RED LIGHT and SPEED CAMERAS: A question begs to be asked.
WOULD A RED LIGHT OR SPEED
CAMERA INSTALLED WITH A
SIGN INFORMING APPROACHING
MOTORISTS DO A LESSER JOB ON TRAFFIC
SAFETYTHAN CAMERA
INSTALLED WITHOUT
THE SIGN? If the answer is
YES - it defies logic and if
the answer is NO - it suggests
that cameras have an ulterior
motive. Matter of fact, I
believe that a camera with a
sign informing approaching
motorists will do a much
better job on traffic and pedestrian safety
than a camera without the sign.
HAILO: LOMTO endorsed Hailo
e-hail app as soon as they were approved
by the TLC. They came to our industry
with the best intentions, played by all the
rules - written or unwritten - and always
did the right thing by the drivers. They
were never interested in finding loop holes
to advance themselves. They believed in
old fashioned hard work and that’s why
we identified with them the most – we
know what hard work is and believe that
it’s the only way to earn an honest living.
We were very saddened to hear that Hailo
has decided to cease their activity in New
York. We wish them all the best.
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Bus Rapid Transit Press Conference
By David Pollack
On Tuesday October 21st on the on bus service every day. What BRT
steps of city hall, I attended a press brings to the streets are Protected
conference hosted by NYC Council- Bus Lanes with Center-Median Staman Donovan. The press conference tions.” Also in attendance supportwas a sign of support to bring Bus ing the BRT press conference was
Rapid Transit (BRT) to Queens, spe- Councilmembers Rodriquez, Lander,
cifically along Woodhaven and Cross Constantinides, Crowley, Dromm,
Bay Blvds. into Far Rockaway. More Ferreras and Koslowitz, a very strong
than 30,000 commuters currently rely Queens contingent.
Committee for Taxi Safety
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A Message From
Councilman Van Bramer
A downed pedestrian crossing sign (pictured below) may not seem like a big
problem to some but at the end of the day it could make the difference between
life and death. Recently when a constituent contacted me via Twitter about this
serious situation my office jumped into action. We helped expedite the case and
were able to immediately fix the problem. This case represents the 15,000th
constituent my office has assisted.
Press Conference Under The 7 Train
I have always been proud to work for you – and my team feels the same way.
From the biggest of issues to the smallest, we strive to deliver results. From the
moment we get up to the time our heads hit the pillow, we never lose sight of
our mission: good constituent service.
In under five years we have tackled a wide variety of issues. We have successfully restored tuition assistance for students; we have reinstated rent exemptions
for seniors; and we have installed much-needed traffic signals to deter speeding
on residential streets. Whatever the issue, my office works hard to deliver the
results you deserve. Below is a breakdown of all the cases we have worked on
since I took office. To date we have recorded victories for nearly 15,300 constituents and that number continues to grow each day.
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Senator Mike Gianaris and NYCDOT Queens Borough Commissioner
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residents and commuters to chill. The new public space will be opened
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cab to start my day shift & noticed
the gas tank wasn’t full. I needed to
go to the local station to fill up my
tires so while I was there, I filled it
up and was surprised that I was able
to put $15 of gas in the tank.
Now my partner of over 2 years
has never ever short me on gas. He
had used the same exact gas attendant
the night before at the station I use
to top off the tank.
I thought perhaps he had made
a mistake but he mentioned he had
driven very few miles during his shift
& had watched the attendant fill the
tank at the end of his shift and it was
definitely topped off. He parked the
car for me within a mile of the station immediately after leaving the
station.
Online there are many different
methods demonstrated how gas can be
siphoned from a car in broad daylight
and no one ever questions it. I can only
conclude that a yellow taxi is an easy
target since we usually always have a
full tank at the end of a shift.
L. Barkin
Where & Who
Hey Taxi Dave,
With all my respect to the mayor’s
and police department I don’t see
any enforcement against pedestrians
and cyclists. UBER in Germany and
Canada are against the law to pick
any fares.why they are allowed pick
fares in NYC, who going to protected
our investment?
Charbel
(718) 979-5360
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ABOUT YOUR TAXES
By Robert J. Mackle, Esq.
Don’t Forget To Forward Your Mail
I am reminded of an apartment I
moved into years ago, and about 2-3
months after moving in, I received a
visit from someone who told me he
was the former resident, and did I
have any mail for him? I asked him
if he thought I was the UPS Store or
what? I told him that whatever I received that did not belong to me, I had
returned to the letter carrier, including
several pieces of Certified Mail from
the government.
The lesson to be learned is: Always
file a forwarding order when you
change address. Your home address is
where the government will be trying to
reach you on a variety of issues, many
of which you will be unable to contest
if you do not object to them in a timely
manner. Even after your forwarding
order expires, the Post Office will send
the items back to the senders with a
yellow sticker showing the forwarding
address so the senders can see it.
You can update your address with
the IRS using Form 8822. You don’t
have to wait until you file the following years’ returns, you should keep it
updated as soon as possible so they can
stay in touch with you and keep your
account safe and up to date.
Readers with questions on these
or any tax and immigration issues can
contact me directly. My information
is below.
Robert Mackle is an attorney licensed by New York State. Mr. Mackle
formerly drove both Black Cars as well
as medallion taxis for more than 10
years. He currently serves as MANAGING ATTORNEY to BRETZ & COVEN
LLP a prominent immigration law firm.
In the past he served for 8 years as the
Controller & General Counsel to a
major Black Car limousine company in
New York City. His telephone number
is (212) 267-2555, Fax number (212)
267-2129. Inquiries can also be sent by
mail to Robert J. Mackle, Esq., c/o Bretz
& Coven LLP 305 Broadway Suite 100
New York, NY 10007-1109 or by Email
to: [email protected]
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“ Vision Zero is ultimately about
safety, it’s not about penalizing drivers.
It is one part of Vision Zero but it’s not
the end goal of Vision Zero. So in that
vain, we’ve decided between now and
the end of the year, we will be sending
out warning letters to drivers who are
caught in the red light cameras so they
understand that this behavior is subject
to stiff penalty. Hopefully it will serve
as a strong deterrent to those drivers
so they don’t get caught again.
Our goal is by doing a full warning
campaign, we are able to get a strong
message out, and that when we get to
summonsing the volume of potential
violators is greatly reduced. Anything
you can do to spread the word we
greatly appreciated because ultimately
our goal is not to summons for a driver
violating traffic laws, we would just
rather not have those instants in the
first place.”
Chairwoman of the NYC Taxi &
Limousine Commission, Meera Joshi
at the October TLC meeting.
•••••
“The two largest construction
projects for mass transit are in the
district I represent. We are the mass
transit capital of our country,”
Congresswoman Carolyn Malo-
ney on Taxi Dave’s radio show referring to the 2nd Avenue Subway and
the East Side Access projects.
•••••
“The most crowded subway line
is the Lexington Avenue line. The
second most crowded is the Queens
Boulevard line. 71% of subway
riders live within half a mile of a
subway,”
MTA Chief Thomas Pendergast
stating statistics before answering
Taxi Dave’s question about raising
taxes.
•••••
“At the end of the trip he didn’t
tip me and told me not to pick him
up anymore,”
Tom O’Connor revealing his experience picking up Mickey Mantle
at Yankee Stadium on Taxi Dave’s
Radio Show.
•••••
“Every mayor in New York’s history would have liked to have fired the
comptroller on multiple occasions,
which is why the people in their
collective wisdom decided, a long
time ago, the comptroller should be
separately elected.”
Former New York City Comptroller John Liu.
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Gov Cuomo & VP Biden Hold
Press Conference on NYC Airports
By David Pollack
At a press conference I attended, improvements by the Port Authority
Vice President Joe Biden and Governor that are already underway.
There is going to be a competiCuomo unveiled a comprehensive plan
to modernize and revitalize LaGuar- tion to design and make NY airports
dia, John F. Kennedy International, more competitive with other world
Republic and Stewart International airports.
Governor Cuomo’s plan can
Airport. The Governor stated, “This
is more important for New York than change the NYC taxi industry: The
ever before, which is why the State competition would include ways to
is ambitiously investing in roads, create a Long Island Rail Road stop
bridges and tunnels on a scale that we at LaGuardia and provide ferry achaven’t seen in decades. Our airport cess to both LaGuardia and JFK. “We
modernization plan not only enhances want to hold a master plan design
how our individual airports look and competition that asks for modern
act in the 21st Century – but addresses designs and visions,” the Governor
how they must fundamentally work also stated. Vice President Biden sat
together to strategically grow New next to the governor during the press
York’s economy.” The Master Plan conference.
“It is also an acknowledgement of
Design Competitions for LaGuardia
and JFK Airports will complement how vital air infrastructure is to the
hundreds of millions of dollars in region’s economy. LaGuardia and JFK
WC Insurance
Laws of 2008). On July 26, 2008, NY
Governor David Paterson signed legislation that created the Livery Drivers
Benefit Fund, providing compliance
with The WC laws.
That statute allowed livery bases
in New York City, Westchester and
Nassau Counties, to qualify as “independent” bases if they met certain
criteria typically used by the courts
to determine independent contractor
status. Specifically, the statute stated
that independent bases would pay
into the Fund which would purchase
special coverage that would provide
workers’ compensation benefits for the
most serious injuries, including those
resulting from crimes and deaths. The
Fund provides Workers’ Compensation
benefits for serious injuries and crimes
committed against drivers dispatched
by qualifying independent livery bases.
The Livery Fund Law has helped solve
a workers’ compensation problem that
has spanned three decades.
If the base does not qualify for
membership in the fund (more than
50% of vehicles are owned by the base
or any other reason) then they must
have a WC policy.
Now, since TLC has a new License
– the “Green” Outer-Boro Taxi, there
are exposures and guidelines issued
by the NYS Workers Compensation
Board (WCB). These Taxis have a “dual
use” - they can do street pickups independently but must be affiliated with a
livery base that also does dispatches.
These vehicles at times are covered
by the NYILDBF when dispatched, or
when a driver is providing street pick
up, may be covered by the owner’s WC
or as an owner driver may be exempt.
This can cause problems in the event
of a claim.
Overview
On February 17, 2012, Governor
Cuomo signed into law Chapter 9 of the
Laws of 2012, which amended Chapter
602 of the Laws of 2011 establishing a
new form of taxi service in New York
City. The NYC Taxi & Limousine
Commission is in the process of implementing the new legislation which will
expand street-hail taxi service outside
of the Manhattan Central Business
District and the airports. The Boro
Taxis will provide legal taxi service to
the seven million New Yorkers living
in Northern Manhattan and the four
other Boroughs.
New York City will make a total
of 18,000 street-hail livery licenses
available, with an initial set of 6,000
being sold for $1500 starting in June
2013. The Boro Taxis associated with
each license will have a unique color
(green) and markings, as well as roof
lights, and taxi meters.
The legislation also requires that
each Boro Taxi be affiliated with a base
that is licensed to affiliate such taxis.
The following describes who is
responsible for providing Workers’
Compensation and Disability Benefits coverage, under existing law,
for drivers operating under these new
licenses.
