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Letters Page 3 EDITORIAL • Insider News By David Pollack Page 5 • Discretion and Accountability Relief Stands Here you have it folks; career drivers are facing the new- and is understandable when discussing NYPD discretionary Page 6 est common denominator on the streets of New York City: tactics of targeting taxis, is worth repeating and highlight- • Multiple Summonses at the discretion of a police offi cer. ing: THEIR LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY HAS COR- Words To Live By The word discretionary means “available to be used when RODED PUBLIC RESPECT. We live in a time when there By Larry Fisher and how you decide:OR done or used when nec- is public outcry about police relations and tactics essary.” WHEN one decides to give a summons, and political responses to those police actions. Page 7 or two summonses, or fi ve summonses certainly Taxi Insider is trying to expose the untold outcry • is an unfair criteria on its’ face. In other words from a segment of true New Yorkers, NYC Taxi Taxi Attorney there are summonses written everyday that are at Drivers. It may LOOK like those bad taximen are By Michael Spevack the total discretion of the offi cer that is probably getting what they deserve when the public sees a Page 15 trapped in a quota writing requirement. How he or taxi pulled over, but in fact this is a system that • she decides to view a situation causing the writing discriminates, using the illusion of enforcement. of a summons, and remembering that situation in On its’ face however, an abundance of summonses Street Talk front of a judge is problematic, as drivers (may) are being issued against an industry of immigrants. By Erhan Tuncel lose their ability to earn income with unjust sus- This certainly is NOT what the mayor had in mind Page 17 pensions and revocations. with Vision Zero, especially when many of those • It is apparent that PRIOR to the November 9th imple- summonses are discretionary. If mistakes have been made Quotable Quotes mentation of Vision Zero, many police offi cers have been in sentencing people for murder, than certainly discretion- Page 19 instructed to “write, write. write” now. Now is the When ary summonsing for traffi c violations could leave the door Necessary in the word discretion. The word Account- open for questionable actions by ticket writing offi cers. Yet • ability means: the fact or condition of being accountable; Not-Guilty decisions at NYPD and TLC are either uncom- You Be The Judge responsibility: the fact or condition of being accountable; mon or appealed, eliminating true justice once again, all Page 21 responsibility; “their lack of accountability has corroded in the name of quotas. The numbers game has got to stop • public respect.” This defi nition taken exactly as it is written (Continued on Page 6) Commissioner’s Corner Page 22 The Taxi Driver’s 1939 Chevy Master Deluxe • Deposition Far Well to A Great Fare In A Personal By Able Mittleman Injury Case Page 22 By Michael I. Josephs, Esq. • You are driving long hours, usu- Economy ally 5-6 days a week, most likely in Page 27 & 34 Manhattan. The odds of having an accident increase with time and stress. • Many drivers have been involved in Hotel Listing an accident and many more will have Page 28 and 30 one in the future. If you are carrying • a passenger who is injured, or if a Insider Directory driver or passenger of another vehicle Page 32 involved in the accident is injured, the injured parties may bring a lawsuit for • personal injuries. The party suing is Events and More called the Plaintiff. If you are sued, Start on Page 29 you are a Defendant. • The normal procedure in a lawsuit Around The World brought by a passenger is to sue the Page 46 owner and the driver of the vehicle in (Continued on Page 8) (See Page 38) PAGE 2 • TAXI INSIDER • SEPTEMBER 2014

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Proud Member of The Committee for Taxi Safety SEPTEMBER 2014 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 3 LETTERS JULY 2010 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 1 INSIDER $7:00 Minimum yes its not a right. Walking in the city of NY is a privilege. And they Publisher & cross without care which is why they get hit. I’m sorry to say, but aside from a couple of instances, Editor-in-Chief it’s the pedestrian fault they get hit. They stand on the street and not on the sidewalk. even if the David Pollack city installs those barracades in the middle of the street, the pedestrians aren’t going to stay on them. Columnists What will it take for the city to stop blaming the drivers, maybe the city should install a beeping Matthew Daus, Esq. sound in the pedestrian’s brain, to beep every time Tony Falese they cross incorrectly. I’m tired of the city blaming the motorist. They blame the motorist because it’s Larry Fisher easy to blame. We’ll see. To be continued.... Ira Goldstein, Esq. Taxi Solomon Michael Higgins Dear Taxi Dave, If illegal street hails by FHV’s have really ended, Bob Mackle why is there any need for window stickers showing Shift Change Solution a $7:00 minimum? Dear Taxi Dave, Abe Mittleman Humberto In order to keep yellow taxi customers with us, Michael Spevack, Esq. we need to clean up our act. First of all, if any two drivers agree, maybe shift change should be Chip Stern Uber On The Street any 24 hours. Meaning that instead of wasting 45 Dear Taxi Dave, minutes returning a cab at rush hour and another Andrew Vollo I was just on the street Uber is acting just lIke 45 minutes on the Queensboro bridge; drivers a taxi, they are taking our fares and our drivers! Is themselves could change shift times like 9:00 Layout & Graphics anything being done? PM through 9:00 AM and fleets could charge the Dragonfl y Graphics LLC Simon same amounts they charge now. Let drivers decide when they want to change shifts and the lack of Where is the TLC? cabs rush hour will disappear. Also, dirty cabs, Dear Taxi Dave, and dented cars do no one justice when compared Taxi Insider Passengers being hustled at JFK is still going on with a clean vehicle. Wash those cabs! 14 Alexander Drive big time. I picked up two TOURISTS in Manhat- Surjeet tan going to the west side and they asked me how Washingtonville, NY 10992 much a yellow cab would cost from JFK to the Happy Customers Phone: (718) 706-TAXI(8294) Grand Hyatt. These two young women explained Dear Taxi Dave, that exited Terminal A at 4:00 PM and literally If the TLC would only make the partition optional, — could not make their way to the taxi line because that would go a long way in getting drivers and cus- E-mail:[email protected] of hustlers. They were coerced into a hustlers car tomers back into the industry. I have been driving and charged $200.00 to go from JFK to the Grand for many years. The last car I drove had a partition — Hyatt. Where is the TLC? but my new one does not. Since I have been driving Website: TaxiSafety.com Guillermo without one, more than 80% of my customers make positive comments and like the additional space as — Stop Blaming Motorists compared with cramped cars with partitions. Follow Us On Twitter Dear Taxi Dave, Joe M. I hear your moving your office to Melrose @Taxisafetynyc Credit Union on 3rd floor. I’m so excited to hear Medallions that, because then I’ll be able to see u more often. To Taxi Dave, I go to Melrose on a weekly basis. I am a medallion owner. Owners should take Copyright © 2014 by TAXI INSIDER. All I heard your show with Councilwoman Rosen- $100 - $200 less a month for leasing if that money rights reserved. Neither this newspaper nor thal and Congressman Rangle, and I think the city is set aside for their long term driver to purchase a any part therof may be reproduced, copied, is going with the wrong way about these pedestrian medallion in the future. We should be giving leasing or transmitted in any form, electronic or fatalities. drivers an option to buy our medallions if they decide mechanical including photocopying, mi- Closing street lanes is NOT the answer, making to buy, say after 10 years. Hey owners, let’s help keep crofi lming, recording or by any information the speed limit 25 mph is NOT the answer. The drivers in the industry long term. They would feel retrieving system without the express written city and the advocates, politicians, congressman, they are getting something back. If cabs are sitting permission of the publishers. The copyright councilman, etc. needs to understand that its not without drivers, no one wins. is extended to the design and text created going to help when pedestrians because they know J.M. 30 year Owner Driver for advertisements. This publication will they have right of way , abuse that privaledge , not be responsible for errors in advertise- (Continued on Page 18) ment beyond the cost of the space occupied by the error. Bylined articles represent the The Committee for Taxi Safety sole opinion of the writer and are not neces- 21-03 44TH Avenue , LIC, NY 11101 sarily in accordance with the views of TAXI INSIDER. Phone: (718) 706-8294 This Publication reserves the right to E-mail: [email protected] limit or refuse advertising it deems objec- tionable. Twitter@Taxisafetynyc TAXI INSIDER is published monthly at —www.TaxiSafety.com— a subscription rate of $48.00 per year. PAGE 4 • TAXI INSIDER • SEPTEMBER 2014

