Taxicab driver at the wheel with two passengers, N.Y.C. 1956
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He has been involved in the taxicab business like Cohen himself.
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"Along came a horse-drawn taxicab," Davidson said Harroun told him.
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Taxicab drivers, now Lyft drivers, Uber drivers, truck drivers throughout the country.
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Find out how New York's taxicab industry steered drivers into financial ruin.
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Pushing a button on our smartphones is so much more convenient than hailing a taxicab and paying cash that most of us haven't braved the elements and crowded streets to hail a taxicab since becoming hooked on Uber.
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Another would create a universal license for taxicab and for-hire vehicle drivers.
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No, I conducted my own search, first on foot, then, humiliatingly, by taxicab.
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The Baker Electric was used as a taxicab at the turn of the century.
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I bought a taxicab instead, thinking it would be a great investment, which it was.
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He was driving a taxicab in Tanzania not long before he was thrust into power.
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Similar work on taxicab tipping behavior suggested those defaults raise tips pretty dramatically, by 10 percent.
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In a twist, these troubles gave new life to the few surviving Los Angeles taxicab companies.
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Mr. Allen's start-up, called the New York Taxicab Company, had its fair share of roadblocks.
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That was where the police found the man's parked taxicab, the biggest investment of his life.
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Think of it like the little screen in the back of your taxicab, except in an elevator.
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And Taxicab Company drivers, who had to pay for gas, cleaning and uniform rentals, complained and protested.
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He offered to pick her up, but she politely declined, choosing instead to get there by taxicab.
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The costs for taxicab companies can be split into four parts: vehicle, corporate, fuel, and labor costs.
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Shusterman pleaded guilty in 1993 to federal income tax fraud relating to his taxicab business in New York.
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At just 22002 years old, Dorsey wrote dispatch software that is still used by some taxicab companies today.
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Or you could try to hail an old-school taxicab wherever you travel, assuming you can find one.
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You can get an ordinary Beijing taxicab with a pleasantly cranky driver, grungy interior and an ultracheap fare.
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It is a strange-looking thing; it draws attention to itself when you're flying by in a taxicab.
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Taxicab companies can't operate like this because they don't have the billions in investor capital that Uber does.
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Movies like Taxicab Confessions and Cathouse as well as the docuseries Real Sex are no longer on the site.
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He had been convicted of killing two taxicab drivers in 1988 while he was stationed at Fort Hood, Texas.
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The couple then stuffed her body into a suitcase, placed the luggage in a taxicab and fled the scene.
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Old fashioned taxi dispatchers didn't have detailed GPS data to determine which taxicab was closest to a particular passenger.
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According to one report, the price of a New York taxicab medallion peaked at over $85003 million in 2013.
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He lost another brother who was shot while driving his taxicab in San Francisco, just months after Balbir's death.
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A month later, the police found a witness who saw Ruth get into a taxicab with a young man.
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The Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade, which represents the owners of 5,500 yellow cabs, opened the driver resource center.
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In the midst of the Judge Curiel controversy, I rode a taxicab in D.C. The driver was an African immigrant.
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"They got rid of all background checks for taxicab [drivers]," Eric Spiegelman, taxi commissioner for Los Angeles, told The Verge.
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Recent articles by Brian M. Rosenthal of The Times have documented this familiar pattern in the New York taxicab industry.
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Rose was sitting in the passenger seat of an unlicensed taxicab when Rosfeld pulled him and another teen, Zaijuan Hester, over.
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Victor drove a city bus for most of Jeanne's childhood, then when he got older he switched to driving a taxicab.
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Uber and Lyft, he says, offer "a premium service relative to taxicabs," yet they often charge less than the taxicab would.
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Cities and towns sought to regulate ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft by too often taking up with taxicab commissions.
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What might be surprising about this story is that the taxicab in question was powered not by gasoline but by electricity.
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Taxicab companies can negotiate for bulk discounts on fuel, but Uber abandons this and shifts the cost totally onto the driver.
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The mayor even ordered the city's taxicab owners to paint the entire fleet of 140,000 taxis pink and white, CDMX's official colors.
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Chris Martin sings inside the aforementioned taxicab while Beyoncé, covered in henna tattoos and an ornamental headband, posed as a Bollywood goddess.
