Sentences with phrase «of yellow cab»

Michael Levine, CEO of Yellow Cab, told reporters that suing an affiliation company for a cab - related accident is like suing your travel agent if your plane crashes.

Sen. Martin Golden (R - Brooklyn), a Bloomberg ally who sponsored the bill, now wants to change it because of yellow cab industry opposition.

Uber objected to the cap, saying de Blasio and the City Council were doing the bidding of the yellow cab taxi industry, which has been among the politicians» largest donors.

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.

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.

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

No one feels like a baller getting out of a yellow cab.

Under a deal with the city, half of yellow cabs are supposed to be wheelchair accessible by 2020, but the requirement doesn't apply to services like Uber.

I grabbed my suitcase, waded through the crowd of drivers gathered near the airport exit, and hopped into one of the yellow cabs waiting patiently on the street.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Chef Jeremy McMillan plating his second course of Yemenite Spiced Stockyards CAB Strip Loin, Labneh, Creamed Yellow Corn, Fermented Pepper and Za'atar Chimichurri.

«This is a kind of unusual week because of the holiday,» Bill Yuhnke of Liberty Yellow Cab said.

Yuhnke said Liberty Yellow Cab was already taking steps to mitigate the effect of the new industry, even before last week.

With the yellow cab industry teetering on the brink of insolvency, New York City is poised to roll out what its top taxi regulator called a «tremendous opportunity»: surge pricing.

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.

-- YELLOW CABS COULD BEGIN SURGE PRICING — POLITICO's Dana Rubinstein: With the yellow cab industry teetering on the brink of insolvency, New York City is poised to roll out what its top taxi regulator called a «tremendous opportunity.&YELLOW CABS COULD BEGIN SURGE PRICING — POLITICO's Dana Rubinstein: With the yellow cab industry teetering on the brink of insolvency, New York City is poised to roll out what its top taxi regulator called a «tremendous opportunity.&yellow cab industry teetering on the brink of insolvency, New York City is poised to roll out what its top taxi regulator called a «tremendous opportunity.»

But while Heastie and Weinstein championed the plan, a spokeswoman from Uber said on Tuesday that it «unfairly burdens» New Yorkers who live outside of Manhattan while also creating an uneven playing field for yellow cabs and e-hail car services.

The state budget reached on April 1 includes a plan to levy surcharges on for - hire vehicles south of 96th Street — $ 2.75 on the likes of Uber and Lyft, $ 2.50 on yellow cabs, and 75 cents on ride - sharing options like Uber Pool and Via.

The collision between a blue Hyundai TLC and a yellow cab sent the Hyundai barreling out of control, and right into the building.

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..

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.

Green is the new yellow, if you're only accustomed to hailing cabs of a lemon - colored hue.

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.

While Mr. Cuomo had commissioned a task force to develop a framework for charging cars that drive into the busiest parts of Manhattan, Friday's budget deal included only the first phase: a $ 2.75 fee on for - hire vehicles and a $ 2.50 fee on yellow cabs below 96th Street.

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

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.

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.»

Yellow cabs have had a hard time keeping up with ride share services like Uber and Lyft, and so the value of medallions is plummeting.

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.

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.

The bill also authorizes the Taxi and Limousine Commission to sell up to 1,500 new yellow cab medallions, with 569 of the new cabs required to be handicapped accessible.

This is a relatively fascinating development, as this was one of those bills that was only «controversial» because one special interest (the yellow taxi cab industry) insisted it was.

The state Assembly has put forward a congestion pricing plan as part of its budget that includes a $ 2.75 fee for ride hail cars, limousines and black cars for each trip below 96th Street, $ 1 for trips above 96th Street and a 50 - cent fee for yellow taxis and green cab street hails below 96th Street.

Hoping to prop up the struggling yellow - cab industry, a Manhattan lawmaker is proposing a tested sales technique: two vehicles for the price of one medallion.

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...

These photos are some of my favorites ever because they're the epitome of New York City: Busy streets, iconic buildings, yellow cabs, and everything I love about this city.

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

You have to be razor - sharp at every moment, because before you know it a lion — read yellow cab — runs you over while you were just about to observe the most beautiful creatures of nature wearing the latest Dior trainers.

-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.

Meanwhile, Razmik, an Armenian immigrant who drives a yellow cab, is dealing with two terrible passengers, drunken revelers who barf all over his backseat then try to weasel out of paying their fare («come on, man, it's Christmas!»).

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.

As seen below, Benedict Cumberbatch, Benedict Wong, and Robert Downey, Jr. were spotted assembling on a downtown on - location Atlanta set designed to look like the rubble of a New York City street, right down to the iconic New York yellow cab.

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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.

In this case, that clothing comes in a variety of colors, including a limited - edition «Sonic Yellow,» a weird pastel that can only be described as Yellow Cab with cream added.