Sentences with phrase «in yellow cab»

The maker of the «Taxi of Tomorrow» uses the same NV200 shell, which was chosen to cart customers in Yellow Cab form around America's Gotham City.

The former speaker of the State Assembly, Sheldon Silver, left the courthouse in a yellow cab.

An hour later, after he had secured Silver in a yellow cab that sped away on Centre Street, Cohen was asked how his client was feeling.

It's not that complicated: These drivers are basically fulfilling the role of taxi driver as far as tipping norms are concerned, so add gratuity as though you're in a yellow cab.

For decades New York City passengers in yellow cabs have suffered severe injuries and due to the limited required coverage were unable to recover the full extent of their damages.

Not exact matches

The data also shows declining revenues from yellow cab fares — in the first half of 2014, cabbies collected $ 1.06 billion; in the same time period this year, that revenue figure fell to $ 981 million.

The IdleAire system consists of big yellow accordionlike tubes that plug into a dock installed in the cab window.

New data shows that Uber and Lyft are becoming more popular than yellow and green cabs in New York City.

I dreamed that Zoe darted out into NYC traffic (worst of all, in front of a yellow cab).

In addition to expanding taxi service to the city's outer boroughs, it would also add 1,500 yellow cab medallion licenses.

«We now have yellow cabs and black cars and green cars and every color in the rainbow,» he said.

And he, along with other elected officials, filed a lawsuit against Mayor Bloomberg and the Taxi and Limousine Commission for its pilot e-hail program, in which yellow cabs would employ smartphone technology to pick up fares.

Mr. Blake related his own experiences having difficulty hailing traditional yellow cabs as an African - American, and the struggles his constituents have in looking for gainful work.

It is welcome news, however, to yellow cab drivers, who wore yellow cowboy hats in City Council chambers Thursday to show their support for the bill.

On Friday night, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a fiscal year 2019 budget that includes a $ 2.75 surcharge (the cost of a subway ride) on for - hire vehicles, $ 2.50 for yellow cabs and 75 cents for pooled trips below 96th Street in Manhattan..

Yellow cabs will take a larger hit because they operate mostly in Manhattan, while ride - hailing apps are used across the boroughs, he said.

CHELSEA, Manhattan — Several people were injured Thursday evening when a collision with a yellow cab cause another car to jump the curb in Chelsea and crash into a deli.

«I believe in the justice system and we will pursue all available remedies,» he said, before hopping into a yellow cab to escape the media.

A city study of GPS data shows that 97.5 percent of the more than 13,230 yellow cabs pick up their fares in Manhattan or at the two city airports.

Queens Rep. Joseph Crowley wants de Blasio to step in to help the struggling yellow taxi industry and its lenders, saying new app - based car services like Uber have led to a big drop in value of the yellow cab medallions.

Two taxi - medallion owners can't sue a NYC regulatory commission for failing to keep the yellow - cab industry profitable in the face of competition from Uber and Lyft, a Manhattan Supreme Court judge ruled.

The New York Times reported last week that the value of yellow cab medallions is in free - fall nationwide, with prices in New York having slipped as much as 17 % since hitting a million bucks in Spring, 2013.

There is also discussion about adding $ 2.50 on yellow cabs that operate in the zone.

Mac Roberts, the general manager of East / West Management, a New York City company that operates 120 yellow taxi cab medallions, called upon the Taxi & Limousine Commission, as well as New York State, to better regulate Uber and others, telling the Observer in a memorable anti-Uber rant:

There was heavy lobbying on both sides of the issue — with yellow cab drivers who were against the legislation surrounding the Capitol with their cabs and livery drivers who spent hours debating legislators in the halls.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito hauled in more than $ 27,000 in campaign donations from yellow - cab interests in the months before the council proposed a cap on high - tech rival Uber, records...

In a statement, Cira Angeles, a spokeswoman for Livery Base Owners, Inc., one of the many livery cab associations, called the «delinking of borough licenses from yellow cab medallions is an important first step.»

But de Blasio writes that the Mayor Michael Bloomberg - backed measure, if approved, could have the unintended consequence of weakening both the yellow and livery cab services in New York City.

An Eritrean immigrant who was 59 and had driven a yellow taxi for the same company for almost half his life died behind the wheel of his cab while parked at the curb in Manhattan, and then his body sat there for 18 hours as no one noticed his death.

In addition, 1,500 yellow cab medallions would be authorized.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers on Friday reached a final agreement that signs off on $ 168.3 billion in state spending for the coming fiscal year in an agreement that includes disparate issues such as reforming the state's sexual harassment policies to placing a fee on ride hailing vehicles and yellow cabs in Manhattan to help fund mass transit.

He's met multiple times with yellow and livery cab organizations, in addition to a reportedly uncomfortable meeting with TLC chief David Yassky in New York City.

The mayor was pummeled by the apps, particularly Uber, which ran ads highlighting the service's popularity with lower - income, minority New Yorkers who were trying to earn some extra money as drivers or were just happy to finally get a cab in a part of town where yellow taxis wouldn't venture.

Asked about what would happen to passengers in Harlem, Inwood and Washington Heights, where yellow cabs are rare, Diaz said it will be up to state lawmakers and city council members to finesse the rules.

He strained to show that he was not favoring Uber over yellow cabs, though he said cabs never came up to his Washington Heights neighborhood when he was growing up in the 1960s and 70s.

City Council Member James Sanders reportedly had a hard time hailing a yellow cab in Manhattan despite repeated calls to the TLC.

The budget ended up including the first phase: a surcharge on for - hire vehicles and yellow cabs below 96th Street starting in January 2019.

The data that it does have indicates that while Uber and other taxi apps have had a hard time penetrating the Manhattan market, they've made a much deeper incursion in the outer boroughs and upper Manhattan, where yellow cabs are scarce, but where livery cars and green borough taxis abound.

De Blasio spokeswoman Rosemary Boeglin said Sunday that the administration is «exploring avenues to secure accessibility improvements in the for - hire vehicle fleet,» while noting it has already taken steps to ensure half the city's yellow - cab fleet is wheelchair accessible by 2020.

New Yorker Edward Shalala got just $ 132,000 after a yellow cab slammed into him on Third Avenue in 1998, crushing his right leg.

Two taxi - medallion owners can't sue a city regulatory commission for failing to keep the yellow - cab industry profitable in the face of competition from Uber and Lyft, a Manhattan Supreme Court...

There's still time to fine - tune any toll scheme on this point: Allow yellow cabs, say, 10 free trips a day into the congestion zone in return for the «crude congestion pricing fee» they've already paid.

While I was in the city I of course had to shoot some new looks — got ta get those NYC scenes in, no yellow taxi cabs in LA... Just plenty of traffic filled with Ubers: p

-LCB- GQ -RCB- Rita Ora sits on the hood of a custom DKNY yellow cab in Times Square for the brand's latest ad campaign.

Schrader and Scorsese put the cage on wheels, as a yellow cab in which Travis seethes at all the other night animals, unaware of his place in the kingdom.

Jafar Panahi's Taxi — Jafar Panahi, Iran Canadian Premiere Internationally acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (This is Not a Film) drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse (and yet representative) group of passengers in a single day.

Unlike some limited - edition trucks that are only available with certain drivelines, the Stinger Yellow Sport is available in both 4 × 2 and 4 × 4 configurations, in the Crew Cab body style.

Nissan was awarded a 10 - year contract to provide the city exclusively with some 13,000 yellow cabs, starting in 2013.

... *** Clean CARFAX on this 2016 Ram Crew Cab 4x4 Sport in Yellow!!!..

Super rare srt - 10 quad cab in solar yellow!