Application
Under the current Workers’ Compensation Law and Article 6-G of the
Executive Law, livery drivers of bases
who are members of the Independent
Livery Driver Benefit Fund (ILBDF)
are deemed employees of the ILBDF
if the accident occurs during the performance of a dispatched call. If an
independent livery base is not in the
ILDBF, the drivers are deemed employees of the base. The employer for all
other livery drivers is the lessor of the
vehicle(s) unless the owner-operator
also drives the vehicle 40 or more hours
per week. This owner-operator exemption only applies to sole proprietors;
other legal entities such as corporations
and partnerships are not eligible for the
exemption. Owner-operators that do
not lease their vehicle to other drivers
are not required to cover themselves.
Bases are allowed to provide Workers’ Compensation protection for their
affiliated drivers through membership
are key gateways to the record number
of tourists—more than 50 million—
that the city welcomes annually”, said
the Gov. JFK and LaGuardia have
fallen far behind the caliber of air
transit in other major cities. He pointed
out that it takes nearly an hour to get
from the central business districts of
Manhattan to those two airports, triple
the time it takes to make the same connection in London and Beijing.
LaGuardia and JFK Airports were
constructed in 1939 and 1960, respectively, and have since experienced
substantial growth in customers. Last
year, the two airports served more
people than at any other time in their
history – a total 77 million passengers, or roughly one-quarter of the
entire U.S. population. Collectively,
LaGuardia and JFK Airports employ
50,000 people and generate approxi-
mately $53 billion in annual economic
activity to the New York-New Jersey
metropolitan region.
Cuomo also said that the airports
don’t cater enough to commerce
by having amenities like sufficient
hotel, conference and entertainment
space. “Airports around the world are
designed with a different purpose,”
the Governor continued. “People do
business there, and they don’t even
leave the airport.”
The governor said the process of
creating a master plan for LaGuardia
would not set back the Port Authority’s
selection of a private-sector team to
handle the $3.6 billion redevelopment
of LaGuardia’s main terminal building,
which has been ongoing for the past
two years. The redevelopment includes
erecting a new terminal and surrounding infrastructure like roadways.
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in the ILDBF. This fund provides coverage for limited catastrophic injuries
and injuries due to a crime, but only
while the driver is on a dispatched
call from a base. All other injuries are
eligible for no-fault benefits through
an automobile liability policy.
Due to these limitations, drivers
performing street-hail services in Boro
Taxis cannot be covered for Workers’
Compensation benefits through the
ILDBF. If the base that the driver affiliates with is a member of the ILDBF,
the ILDBF will cover the driver only
while he is on a dispatched call from
that base, but not while performing
street-hail services. Additional compensation coverage is required because
of this gap in coverage.
The lessors of yellow medallion
cabs are universally required to provide full Workers’ Compensation and
Disability Benefits coverage for their
drivers unless they qualify for the
owner-operator 40-hour exemption. As
the new Boro Taxis will be providing
identical street-hail services as the yellow medallion cabs, the employment
relationship between the owner of a
street-hail livery license to operate a
Boro Taxi and the driver is the same
as it is for the yellow cabs.
As such, the owner of any street-hail
livery license to operate a Boro Taxi
must provide full Workers’ Compensation coverage for any driver who is hired
or who leases the vehicle. Accordingly,
proof of that coverage must be provided
to the Taxi & Limousine Commission
in order to obtain the street-hail livery
license. An owner-operator who drives
their vehicle 40 or more hours per week
who is seeking an exemption to the
Workers’ Compensation requirements
must complete the Board’s exemption
certificate (form CE-200), available on
its home page, and submit it to the Taxi
and Limousine Commission.
The following summarizes Workers’ Compensation coverage requirements related to Boro Taxis:
Anyone holding a single street-hail
livery license must obtain a full Work-
ers’ Compensation policy unless the
vehicle is owner-operated and driven by
the owner more than 40 hours per week
or is not leased to other drivers.
Anyone holding two or more
handicap-accessible street-hail livery
licenses must obtain a full Worker’s
Compensation policy.
A Boro Taxi base that also owns a
street-hail livery license must obtain
a full Worker’s Compensation policy
to cover Boro Taxi drivers for injuries
not covered by the ILDBF.
Bases that will continue to operate
vehicles solely on a dispatch basis and
not as Boro Taxis are reminded that
they must join the ILDBF or obtain a
full Workers’ Compensation policy. If
the base does belong to the ILDBF and
also has employees working in the base,
such as mechanics and dispatchers, a
full Worker’s Compensation policy
is required to cover these non-driver
employees.
We are beginning to see how this
new license and other changes will
affect the industry from all aspects
including Insurance, Regulations, and
Enforcement, as well as the effects it
will have on the values and operations
of other licenses like Medallion and
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on this topic.
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“Daus Re-Elected IATR President at
Most Attended &
Successful Conference!”
By Matthew W. Daus, Esq.
The IATR welcomed government tors over time. We do not necessarily
transportation regulators and vendors know what the new transportation world
from around the world in New Orleans, will look like, but it will definitely be
Louisiana (NOLA) from September 21- different than it is now. There could
24, 2014. A record number of confer- be further reforms and more stringent
regulations as a backlash to
ence attendees were educated
more high profile accidents,
on the latest in technology,
incidents and litigation rulaccessibility and regulatory
ings, or there could be partial
developments everywhere. I
or complete deregulation of
was pleased to hear from althe industry followed by remost everyone that it was not
regulation in a new paradigm.
only the best IATR conferThere already is and will be a
ence ever, but the best confershift in the balance of power
ence they had ever attended in
and the regulatory framework,
their lives. After engaging in
by not only the private industry
workshops and action packed
stakeholders, but possibly by
sessions chock full of relevant
information, our conference attendees and among government regulators.
The IATR has been and will be at
“Let the Good Times Roll” in the “Big
Easy” - with networking activities and the table in a leadership capacity. The
entertainment that will be remembered disruptive events of the last few years,
forever. I am also honored and privi- coupled with proactive leadership and
leged to have been recognized by my advocacy by the IATR, have certainly
IATR colleagues, who unanimously led to a New World Order at the IATR
re-elected me pro bono President for - as a vital organization that is a major
transportation policy player. The IATR
many years to come.
The State of the IATR & Our New now has board membership representing almost every world continent,
World Transportation Order.
The theme of this 27th Annual Con- including Asia, Australia, and Europe,
ference of the International Association in addition to members from the U.S.
of Transportation Regulators (IATR) and Canada. Membership levels and
was “A New World Order for Ground conference attendance have never been
Transportation Regulation,” which was higher, and many new members from
also the title of my State of the IATR all over the world joined the ranks
speech delivered at the conference. This over the past year, including: Russia;
speech, and all others, may be viewed Germany; Belgium; Australia; Malayon the IATR’s You Tube Channel by sia; Singapore; Dubai, UAE; Doha,
Qatar; Abu Dhabi, UAE; Milan, Italy;
visiting www.iatr.org.
In sum, we are at a turning point London, U.K.; and many others. Our
on our regulatory axis, where several membership and influence has grown
worlds are colliding: technology disrup- due to the value added by membership,
tion; the sustainability, disability rights, conferences and our involvement on the
and “Vision Zero” traffic safety move- world stage as a major transportation
ments; and decreased public tolerance player – submitting testimony, reports
for poor taxicab service. These political and advocating for common sense reguand technological catalysts have led lations to protect the public in the face
transportation regulators around the of predatory and disruptive technology
world to rethink the regulatory chem- transportation companies.
We have identified and put to good
istry and institute bold reforms and
adaptations. Technology has not only use best practices and approaches inbroken down the barriers between volving the analysis of common facts,
sub-modes and the taxi and limousine issues, data and challenges, culminating
industries, but it has also brought in international model regulations for
for-hire services, regulators and the smartphone technology, accessibility,
industry closer together, not just locally pedicabs, safety cameras and partibut worldwide. The New World Order tions, as well as the first-ever IATR
already involves or will involve global International Fact Book. In addition,
brands, apps everywhere, seamless inte- the IATR is gaining momentum on
gration and aggregation services. Sepa- implementing important reforms and
rate industries are merging together into integrity enhancements for its members
one regulatory Pangea, whether it be: via the Passenger Safety and Security
(1) limousine, taxi, livery and sedan Act (PASS Act) in Congress, as well as
service all at once via one company or the issuance of a Request for Proposals
app as the gateway; (2) the privatization or Qualifications for vendors to develop
of accessible public transit with private a national criminal background check
wheelchair accessible sedan and taxi clearinghouse for regulators, which
services, involving dispatch systems will allow IATR to collect and share
and apps; and (3) supplemental services data of licensee criminal convictions
that include logistics or messenger from other states. In addition to these
services, and/or “business-to-business” ongoing initiatives, I am pleased to
(B2B) solutions. All of these changes announce the IATR Board’s approval
are happening alongside the collection to commence the following new initiaand mining of data by private compa- tives: (1) the first-ever IATR Journal
nies, and possibly government regula- of Transportation Regulation; (2) the
establishment of a government regulator training certification or accreditation
program; and (3) the issuance of a Request for Information (RFI) to explore
the establishment of an IATR driver
training certification program.
Transportation Technology –
Insurance & Background Check
Experts & Keynote Speakers!
The program included many sessions on the very important technology
front. Two excellent keynote speakers
provided insight into pressing issues
involving Transportation Network
Companies (TNCs). First, the former
New York State Superintendent of
Insurance, Gregory Serio, delivered a
commanding speech simplifying and
demystifying the complex issues surrounding the world of vehicle insurance
coverage and TNC related insurance
issues. Also, Mayor Paul Soglin of
Madison, Wisconsin, provided insight
into how he handled the introduction of
TNC services in his jurisdiction. Mayor
Soglin’s command of transportation
issues and commitment to sustainability were impressive and inspiring.
Other critical sessions provided detailed
briefings, analysis and discussion of
pending and recently promulgated TNC
legislation and regulations, the proliferation of lawsuits, as well as a primer
in understanding criminal background
checks in general, and in a post-TNC
world. Discussions and debate took
place on how technology is changing
our regulatory paradigm around the
world, including presentations from
technology companies and regulators
from near and far, discussing where the
app and technology movement is going. We also introduced new policy and
technology-related initiatives involved
in the “Vision Zero,” movement, including black boxes and big transportation
data analysis platforms.
The Debate between the Industry
and Transportation Network Companies!
The conference ended with a
“Big Bang,” with a high-energy debate between industry leaders and
TNC executives moderated by Pete
Donohue, a very experienced, smart,
and objective transportation reporter
from the New York Daily News. The
TNC team included Geoff Mathieux of
Wingz, Wesley Hottot of the Institute
for Justice, and three empty seats for
Lyft, Sidecar and Uber - all of which refused to participate. The industry team
consisted of Rich Antonacci, COO of
Signature Financial, Bill Rouse, former
Taxicab, Limousines and Paratransit
Association (TLPA) President, and
Blair Davies, CEO of the Australian
Taxi Industry Association. The event
took on the flavor of a political debate,
with pre-debate posturing that involved
an outright refusal by Uber to participate, and a last minute confirmation that
was rescinded by the CEO of Sidecar.
