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A State Supreme Court justice on Friday blocked the Bloomberg administration's plan to create a new class of livery cabs, a setback in the city's effort to expand street hail service beyond Manhattan.

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A town hall held by state Sen. Jose Peralta (D - East Elmhurst) on the bill to bring livery cabs that can be hailed to the outer boroughs erupted into impassioned statements and heated arguments, mostly in Spanish, from industry members on separate sides of the plan.

He then launched into a list of what he called political victories for the Bronx: half - a-billion dollars worth of housing construction during the recession, a recent education summit and a new law that allows outer borough residents to hail livery cabs.

The mayor introduced the idea of allowing livery cabs to make on - street pickups in his State of the City speech.

The Brooklyn Politics: It looks like the bill the legislature passed earlier this year to allow livery cabs to accept street hails in the outer boroughs like Brooklyn [and Queens] is officially dead:

Mayor Bloomberg is circumventing the City Council by seeking state legislation to address the issue of livery cabs in the outer - boroughs.

The bill, which Gov. Andrew Cuomo has not said whether he will sign, would allow outer - borough New Yorkers to hail livery cabs on the street.

Livery cabs charge ridiculous rates to everyone.

The measure would provide for up to 30,000 new licenses for livery cabs in an effort to increase cab service in the outer boroughs.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced in his State of the City speech in January he would propose legislation to allow livery cabs in the outer boroughs to pick up people hailing on the street — prohibited under current law.

An amendment recently tacked onto the proposal would require livery cabs to pony up the same 50 - cent surcharge to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority that yellow cabs pay, Silver said.

Long - villanized livery cabs may get street cred in NYC bouroughs if a revenue - raising plan backed by Mayor Bloomberg and Assemblyman Silver is passed.

According to the program, which comes into affect today, police will randomly stop certain livery cabs and search for dangerous passengers.

He said the holdup stems from discussions over possible amendments to mandate GPS tracking and other enforcement measures to ensure livery cabs don't encroach on yellow cab turf.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's solution is to offer taxi licenses in the outer boroughs and northern Manhattan to livery cabs, which currently are not allowed to pick up passengers on the street.

Into this breach stepped / was pushed AM Micah Kellner, who offered as a kind of minor Great Compromise his Access - for - All bill which would mandate expanded accessibility for yellow cabs and livery cabs, and would allow for a greatly - reduced 6,000 livery street hail medallions.

Governor Cuomo said on Wednesday that he planned to veto Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's proposal to allow livery cabs to pick up street hails and start from scratch because of a number of issues.

But Governor Cuomo has raised concerns with certain parts of the bill, including how many livery cabs would be allowed to go to the airports, and how many cabs would be handicap accessible.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said he hoped Gov. Andrew Cuomo would approve a measure that would allow livery cabs to make street hails.

While ticking off a list of things the Senate Republicans had accomplished for the Latino community, such as the livery cab bill, he gave the special shoutout to the new Congressional district.

An initially livery cab bill was approved by lawmakers but has subsequently lost support because of a lack of provisions for the disabled.

NYC's budget deficit will balloon to $ 3 billion if Cuomo vetos the livery cab bill, according to Bloomberg.

NY1 video from the cab procession and memorial service held yesterday for the Bronx livery cab driver who was murdered on Sunday.

Second, this bill would not truly benefit my residents and certainly would hurt the livery cab industry much more than helping the yellow cab companies.

Borough President Stringer visited with members of the livery cab industry at El Barrio Car Service at East 116th Street this past Thurs., Jun. 14th.

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.»

The mayor, who attended the press conference together with Taxi and Limousine Commissioner David Yassky, New York State Assemblymembers Guillermo Linares, of northern Manhattan, and Carl Heastie, of the Bronx, and members of the livery cab industry, spoke to the color as one that was «attractive and distinctive.»

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.

Assemblyman Micah Kellner, once a supporter of the bill that would expand livery cab service in New York City and now one of its staunchest opponents, sent a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo today urging him to veto the measure.

Cuomo is back in Albany today with no public schedule and is working to hash out the livery cab issue.

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.

You'll never see a yellow cab accepting hails up there,» said Hamilton DeLossantos, 30, a livery cab driver for the past nine years.

Livery cab drivers from Upper Manhattan also said a plan that leaves the them out is unacceptable as well.

While Diaz said it would be up to lawmakers to decide how many new medallions to issue and how much they should cost, he said they would have to cost «far less» than yellow medallion so they «remain affordable to all livery cab drivers or base owners.»

One afternoon she spent $ 65 to take five people, including an aide and an independent filmmaker, from the Bronx to Queens by livery cab.

Advocates of a bill to allow livery cab drivers to pick up street hails in Upper Manhattan are clamoring for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's support.

«I think it was unfortunate and we'll have to move on but we'll have to be cognizant this is the peoples» government and there has to be 100 percent trust and there's not going to be trust until you earn it,» Cuomo said at a Red Room news conference announcing that he and Mayor Michael Bloomberg had reached a deal on a bill that would expand livery cab access outside of Manhattan.

A measure that would have expanded livery cab coverage to the outer boroughs of New York City will not be revisted during the extraordinary session.

The NY Post reported that during a vigil for 61 - year - old driver Douglas Schifter, a taxi union official revealed the suicides of two livery cab drivers in the Bronx.

I could not believe how excited the countless handfuls of random livery cab drivers were as they waited to take photos ofbthe new Cadillac Escalade before it was unveiled.

Most local livery cab companies will allow owners to bring their pets in the car at little or no extra-charge.

On Thursday, December 7, a livery cab caused a huge chain - reaction crash which injured six people in Lower Manhattan.

Not exact matches

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says he wants Governor Cuomo to sign the Taxi Cab Livery bill, with an agreement that amendments will be made during the legislative session.

With expanding ride hailing on the docket for a potential special session this month, a consortium of traditional livery and cab companies have launched an anti-Uber digital ad that highlights the crimes committed by drivers.

On more than one occasion, people have confused the acronym CAB with a livery service, said Ken Small, CAB's development director.

At a roundtable talk with cab industry officials and state Assembly lawmakers in Manhattan today, Uber faced pushback from its taxi and livery car competition over a bill they argue would allow less stringent driver background checks, rider safety standards and insurance coverage than NYC requires for the app's drivers.

Excellent, provided that fares in all taxis and green cabs and Ubers and Lyfts and liveries pay the same modest surcharge, and provided it only apply to the Manhattan zone.

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.

The mayor is trying to get livery and yellow cab drivers to sign onto a plan intended to better serve the outer boroughs.