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"Oh, this town's food is just too sweet, even for me," lamented the very first taxicab driver I met in the town.
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"He was a fascinating man," Mr. Knight said of Norell, after nimbly clambering into a taxicab with minimal help from a cane.
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Trump's mention of taxi cabs refers to Cohen's reported financial troubles related to the declining value of taxicab medallions in New York.
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We could have Kanye host Taxicab Confessions, then angrily deny that he's into any of the stuff at the end of each episode.
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After all, the taxicab was an indelible icon of New York then, embodying both the sizzling energy and stark loneliness of the city.
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Uber isn't more efficient, it just has more investors: As an economic model, Uber is actually more inefficient than any standard taxicab company.
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Taxicab medallions have been in the news in recent weeks due to the widely publicized involvement of Michael Cohen, President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's former attorney, in the New York City taxicab business.
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The scheme was run with an accountant named Harold Wapnick, who prosecutors said prepared false tax returns for much of the city's taxicab industry.
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Ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft have undercut the power of traditional taxicab companies that once had a stranglehold on major urban markets.
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In June 2006, Yellow Cab SLSJET agreed to pay Cohen a $69,103 monthly fee to use 30 of the medallions that every taxicab must have.
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And that's before we have ... seen a single driver replaced [by self-driving vehicles] ..., not a trucker, not a taxicab driver, not a delivery person.
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The other possibility — one that seems more likely to me — is that Uber really has figured out ways to make the taxicab market more efficient.
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But it's possible that the economics of smartphone-based hailing is different from the conventional taxicab market where passengers called a dispatcher on the telephone.
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So Uber is offering lavish subsidies to both drivers and passengers to try to become the dominant taxicab operator in as many markets as possible.
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The New York Taxicab Company had red and green cars, which were driven by uniformed chauffeurs and cost 30 cents for the first half-mile.
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New York City officials on Tuesday announced the creation of a new office to address bias-related refusals by taxicab and for-hire vehicle drivers.
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Why would companies retain a New York City personal injury lawyer and taxicab company owner to give them strategic advice, as they claimed, on Washington politics?
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The group broke up not long afterward, but Mr. Hutcherson stayed in New York, driving a taxicab for a living, his vibraphone stashed in the trunk.
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It used to cost over $500 a month to insure a Los Angeles taxicab, but now it costs only $150 per month to insure a taxibot.
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He soon received a box of articles and books, including works by Milton Friedman and a treatise on regulatory distortions in the New York taxicab market.
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According to the documents, Cohen was in default by December 2017 on more than $20 million in loans backed by New York taxicab medallions he owned.
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The Taxicab, Limousine and Paratransit Association, which represents more than 1,000 professional licensed taxi and limo companies nationwide, has created a lobbying group called Who's Driving You?
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It lands on a trigger, which flips another level, and 2392 feet and a dizzying array of simple machines later, a bank safe drops onto a taxicab.
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New York taxicab drivers staged a boycott of sorts, refusing to pick up passengers from John F Kennedy Airport to show solidarity with those affected by the ban.
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The legislation created a single license for all taxicab and for-hire vehicles and eliminated the English language proficiency test, according to a New York City Council website.
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Los Angeles used to cut its taxicab drivers off at 10 hours behind the wheel in a day, because driving sleep-deprived is as dangerous as driving drunk.
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By the time he arrived, however, the group was leaving, and a mutual friend introduced him to Ms. Sharpton as she was hailing a taxicab to go home.
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Mr. Cohen, a former personal injury lawyer who had made millions in the New York City taxicab business, intervened after Mr. Trump's son Donald Jr. asked for help.
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What in the World It can be hard to find a functioning seatbelt in an Istanbul taxicab, and when I do, I think twice about putting it on. Why?
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And it was strange to be sitting side by side in the taxicab, the nose aimed at the giant screen, just as if we were driving down a highway.
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As for how cops ID'd the 2 people they're questioning -- we're told they used rideshare and/or taxicab records to track their locations the night of the alleged incident.
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I think that TAXICAB IKEBANA (17A and 18A) sounds like an exciting and highly dangerous hobby, and that the ARMHOLE ROLAIDS would be a spiffy name for a band.
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Driving an unlicensed taxicab is illegal in many cities, but Uber insisted that it was simply a market maker — connecting drivers with riders — and not subject to city taxi regulations.