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Then, go to Upon implementation of the New which made the request and the driver will credit card scam. front desk or call and notify them of Dispatch System all drivers must adhere proceed to that terminal as they do now, The NYPD advises people to not the situation. to the new policy procedures so as to en- at the terminal they will verify the driver, comply with the instructions if you The EZPass scam is involves send- sure that all cabs are accurately scanned direct the passenger(s) to his vehicle and happen to fi nd yourself in one of these ing an email to EZPass holders asking and accounted for at the CTH. the system will generate the trip ticket for situations. them to download a list of unpaid tolls. 1. All NYC Yellow Cabs must have the passenger and a short return ticket if The hotel credit card scam happens The email is not one sent out by any- an RFID Tag installed in their vehicle as warranted for the driver. after you have checked in to your room. one affi liated with the state Thruway they enter Central Taxi Hold Lot. If you 6. When you are proceed to the You get a call saying your card didn’t Authority, which asks anyone who has have changed your windshield, changed exit booth you must pull up slowly to the go through the fi rst time and asking received it to call the customer service your vehicle or if your RFID tag is not exit booth, the monitor at the exit booth for your card number and the last three hot line at 1 (800) 333-8655. working see the supervisor. It will need will display your medallion number and digits on the back of the card. If you The police periodically send out to be replaced. terminal you should go to pick up your get a call to your room, be advised this notices of scams it knows people are 2. All cabs entering the Central fare. may not be an employee, but a person trying to pull. Taxi Hold must pull up slowly to the 7. At the terminal(s) the dispatcher entrance booths and look at the monitor will verify that your cab is valid for Retired Bronx Taxi Driver Wins to make sure your cab was scanned. The that terminal. If your cab is valid the monitors will show your medallion and passenger(s) will directed to your cab. $11.5 Million it well tell you to proceed: (the following The dispatcher will enter the passen- Leroy Beckford, 83, a retired taxi have a Lexus.” messages will be displayed next to your ger’s destination into the handheld and driver from the Bronx, received a check Five other people from the area also medallion). the DOD System will generate the trip for $11.5 million. Beckford bought the won the lotto. Most of them took home “Regular Lane” “Short Return Lane” ticket for the passenger(s) and a short ticket and chose quick pick numbers at a million dollars, but all said that they or will tell you to “Go To The Dispatch return ticket will be issued to the driver a Bronx 7 and 7 deli. He lives with his wouldn’t believe it until they saw the Offi ce”. if warranted. When the dispatcher veri- daughter in a nearby apartment. “He money. 3. Those drivers who have a valid fi es the cab and a the driver has gone to might go off and do his own thing. He The fi ve other winners hail from short return will proceed as normal to the wrong terminal they will be told to said he might get a wife,” Michelle Brooklyn, Queens, Suffolk County, the short return lanes. The dispatcher on proceed their assigned terminal because Beckford said, “His all-time wish is to and New Jersey. duty will have a scanner and rescan your the system will not generate a trip ticket vehicle to make sure you are valid. if the is cab is invalid for that terminal Statement By Port Authority 4. If a driver who has entered the 8. If the driver at the terminal is not Central taxi Hold Lot decides that he in the DOD System they will not get Executive Director Pat Foye And wants to leave the lot and not pick up a a job and they must exit the terminal Deputy Executive Director Deborah fare. They will proceed to the By Pass and return to the Central Taxi Hold Lot lane there his vehicle will be scanned and (Driver will be subject to issuance of a Gramiccioni On Port Authority Bus removed from the active queue. hack complaint for “Crashing the Line” Terminal Improvement Program 5. If a terminal makes a request a spe- if they did not fi rst go to the Central Taxi cial order they will contact the central taxi Hold Lot. “The Port Authority Board of try. The agency’s network of aviation, hold as they do now (handicap accessible Drivers should be aware the supervi- Commissioners today authorized $90 ground, rail, and seaport facilities van, minivan or specifi c language driver sor at the central taxi hold lot, the supervi- million to a “Quality of Commute’’ is among the busiest in the country, etc.), the special order will be called out to sor in the fi eld and the Port Authority will improvement program for the Port supports more than 550,000 regional the drivers over the PA system. The driver have a scanner and they can scan your Authority Bus Terminal. The func- jobs, and generates more than $23 who responds to that special request will vehicle to verify if you are valid. tionally obsolete facility no longer billion in annual wages and $80 bil- proceed to the offi ce and will be directed If the following rules are adhered to it meets the transportation needs of the lion in annual economic activity. The to the By Pass Booth where they will will insure the smooth and orderly fl ow hundreds of thousands of riders that Port Authority also owns and manages be scanned and assigned to the terminal of cabs at John F. Kennedy Airport. pass through the terminal every day, the 16-acre World Trade Center site, and the Port Authority is committed where construction crews are building to identifying comprehensive improve- the iconic One World Trade Center, TLC Fails Emergency Test ments within the context of its existing which is now the tallest skyscraper While driving during a recent over- information? Taxi drivers are forbidden Capital Plan. This initiative will make in the Western Hemisphere. The Port night storm, 1010 WINS, 880 and WOR- to use blue tooth or any other hands-free interim improvements to the terminal Authority receives no tax revenue from 710 was reporting hundreds of streets device, and must shut off the radio at a as the agency explores a program to either the State of New York or New in the metropolitan area were fl ooded passenger’s request! How many fl ood deliver a redeveloped facility.” Jersey or from the City of New York. as well as some major roadways. Each notices did the taxi drivers receive Founded in 1921, the Port Authority The agency raises the necessary funds station would mention different closed on their Driver Information Monitor of New York and New Jersey builds, for the improvement, construction or roadways. I was driving on the Grand (DIM)? Zero, Zilch, Nada, that’s how operates, and maintains many of the acquisition of its facilities primarily on Central Parkway when one of those many. The DIM is supposed to be used most important transportation and its own credit. For more information, huge overhead fl ashing signs had two for emergency situations and should be trade infrastructure assets in the coun- please visit http://www.panynj.gov. fl ashing messages. The fi rst message used 24/7 for emergencies because it may said “Call 511 for Traffi c Info”. The be their ONLY tool for emergency no- TIPS = To Insure Proper Service second sign fl ashed this message:”Only tices or instruction. The TLC failed this ATTENTION YELLOW TAXI DRIVERS – EARN YOUR TIPS Use Hands-Free Devices to Make Calls”. easy test. MAJOR ROAD CLOSURES Say hello to each passenger and be friendly. And that’s when it hit me: How do taxi ARE EMERGENCIES, especially for If your passenger has luggage, GET OUT OF YOUR TAXI and place the drivers get emergency fl ooded roadway those who drive for a living luggage inside the trunk. Keep your taxi CLEAN! Wear clean collared shirts. Do not forget to take your taxi If you are dirty, if your taxi is dirty, if you do not say hello, if you are not friendly, if you do not communicate with your passengers, if you do not place for a MILE RUN annually! their luggage in the trunk, the YOU DO NOT DESERVE A TIP! PAGE 6 • TAXI INSIDER • SEPTEMBER 2014 Discretion and “I’m not giving the TLC one penny, I De Blasio and Klein Herald Speed would rather take a 30 day vacation,” “ (Continued from Page 1) I let the pedestrians pass like I always Camera Expansion immediately. do, next thing I hear a siren and see the Mayor Bill de Blasio and State Jr. was also on the scene at the school, All taxi drivers ask for is respect. police lights in my mirror, I couldn’t Senator Jeffrey Klein today announced which sits at an intersection that the city Yet, how can one respect those who believe it was for me and I get 3 tick- a massive expansion of the city’s speed has designated a “high-crash corridor.” do not respect us? How can we have ets to boot,” “ I asked the police what camera program. Mr. Diaz acknowledged that some mo- faith in a system that penalizes the in- pavement marking he was talking about, Mr. de Blasio and Mr. Klein rolled torists would view the new cameras as nocent for the purpose of income for and he didn’t tell me,” and on and on. out the the new plan for 120 more of merely a means of generating revenue New York city? These are the comments of NYC work- the automatic ticket-issuing devices through tickets–an opinion he trashed, Why are so many career taxi driv- ers in a transportation segment envied near public schools at a press conference arguing that the real concern should not ers once again receiving 3-packs and around the globe. Hopefully none of the outside P.S. 95 in the senator’s home bor- be fi nes but student safety. 