A representative from Lyft attempted to
deliver a speech at the end of the debate,
and, well, to see what happened next,
I recommend you view the debate by
visiting the IATR website to access its
You Tube channel.
International Public Hearing
Held on Proposed Model Regulations
for Accessible Taxicabs and For-Hire
Vehicles
The IATR unveiled its first draft
of proposed model regulations for accessibility, and held an international
public hearing to solicit comments
from regulators and stakeholders alike.
The internationally-comprised IATR
Accessibility Committee expended
considerable time and effort in developing this first draft of reform-oriented
regulations, and commenced the rulemaking process. Opening remarks were
delivered by the original author and
original sponsor of the Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA), United States
Senator Tom Harkin, from Iowa, whose
speech can be viewed on the IATR’s
website. The proposed model regulations can be accessed at http://www.
windelsmarx.com/public_document.
cfm?id=388&key=8I0, and written
comments can continue to be submitted
on or before December 22, 2014 to Jason
Mischel at [email protected].
IATR Honors Safest NYC Cab
Driver as IATR’s International
Driver of the Year & Carlton Thomas
of Austin, Texas, as IATR Regulator
of the Year.
The IATR named Frederick Amoafo of New York City its International
Driver of the Year. Mr. Amoafo was
recognized for his dedication to Mayor
Bill de Blasio’s Vision Zero traffic
safety plan, and for having a spotless
safe driving record for a minimum of
five years. He distinguished himself
in that field, having driven his cab
190,000 miles without a single violation or injury-producing crash. Having
graced the cover of the New York Daily
News, the honoree continued to turn
heads by driving from New York City
to New Orleans in a taxicab provided
by Mobility Works for the trip – painted
half yellow and half green in a nod to
both of the NYC’s predominant hail
services. He was accompanied on
the trip by the Daily News’ veteran
transportation reporter/columnist Pete
Donohue, who chronicled the journey along with photographers and a
videographer. New York City Mayor
Bill de Blasio even issued a statement
on the IATR’s award to Mr. Amoafo:
“We are so proud to have one of New
York City’s own honored for his service
to our city and its riders. Taxi drivers
set the tone for our streets, and when
they drive safely and treat their fellow
New Yorkers with respect, it helps
protect all of us. We congratulate Mr.
Amoafo on his award.” Upon arriving
in New Orleans, an elated Mr. Amoafo
was made grand marshal of a parade
through the famed French Quarter,
waving and tossing beads as tradition
demands, to the cheers of onlookers.
The next evening, the humble cabbie
was officially presented with his title at
the IATR’s gala dinner, on the Creole
Queen riverboat.
To view articles published about
his journey and award see the following links:
http://www.nydailynews.com/
new-york/queens-cabbie-driving(Continued on Page 22)
MTA Press Conference
By David Pollack
Now we all know about the 2nd
At a Press Conference on 6th
Avenue and 52nd Street, Metropoli- Avenue subway and radio listentan Transportation Authority (MTA) ers heard Congresswoman Carolyn
Chairman and CEO, Thomas F. Pend- Maloney state that those two transergast answered my question request- portation projects are the largest in
ing if MTA taxes will increase, or if the entire country. For justification
the MTA has new taxes planned. I he told us that the Lexington Avenue
will get to that later because prior to line is the most crowded subway
my question, Mr. Pendergast gave line in NYC. (2nd was the Queens
listeners some statistics about the Blvd. line)
Pendergast told us that $32 was
MTA.
MTA riders total 8.7 million fares necessary to replace 86 miles of
a day, I guess most are round trip com- tracks, to improve the result of addmuters. The MTA has 8,000 subway ing air conditioned subway cars – to
“trains” and 1500 commuter trains. fix the environmental nightmare of
There are 468 subway stations and an subway platforms temperature risadditional 245 suburban commuter ing 12 degrees during the summer,
stations making MTA the biggest in to expand bus service and select bus
service, and to install “Positive Train
the world.
Mr. Pendergast stated that 71% Controls to make sure operators are
of subway riders live within half a doing their jobs.”
He asked for contractors and
mile of a subway station as compared
with 73% of Long Island railroad consultants to “find ways for a better
passengers living within two miles product at a cheaper cost.” Finally,
of their station. He bragged about he wants everyone to realize the
the MTA’s flat subway fare and get- importance of the capital program to
ting express trains for the same fares the region. And, then he states that
as local trains. Rerouting subway “the MTA has the capacity to do what
lines when one becomes inoperable needs to be done to finance.”
Back to my question: “Will the
due to an emergency is something
“New Yorkers take for granted,” he MTA be increasing any current taxes
or has any new taxes planned?” The
continued.
And then we got the pitch for the answer was not yes, it was not no, but
MTA’s capital plan: a $32 billion plan it was a political answer that I still
for repair, enhancements and expan- cannot figure out. Since the answer
sion. Pendergast spoke of MTA’s total was not NO, we must all beware of the
assets inclusive of LIRR, Para-transit, MTA requesting an increase in the 50
subways, buses, Metro North total- cent Taxi Tax. Melrose Credit Union
ing $965 billion, thereby justifying a will do everything in their power to
prevent any increase in this tax.
smaller $32 billion “required.”
NYPD’s Suy Auyang Commits Perjury
To Win Conviction
By Mark Twain
A good example of Blue evil is the of the frivolous high-beam ticket written
passive, tiny Suy Auyang of the NYPD. by Auyang on May 10, 2013.
A cabbie dropped off a couple at
Auyang committed perjury in court, winning a $130 fine and two-point convic- West 39th St and 8th Avenue, south of
tion. Her victim, an elderly cab driver, the Port Authority Bus Terminal. He
spends 70 hours a week crisscrossing was stopped by a burly cop standing 125
305 square miles of New York City. He feet in front of him, next to a tiny Asian
drives every waking hour to pay medi- female. The brute sneered, “Your high
cal bills for his wife at Memorial Sloan beams are on. Give me your license and
registration.”
Kettering Cancer Center.
The cabbie explained, “The high
New York City has stolen the Department of Motor Vehicle’s mission beam dashboard indicator light on my
of motor vehicle safety. Every year, the dashboard doesn’t work.” The brute
DMV meat grinder extracts hundreds sneered, “Shut your face.”
A failed electronic instrument cluster
of millions of dollars from random and
unsuspecting motorists. Most cops in that controls electronic dashboards of
NYC are honest, but officer Auyang is every 2010 Toyota Prius left thousands
rotten to the core. This predator writes of dashboards dark, with no visible
frivolous and vicious tickets; she denies warning lights, gauges or indicators other
common sense breaks to good drivers. than directional lights. The directional
Officer Auyang works out of the light control lever is an inch in front
Midtown South 14th Precinct on 357 of the steering wheel. It is easily tilted
West 35th Street. “Kojak,” aka Telly forward during 12-hour shifts, activatSavalas, made Midtown South famous in ing the high beams. In the “Great White
the 70s. Savalas died of prostate cancer Way,” with no high beam indicator lights,
a day after his 72nd birthday on Jan. 22, Prius drivers can’t know that their high
1994. Viewers wouldn’t miss a minute beams are on.
One factory made the problematic
of Kojak. Savalas turned Midtown South
part that causes the issue, and because the
into their own living rooms.
Times Square’s bright lights make factory was damaged by the Fukushima
Midtown South the land of the midnight earthquake and tsunami, the part was
sun. These bright lights are the context unavailable anywhere in the world.
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The IATR Board of Directors was
pleased to present the distinguished and
coveted Regulator of the Year Award
to Carlton Thomas, the regulator from
Austin, Texas. Mr. Thomas was a true
profile in regulatory courage in standing up to disruptive app companies
and seeking to implement the IATR’s
model regulations against stiff lobbying
and political pressure – putting safety
and consumer protection – not politics
– first. He has attended IATR conferences in the past, as a former Norma
Reyes IATR scholarship recipient, and
has not only learned regulation from
the ground-up, but instituted reforms
in many other areas. He is a true role
model for regulators, and a much deserving recipient of the “Crystal Taxi”
to be displayed in Texas this year.
The IATR “Let the Good Regulatory Times Roll” in NOLA! – Montreal is Next!
New Orleans was the place where
we not only learned about important
transportation issues that affect all of
us, but where regulators enjoyed one
of the most unique cities in the United
States. Among the networking and
educational activities, we held a city
tour, a visit to the Basin Street Station
Transit Museum, a dinner gala event
on an authentic steamboat known as
the Paddlewheeler Creole Queen, as
well as the first-ever IATR parade and
“second line” festivities – with authentic
NOLA musical entertainment, floats
and a parade of accessible taxicabs
and the IATR Driver of the Year as
our parade’s grand marshal. The 2014
IATR NOLA conference was not only
a regulatory “game changer” that will
re-order our regulatory tectonic plates,
but all of our attendees had fun and
enjoyed fantastic food and company
in the birthplace of Jazz.
While every year I am told that we
cannot top last year’s conference, I
promise we will do it again in 2015,
in Montreal, Quebec, Canada!
The burly cop walked back 125 feet
to officer Auyang. He came back 10
minutes later with a high beam traffic
ticket. The cabbie looked at the illegible
handwriting. He asked, “How much is
the fine, and are there points?” “Get out
of here,” the cop sneered. “Look at it
somewhere else.”
The cabbie pleaded innocent by mail.
He paid $31 to park in lower Manhattan,
near Ground Zero, on Sept. 18, 2014, the
day of the two Washington Street traffic
court hearings. The cabbie showed the
judge a letter from his taxi garage’s general
manager. His taxi fleet owns 350 Toyota
Prius vehicles. The letter said the fleet has
a 24/7/365 service maintenance shop. It
would have replaced all of its failed instrument clusters were they available.
The evidence letter said that failed
electronic clusters made it impossible
for drivers to know that their high beams
were on. The cabbie expected dismissal
of his ticket, with its $130 fine and two
penalty points.
Officer Auyang was never within
125 feet of the cabbie, but she said she
alone spoke to him. She lied, denying
that the cabbie ever tried to explain to
her or anyone else about the failure of the
out-of-stock electronic part. The cabbie
told the judge that Auyang was lying.
He insisted that the other male cop was
the only cop who had communicated
with him, and that Auyang was always
125 feet away. Ed Rodriguez, the shrill
5-foot-2 Heinrich Himmler-lookalike
DMV judge, shrieked, “Guilty!”
The cabbie insisted Auyang was lying. Rodriguez screamed, “Get out of
here. I’m going to arrest you!” Rodriguez
called in a goon with a five-day stubble
to arrest the cabbie.
Taxi Insider Newspaper neither
agrees or disagrees with the views of
the above writer.
Daus
In Response to EPoch Times
I have given many interviews to
journalists. Having my words twisted
a bit to fit their article is a common
occurrence, but I’ve never been as
grossly misquoted as in the Epoch
Times article - Imagine a Car Free
Central Park - by Catherine Yang. The
article’s highlight quotes me as saying
“There’s no need to spend months to
study [a car free park]... THE IMPACT
WILL BE VERY MINIMAL.” ..... My
comments to Ms. Yang were clear as
a bell and it’s MY ONLY OPINION
that the closure of the Central Park
loop will have a VERY NEGATIVE
impact on the street traffic and that
the City will have to alter the traffic
regulations if it wants to alleviate the
increased congestion in residential
neighborhoods around the park.