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A different member of the household staff, a kindly older man who tended to the landscaping and washed the family boats, had already put her suitcase into a waiting taxicab.
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One February afternoon, she's hit by a New York City taxicab running a red light, in a random incident that fractures and distorts the lives of everyone who loves her.
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Among the most notable aspects is Mr. Cohen's expansive taxicab empire, encompassing several dozen medallions in New York and Chicago — and racking up tens of millions of dollars in debt.
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And for Bruce Willis' flying taxicab—a full-size version of which sits in Cité du Cinéma's cathedral-like lobby—Besson turned to Jean-Claude Mézières, cocreator of Valérian et Laureline.
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The classic taxicab market in the United States was plagued with regulations restricting the supply of cabs available to be hailed in a way that went far beyond basic safety concerns.
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Reports of anti-ridesharing collusion between regulators in Florida's Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa, and local taxicab companies have so embarrassed the agency that the state may soon shut it down.
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The office area in the front is painted a garish taxicab-yellow, with posters of hockey players on the wall and a framed photo of the late Hasidic rabbi Menachem Schneerson.
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Maritza is the single mother who accepted an easy few hundred dollars from Limón for sitting in the back of his taxicab as he ferried Escobar around Medellín in the trunk.
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Way back when -- think 22017 -- New York City officials made the decision that in order to operate a taxicab in the city, you needed to own (or lease) a taxi medallion.
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"He was as interesting and legitimate of a person as you could get," said Andrew Salkin, a former deputy commissioner of the New York City agency that regulates the taxicab industry.
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In one of his best-known photographs, an elegantly dressed couple kiss atop a taxicab on an Upper Manhattan street jammed with three lanes of cabs, which Mr. Smith had hired.
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Shusterman, who owns a condo in Trump World Tower in New York City, in 1993 pleaded guilty to federal income–tax fraud regarding the taxicab business he owns in New York.
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Uber "never meets (drivers) in person to see if they get a strange vibe," said Dave Sutton, a spokesman for Who's Driving You, an arm of the Taxicab, Limousine and Paratransit Association.
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Through the dispatch program, riders can arrange to be picked up by a wheelchair accessible taxicab by calling 22013, using a mobile app or a website or calling or texting a dispatcher.
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Taxicab drivers, they can work all day and get one fare, and what they have to pay in the lease for their taxi cab may be greater than the revenues they make.
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In the taxicab en route to Billy Yik Tho Lim's residence in Sentosa Cove, a passing car flooded the back seat with light and Edgar Falk leaned in and scrutinized Bruno's neck.
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A video making the rounds on Wall Street of a hedge fund billionaire bragging about his wealth in the backseat of a New York City taxicab might as well be a Sen.
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One proposal would have forced Uber to charge at least five times the minimum taxicab fare, effectively limiting it to the high-end black car market and shielding conventional taxicabs from competition.
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Escobar slips through the city in the trunk of a taxicab, as he reorganizes his business, picks up available cash and identifies the enemies who have been siphoning money while he's been gone.
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Though Mergia is far from his home country, he keeps music close to him as he navigates the streets of DC. "I have a keyboard in the trunk of my taxicab," he says.
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The other side: The Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade has argued that, considering the taxes and fees cabbies have to pay, taxis generate more revenue for New York City than Uber or Lyft.
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"I was crying and I didn't have any money to go back to the [1964 New York] World's Fair, where I was dancing, and so he threw me $20 for a taxicab," she adds.
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We've already seen the effects of companies like Uber in cities such as New York or Los Angeles where local taxicab companies have clashed with the transit giant and its unregulated, sleeker business model.
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Uber has higher corporate costs than standard taxicab companies since it is a global corporation with an army of lobbyists, public relations professionals, app development and IT staff, executive staff, and real estate costs.
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It should be noted that it's not just app-based ridesharing services that have these problems: previous research and anecdotal evidence has shown discrimination by taxicab drivers against riders based on race and sex.
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Cohen's father-in-law, Fima Shusterman, reportedly loaned at least $20 million to a Chicago taxicab mogul whose name appeared in documents related to FBI raids on Cohen's home, office and hotel room in April.
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They have been spurred on by the powerful taxicab industry, which does not welcome competition from services offering lower fares and greater convenience while avoiding some of the government-imposed strictures traditional cab drivers face.