5-packs of summonses provided cour- “Safe Drivers” that are to be honored by ough of the Bronx. The city has already “Don’t be that individual. A speed tesy of NYPD? We all thought those the TLC will fall victim to this unjust installed 23 of the cameras at learning ticket is the least of your worries,” Mr. days of quota and Vehicle Traffi c Law system of “enforcement” before they institutions citywide since January, and Diaz said. (VTL) abuse with multi-packs was get their well deserved awards. While the new plan–to be implemented over The Department of Transportation behind us, (excluding of course those people are getting ripped off by drivers the next several weeks–will bring that noted, however, that the existing 23 two model offi cers who wrote hundreds in non-yellow cabs negotiating fares of number to 143. cameras have already generated $9 mil- of similar summonses only to yellow $35 from Saks to Penn Station, we are “Our kids are going to be safer walk- lion in fees–and are projected to rake in cab drivers at the same locations, for the hiring attorneys for multi-pack sum- ing to school and coming home becasue more than twice that before the end of same offenses in 3-packs for years.) monses issued without accountability of this new enforcement,” said Mr. de the year. In the last week, three old timers but with discretion. I wonder whatever Blasio, thanking Mr. Klein as well as A source at the DOT told the Ob- in my offi ce and told me they have happened to the police offi cer who’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker server that the city only installed six of received two 3-packs and one 5-pack police car hit a bicyclist in a crosswalk Silver and State Senate Democratic Mi- the cameras in January, and only had respectively. What defi nes an old timer on 79th Street and Central Park West nority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins– the 23 up and running by June–so only you might ask? In this case an old timer with witnesses? Did he get any dis- leaving out Republican Majority Leader a fraction of their income-generating is defi ned as a driver of a yellow cab cretionary summonses? Was he held Dean Skelos–for helping pass the bill potential had so far been realized. that has been driving since 1983 - 1985 accountable for his actions or receive boosting the program. The cameras come with a hefty price respectively without ever getting one multiple summonses? Mr. Klein expressed regret that such tag, however–$90,000 to $150,000 a summons. Coincidence? Hardly. This a program was even necessary, and that piece. week, those three old timers made a drivers continue to exceed the speed limit DOT Commissioner Polly Trotten- few statements to Taxi Insider: “I’ve on streets close to where children learn berg said that some of the cameras will had it,” “I can’t believe what’s going “We’re sending a very important mes- rotate among the city’s 1,500 public on out there,” “after 30 years I’m gonna sage,” Mr. Klein said. “If you’re going schools, targeting those areas with the be suspended or lose my hack license to hit the accelerator, you’re going to highest number of crashes. because of one cop, it’s unfair,” “I did get a ticket.” Reprinted with permission from New nothing out of the ordinary just like Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz York Observer News. always,” “tell it to the judge he tells me,” Taxi and For-Hire Vehicle Relief Stands Taxi relief stands allow drivers to park their vehicles for up to one hour. Th is aff ords drivers the opportunity to leave their vehicles and take care of personal needs. Queens locations are being verifi ed. Staten Island currently has no relief stands. BOROUGH TYPE OF STAND LOCATION CROSS STREET BOROUGH TYPE OF STAND LOCATION CROSS STREET Manhattan Taxi/FHV Relief Tenth Avenue W 26th St and W 28th St Manhattan Taxi Relief Thompson St Grand St and Sixth Ave Manhattan Taxi/FHV Relief Ninth Avenue W 42nd St and W 41st St Manhattan Taxi/FHV Relief W 16th St Ninth Ave and Eight Ave Manhattan Taxi Relief Eighth Avenue (west side) W 46th St and W 47th St Manhattan Taxi Relief W 21st St Sixth Ave and Seventh Ave Manhattan Taxi/FHV Relief Sixth Avenue W 22nd St and W 23th St Manhattan Taxi Relief W 26th St Seventh Ave and Sixth Ave Manhattan Taxi/FHV Relief Sixth Avenue W 38th St and W 39th St Manhattan Taxi/FHV Relief W 31st St Fifth Ave and Broadway Manhattan Taxi/FHV Relief Sixth Avenue W 39th St and W 40th St Manhattan Taxi/FHV Relief W 41st St Eighth Ave and Ninth Ave Manhattan Taxi/FHV Relief Sixth Avenue W 55th St and W 56th St Manhattan Taxi Relief W 44th St Eleventh Ave and Tenth Ave Manhattan Taxi/FHV Relief Sixth Avenue W 8th St and W 9th St Manhattan Taxi/FHV Relief W 46th St Ninth Ave and Tenth Ave Manhattan Taxi/FHV Relief Broadway W 48th St and W 47th St Manhattan Taxi Relief W 46th St Eleventh Ave and Tenth Ave Manhattan Taxi/FHV Relief Third Avenue (west side) E 14th St and E 15th St Manhattan Taxi Relief W 50th St Ninth Ave and Tenth Ave Manhattan Taxi/FHV Relief Canal St E Broadway and Essex St Manhattan Taxi/FHV Relief W 52nd St Twelfth Ave and Eleventh Ave Manhattan Taxi/FHV Relief E 16th St (north side) Fifth Ave and Union Square West Manhattan Taxi Relief W 55th St Tenth Ave and Eleventh Ave Manhattan Taxi/FHV Relief E 16th St(south side) Fifth Ave and Union Square West Bronx Taxi Relief Park Avenue (east side) E 135th St and E 138th St Manhattan Taxi/FHV Relief E 17th St Irving Place and Park Ave South Bronx Taxi Relief Park Avenue (west side) E 135th St and E 138th St Manhattan Taxi Relief E23rd St First Ave and Second Ave Brooklyn Taxi Relief Fourth Avenue Third St and Sixth St Manhattan Taxi Relief E 27th St Park Ave S and Madison Ave Brooklyn Taxi Relief North 6th Street Berry St and Wythe St Manhattan Taxi/FHV Relief E 28th St Fifth Ave and Madison Ave Brooklyn Taxi/FHV Relief Utica Avenue Winthrop St and Rutland Blvd Manhattan Taxi Relief E 28th St Park Ave S and Lexington Ave Queens* Taxi/FHV Relief 36th St Skillman Ave and 43rd Ave Manhattan Taxi/FHV Relief E 29th St Madison Aveand Fifth Ave Queens* Taxi/FHV Relief 43rd St 36th St and 37th St Manhattan Taxi Relief E 77th St First Ave and Second Ave Queens* Taxi/FHV Relief 45th Ave Jackson Ave and 23rd St Manhattan Taxi Relief E 78th St Lexington Ave and Third Ave Queens* Taxi/FHV Relief 45th Ave 45th Ave Rdwy and 23rd St Manhattan Taxi Relief E 78th St Lexington Ave and Third Ave Queens* Taxi Relief 55th St Queens Blvd and Roosevelt Ave Manhattan Taxi Relief E 86th St Henderson Place and York Ave Queens* Taxi Relief 64th St 34th Ave and 35th Ave Manhattan Taxi/FHV Relief Grand St Forsythe St and Chrystie St Queens* Taxi/FHV Relief Hunters Point Ave 27th St and 30th St Manhattan Taxi Relief Lexington Ave E 28th St and E 27th St Queens* Taxi/FHV Relief Pearson St Jackson Ave and Dead End Manhattan Taxi/FHV Relief Lexington Ave E 25th St and E 26th St Queens* Taxi Relief Queens Blvd 55th St and 54th St Manhattan Taxi Relief Lexington Ave E 26th St and E 24th St Queens* Taxi Relief Skillman Ave 37th St and 36th St Manhattan Taxi/FHV Relief Madison Ave E 26th St and E 27th St Queens* Taxi/FHV Relief Van Dam St Queens Blvd and Skillman Ave Manhattan Taxi/FHV Relief Church St (east side) Franklin St and White St (last updated January 12, 2010) Manhattan Taxi/FHV Relief South St Wall St and Gouveneur Lane *Queens locations are currently being verifi ed. Staten Island currently has no relief stands. Don’t risk a summons trying to fi nd 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! SEPTEMBER 2014 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 7 Words To Live By changes. EZ Pass has