Some people take pride in their
work and some will do anything to
get ahead. I guess Ms. Yang belongs
in the latter category!!!...
Erhan Tuncel
Managing Director
The League of Mutual Taxi
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Average Gas Prices
NYC ECONOMY
Consumer Average Expenditures
2012/2013
This analysis is based on the 2013 survey. All monetary amounts and growth
rates have been adjusted using Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)-specific price
inflation rates published by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and are expressed in 2013 dollars. The NYC MSA’s total annual expenditure per household
in 2012/2013 was $60,791, the fourth highest among the ten MSAs.
• Between 2002/2003 and 2012/2013, average annual expenditures in the
NYC MSA declined 7.0%, while annual household income fell 6.6% to $80,862
(See Figure I.). Consumer expenditures in the NYC MSA comprised 75.2% of
total household income in 2012/2013—the second-lowest share among the ten
MSAs (Atlanta had the lowest share with 73.6%).
• Relative to other MSAs, residents of the NYC metro area spent a lower
share of total expenditures on transportation (13.5%), likely due to the availability of affordable public transit options, as well as on entertainment (4.2%),
again likely the result of the abundance of free cultural and recreational activities
offered throughout the city.
As of October 30, 2014
New York
Regular
Mid
Premium
Diesel
Current
$3.436
$3.658
$3.808
$4.105
Week Ago
$3.498
$3.712
$3.858
$4.157
Month Ago
$3.698
$3.885
$4.033
$4.286
Year Ago
$3.647
$3.842
$3.991
$4.333
• Healthcare spending in the NYC MSA grew 16% from 2002/2003 to
2012/2013. In NYC, this corresponded with an increase in the uninsurance
rate from 12% in 2002 to 20% in 2012.2 It is likely that medical expenditures
will decrease with subsequent rounds of the CE, as the Affordable Care Act
now requires that all individuals be covered by health insurance.
Transit Ridership
Total ridership on MTA subways, trains and buses in August 2014 was
218.9 million, a decrease of 1.2% from August 2013. Subway ridership in
August 2014 was 139.3 million, which was a 0.5% decrease from August
2013.
Source: Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Air Traffic
In July 2014, 11.2 million passengers flew into and out of the region’s
airports, an increase of 3.6% from July 2013. Domestic air carriers accounted for 7.0 million passengers, a 2.4% increase from July 2013. 4.2
million passengers traveled with international air carriers in July 2014, a
5.6% increase from July 2013.
Source: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Broadway Ticket Sales
Total Broadway attendance was approximately 880,000 during the four
weeks ending September 28, 2014, up 12.9% from the same period last year.
Broadway revenue during this period was about $86.8 million, up 14.1%
from last year.
Source: The Broadway League.
Hotel Occupancy
• In 2012/2013, residents in all ten MSAs allocated nearly a third or more of
their annual spending towards housing, with the highest share (39.8%) recorded
in NYC (see Figure II.). Interestingly, while the NYC MSA was highest in terms
of owned dwelling expenditures (15.5%), it was third behind Los Angeles and
San Francisco in terms of rented dwelling costs as a percentage of total annual
expenditures (9.8%). As alluded to above, however, infrastructure in these cities
may allow residents to allocate a greater percentage of their budget to housing
needs. Spending data such as these thus need to take into account “local differences” before claims can be made about relative affordability between cities.1
• At nearly $2,400 per year, residents of the NYC MSA outspent all other
MSAs in the area of education. This amount is more than 2.5 times that spent in
Dallas-Fort Worth and is nearly a third higher than the amount that New Yorkers
spent in 2002/2003.
In August 2014, the average daily hotel room rate was $264, a 3.1% increase from August 2013. Hotel occupancy was 94.1% in August 2014, up
from 91.8% in August 2013. The average daily hotel room rate increased
the most in hotels charging between $190 and $225 per night.
Employment
Private sector jobs in New York City rose by 8,000 in August 2014 after
a rise of 24,200 jobs in July 2014. Government jobs in the city rose slightly,
resulting in a net overall increase of 8,300 total private and public sector
jobs in August. Since August 2013, private sector employment has risen by
105,400 jobs or 3.1%. New York City’s unemployment rate was 7.3% in
August 2014, down from 7.8% the month prior. Between July and August
2014, the number of employed city residents decreased by 1,300, while the
number of unemployed city residents fell by 19,300.
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please send Taxi Insider any corrections or additional hotels not mentioned.
Also, when you are finished reading this issue of Taxi Insider, do not throw this
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60 Thompson Street
Between Broome and Spring Streets
226 W 54th Street at Broadway
between 7th & 8th Avenues
Benjamin Hotel
125 E 50th Street at York Avenue
70 Park Avenue
at 38th Street
Amsterdam Inn Hotel
340 Amsterdam Avenue
at W 76th St.
Bentley Hotel
500 E 62nd Street at York Avenue
Best Western Convention Center
Hotel
522 W 38th Street
414 Inn
414 W. 46th Street
Affinia 50 Suites
155 E 50th Street at 3rd Avenue
Affinia Dumont
150 E 24th Street
between 3rd & Lexington Avenues
Affinia Manhattan Hotel
(formerly the Southgate Tower Hotel)
371 Seventh Avenue at 31st Street
Algonquin Hotel
59 W 44th Street
Allerton Hotel
302 W 22nd Street
Americana Inn Hotel
69 W 38th Street
Ameritania Hotel
Amsterdam Court Hotel
Arlington Hotel
18 W 25th Street at 5th Avenue
Avalon Hotel
16 E 32nd Street
between Madison & 5th Avenues
Beacon Hotel
2130 Broadway at 75th Street
Bedford Hotel
118 E 40th Street
Beekman Tower Hotel
3 Mitchell Place 49th Street
& 1st Ave.
Belleclaire Hotel
Belnord Hotel
207 W 87th Street
between Amsterdam &
West End Aves.
Belvedere Hotel
319 W 48th Street
Best Western Hospitality
House Hotel
145 E 49th Street
Carlyle Hotel
35 E 76th Street
Carnegie Suites Hotel
229 W 58th Street
Casablanca Hotel
147 W 43rd Street
Chambers Hotel
15 W 56th Street
Hotel Chandler
12 E 31st Street off 5th Avenue
Chelsea Hotel
222 W 23rd Street
Chelsea Lodge Hotel
318 W 20th Street
Chelsea Savoy Hotel
204 W 23rd Street
Best Western President Hotel
234 W 48th Street
Chelsea Star Hotel
Best Western Seaport Inn Hotel
33 Peck Slip at Front Street
City Club Hotel
55 W 44th Street
Blakely Hotel
136 W 55th Street
Broadway Plaza Hotel
Bryant Park Hotel
40 W 40th Street
Carlton New York Hotel
88 Madison Avenue at 29th Street
Clarion Park Ave. Hotel
429 Park Avenue South at
29th Street
Club Quarters Downtown Hotel
52 William Street
between Pine & Wall Streets
Club Quarters Midtown Hotel
40 W 45th Street
Comfort Inn Central Park Hotel
31 W 71st Street
between
Central Park West & Columbus Ave.
Comfort Inn Manhattan Hotel
42 W 35th Street
between 5th & 6th Avenue
Comfort Inn Midtown Hotel
129 W 46th Street
Comfort Inn New York Hotel
442 W 36th Street
between 10th & Dyer Avenues
Cosmopolitan Hotel
125 Chambers Street at W Broadway
Courtyard Manhattan 5th Avenue
3 E 40th Street
Courtyard Midtown East Hotel
866 3rd Avenue
between 51st & 52nd Streets
Courtyard Times Square Hotel
114 W 40th Street
Crowne Plaza Times Square Hotel
1605 Broadway
between 49th & 50th Streets
1568 Broadway
Drake Swissotel Hotel
440 Park Avenue at 56th Street
Dream Hotel
210 W 55th Street bet.
7th & 8th Aves.
Dylan Hotel
52 E 41st Street at Madison Ave.
Eastgate Tower Suites Hotel
222 E 39th Street
between 2nd & 3rd Avenues
Edison Hotel
228 W 47th Street
Elysee Hotel
60 E 54th Street
between Park & Madison Avenues
Embassy Suites Hotel
102 North End Ave.
World Financial Center, Manhattan
Fairfield Inn & Suites Chelsea116 W. 28th St
(near 6th Ave)
Four Points Manhattan SoHo66 Charlton St.
(near Spring St)
Fairfield Inn & Suites Times Square
330 W. 40th St
(near 9th Ave)
Fairfield Inn & Suites Fifth Avenue
21 W. 37th St
5th Avenue Club Hotel
3 W 51st Street at 5th Avenue
Fitzpatrick Grand Central Hotel
141 E 44th Street
between 3rd & Lexington Aves.
Fitzpatrick Manhattan Hotel
687 Lexington Avenue at 57th St.
Four Points Sheraton Chelsea Hotel
160 W. 25th Street
Four Points Midtown Times Square
326 W. 40th St (near 9th Ave)
Four Seasons Hotel
57 E 57th Street
between Park & Madison Aves.
Flatotel International Hotel
135 W 52nd Street
Franklin Hotel
164 E 87th Street
Gershwin Hotel
7 E 27th Street
Giraffe Hotel
365 Park Avenue South at 26th Street
Gramercy Park Hotel
2 Lexington Avenue at 21st Street
Grand Hyatt New York Hotel
Park Avenue & 42nd street
Crowne Plaza UN Hotel
304 E 42nd Street
between 1st & 2nd Avenues
Grand Union Hotel
34 E 32nd Street
between Park & Madison Avenues
DaVinci Hotel
244 W 56th Street
(Hampshire Hotel)
Quality Times Square Hotel
157 W 47th Street
Deauville Hotel
103 E 29th Street
between Park & Lexington Avenues
Doubletree Times Square Hotel
Hampton Inn
Times Square Hotel
851 8th Avenue at 51st Street
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The Museum of the City of New
York is located at 1220 5th Ave in East
Harlem (212-534-1672, mcny.org) $10
suggested admission.
The Best Museums In NYC
Screw the Smithsonian, the Louvre,
the Prado and the Uffizi Gallery. The
best museums in the world are right
here in NYC, and there are about a
million of them, boasting everything
from 13th century folk art to curious
sex positions and embalmed baby
kittens. It’s hard to suss out which of
these are the best of the best, but we’ve
sorted out some of our favorites for
you. Leave yours—and your preferred
mummifying techniques—in the comments, and be sure to check out our
list of some of the city’s lesser-known
museums, too.
The Met
THE BIGGIES: MOMA, MET,
WHITNEY, GUGGENHEIM &
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: These five museums
include four internationally-renowned
art institutions and arguably the best
science museum in the world, and
though each one warrants its own
sprawling encomium, their virtues have
been extolled so often we’re clumping
them together to save space for some
of the city’s other worthy destinations.