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History reminds us of great achievements like ex-slaves starting the city's first taxicab service, our entries into high public offices in the government, and of course our swath of contributions to the music scene.
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Combine the words "distance" and "meter" and one would think that the clue refers to a measurable distance from point A to point B. Not today; today the "meter" referred to is a TAXICAB meter.
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The investigation arises from actions Uber took when it was still a small startup trying to break into new markets where local regulators were often hostile to companies trying to compete with incumbent taxicab companies.
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That's much nicer than the traditional taxicab model where you'd call for a cab and then have to wait an unknown period of time for it to arrive — with no way to track the car's progress.
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Cohen has not been charged, but prosecutors working for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York reportedly are interested in the payoff to Daniels, Cohen's taxicab investments, and other business-related matters.
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It takes place in a taxicab where Aila (Elle-Maija Tailfeathers, who also wrote and directed the film with Kathleen Hepburn) is accompanying Rosie (Violet Nelson), a woman she has only recently met, to a safe house.
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I know I'm not the only person who spent a few late nights as an adolescent trying to peer through static screens to try to catch clips of their Real Sex or Taxicab Confessions series without a subscription.
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There are subsidies that come from the surplus at bridges and tunnels, from the MTA, and other types of motor vehicle fees that we don't normally think of offhand, like the gas tax, taxicab fee, and autorental tax.
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The first great sadness had come in 1960, when the family was visiting Manhattan and a taxicab hit the carriage in which Neal and Dahl's four-month-old son, Theo, was being wheeled by his nanny along Madison Avenue.
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The city's largest taxi group, the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade, which represents the owners of 5,500 yellow cabs, said rides had dropped nearly 91 percent to a total of 173,596 trips over this past Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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Whether or not you think Uber's past innovations have given it a cost advantage over conventional taxicab companies, it's clear that these cost advantages are small compared to the potential cost savings that could occur if self-driving technology becomes available.
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The attendees all seemed pretty wowed by Sharp's artistry -- he first painted a taxicab, but once he added the finishing touches, it revealed a colorful painting of good ol' Travis Bickle from "Taxi Driver" ... including his menacing mohawk and sunglasses.
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If it weren't for the occasional taxicab door displaying a reminder for citizens to cast their ballots this month, or the odd billboard here or there, a casual visitor might not even know a vote was about to take place.
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The Cleveland Browns football team was founded in 256 by a newspaper, real estate and taxicab tycoon, Arthur B. McBride, after he was rebuffed in an effort to purchase the N.F.L.'s Rams (which was a Cleveland team back then).
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Between these two types, there is a Travis Kalanick who saw taxicab drivers not as solid middle class citizens, like many of us mistakenly did, but as a cabal of overpaid, rent-seeking obstacles to be broken apart and put out of work.
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The taxicab industry's desperate fight to stop the spread of this burgeoning competition culminated in a variety of dramatic public standoffs, such as mass protests by cab drivers in multiple major cities (including Washington) intended to cause gridlock and cripple the city's infrastructure.
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"This is Uber acknowledging drivers share their accounts and the company's effort to reduce this practice," David Sutton, a spokesperson for the "Who's Driving You?" public safety campaign run by the Taxicab, Limousine and Paratransit Association, wrote in an email to The Verge.
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With its rival Lyft, they've finally brought competition to the regulation-bound taxicab market, where medallion owners enjoy monopoly profit from monopoly rents bound up in a crony-capitalist arrangement that barred people from simply connecting as willing buyers and sellers of a basic service.
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Kassem, who worked as a taxicab driver in New York, was convicted of trying to overthrow the government of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in a trial with more than 700 other co-defendants when visiting his wife and two children in August 85033.
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Shusterman pleaded guilty in 1993 to federal income tax fraud related to his taxicab business in New York, and loaned at least $20 million to a major Chicago cab operator mentioned in the FBI warrants used to raid Cohen's home, office and hotel room last April.
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"The Taxi TV exception reflects the city's reasonable decision that the costs of permitting advertisements in taxicabs were outweighed by the benefits of compensating taxicab owners for the expense of installing new equipment that facilitated credit card payment and improved ride data collection," the 2nd Circuit said.
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Ms. Nevins, 80, helped change the image of documentaries from stodgy to provocative during her reign at HBO, delivering the Oscar-winning "Citizenfour," the ribald "Taxicab Confessions" and the incendiary "Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief" — along with roughly 1,500 other films and series.