eliminated toll is simply a way for the super-rich to booth workers and enabled drivers to line their pockets at the expense of the By Larry Fisher pay tolls through their credit cards. working class. Entrepreneurial spirit Loan Department Supervisor, MELROSE Credit Union An innovation and a mild form of has been a major part of what makes The financial community has a economic growth, even as it destroyed “creative destruction.” How about this country great, but is it really knack for taking phrases the value of established Ford Motors closing plants in Ohio necessary to tear down industries and and co-opting them for companies and laborers and moving them to non-union states towns that have built these companies its self-interest. Take the that enjoyed some de- or countries with lower pay scales. into the behemoths they have become? term “creative destruc- gree of monopoly power Lots of destruction of communities I salute President Obama for saving tion” for example. Origi- derived from previous and creative for the shareholders only. the US auto industry from the scrap nally, this was a term of technological, organi- We can easily find examples of how heap. A President Romney would art conceived by Joseph zational, regulatory, and technology and corporate decision- have preferred “creative destruction” Schumpeter, an econo- economic paradigms. making have a dramatic impact on as the way forward. For every auto mist, which he derived Sounds esoteric and our lives while the public relations worker job, there are seven to eight from Marxist thought too intellectual for this machine spins out yarns about lower other jobs created as a result of the and used it to describe paper, right? Maybe not. prices and building for the future. support industries necessary to sustain the disruptive process As we have all seen by Why does the future have to need- the auto industry. Keep the plants of transformation that accompanies virtue of technological advances, lessly destroy the past? open, help them innovate and change. innovation. According to Wikipedia, capitalism has a habit of constantly This process of creative destruc- Save the communities under threat in Schumpeter’s vision of capitalism, changing. New markets, new prod- tion, as it has been utilized by the mul- of plant closings. Only a productive innovative entry by entrepreneurs was ucts, new methods of manufacturing tinational corporations, has little or no middle class can save this country the disruptive force that sustained and distribution all contribute to the regard for families or communities. It from economic ruin. Two Double Decker Tour Buses Collide In Times Square, 11 Injured

Two double decker tour buses expected to be OK.” crashed into each other—right by the Reprinted with permission from popular TKTS booth—at 47th Street the Gothamist. and 7th Avenue in Times Square. Up- date below: 14 people were injured. The FDNY says 11 people were injured—eight have minor injuries and three have serious non-life- threatening injuries. A person who posted a photo of the aftermath said, “Bus jumped the sidewalk and hit a traffi c light nearly hitting a baby in a stroller!” WABC 7 reports, “The force of the crash brought down a light pole into the plaza next to the booth.” A woman told the station she grabbed her daughter just in time, “The bus came at a very high rate of speed and landed right near my daughter.” The buses involved appear to be a Grey Line sightseeing bus and a City Sightseeing bus. Update: 14 people were reportedly injured, with most of the injuries com- ing from the falling traffi c light. NBC New York reports, “One person on board one of the buses, a tour guide, was also injured when she was thrown forward and her head became lodged in the dashboard, offi cials said. She’s PAGE 8 • TAXI INSIDER • SEPTEMBER 2014 Taxi Drivers Deposition lawsuit who testifies at an EBT is a the questions concerns time or dis- until you answer the question that witness.] The case may be settled tance, you are allowed to estimate if was asked. (Continued from Page 1) before trial but is rarely settled before you don’t know exactly. Neverthe- On average, a Defendant driver’s which the injured was riding as well depositions are held. When all par- less, if you have no clue as to the deposition will usually take up to as the owner and driver of any other ties’ depositions are completed the answer, “I don’t know” is an accept- an hour to complete if there is one vehicle involved in the accident. If lawyers can decide whether to settle able response. If your own attorney other attorney and up to an hour and a driver (including a cab driver) is the case or go to trial. says “objection” after the question a half to complete if there is more injured, the driver may sue the owner When drivers appear to testify, is asked, don’t answer and wait until than one attorney. [If you require an and driver of any other vehicles in- they want to tell the story about what your attorney advises you to answer interpreter, the translation of question volved in the accident and make a they understand happened. However, or directs you not to answer. and answer could add at least another no-fault claim against the insurance an EBT witnesses (especially a driver) If you start telling a story and don’t half hour.] However, if you don’t carrier of the vehicle which he was must remember that they have been pay attention to the actual questions, answer the questions you were asked, driving. sworn in to answer questions posed by you may hurt your own position by and/or if you ramble on about matters Once a lawsuit begins, it is un- attorneys representing other parties in either providing more information unrelated to the question, the depo- likely to end before you are called to the lawsuit. Drivers appearing to tes- than was asked for or by opening sition will take longer to complete. testify in a deposition, also known as tify should be accompanied by their up new issues which will lead to Overall, in relation to questions about an EBT (Examination Before Trial). own attorneys, usually appointed by questions that the other attorney had the cause of the accident, your job as The purpose of the deposition is to the owner’s insurance company. not planned on asking. If you don’t a witness is to tell the other side as obtain sworn testimony from the wit- When answering a question, you answer the question you were asked, little as possible while answering the ness so that the witness’ version of should never guess when you really the attorney posing the question may questions you were asked. events is on record. [A party to the don’t know the answer. However, if continue to ask the same question On the other hand, if you are a Plaintiff, testifying about your MANHATTAN POLICE PRECINCTS injuries, you still must answer the Precinct Address Direct line 1 Precinct 16 Ericsson Place 1-212-334-0611 Police Precincts questions you were asked, but your job is to tell the other side as much 5 Precinct 19 Elizabeth Street 1-212-334-0711 In New York City as possible about your condition. 6 Precinct 233 West 10 Street 1-212-741-4811 Nevertheless, you should not ramble 7 Precinct 19 1/2 Pitt Street 1-212-477-7311 Taxi Insider Info on about everything that is wrong 9 Precinct 130321 AvenueEast 5th C Street 1-212-477-7811 with you. Your answers should be 10 Precinct 230 West 20th Street 1-212-741-8211 71 Precinct 421 Empire Boulevard 1-718-735-0511 addressed to the questions you were 13 Precinct 230 East 21st Street 1-212-477-7411 72 Precinct 830 4th Avenue 1-718-965-6311 asked. Moreover, you should try not Midtown South Precinct to claim injuries which you have not 73 Precinct 1470 East New York Avenue 1-718-495-5411 MSP 357 West 35th Street 1-212-239-9811 already discussed with your own at- 75 Precinct 1000 Sutter Avenue 1-718-827-3511 17 Precinct 167 East 51st Street 1-212-826-3211 torney in order to maintain your own 76 Precinct 191 Union Street 1-718-834-3211 Midtown North Precinct credibility as a witness since injury 77 Precinct 127 Utica Avenue 1-718-735-0611 MNP 306 West 54th Street 1-212-767-8400 claims require some form of medical 78 Precinct 65 6th Avenue 1-718-636-6411 support. 19 Precinct 153 East 67th Street 1-212-452-0600 79 Precinct 263 Tompkins Avenue 1-718-636-6611 Finally, try to remember that the 20 Precinct 120 West 82nd Street 1-212-580-6411 81 Precinct 30 Ralph Avenue 1-718-574-0411 questioning attorney is just another Central Park Precinct 83 Precinct 480 Knickerbocker Avenue 1-718-574-1605 person, whose job in this case is to 86th St & Transverse Road 1-212-570-4820 84 Precinct 301 Gold Street 1-718-875-6811 find out what happened. You will 23 Precinct 162 East 102nd Street 1-212-860-6411 88 Precinct 298 Classon Avenue 1-718-636-6511 get through this experience more 24 Precinct 151 West 100th Street 1-212-678-1811 90 Precinct 211 Union Avenue 1-718-963-5311 easily if you do not become upset 25 Precinct 120 East 119th Street 1-212-860-6511 or hostile. 