Even without a mind-blowing special
exhibit, The Met’s permanent collection
is worth a five hour visit alone, boasting everything from Greek sculpture to
modern Pop art; the Cloisters, which
is also under the Met’s jurisdiction,
features some of the most spectacular
medieval and religious art in the country. MoMA’s (and its Queens satellite
PS1) permanent collection of modern
and contemporary art is unparalleled,
and the special shows that migrate
through its galleries are nothing short
of breathtaking. Past exhibitions have
focused on Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol,
Vincent Van Gogh and Rene Magritte,
and ne’er forget recent Drudge Siren
blog events like The Clock, Sleeping
Tilda and the Rain Room.
As for The Whitney, well, that
Upper East Side standby and famed
Biennial holder is on its way to a new
home in the Meatpacking District at
the end of the year. But for now, it’s
worth stopping by the bizarre Marcel
Breuer bunker to see the museum’s massive Jeff Koons retrospective, on view
through October 19th. And then there’s
the Guggenheim, whose Frank Lloyd
Wright building itself is perhaps more
famous and beautiful than some of the
artwork inside, though its compelling
collection of modern and contemporary
art is nothing to sneeze at.
And the last-but-not-least of these
most celebrated New York institutions
is the American Museum of Natural
History, where we presume gigantic
dinosaurs and the Ghost of Teddy
Roosevelt haunt the halls at night. You
don’t have to like science to appreciate
these adorable penguins, but this museum touches every aspect of biology,
ecology and geology imaginable, and
you can even take a trip into space at
the Hayden Planetarium next door.
The Museum of Modern Art is
located at 11 West 53rd Street in Midtown West (212- 708-9400, moma.
org) $25 admission. The Metropolitan
Museum of Art is located at 1000 5th
Ave at Central Park (212) 535-7710,
metmuseum.org) $25 recommended
admission. The Whitney Museum of
American Art is located at 945 Madison
Ave on the Upper East Side (212-5703600, whitney.org) $20 admission. The
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is
located at 1071 5th Ave on the Upper
East Side (212-423-3500, guggenheim.
org) $22 admission. And the American
Museum of Natural History is located
at 79th Street and Central Park West on
the Upper West Side (212-769-5100,
amnh.org) $22 suggested admission.
The Museum of The City of NY
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW
YORK: The MCNY’s been culling art,
photos and objects out of New York’s
history since it was housed in Gracie
Mansion in the 1920s. And now they’ve
got a collection of about 750,00 artifacts
squirreled away in a landmarked mansion at the northern tip of Museum Mile;
these include images made by 19th century printmaking firm Currier and Ives,
classic Broadway theater scripts, and a
12-room dollhouse that once belonged
to socialite Carrie Walter Stettheimer
and features tiny doll-sized artworks by
artists like Marcel Duchamp. MCNY
unleashes some of its collection through
ongoing and temporary exhibitions,
like “Activist New York”, “City As A
Canvas” and the erstwhile “The Greatest
Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan,
1811-2011.”
The Morgan Library & Museum
MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM: J.P. Morgan may be better known
for his financial services empire, but it
turns out he was a pretty prolific art and
manuscript collector, too. The Morgan
houses this collection, along with newer
acquisitions, in its Midtown East space,
boasting everything from original Sir
Walter Scott and Charles Dickens manuscripts, ancient Neo-Babylonian stone
cylinder seals, renowned Renaissance
artwork and Einstein’s “Fundamentals
and Methods of the Theory of Relativity.” Past and present exhibitions have
included a look at The Little Prince
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The Frick
FRICK COLLECTION: The Met
might have the city’s most famous collection of art, but the Frick may have
the most elegant. The museum, housed
in the former home of art collector
and former Andrew Carnegie partner
Henry Clay Frick, boasts an elegant
collection of primarily European art,
including works by Johannes Vermeer,
Francisco Goya, Gian Lorenzo Bernini,
Rembrandt van Rijn and François
Boucher. And though the art itself is
certainly a draw, it’s the presentation
that draws you in here; much of the
collection on view remains arranged
as it was during Frick’s lifetime, spread
out through the mansion’s rooms, halls,
vestibules and galleries. Be sure to save
time for a lengthy visit to the museum’s
spectacular Garden Court, check out
all the amazing clocks, and note that a
secret bowling alley, billiards room and
woodshop lurk beneath all that art.
The Frick is located at 1 East 70th
Street between 5th and Madison Aves
on the Upper East Side (212-288-0700,
frick.org) $20 admission.
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Manhattan Hotel List
Hampton Inn SoHo
54 Watts St
(near Varick St)
Hayden Hall Hotel
between Columbus & Amsterdam Aves.
Helmsley Carlton House Hotel
680 Madison Ave
between 61st & 62nd Sts.
Helmsley Middletowne Hotel
148 E 48th Street
between Lexington & Park Aves.
Helmsley Park Lane Hotel
36 Central Park South
Herald Square Hotel
19 W 31st Street
Hilton Garden Inn Time Square
(formerly the Days Hotel New York)
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
Holiday Inn Midtown Hotel
440 W 57th Street
Holiday Inn Wall Street Hotel
15 Gold Street at Platt Street
Hotel 17 225 E 17th Street
Between 2nd & 3rd Avenues
Hotel 31
120 E 31st Street
between Lexington & Park Avenues
Hotel 41
At Times Square 206 W 41st Street
Between 7th & 8th Avenues
between 2nd & 3rd Avenues’
La Quinta Manhattan Hotel
17 W 32nd Street
Le Parker Meridien Hotel
118 W 57th Street
Lombardy Hotel
111 E 56th Street
Lowell Hotel
28 E 63rd Street
Lucerne Hotel
201 W 79th Street at
Amsterdam Avenue
Off SoHo Suites Hotel
11 Rivington Street near Christy Street
Manhattan Seaport Suites Hotel
219 Front Street
between Pine & Wall Streets
Omni Berkshire Place Hotel
21 E 52nd Street
between Madison & 5th Avenue
Mansfield Hotel
12 W 44th Street
between 5th & 6t Avenues
On the Ave Hotel
Marcel Hotel
201 E 24th Street at 3rd Avenue
Paramount Hotel
235 W 46th Street
Maritime Hotel
Park Central Hotel
870 7th Avenue at 56th Street
Mark Hotel
25 E 77th Street
Park Savoy Hotel
158 E 58th Street
Marriott Financial Center Hotel
85 West Street
between Albany & Carlisle Streets
Park South Hotel
122 E 28th Street
Marriott East Side Hotel
525 Lexington Avenue
between 48th & 49th Street
Peninsula Hotel
Marriott Marquis Hotel
1535 Broadway at 44thStreet
Pennsylvania Hotel
401 7th Avenue
between 32nd & 33rd Streets
Mayfair Hotel
242 W 49th Street
Doubletree Metropolitan Hotel
569 Lexington Avenue at 51st Street
Korman Communities
234 E 46th Street
Palace Hotel
455 Madison Avenue
between 50th & 51st Streets
Manhattan Broadway Hotel
273 W 38th Street
Inter-Continental Barclay Hotel
111 E 48th Street
Kitano Hotel
Murray Hill Inn Hotel
143 E 30th Street
Muse Hotel
130 W 46th Street
between 6th & 7th Aves.
Madison Hotel
21 E 27th Street at Madison Avenue
Metro Hotel
45 W 35th Street
Kimberly Suites Hotel
145 E 50th Street
Murray Hill East Suites Hotel
149 E 39th Street
Novotel Hotel
226 W 52nd Street
Hudson Hotel
356 W 58th Street
Between 8th & 9th Avenues
JW Marriott Millennium
160 Central Park South
between 6th & 7th Avenues.
Morningside Inn Hotel
235 W 107th Street
between Amsterdam Ave. & Broadway
Newton Hotel
Mercer Hotel
99 Prince Street at Mercer Street
Jolly Madison Towers Hotel
Morgans Hotel
237 Madison Avenue
Affinia Gardens Suite Hotel
(formerly Lyden Gardens)
215 E 64th Street
Hotel 57
130 E 57th Street
Between Lexington & Park Avenues
Iroquois Hotel
49 W 44th Street
Moderne Hotel
243 W 55th Street
between 7th 7 8th Avenues
Michelangelo Hotel
152 W 51st Street
Milburn Hotel
242 W 76th Street
between Amsterdam & West End Aves.
Milford Plaza Hotel
Millenium Hilton Hotel
55 Church Street
between Fulton & Day Streets
Millennium Broadway Hotel
145 W 44th Street btwn. 6th & 7th Aves
Millennium UN Plaza Hotel
1 United Nations Plaza
at 1st Avenue & 44th Street
Pickwick Arms Hotel
230 E 51st Street
Pierre Hotel
2 E 61st Street at 5th Avenue
Plaza Hotel
768 5th Avenue at Central Park South
Plaza Athenee Hotel
37 E 64th Street
Portland Square Hotel
132 W 47th Street
between 6th & 7th Aves.
Premier Hotel
133 W 44th Street
Days Hotel Broadway
215 W 94th Street
Radio City Suites Hotel
142 W 49th Street
Radisson Lexington Hotel
511 Lexington Avenue at 49th Street
Ramada Inn Eastside Hotel
Ramada New Yorker Hotel
Renaissance Hotel
Regency Hotel
540 Park Avenue at 61st Street
Rihga Royal Hotel
151 W 54th Street
Riverside Terrace Hotel
350 W 88th Street
between West End Ave. & Riverside Drive
Riverside Inn Hotel
319 W 94th Street
between West End Ave. & Riverside Drive
Riverside Tower Hotel
80 Riverside Drive at 81st Street
Roger Smith Hotel
Roger Williams Hotel
131 Madison Avenue at 31st Street
Roosevelt Hotel
Royalton Hotel
44 W 44th Street
Salisbury Hotel
123 W 57th Street
San Carlos Hotel
150 E 50th Street
Shelburne Murray Hill Hotel
Sheraton Manhattan Hotel
790 Seventh Avenue
between 51st & 52nd Streets
Sheraton New York Hotel
811 Seventh Avenue
Sheraton Russell Hotel
Sherry Netherland Hotel
Shoreham Hotel
33 W 55th Street
Signature Suites
Greenwich Village Hotel
160 Bleecker Street
between Thomson & Sullivan Sts.