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The New York Times adds that Brazilian investigators have not found any evidence to support the swimmers' claims, nor have they been able to find the taxicab driver whose cab was allegedly pulled over (the swimmers said they couldn't remember the make or model of their taxi).
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Jexi rides its premise to the most predictable end: once Phil realizes he needs to ditch his phone addiction to experience life, Jexi follows him menacingly through all forms of technology: a taxicab display, a nearby ATM, an automated construction sign, and finally, a self-driving car.
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The side of a mountain is one of the wildest places we have left in the world: exposed to the elements, hard to reach, and not at all a place you can just sit down and call a taxicab if you decide you're not having that much fun.
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He had a small, sad global operation, mostly run by his two oldest children and Michael Cohen, a lousy lawyer who barely keeps up the pretenses of lawyering and who now faces an avalanche of charges, from taxicab-backed bank fraud to money laundering and campaign-finance violations.
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The basic color scheme remained the same — taxicab yellow and basic black — but the New York skyline was redrawn, showing the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building illuminated, as at dawn, when the sun is coming up and people are padding into their kitchens, desperate for a jolt.
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As Uber puts it in a financial filing: "To the extent that efforts to block or limit our operations are successful, or we or drivers are required to comply with regulatory and other requirements applicable to taxicab and car services, our revenue and growth would be adversely affected."
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In 2012, for example, there was some ambiguity about whether the ride-hailing service was compliant with taxicab regulations in Washington, DC. The DC City Council was working on legislation to clear up Uber's legal status, but early drafts looked more like a poison pill than a serious reform.
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"Make no mistake about it - we fully expect the fight on behalf of the New York City taxicab industry to continue in state and federal court for as long as it takes," Todd Higgins, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said in an email after Nathan issued her 33-page decision.
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Early data from the Austin Police Department suggests that there's been no significant impact on the number of sexual assaults, something both nonprofit advocates including Austin's The SAFE Alliance and the companies' opponents, including organizations funded by the Taxicab, Limousine & Paratransit Association said increased with the arrival of the ride-hailing giants.
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"It is deeply concerning and disappointing that the state is piling on costs on the yellow taxi industry when it is well known that the yellow taxi industry and its mainly immigrant medallion owners and drivers are struggling," said Ron Sherman, president of the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade, which represents medallion owners.
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Still, Michael Woloz, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade, which represents the owners of 5,27 medallions, said the yellow-cab industry was evolving to meet the demands of passengers and drivers, introducing its own apps, Arro and Curb, and opening a new center in Queens to provide training and recruit new drivers.
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"The proposed regulations — which closely track regulations proposed by the taxicab industry in 2015 — would protect the incumbent industry by imposing anti-competitive and antiquated regulations on the TNC industry," wrote Kate Wooler, an attorney representing Uber, in a letter to Public Transportation Commission Executive Director Kyle Cockream obtained by Florida Politics and published Aug. 1.
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He took down the taxicab magnets and loaded the storage crates into his white box truck, and now the sound of Wall Street was of the metal hatch rattling shut, and soon after that, the floor traders began leaving, hurrying toward their trains, not knowing that the next day would come yet another improbable announcement, that floor trading would be shut down.
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This throng was increased by drivers who left their milk wagons, their newspaper wagons, by men on their way to work, by taxicab chauffeurs, by streetcar conductors, and by many other folk who had heard the tooting of sirens in their neighborhoods and who arose from their beds to find out just what was the latest event of a day that will be marked forever in history.
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" So who better to talk about this winter's Waterloo in the battle of the sexes than the woman who won the first Peabody awarded to a cable program, for "She's Nobody's Baby: The History of American Women in the 20th Century," produced in 173 with Ms. Magazine, and who brought shows with a sexual edge to HBO, like the "America Undercover" series, which included "Real Sex" and "Taxicab Confessions.
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I asked for any manuals or procedures that dictated how and under what circumstances the fake taxis were to be used, any legal justifications acquired or written allowing for the use of these vehicles or the creation of a false medallion numbers, any invoices or bills for the cost of acquired or retrofitting a taxicab, and finally any communications between the NYPD and the Taxi and Limousine Commission concerning the use of these vehicles.
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