94 Precinct 100 Meserole Avenue 1-718-383-3879 26 Precinct 520 West 126th Street 1-212-678-1311 I hope that this article helps to prepare you for the time you may 28 Precinct 2271-89 8th Avenue 1-212-678-1611 QUEENS POLICE PRECINCTS 30 Precinct 451 West 151st Street 1-212-690-8811 be called as a witness in a lawsuit Precinct Address Direct line arising out of an accident in which 32 Precinct 250 West 135th Street 1-212-690-6311 100 Precinct 92-24 Rockaway Beach Blvd. 1-718-318-4200 you were involved. 33 Precinct 2207 Amsterdam Avenue 1-212-927-3200 101 Precinct 16-12 Mott Avenue 1-718-868-3400 Michael I. Josephs is an attorney 34 Precinct 4295 Broadway 1-212-927-9711 102 Precinct 87-34 118th Street 1-718-805-3200 who has worked in personal injury litigation for more than 30 years, BRONX POLICE PRECINCTS 103 Precinct 168-02 P.O. Edwaard Byrne Ave. 1-718-657-8181 104 Precinct 64-02 Catalpa Avenue 1-718-386-3004 representing drivers at depositions Precinct Address Direct line and hearings as well as handling 105 Precinct 92-08 222nd Street 1-718-776-9090 40 Precinct 257 Alexander Avenue 1-718-402-2270 appeals of court decisions and jury 106 Precinct 103-53 101st Street 1-718-845-2211 41 Precinct 1035 Longwood Avenue 1-718-542-4771 verdicts. His office is in Queens. 107 Precinct 71-01 Parsons Boulevard 1-718-969-5100 42 Precinct 830 Washington Avenue 1-718-402-3887 If you have any questions you can 108 Precinct 5-47 50th Avenue 1-718-784-5411 43 Precinct 900 Fteley Avenue 1-718-542-0888 reach Mr. Josephs at michaelijoseph- 109 Precinct 37-05 Union Street 1-718-321-2250 44 Precinct 2 East 289th Street 1-718-590-5511 [email protected] or at (718) 110 Precinct 94-41 43rd Avenue 1-718-476-9311 490-9970. 45 Precinct 2877 Barkley Avenue 1-718-822-5411 111 Precinct 45-06 215th Street 1-718-279-5200 46 Precinct 2120 Ryer Avenue 1-718-220-5211 112 Precinct 68-40 Austin Street 1-718-520-9311 47 Precinct 4111 Laconia Avenue 1-718-920-1211 113 Precinct 167-02 Baisley Boulevard 1-718-712-7733 48 Precinct 450 Cross Bronx Expressway 1-718-299-3900 114 Precinct 34-16 Astoria Boulevard 1-718-626-9311 49 Precinct 2121 Eastchester Road 1-718-918-2000 115 Precinct 92-15 Northern Boulevard 1-718-533-2002 50 Precinct 3450 Kingsbridge Avenue 1-718-543-5700 52 Precinct 3016 Webster Avenue 1-718-220-5811 STATEN ISLAND POLICE PRECINCTS BROOKLYN POLICE PRECINCTS Precinct Address Direct line Precinct Address Direct line 120 Precinct 78 Richmond Terrace 1-718-876-8500 60 Precinct 2951 West 8th Street 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 Questions? 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will take it permanently from you if Buy the book and recommend it to The Taxi Attorney the criminal matters is NOT resolved your customers. You will be happy to the TLC’s satisfaction. I work that you did and you will likely get Hello everybody, I hope that you driver’s license in NYS period. You with a very high quality criminal great tips. are working hard and making good can’t drive a taxi. You can’t drive a attorney who can speed up criminal Remember to bring me your DMV money. This month I private car. Nothing. You matters and obtains excellent results, and TLC tickets. It is important to want to talk about five can’t do deliveries or so please call me at 212.754.1011 if fight all your DMV (issued by NYPD) topics. drive to a job or have a you get arrested. and TLC tickets. Be careful. Don’t First, if you are restricted license. Poof. Third, all drivers need a will, and skimp on the lawyer only to lose your charged with a DWI or You are done. Be care- important estate documents such as a license later. Please fight every yel- DWAI for the second ful if you have even one power of attorney, living will, health low or pink ticket you receive from time in New York State, DWAI. DO NOT DRINK care proxy, etc. If you own a medal- NYPD and every TLC ticket you you must try to dismiss AND DRIVE. lion, you must have a will; otherwise receive. If you are uncertain whether the charge against you Second, if you are your family will have trouble with, to use an attorney for a particular and you must hire the arrested and you possess among others, the TLC, after you die. ticket, please come see me and I will best possible criminal a TLC license, it is im- Also, if you have young children – tell you, no charge, if the ticket has attorney that you can af- perative that you hire the you need a will. Even if you don’t points and you do or do not need ford. This is because the best criminal attorney own a medallion, you need to do a an attorney or representative for a NYS DMV has instituted that you can afford and will and a power of attorney. IF YOU particular summons. a new rule: 2 drunk driving offenses, maybe one that you cannot afford. TRAVEL OUT OF THE US, YOU Also, please note that I will do an including DWAI, plus a serious mov- I suggest that you borrow money to NEED A POWER OF ATTORNEY excellent job advocating for you at a ing violation in a 25 year look back pay the attorney. This is so because EVEN IF YOU DON’T OWN A fair and reasonable price and I have period, means that you cannot obtain TLC will hold your license until the MEDALLION. Every driver needs been doing this business for about 20 a NYS Driver’s license. That is it. No criminal case is finished and the TLC these documents. years now and really know what I am Fourth, please listen to the Taxi doing. Please call me at 212.754.1011 Call It The ‘Uber Effect’: Taxi App Insider radio show on 710 am WOR, or 866.LAW.MIKE to discuss your Users Across America Are Mistakenly on Sunday evenings between 8pm and DMV or TLC problem. ALL MAT- 9pm. David Pollack is the host. He TERS ARE CONFIDENTIAL Hopping Into Strangers’ Cars is smart, entertaining, informative Visit my website at www.traf- • Twitter has become rife with com- Some victims of the unsettling situ- and best of all, knows the truth about ficticketnyc.com. I am here to help plaints about their regular cars being ations blame themselves--or at least what is happening in your Industry. you. invaded by car service app users their choice of car. So, please tune in to listen. I am a Until next month, be well. • Apps like Uber and Lyft allow ‘The uber effect: a random dude just semi-regular guest. So, please listen Mr. Spevack thanks you for read- people with all types of vehicles to tried to get in my car #sfpriusproblems,’ and stay informed. ing this article which is for enter- become chauffeurs--meaning they’re tweeted @urchkin. Fifth, pick up a copy of a great tainment purposes only and does almost impossible to tell one from the San Francisco isn’t the only city new novel: Matthew Thomas’s “We not constitute legal advice. For legal other. where a certain hybrid Toyota is simply are Not Ourselves.” He is a friend of advice, contact Mr. Spevack.http:// Some victims of the unsettling situ- assumed to be an Uber. mine and a great author. He loves taxi www.trafficticketnyc.com . ations blame themselves--or at least ‘As if I needed more evidence of drivers and is a credit to New York See his advertisement on page 36 their choice of car. the monotonous ubiquity of the Los City, having grown up in Queens. of this issue. ‘The uber effect: a random dude just Angeles Prius, today, I was mistaken for tried to get in my car #sfpriusproblems,’ someone’s Uber driver,’ @wlsalyers. tweeted @urchkin. Some drivers have even felt the Uber San Francisco isn’t the only city Effect multiple times, suggesting this NYS DMV Point System where a certain hybrid Toyota is simply side effect is hardly rare. Speeding (mph over posted limit) assumed to be an Uber. However, the company has a com- ‘As if I needed more evidence of petitor in second-fi ddle Lyft, which 1to10...3points the monotonous ubiquity of the Los appears to be having an effect of its Angeles Prius, today, I was mistaken for own. 11 to 20 . . 4 points someone’s Uber driver,’ @wlsalyers. ‘”Are you Lyft? OH MY GOD 21 to 30 . . 6 points Some drivers have even felt the Uber YOU’RE NOT.” - the woman who got Effect multiple times, suggesting this in my car while I was trying to park,’ 31 to 40 . . 8 points side effect is hardly rare. tweeted Buzzfeed’s Louis Peitzman. More than 40 . . 11 points Cabbie Art Reckless Driving ....5points By Meryl Rosner Failure to stop for a School Bus .5points Following too closely (tailgating) 4 points Inadequate Brakes ..4points (while driving employer's vehicle)2 points Failing to Yield Right-Of-Way...3points Violation Involving Traffic Signal, Stop Sign, or Yield Sign ...3points Railroad Crossing Violation3 points Improper Passing or Lane Use ..3points Leaving scene of an incident involving property “Call Sunny& Save Money” damage or injury to an animal .. 3points Safety restraint violation involving person under 16 .3points Kindly Patronize Our Advertisers Any other moving violation 2 points Note: Speeding when speed not indicated is 3 points PAGE 16 • TAXI INSIDER • SEPTEMBER 2014