Skyline Hotel
725 Tenth Avenue at 49th Street
Sofitel Hotel
45 W 44th Street
SoHo Grand Hotel
310 W Broadway
between Canal & Grand Streets
Solita SoHo Hotel
159 Grand St
St. Regis Hotel
2 E 55th Street at 5th Avenue
Stanford Hotel
43 W 32nd Street
between 5th Avenue
& Broadway
Super 8 Times Square Hotel
59 W 46th Street
Surrey Suites Hotel
20 E 76th Street
Thirty Thirty Hotel
30 E 30th Street
Time Hotel
224 W 49th Street
Travel Inn Hotel
515 W 42nd Street
TriBeCa Grand Hotel
2 6th Avenue
between White & Walker Streets
Trump International Hotel
1 Central Park West
at Columbus Circle
W Court Hotel
130 E 39th Street
W New York Hotel
W Tuscany Hotel
120 E 39th Street
Waldorf Astoria Hotel
301 Park Avenue
Wales Hotel
1295 Madison Avenue
Wall Street Inn Hotel
9 South William Street
between Broad Street & Old Slip
Warwick Hotel
Washington Jefferson Hotel
318 W 51st Street
Washington Square Hotel
103 Waverly Place
at MacDougal Street
Wellington Hotel
West End Studios Hotel
850 West End Avenue
between 101st &102nd Streets
Westin NEw York Grand Central
212 E 42nd Street
West Park Hotel
308 W 58th Street
West Side Inn Hotel
237 W 107th Street
Wolcott Hotel
4 W 31st Street
between 5th Avenue & Broadway
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Construction Progress and New
“Build It Back” Goals
By David Pollack
At a press conference, Mayor the de Blasio administration has made
de Blasio made an announcement sweeping changes to Build it Back as
outside the Broad Channel home of part of the Mayor’s overhaul, resulting
Jayme and John Galimi whose home in the significant progress the program
was destroyed by Sandy. The Galili’s is now seeing.
and their five children are expected
“It’s great to see significant progto return home by Christmas. Nearly ress being made on Sandy recovery
half of the program’s active applicants efforts for thousands of homeowners
-- approximately 6,400 homeowners as a result of Mayor de Blasio’s over-- have been made an offer by Build haul of the ‘Build it Back’ program,”
it Back, compared to only 451 at the said Manhattan Borough President
beginning of the year. Nearly 4,000 Gale A. Brewer.
have accepted an offer from Build
“I am glad to see that additional
it Back, and over 1,500 have started residents affected by superstorm
design – both compared to zero at the Sandy are receiving reimbursement
beginning of the year.
for work they moved forward on after
There have been 727 construction the storm and more housing is being
starts and 878 reimbursement checks rebuilt,” said Queens Borough Presisent to date – also compared to zero dent Melinda Katz. “I look forward
at the beginning of the year.
to working closely with the Mayor in
Mayor de Blasio announced today order to get every resident back into
that Build it Back is committing to their homes.”
hitting 1,000 construction starts and
“We are proud to join Mayor Bill de
1,500 reimbursement checks by De- Blasio today in Broad Channel to ancember 31st.
nounce the City’s new rebuilding and
“Nearly two years after Sandy, reimbursement goals for Superstorm
there’s nothing more important than Sandy impacted residents. Friends of
getting families home – and as a result Rockaway, a nonprofit construction
of our overhaul, that’s finally happen- contractor, is thrilled to partner with
ing,” said Mayor de Blasio. “We’re Build it Back and the City of NewYork
committed to 1,000 construction starts in the Choose Your Own Contractor
and 1,500 reimbursement checks by program. This strong partnership and
December 31st, while dramatically collaboration between the government
expanding our design and construc- and local community organizations
tion capacity. We know there’s much will ensure these goals are met, and
work ahead, and Build it Back will that hardworking families find clear,
continue to expedite relief until every prompt, and efficient paths to recovhomeowner is served.”
ery,” said Hunter Johansson, Friends
Since the beginning of the year, of Rockaway.
NYC ECONOMY
Industry
Aug 2014
By David Pollack
It is no secret that full time taxi use new bike lanes for racing nor have
drivers today are driving 30% fewer similar accidents to those publicized
miles per shift than before dedicated in Central Park. Here is a new idea for
bike lanes and docking stations were bikers: STOP FOR RED LIGHTS just
constructed. With multiple streets like vehicles do! And while we are at
reduced to one lane making way for it, those city officials in favor of this
bike stations and in some cases streets expansion should yell for mandating
closed, like Park Avenue between helmets, mandating rider insurance
41st Street and 42nd Street, traffic is and mandating license plates just
NOT moving faster as DOT surveys like MTA buses and Access-A-Ride
claim. Of course if you conduct a vehicles have. This may be too much
survey at 7:00 AM instead of 8:30 red tape for city regulators who have
AM or a survey at 7:00 PM instead thrown any respect for vehicles out
of 5:30 PM, your results will be the window, unless they serve buses
extremely different. This way, DOT or bikes.
To those who claim biking benefits
can still claim traffic moves faster
with designated bike lanes and left like fighting obesity, no fossil fuels,
and no pollution, I say look at the
turn lanes. Bull!
6,000 more bikes will initially thousands of cars stuck in traffic in
appear on the streets of Queens and Manhattan causing more pollution
Brooklyn thanks to Bikeshare Hold- and using more fuel as a direct result
ings investing $30 million and hiring of dedicated bike and bus lanes. Do
former MTA Chief Jay Walder. This bikers understand the needs of the
is the same Jay Walder who once told elderly population in New York City
me that the MTA Taxi Tax of 50 cents who find bikers a threat on the streets
per taxi fare will stay, regardless if and who cannot ride a bike due to
the MTA becomes profitable. OH, health reasons? One day, when bikers
and for you dedicated bike users, get old and their knees are aching or
your $95 is going to be $149, at least their hips become too brittle to walk
on, only then will they understand the
for this year.
Hopefully rogue bikers will not way real biking rules of the road and
Change from
Jul 2014
Change from
Aug 2013
FIRE
441,115
441,706
-591
3,458
Finance and Insurance
317,822
318,501
-679
660
Securities
162,494
163,623
-1,129
-2,581
Banking
92,629
92,296
333
2,388
Other
62,699
62,582
117
853
Real Estate
123,293
123,205
88
2,799
SERVICES
2,277,594
2,273,174
4,420
78,548
Information
180,233
179,436
797
-189
Professional and Business
660,002
658,657
1,345
12,851
Professional, Scientific, & Technical Services
378,839
379,708
-869
10,975
Management of Companies & Enterprises
69,569
68,524
1,045
1,968
Administrative Services
211,593
210,426
1,167
-93
Educational
216,833
217,631
-798
23,554
Health & Social Assistance
641,687
637,944
3,743
23,110
78,936
79,126
-190
2,597
Accommodation & Food
320,141
321,286
-1,145
12,999
Other
179,762
179,094
668
3,625
TRADE
500,716
499,493
1,223
16,827
Retail
356,619
354,638
1,981
15,421
Wholesale
144,097
144,855
-758
1,406
77,390
76,278
1,112
991
125,840
125,103
737
4,728
Arts & Entertainment
MANUFACTURING
TRANSPORTATION AND UTILITIES
Is Citibike Expansion Progress?
Jul 2014
CONSTRUCTION
124,977
123,859
1,118
4,092
TOTAL PRIVATE
3,547,632
3,539,613
8,019
108,644
540,606
540,355
251
-3,324
4,088,238
4,079,969
8,269
105,320
GOVERNMENT
TOTAL (Private + Government)
Manhattan
Office Market In September 2014, the Manhattan Class A direct vacancy rate
fell to 9.3% while the average rental rate rose slightly to $74 PSF. In the same
month, the Downtown Class A direct vacancy rate fell to 9.3% and the rental
rate remained at $54 PSF. The Manhattan Class A sublease vacancy rate was
1.8% in September 2014—the same as the previous month.
Construction
For the twelve months ending August 2014: Building projects (including
new, additions, and alterations) that started construction in NYC rose by 24.3%,
and infrastructure (non-building) project starts were up 4.0% from the twelve
months ending August 2013. Planned space for building project starts rose by
1.3% from the same period in 2013. 3,093 residential building project starts
began construction, a 28.0% increase from the twelve months ending in August
2013. These starts contained 24,013 units, an increase of 4.9% from last year.
all bikers should operate.. Bikes are
more dangerous in certain instances
than cars. Now why does a bike
company need a former MTA chief
who also fixed Tokyo transportation
issues? And foolish me thought we
were only talking about bicycles. I
guess bicycles need a former MTA
chief, I guess bicycles need $30
million, I guess bicycles need Park
Avenue closed, I guess bicycles need
dedicated bike lanes. I guess the nonbike riding majority of NewYorkers
need to shut up or they will be accused of stopping progress and being
against the environment. Nothing can
be further from the truth. Is this what
we call progress? Hardly.
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The International Association of
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named Frederick Amoafo of New York
City its International Driver of the Year.
The honors ceremony was held as part of
the not-for-profit regulatory organization’s 27th annual conference in New
Orleans, Louisiana, on September 23,
2014. This is the first time in the group’s
long history that a New York City driver
has been chosen for the honor.
Amoafo, 46, was recognized earlier
this month by the New York City Taxi
and Limousine Commission along with
294 of his colleagues for his dedication
to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Vision Zero
traffic safety plan, and for having a spotless safe driving record for a minimum
of five years. Amoafo distinguished
himself in that field, having driven his
cab 190,000 miles without a single
violation or injury-producing crash. An
independent medallion owner, Amoafo
has driven a taxi in NYC since arriving
there from his home in Accra Ghana
in 1992. The married father of three
(a 17-year-old son, and twin 13-yearold girls) purchased his medallion in
2007.
Having graced the cover of the New
York Daily News the day after his NYC
Welcoming the International Driver of the Year Fred Amoafo (second from left)
upon his arrival in New Orleans in a brand new wheelchair accessible taxicab, are
left to right, IATR President Matthew Daus, NY Daily News reporter Pete Donohue,
IATR Board Chairman Tom Drischler, and Michael Shank of Mobility Works, who
donated the taxicab for the long drive from NYC to NOLA. Photo Wim Faber/www.
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(L-R) Fred Amoafo receives the IATR’s
International Driver of the Year Award
on board the Creole Queen Steamboat
in New Orleans, accompanied by IATR
President Matt Daus and NYC TLC
Commissioner Meera Joshi. Photo
courtesy of NYC Taxi & Limousine
Commission.
award, the honoree continued to turn
heads by driving from New York City
to New Orleans in a taxicab provided
by Mobility Works for the trip – painted
half yellow and half green in a nod to
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Meet The TLC Commissioners
Created in 1971 by Local Law
No. 12, the Taxi and Limousine
Commission is a Charter-mandated
agency, the purpose of which is the
continuance, further development
and improvement of taxi and for-hire
service in the City of New York. The
Commission is also responsible for
licensing and regulating for-hire vehicle, commuter van and wheelchair
accessible van services as it relates to
the overall public transportation network of the city; to establish taxicab
rates, standards of service, standards
of insurance and minimum coverage;
standards for driver safety; standards
for equipment safety and design; and
standards and criteria for the licensing of vehicles, drivers and operators
engaged in such services.
The Commission’s Board consists
of nine members, eight of whom are
unsalaried Commissioners to be appointed by the Mayor with the advice
and consent of the city council; five
of said members, one resident from
each of the five boroughs of New
York City, shall be recommended for
appointment by a majority vote of the
councilmembers of each respective
borough. The salaried Chair/Commissioner presides over regularly
scheduled public Commission meetings, and is the head of the agency.
MEERA JOSHI
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
Meera Joshi has served New York
City residents in City government for
more than a decade. Most recently,
she was the Deputy Commissioner
of Legal Affairs and General Counsel for the New York City Taxi and
Limousine Commission. During
her tenure she developed regulatory
frameworks for over thirty initiatives
which significantly improved for-hire
transportation service in New York
City. These included such initiatives as enhancements to the in-taxi
technology, including the ability to
pay fares by smart phone; accessible
dispatch to connect persons who use
wheelchairs to wheelchair accessible
taxis, and rules implementing the
Street Hail Livery (green cab) program. Commissioner Joshi was also
a principal architect of a settlement
with disability advocates that will
result in a 50% wheelchair accessible
taxi fleet by the year 2020, making
New York City’s fleet the most ac-
by the Daily News’ veteran transportation reporter/columnist Pete Donohue,
who chronicled the journey along with
photographers and a videographer.
Said IATR President Matthew W.
Daus: “Taxi Commissioners around
the world hailed Fred for being a true
role model for taxi drivers everywhere,
by selecting him as International Driver
of the Year for being the safest NYC
cab driver. Fred also highlighted NYC
Mayor de Blasio’s Said IATR International Driver of the Year Fred Amoafo,
“Every day I go to work, my number
one priority is getting all my passengers
safely to their destination in one of
the busiest cities in the world. I would
like to use this platform to share a few
words with my fellow drivers around
the world: Please appreciate and respect
your passengers. Obey traffic regulations and rules and most importantly,
choose safety over speed.”
Said New York City Mayor Bill de
Blasio, “We are so proud to have one of
New York City’s own honored for his
service to our city and its riders. Taxi
drivers set the tone for our streets, and
when they drive safely and treat their
fellow New Yorkers with respect, it
helps protect all of us. We congratulate
cessible in the nation by far.
She previously served as the First
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New York City Civilian Complaint
Review Board, an agency tasked with
investigating complaints of police
misconduct. In addition to improving the quality and efficiency of the
agency’s investigations, she was responsible for initiation of a landmark
prosecution program that resulted in
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Justice and the Taxi and Limousine
Commission.
Commissioner Joshi received her
B.A. and J.D. from the University of
Pennsylvania, and resides with her
family in Brooklyn.
ELIAS AROUT
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born and raised on Staten Island,
graduating from Alexander Hamilton
Vocational High School, and has actively represented his home borough
on the Commission since 1988.
A consummate community volunteer since 1957, Commissioner
Arout is also a veteran of the Armed
Forces and a retired member of the
Housing Police. Commissioner Arout
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Knights of Columbus as well as a
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is also a Former County Commander
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with the TLC was his instrumental
role in the opening of the Staten
Island Taxi and Limousine Commission Licensing and Adjudication
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signing copies of I Must Say
11/2/14 2:00 PM at BookEnds
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11/3/14 7:00 PM at Barnes & Noble
Union Square. New York, NY.
John Cleese, Monty Python member
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Jimmy Page, leader of Led Zeppelin
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Darryl McDaniels, DMC of Run-DMC
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11/6/14 6:30 PM at Midtown Comics
Fulton Street. New York, NY.
Bill Nye, the Science Guy
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Route 17 South. Paramus, NJ.
Bob Odenkirk, star of “Mr. Show” and “Breaking Bad”
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11/9/14 1:00 PM at McNally Jackson Books
Prince Street. New York, NY.
Anson Williams, Potsie on “Happy Days”
signing copies of Singing To A Bulldog
Broadway. New York, NY.
Andrew Dice Clay, stand up comedian
signing copies of The Filthy Truth
Fifth Avenue. New York, NY.
Richmond Avenue. Staten Island, NY.
Old Country Road. Carle Place, NY.
Andy Cohen, host of “Watch What Happens: Live”
signing copies of The Andy Cohen Diaries
11/11/14 7:00 PM Book Revue
New York Avenue. Huntington, NY.
Fashion Institute of Technology. New York, NY.
Alicia Keys, singer & songwriter
signing copies of Blue Moon
Warren Street. New York, NY.
Amanda Palmer, singer for the Dresden Dolls and solo artist
signing copies of The Art of Asking
Evangeline Lilly, star of “Lost” and “The Hobbit”
signing copies of The Squickerwonkers
Warren Street. New York, NY.
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
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
Brooke Shields, film & TV star
signing copies of There Was A Little Girl
Al Michaels, host of Sunday Night Football
signing copies of You Can’t Make This Up
11/20/14 7:00 PM Book Revue
New York Avenue. Huntington, NY.
Ray Lucas, former NY Jets star
signing copies of Under Pressure
Rutgers University. New Brunswick, NJ.
Russell Brand, star of “Get Him To the Greek”
signing copies of The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Danny Aiello, star of “Do the Right Thing” and “Hudson Hawk”
signing copies of I only Know Who I Am When I Am Somebody Else
Route 17 South. Paramus, NJ.
Anthony Kiedis, lead singer
signing copies of Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Best Museums In NYC
author Antoine Saint-Expurey, J.D.
Salinger’s love letters, and first edition
works by modern masters like William
Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Allen
Ginsberg; book nerds will also appreciate Pierpont Morgan’s sublime library,
which was restored to its 1906 glory a
few years ago.
The Morgan is located at 225
Madison Ave between 36th and 37th
Street in Midtown East (212-685-0008,
themorgan.org) $18 admission.
special stuff, though, this second largest
museum in NYC has a massive permanent collection, with noteworthy works
including Judy Chicago’s celebrated
feminist installation The Dinner Party,
Gilbert Stuart’s 1796 portrait of George
Washington (used on the $1 bill!) and
many, many mummies, which once gave
an acquaintance of my grandmother’s
a rash back in the 1940s.
The Brooklyn Museum is located at
200 East Parkway at Washington Ave
in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. (718638-5000, brooklynmuseum.org) $12
suggested admission.
commissioned subway station, and you
can peek into a functional control room
to see the whole system at work.
The New York Transit Museum is
located at Boerum Place and Schermerhorn Street in Brooklyn Heights,
Brooklyn (718-694-1600, mta.info/
mta/museum). $7 admission.
crisis. You can marvel at a portion of
Keith Haring’s Pop Shop ceiling at
the admissions desk, or snap photos
of the statues of Abraham Lincoln and
Frederick Douglass perched outside the
museum’s two entrances.
The New York Historical Society
is located at 170 Central Park West
at 77th Street on the Upper West Side
(212-873-3400, nyhistory.org).
New York Historical Society
The Queens Museum
QUEENS MUSEUM: The Queens
Museum never gets enough love, and
that’s a real shame. The four-decade old
art institution is a cultural gem, located
in a pavilion building built specifically
for the 1939 World’s Fair and used
briefly as headquarters for the United
Nations General Assembly. Now, the
Queens Museum harbors a hefty collection of fine arts, Tiffany glass, and
collections stemming from the 1939 and
1964 Worlds Fairs, the latter of which is
currently on view as part of temporary
exhibition Behind the Curtain: Collecting the New York Fairs.
But the museum’s best and most
famous offering is its Panorama of the
City of New York, a 9,335-square-foot
model of the city’s five boroughs that
was originally commissioned by Robert Moses for the 1964 World’s Fair.
Though the panorama hasn’t undergone a full-throttle update since 1992,
developments like Brooklyn Bridge
Park and Citi Field have slowly gotten
added over time thanks to the museum’s
“Adopt A Building” program, though it
seems Williamsburg’s condos have yet
to receive treatment in miniature.
The Queens Museum is located at
the New York City Building in Flushing
Meadows Corona Park (718-592-9700,
queensmuseum.org) $8 suggested
admission.
The Museum of Moving Image
THE MUSEUM OF MOVING IMAGE: You don’t have to be a film buff to
enjoy MoMI’s expansive special exhibitions on, say, The Muppets, or Breaking
Bad. But if you do love movies, this
Astoria museum is stuffed with all sorts
of memorabilia, interactive exhibitions
and special programming that’ll tickle
your inner cinephile. MoMI’s ongoing
exhibition, “Behind The Screen,” runs
through the history of cinema, tackling
everything from the earliest moving
picture camera to makeup from Sex And
The City. They also hold frequent film
screenings—all summer long, they’ve
been continuously showing films from
the 1939 and 1964 Worlds Fairs, and recent screening offerings have included
The Searchers, 2001: A Space Odyssey
and the original Godzilla. Stay tuned for
their upcoming permanent Jim Henson
installation, planned for 2015.
The Museum of the Moving Image
is located at 3601 35th Ave in Astoria,
Queens (718-777-6888, movingimage.
us). $12 admission.
New York Transit Museum
The Brooklyn Museum
BROOKLYN MUSEUM: The
Brooklyn Museum has really been on a
roll this century with a series of blockbuster exhibits, including 2008’s stellar
Takashi Murakami show, 2012’s Keith
Haring exhibition, last year’s innovative
Jean Paul Gaultier show, “Ai Weiwei:
According to What?” which is on view
until August 10th, and a site-specific
piece by street artist Swoon. Beyond the
NEWYORK TRANSIT MUSEUM:
Visiting the New York Transit Museum
is a bit like traveling back in time.
The nation’s only museum dedicated
to public transportation, the NYTM
boasts an astonishing collection of MTA
memorabilia, not the least of which is
its collection of antique subway cars,
complete with antique ads that predate
Dr. Zizmor. You can also peruse an
extensive collection of subway tokens
(ah, memories of watching my bus fare
roll under a car...) and fare collectors,
and for the young and young at heart,
there’s a child-sized taxi cab, trolley car
and bus to play on. It’s also noteworthy
that the museum is located inside a de-
NEWYORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: When I was a child, there was an
exhibit in the basement of the New York
Historical Society dubbed “Kid City,”
in which the museum had transformed
West 82nd Street and Broadway into a
tot-friendly version of its 1901 self. I
spent many hours there commandeering
a turn-of-the-century grocer’s market
and forcing other children to make deliveries to the neighboring horse goods
store, and though “Kid City” has since
been replaced with a larger children’s
exhibition, I like to think it taught me
a lot about New York’s history—what
nine-year-old knew Central Park didn’t
simply sprout fully-formed out of the
ground? The NYHS underwent a major
renovation a few years ago, and it’s
since returned with some excellent
programming.
There is, for instance, a show featuring 90 artworks by Madeline creator
Ludwig Bemelmans; through the end
of the month, the museum is showing
work by street style photographer Bill
Cunningham, and past exhibitions have
included works from the 1913 Armory
Show and a look at the city’s AIDS
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT
MUSEUM: This is another one for
the time travelers. This 19th century
five-story tenement building housed
around 7,000 immigrants from the
1860s to the 1930s, and the Tenement Museum’s restored the rooms
to mirror what they looked like from
the 1860s to the 1930s. Museum staff
provide guided tours of the rooms and
businesses, which include a garment
workshop and a German saloon; there
are even costumed staff members who
take on the characters of the building’s
former residents. Beyond the Orchard
Street building, the museum provides
walking tours of the neighborhood to
remind you of what the LES was like
before Max Fish moved in (and then
out, and then back in again).
The Tenement Museum is located
at 103 Orchard Street between Broome
and Delancey Streets on the Lower East
Side (212) 982-8420, tenement.org).
$25 admission.
Reprinted with permission from The
Gothamist and Rebecca Fishbein.
Book Signings
Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul, & Mary
signing copies of Peter, Paul, & Mary
Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House
signing copies of Breakout
Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut
signing copies of You Are Here
NYC Mayor
Mr. Amoafo on his award.”