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Some time ago, I had a heated debate capitalists’ dollars in supply, it’s trying Street Talk with another owner-driver like myself. to deregulate the system in which hard By Erhan Tuncel - Managing Director LOMTO The debate was about whether a yellow working immigrants have been obeying We are deeply sad- TLC laws and should start taxi driver should accept fares from the laws and following the regulations – dened by the untimely assisting the TLC offi cers Uber or Hailo. regulations that have been put in place death of Alex Grubshtein in order to assure the riding His opinion was that as long as he by governments in an effort to form a of ABC meter shop. Our public the safest and the made money, he didn’t care where the binding partnership that’s necessary to deepest sympathies go out most reliable transportation fares came from. create an environment where safe and to his family, friends and service that they can have. I strongly disagreed and tried to fair transportation is provided to the colleagues. May he rest It is important for everyone, explain to him the difference between riding public. in peace! licensed or unlicensed, to the mindsets of the app companies Uber is trying to bully its way to NOTIFY TLC WHEN know the rules and realize Uber and Hailo. I hope he and other monopolizing the supply to the riding YOUR CONTACT the consequences of break- taxi drivers fi nally understand where I public by also eliminating the rest of INFO CHANGES ing the rules. am coming from. the apps that have an interest in pro- If your licensed by the VISION ZERO Since then, Uber’s bullying tactics viding similar service. IT WILL NOT TLC, it is very important that you fi ll Middle of August, NYPD an- have proved me right. Uber and app WORK! out the necessary forms and fi le it with nounced it would begin ticketing cy- companies like Uber call themselves Don’t get me wrong; I believe that the TLC when your personal contact clists who break the rules of the road transportation network companies Uber and apps like Uber are here to information changes. This information with a new initiative called Operation – TNC –and they don’t believe in stay and will remain as an option for includes your phone number, email and Safe Cycle. This is welcomed news to regulations. the riding public, but once the NYC most importantly, YOUR MAILING the pedestrians and drivers of NYC. They are a menace to transportation Transportation Industries join forces ADDRESS. Mayor De Blasio’s Vision Zero plan industries and the people they serve to realize that the status quo is no If you’re a driver and your mailing would lose some of its vision if bicy- all over the world including New York longer acceptable, improve their ser- address changes, you must fi ll out the clists were allowed to have their cake City. Uber’s mentality is that they don’t vice and technological capabilities to change of address form and fi le it with and eat it too. need any regulations to provide the satisfy the riding public’s desires and the TLC at 32-02 Queens Blvd., 2nd Fl., The City’s plan to expand the bike same service that regulated industries the government even the playing fi eld Drivers Section. However, if you are lanes is ongoing and NYPD is enforcing provide for everybody it regulates, Uber will be an Owner-Driver, you must do this at the - no stopping in bike lanes - rule, In NYC, Uber is trying to disguise nothing more than the last resort for the BOTH Drivers and Owners Sections. at least on taxis. These bike lanes are its personality by looking like it’s com- majority of the riding public. I also recommend that you save a being created by taking away driving plying with regulations; but trust me, LOMTO’S ENDORSEMENT copy of the TLC issued receipt. These lanes from the vehicular traffi c. So it it is the same selfi sh, arrogant bully OF THE HAILO E-HAIL APP simple steps will prevent unnecessary would be nice to see the bicyclists stay operating in all other cities and has no CLEARLY STATES THAT WE suspension and/or revocation of your in the bike lanes and obey the rules of intention of accepting regulations that’s ARE NOT AGAINST INNOVATIVE license by allowing yourself to respond the road, but instead they are trying to been put in place by the government to TECHNOLOGY. to TLC notifi cations in a timely man- rewrite the rules for bicycling as they protect and serve the drivers and the HOWEVER WE ARE AGAINST ner. see fi t. riding public. Uber is looking for every AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE COMMUTER VANS TO GET Advocates for bikers would like loophole and every glitch in regulations BULLIES ARE ALLOWED TO RUN NYPD PROTECTION to make us believe that enforcing the to accomplish what they are set out to RAMPANT! The TLC voted on and passed a rules only on the drivers is suffi cient accomplish. With billions of venture Until next time, stay well. resolution on August 7, 2014, approving to accomplish the goals of the Vision a pilot program to evaluate the use of Zero Plan. uniform markings and decals on Com- I happened to disagree. Right of muter Vans. We applaud the TLC for Way applies not only for pedestrians or their action as we believe that informing bicyclists, it also applies for vehicles. and educating the riding public about Let us all respect each others’ Right the licensed transportation options in or- of Way. I believe that the main goal of der to help them distinguish legal forms any Vision Zero Plan that’s true to itself of transportation from those operating ought to be to educate the public on how illegally are essential to providing a to use our streets safely and enforce the safe, insured and reliable service. For rules of the road for everyone without that purpose, we would like to see the prejudice. Zero fatality would simply old decals for yellow medallion taxis be one of the by-products of that True put back on our doors. Vision Zero Plan. It’s LOMTO’s opinion that the UBER stunning similarity between the Yellow The Yellow Taxi and Black Car Medallion Taxis and the Lime Green Industries have been, and always will Street Hail Liveries accomplishes only be, an avenue on which hardworking one thing and that’s to unnecessarily immigrants can realize their American confuse the riding public. We would Dream. These immigrants start simply like to see, as we have for decades in as a driver, save up to buy their own the past, the word “TAXI” identify vehicle and lease a taxi medallion or the medallion taxis and have our rate black car radio. Once they realize the of fare published on our doors for the benefi ts of ownership, they are often benefi t of the riding public. We also on their way to purchasing their own ask the TLC to consider phasing in a medallion or a radio. darker (brighter) shade of green along For decades, ownership allowed with decals that are more in-tune with them to move up to middle income the word “LIVERY” for the Street Hail status, gave them leverage to help Liveries. Let’s end the confusion once them purchase that fi rst home or helped and for all. them send their children to college to I was also excited to hear that the prepare them for a better life. They TLC is looking to partner with the look forward to retiring with a certain NYPD for enforcement on illegal vans amount of stability. poaching on the passengers of the TLC Contrary to how they’ve often been Committee for Taxi Safety Licensed Commuter Vans. I hope that portrayed in the media, the Yellow TH this is the beginning of something much Taxi and Black Car industries provide 21-03 44 Avenue , LIC, NY 11101 bigger which includes a more compre- drivers an opportunity to own and take Phone: (718) 706-8294 hensive approach to enforcement. control of their future. You can’t say that We believe that the NYPD can play about too many industries, certainly E-mail: [email protected] an important role in enforcement of the not Uber. PAGE 18 • TAXI INSIDER • SEPTEMBER 2014