Said NYC Taxi and Limousine Commissioner Meera Joshi, “Fred has just
inspired us all with his dedication to his
profession, to his fellow drivers, but most
of all, to the public that he serves so well.
He has shined a well-deserved spotlight
on our city, but in doing so, he provides
a positive example for his brother and
sister professional transportation providers around the world.”
Upon arriving in New Orleans, an
elated Amoafo was made grand marshall
of a parade through the famed French
Quarter, waving and tossing beads as tradition demands, to the cheers of onlookers.
The next evening, the humble cabbie was
officially presented with his title at the
IATR’s gala dinner, on a riverboat.
Events For You and Your Passengers in The Big Apple
Broadway Shows
Off Broadway Shows
A DELICATE BALANCE
Golden Theatre
MATILDA THE MUSICAL
Shubert Theater
50 SHADES! THE MUSICAL
Elektra Theatre
673 Eighth Avenue
A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO
LOVE AND MURDER
Walter Kerr Theatre
MOTOWN THE MUSICAL
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
AVENUE Q
New World Stages
ONCE
Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
BEDBUGS!!!
ArcLight Theater
ON THE TOWN
Lyric Theatre
214 West 43rd Street
BLACK ANGELS OVER
TUSKEGEE
Actors Temple Theatre
ALADDIN
New Amsterdam Theatre
BEAUTIFUL
THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL
Stephen Sondheim Theatre
CABARET
Studio 54
CHICAGO
Ambassador Theatre
CONSTELLATIONS
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
DISGRACED
Lyceum Theatre
HEDWIG AND THE
ANGRY INCH
Belasco Theatre
HONEYMOON
IN VEGAS
Brooks Atkinson Theatre
IF/THEN
Richard Rodgers Theatre
INTO THE WOODS
Laura Pels Theatre
IT’S ONLY A PLAY
Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
JERSEY BOYS
August Wilson Theater
KINKY BOOTS
Al Hirshfield Theater
LES MISERABLES
Imperial Theatre
LOVE LETTERS
Nederlander Theatre
MAMMA MIA
Winter Garden Theatre
1634 Broadway
ON THE TWENTIETH
CENTURY
American Airlines Theatre
BLUE MAN GROUP
Astor Plae Theatre
PIPPIN
Music Box Theatre
COUGAR THE MUSICAL
St. Lukes Theatre
ROCK OF AGES
Heen Hayes Theatre
FOUND
Linda Gross Theater
R & H’S CINDERELLA
The Broadway Theatre
1681 Broadway
GAZILLION BUBBLE SHOW
New World Stages
SIDE SHOW
St. James Theatre
GOING ONCE! LAUGHING
TWICE!!
St. Luke’s Theatre
THE BOOK OF MORMON
Eugene O’Neil Theatre
THE COUNTRY HOUSE
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
HEREAFTER
Snapple Theater Center
HERE LIES LOVE
The Public Theater
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF
THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
ILUMINATE
New World Stages
THE ELEPHANT MAN
Booth Theatre
INDIAN INK
Laura Pels Theatre
THE ILLUSIONISTS
Marquis Theatre
1535 Broadway
IT’S JUST SEX
THE LAST SHIP
Neil Simon Theatre
LA SOIRÉE
Union Square Theatre
THE LION KING
Minskoff Theatre
LENNON: THROUGH A GLASS
ONION
Union Square Theatre
THE PHANTOM OF
THE OPERA
Majestic Theatre
THE REAL THING
American Airlines Theatre
LIPS TOGETHER, TEETH
APART
Second Stage Theatre
MONDAY NIGHT MAGIC
Theatre 80
80 Saint Marks Place
MY BIG GAY
ITALIAN FUNERAL
MY BIG GAY
ITALIAN WEDDING
NATIONAL LAMPOON
PRESENTS
BAYSIDE! THE MUSICAL!
Theatre 80
80 St. Marks Place
OLYMPICS ÜBER ALLES
PERFECT CRIME
Snapple Theatre Center
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
SHUT UP SIT DOWN AND EAT
The Players Theatre
115 MacDougal Stret
SISTAS: THE MUSICAL
St. Lukes Theatre
SLEEPY HOLLOW
THE MUSICAL
The Players Theatre
115 MacDougal Street
STALKING THE BOGEYMAN
New World Stages
STOMP
Orpheum Theatre
126 Second Avenue
TAIL! SPIN!
Lynn Redgrave Theater
45 Bleecker Street
THE BERENSTAIN BEARS
The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theatre
5 West 63rd Street
THE BELLE OF AMHERST
Westside Theatre
THE BULLPEN
The Playroom Theater
THE FANTASTICKS
Snapple Theater Center
Tugboats and Taxis of NYC
Tugboats and Taxis of NYC is a collection of short stories about the different
commuters in the city that never sleeps
from a cab driver’s perspective. It reflects
the daily experiences of the different kinds
of people you will see in New York City.
This witty cab driver in the big apple will
surely make your everyday worthwhile.
Filled with euphemisms, humor, drama,
love, and even a bit of sarcasm, Tugboats
and Taxis of NYC will definitely make
you want, or not, to ride this cab. Read
on. You never know, you might just read
your own story.
About the Author
Michael Scanlon currently lives in
Brooklyn, New York.
Want to take a ride on an emotional
roller coaster? Laugh, cry, cheer and jeer
with a sense of danger and excitement all
within a few minutes. Just read a few of
the short stories from Michael Scanlon’s
book, Tugboats and Taxis of NYC.
As a taxi driver and deck hand on a
NYC Harbor Tugboat, Michael had to
deal with the issues at hand. Michael’s
inspiration for the book came from his
work, the play and laughter with constant
danger and tensions on the waters that
surround NYC twenty-four hours a day.
The book moves you to all sorts of places
emotionally. There are 1,440 minutes a
day, now experience a fast pace New
York minute with Tugboats and Taxis of
NYC. Get ready to be amazed and dazzled
by these adventurous and misadventure
moments of emotions. You will ride and
sail, just as Michael has.
Drive through the streets of New
York City with your ever so friendly cab
driver in town.
THE RIVER
Circle in The Square Theatre
West 50th Street
THIS IS OUR YOUTH
Cort Theatre
WICKED
Gershwin Theater
YOU CAN’T TAKE IT
WITH YOU
Longacre Theatre
Off-Broadway
Shows
THE FATAL WEAKNESS
Mint Theater
311 West 43rd Street - 3rd fl.
THE HARLEM RENS
THE KILLING OF SISTER
GEORGE
Beckett Theatre
Stuck In Central Park
I pick up two women from the Port
Authority of New York Bus Terminal
on 42nd Street in Manhattan. They said
they wanted to go to the Upper East
Broadway
Shows
Side. I said o.k. I’ll go through the park
it will be faster and cheaper. I take 6th
Ave up to the park. We go inside the
park and there is some construction
going on. I try to avoid the small construction zone by going over a medium
which had some construction cones on
it. Now usually you can run over them
without too much of a problem, but
problems seem to be my nature. As I
get on the medium I get stuck. I lose
traction with the road, the rear tires
are just spinning. A construction cone
folded upon itself like an accordion
under my axel, it piled up on itself and
raised up the rear of the taxi. I tried to
push the cab, rock the cab but nothing
changed. Just another one of my, it
can only happen to me moments again
I’m thinking to myself. I tell the two
women, ladies unfortunately you’re
going to have to help me push. They
were looking at me as if I were crazy.
It’s either you push or you walk from
the park. Just open up your door and
lean on it, were going to push the taxi
together, come on let’s go. They get out
and open the door and lean on it as I
give a push from the rear. The taxi rolls
forward, we now have traction back.
We get back inside and I turned off the
meter. Ladies this ride is on me due to
this minor catastrophe. Thank you one
of them replied. Your welcome I said.
One of the ladies said Sir you probably
don’t realize it but were both wearing
high heels. You probably don’t realize
it but so am I! Welcome to New York!
I guess you can say were just having
a New York moment ladies.
THE LION, THE WITCH AND
THE WARDROBE
St. Lukes Theatre
THE WONDERFUL WIZARD
OF SONG: THE MUSIC OF
HAROLD ARLEN
UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL
The Public Theater
WHILE I YET LIVE
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Rwanda
The Life of a
Female Taxi Driver
The taxi business is male dominated and traditionally, society still
frowns at a woman who works as a
taxi driver.
36-year-old Amina Umuhoza is
one of the very few women in the
taxi business in Kigali. “I have been
doing this job for the last six years.
It’s paying off. I take care of my four
children and also have money for
upkeep,” Umuhoza reveals. “Most
of my clients are customers of hotels
who I have to drop to or pick from
the airport. I don’t take anyone I
don’t know in the night,” Umuhoza
explains. Umuhoza says her start up
capital was Rwf 5.5million which she
got as a loan. She attributes her determination and success to a troubled
life she endured at a tender age.
“Getting married at a tender age
to a man who had another wife is
the worst thing that could happen
to anyone because we shared the
same home with my co-wife. The
man was 25 years older than me. I
was constantly abused. My husband
and co-wife would beat me. I didn’t
have anywhere to go. I lived a life of
bondage,” Umuhoza sadly recalls. I
started attending women empower-
ment programmes at the district level.
I got some money to sell vegetables,”
says Umuhoza. She adds that the
profits from the vegetables were not
enough forcing her to try her luck at
learning how to drive with hope of
securing a job as a driver. “Within 17
days, I had learnt how to drive and
secured a driving permit. The sad bit
was for eight years, no company hired
me because I didn’t have academic
qualifications.”
“There were offers by Banque
Populaire du Rwanda for women
to access loans. One woman could
get a loan that was not more than
five million Rwandan francs and ten
women in a cooperative would get
more. I decided to get a personal loan
to avoid the technicalities that come
with payment of the loan if you are a
group. I used the loan to buy the car
that I use for the taxi business,” Umuhoza narrates. In Rwanda, women
have increasingly been empowered
to be independent through several
programmes.
“Today my children are in boarding school. My eldest son is in senior
four along with a son I adopted, the
second born is in senior three and the
last born is in primary four. I believe
education is the best gift I can give to
my sons. I want them to live a good
life and they can get that through
education,” Umuhoza says.
She adds: “Empowering a woman
is empowering a family and the community. I never went far in academics but the confidence from women
empowerment programmes helped
me get out of the abusive marriage. I
can express myself in English because
most of my customers are foreigners.
Today I’m a happy woman.”
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Taxi Fares
Go Up 8%
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Available Free
Now that I have your attention,
no, it is not in New York city but in
Las Vegas. The Nevada Taxicab Authority has approved a rate hike that
would make Clark County cab rides
the second most expensive among
mainland metropolitan areas with
tourism-based economies.
The Authority approved a more
than 8 percent rate increase, although
it’s unclear when the new prices will
take effect. The authority must first
get approval to use funds that will
pay overtime for vehicle inspectors
and change the meters on about 3,000
cabs operating in Las Vegas.
The base taxi rate will rise from
$3.30 to $3.45, with the cost per onethirteenth mile rising from 20 cents
to 22 cents. This is the first time the
rates have changed since 2008. The
new taxi fares will be higher than New
York and San Francisco, but lower
than Atlantic City’s rates.
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