have pulled up to taxi drivers who had the green arrow I proceed to turn and their trouble light on by mistake. Not tow bicyclists charge thru the red bike LETTERS one time did I ever see or hear of a icon, I honk because there’s a limited taxi driver being pulled over by one of amount of time to make the turn thru New York’s Finest to see if “the driver the green arrow, I get the fi nger. (Continued from Page 3) is ok”. You cannot win as a yellow taxi I remember I myself had come out cab driver. pete when it’s competitor is allowed Street Tip To of the tlc inspection site and drove Larry to manipulate pricing and it cannot. for about 5 hrs before I stopped for a For example, two grocery stores TLC Inspectors break when I noticed that the blinky side-by-side, one had to keep its Dear Taxi Insider, light was still on. Throughout that Not Following price constant while the other could If you see a four door, black sedan time no one ever “checked with me to lower it’s price at any time it wanted. The Rule with the windows rolled down in 95 ask if I’m ok”. The store that could lower its price Dear Taxi Dave, degree heat - and the driver is wearing The public doesn’t even know what would get all the business. it would During the SUMMER STREET a SUIT !! - that “trouble light “is . I think there be unfair to the store that had to keep Park Avenue Closures on Saturdays there’s a good chance he’s hustling should he a redesign of the “trouble its prices the same. in August, there was a person at each fares.... Oh - and he’ll also be scream- light”. For starters the color should be Sincerely, intersection with a sign. One side aid ing “WHERE YOU GO !!!!!’ !!” changed to blue (similar to the police Miguel Michael Simon STOP and the other SLOW. This was to lights) so the public won’t think that’s help bicyclists navigate passengers and it’s a turn signal light. vehicles without incident. What I saw at Talk is Cheap New Trouble Light Secondly we could have the words almost every corner was that pedestrians This is a response from the bicycle Needed “call police when on “ next to the light. could not cross because bicyclists were article. The medallion roof light should include not following the signs meant for them. I Dear Taxi Dave, Dear Taxi Dave, the same words above cab number. And noticed countless times that pedestrians Recently the self appointed czar I really hope they do this. So far fi nally we could ask the police to stop almost got hit by a cyclist. of the federation of taxi drivers, Mr. all they do is talk about it, Talk is playing video games and using Insta- A Bike Enthusiast Fernando Mateo, spoke of killings of CHEAP. I still think they should have gram while on duty and focus on the the the two livery cab drivers. bicyclists licensed and insured. activity on the streets. But since that’s It’s very sad to lose ones life by just Nan not going to happen, I suggest we do Bicycle Tickets driving a cab and trying to provide for the a redesign of the trouble light. Dear Taxi Dave, our families. He wanted more police Sincerely The bike crackdown by NYPD is Email Sent To protection and make the trouble light Raymond Goolcharran working. NYPD is now giving tickets more visible. to cyclists. On 6th Avenue between 34th Commissioner I ask you Taxi Dave, how is that Street all the way up to 42nd Street. Dear Commissioner, possible? Radar Love Every single bike going the wrong way The fact that Uber is allowed Overall the NYPD and the NYCTLC To Taxi Dave, down 6th Avenue was getting tickets. to price surge and lower it’s prices see taxi drivers as the real criminals Tell my taxi driving friends that I saw one guy get into a fi ght with a whenever it feels it’s for its benefit and as a cash cow and are only there the NYPD now has radar all over Park police offi cer. is unfair to the yellow taxi medallion to punish and penalize our industry as Avenue! There is a female officer 2nd Generation Cabbie industry. How can an industry com- much as they can. Dozens of times, I with a radar gun who stands on the median at 80th Street. On 68th Street north, there is an officer hiding with Vehicle Problems KAREN A. FRIEDMAN his radar gun. My, my, my, what will Dear Taxi Dave, ATTORNEYS happen when the TLC inspectors get I see a lot of cabs are getting stuck on PRESIDENT ATTORNEY AT LAW IN OFFICE radar guns? You won’t find a radar the roads for some reason, especially Ford Association of WHO PRACTICE: trap below 59th Street as you know, Escapes and Transit Connects. Also, Motor Vehicle Trial (212) 213-2145 PERSONAL INJURY because we can hardly drive the speed other drivers tell me the “Check Engine Attorneys MATRIMONIAL limit below 59th Street, even if our Lights” are lighting up the dashboard FLUENT IN ALL MOVING VIOLATIONS REAL ESTATE LAW passenger’s life depended on it. again on these same vehicles. FRENCH ALL MOVING COMMERCIAL Jack Manar THROUGHOUT IMMIGRATION VIOLATIONS More Media Reckless NEW YORK STATE Ignorance ‘Share-Ride’ Speeding; Red Lights; Traffic Signs Dear Taxi Dave, Drivers Running Why does the media keep referring SUSPENSIONS & WARRANTS LIFTED to the “Taxi Cartel” when taxis are li- Wild On Fifth Ave! censed by government and must operate Dear Taxi Dave, CRIMINALLY RELATED MATTERS under government rules? For the last few years, the legitimate I guess it’s a new licence category New York City yellow cab drivers have Driving While Intoxicated (DWI); called “The Cartel License”. been told by the Taxi & Limousine Richard Commission how horrible it is to be Reckless Driving; anywhere near a cell phone while driv- ing a cab. Aggravated Unlicensed Operation Hero One Minute Suspensions, thousand dollar fi ne, & Bum The Next revocations, ‘No texting while no driv- Dear Taxi Dave, ing.’, ‘IT’S THE LAW !!’ SAFETY HEARINGS Recently while taking a passenger RIGHT ?!?! RD across 49th street toward 11th ave a Now - as I’m trying to navigate my Throughout30 East New33 Street York State bicyclist taps on my window while I’m LEGAL yellow medallion cab through 4TH Floor at a red light. I roll down my driver’s Manhattan traffi c to pick up street-hail 404 Park Avenue South side window and the cyclist thanks me customers, New York, NY 10016 for watching out for him in my mirrors I fi nd myself constantly having to earlier on the block. I said you’re wel- avoid a small group of RECKLESS, EMAIL:New [email protected] York, NY 10016 come (just what I do) and both me & SHARE-RIDE DRIVERS using hand- WEBSITE:between www.NewYorkTraffi 28th and 29th Streets cLawyer.com the passenger thought that was pretty held devices they use to respond to cool(nice) of the cyclist. dispatched calls from their so-called Only 1/2 hour later I am waiting customers. — We Accept Credit Cards — (718) 979-5360 Those wackos are a threat to all Fluent in French and Spanish patiently at a red turning lane arrow on 9th ave & 22nd street. When I get (Continued on Page 20) SEPTEMBER 2014 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 19 City & State; Winners & Losers Quoteable WINNERS race, the Times editorial board ac- Fred Amoafo -New York City cab- knowledged that “not many” of its bie Amoafo, a yellow taxi driver from readers understood “what we were Queens who was honored for having reaching for.” That’s because what the best safety record of all his peers. the edit board was “reaching for” was Quotes According to the Taxi and Limousine utterly nonsensical. The Times wrote Commission, which also recognized in its follow-up that the point of an “Andrew tried to be too cute by been saying that for a long time – and nearly 300 other cabbies on its new endorsement is “not to see a specifi c half. He was going to orchestrate only when the public gets frustrated “Safety Honor Roll,” Amoafo gave politician elected or removed.” Actu- a response to the scandal to show enough, I think, will you get some rides to more than 50,000 passengers ally, that’s precisely the point of an there’s really no scandal there, but kind of reform in Albany and in other without any passenger injuries, traffi c endorsement. And the edit board’s instead, he may have been involved places where reform is needed.” violations or other penalties. We think claim to the contrary is either a tacit in a federal crime.” U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. he deserves a hefty tip. admission of its impotence to affect A longtime Cuomo associate. • • • • • Melissa Mark-Viverito - Mark- the outcome of elections, or, as one • • • • • “There are those that would like to Viverito’s announcement of her HPV of its readers put it, evidence that the “I haven’t seen those guys in 20 tell us we are somehow not allowed diagnosis, the most commonly trans- Times “doesn’t have the guts for a years. I’m a grandma now—the last to question the police or authorities mitted sexually-transmitted disease, strong and risky endorsement.” Either time I saw one of them, my kids were no matter what they do. The defini- a clear stigma around women getting way, based upon the success rate of the in the car.” tion of a police state is when citizens tested frequently, raises HPV aware- edit board’s picks in recent years, if Maria Berrios, a driver inter- cannot question power.” ness, a noble and worthy cause. the Times really didn’t want Cuomo viewed about the return of the “squee- Rev. Al Sharpton, explaining a Eric Schneiderman – Barneys New to win it should have given him its gee men” in New York City. demonstration. York ... The AG’s offi ce launched an endorsement. • • • • • • • • • • investigation into the (racial profi l- • • • • • “The public should be frustrated “I’ve already won this contest. ing )scandal, and Schneiderman an- After the Daily News revealed that it keeps sending to Albany, and Because even if I did lost the primary, nounced a settlement with the high-end details of the closed doors delibera- to other elected places, people who which I don’t intend to do, he’s now clothing store. The message that he is tions of the Manhattan delegation of disproportionately are breaking the got to vote for the Democrats and standing up for the African American the New York City Council, its chairs, law and are violating their oath to put the Democrats in the majority, community is surely going to help get Margaret Chin and Corey Johnson, is- uphold the public trust, and only when which is what should have happened out the vote efforts come November. sued a stern email threatening to shut the public gets frustrated enough – two years ago” LOSERS out from future meetings lawmakers because this is not a problem that Oliver Koppell, on Jeff Klein and Police Commissioner Bratton’s who leak to the press. So this is the prosecutors can alone solve, and I’ve the breakup of the IDC. approval rating dropped nine points new era of transparency we’ve heard since June, lower than the approval so much about from the new Council? break rank to sound the alarm, but Republican’s wife has been dragged rating at any point during the tenure As much as it might embarrass the getting its house in order. into the legal mess, as investigators of his predecessor, Ray Kelly. Council for its laundry to be aired, if Tom, Frances and Matthew Libous seized papers, a laptop and cell phone • • • • • the Council is acting incompetently or –State Sen. Tom Libous and his son, owned by Frances Libous, who is also At the end of its apologia for its improperly, the body’s fi rst concern Matthew Libous, were already under a top offi cial with the state Workers non-endorsement in the governor’s should not be punishing those who federal indictment... the No. 2 Senate Compensation Board. 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taxi industry and, passengers would be FAVOR – GO DRIVE FOR UBER! willing to pay for it. A fed-up cabby…. LETTERS Pierre Us Open Is Here, Customer (Continued from Page 18) But No Fares For New Yorkers due to their selfi sh - and did is violate local law and long standing Relations You Yellow Cabs! childish - driving habits !! licensing rules for taxis and liveries to Hi Taxi Dave, In order to make the yellow cab Dear Taxi Dave, They drive real slow on the main protect the public. I hope that once and The US OPEN IS HERE IN FULL avenues In midtown (waiting for the for all this can be clarifi ed. customer-friendly, we need to give every taxi owners the option to remove COURT, but no fares for you cabbies!!. calls to come out), George The last couple of years the Tlc sent and are usually lurking near Rock- their partition. With the partitions, there is little communication and many pas- several messages on a daily basis asking efeller Center and the Chelsea areas. cab drivers for their helping in picking They’re weaving around, stopping Red Light sengers hit their faces on it when the cab stops short. Self insured cab insurance up fares at the US Open. They even short & CONSTANTLY looking at their Camera Info offered an incentive for us, fl at fares in hand-held smart phones with their eyes Dear Taxi Dave, rates may also be less if the partitions are removed. The passengers love parts of Queens and Manhattan. This OFF the road! Thanks so much for your listing year not one message was received It’s bad enough they’re stealing our of red light cameras I happened upon OTHER vehicles without partitions, and I love driving without one. Let’s by me or any other driver that I spoke fares... eventually they’re gonna KILL in your newspaper. Your newspaper to. Could it be possible that the head somebody! directed me to your radio program, use cameras instead. Joseph M. of operations at Uber ,Mr. Ashwini Where is Commissioner ‘No See’ and after listening to one of your cur- Chhabra called his buddies at the Tlc on this important safety issue? rent informative radio programs one and told them not to send any messages Where are the silver TLC patrol cars Sunday evening, I entered the web site to the taxi cabs? Don’t forget he was a to crack down on illegal street pick- that adapts crucial information for all Shift This former Nyc tlc assistant taxi commis- ups... and dangerous drivers ?!?! drivers to my Garmin GPS. Now I am To Taxi Dave, sioner hired by Uber to “PROMOTE Why are the yellow cab drivers notifi ed in advance, as I approach a I think we can try variable shift THEIR BUSINESS”. the only ones getting hammered with red-light or speed camera location. Ev- change times. We can’t be pulling all the UBER AND LYFT don’t abide by NYPD & TLC tickets, eryday, before using three different cabs off the road between 4:00-6:00pm the rules and regulations of the taxi com- while the hustlers are allowed to highways in two Boroughs on my way sitting on the 59th Street Bridge stuck mission, they make their own rules and run buck wild through the streets of to work, I have to drive on the service in traffi c for a half hour each way and disregard all the rules that the yellow midtown ?!?! road of one highway in order to enter another half hour to fi ll up with gas. 3 cabs have comply with . And what better Sincerely, the highway. Unfortunately, I received AM to 3 PM would be more effi cient. way to promote their business? Hire a Michael Higgins a speeding ticket in the mail while on Sala traitor from inside city government with Career NYC Taxi Driver & the service road, at a time when there all the knowledge and connections to Concerned Citizen was hardly another vehicle on the road. rewrite the laws.!! PS - The NEW TLC Chairperson Yoshi I am indebted to you as this will never I-Phone Unfair Many in our industry thought that we was in the TLC’s legal department for happen again to me. I have told all my Taxi Dave, would have a friend who would protect TEN YEARS !! TEN YEARS !! friends about the web site and about I heard your radio show last week. I the hardworking taxi drivers instead all Why is she asleep at the wheel with your radio program. Thank you on think I-phones working as meters are un- we get is the collapse of the medallion this massive, ride-share mess ?!?!? behalf of all NYC drivers. fair. No other cars should have a measuring cabs. On June 16th, I walked into a Is she afraid of a few ride-share people Yvonne device except for yellow and green cabs. taxi brokers offi ce wanting to sell my who are constantly breaking the law? Driving in NYC for over 30 years UBER should use either use fl at fares or medallion. Stop the Madness !! Start protect- zone pricing period. They are not taxis. No one believed about the hous- ing the riding public and the legitimate Shah ing collapse, maybe we can all put our operators! UBER Dear Taxi Dave, heads in the sand and think that the There isn’t anyone working in the medallion is immune to market forces. Traffi c yellow cab industry that doesn’t realize Crain’s business had an article about the Dear Taxi Dave, we have a huge tremendous problem A Message To medallion prices. For the fi rst time in Traffi c around Times Square is on our hands now. The TLC had no decades prices were fl at. Yet I am still worse than ever. While driving pas- Drivers hearing on your show that the credit right letting Uber operate in our city Dear Taxi Dave, sengers going to Times Square, I can as the business was contracted out to unions are saying that they are not ex- barely budge so I drop my passengers I have a message to my fellow cab periencing any effect on the medallion owner operaters decades ago (medal- drivers. It’s time to get our act together, off on 6th Avenue. I can’t even go down lion owners). Uber is not arranged, it is prices. Could it be that the brokers are Broadway anymore. 43rd through 48th so I say to you all: trying to pull a fast one? street hail. It doesn’t operate from base If you are a taxi driver who keeps Streets are always fi lled with traffi c. You it operates off the closest cell phone. We have the Committee for taxi can’t tell me that since the pedestrian talking on the phone when you have safety, Taxi worker’s alliance, Lomto Uber never bough one medallion but passengers; who just pops the trunk open mall at Times Square, that traffi c is has full city street hail rights. What a and Federation of taxi drivers and many moving faster. The DOT lied and so did instead of getting out to help the ladies others “working to protect taxi drivers sham on medallion owners. with their luggage; who cuts across three Bloomberg. A little help Mayor Bill? Radio Fan and owners “and nothing is being done. Solomon lanes to cut off your fellow taxi driver for The city’s “ cash cow” is going to run a fare; who ignores the basic grooming dry pretty soon.! THERE ARE 1,600 Flat Rate rules; whose cab smells like your dining more medallions that are in the city’s Green Cars room; who believes that you are doing budget that will be up for sale in the To Taxi Dave, Misunderstanding people a favor by picking them up; who near future. Under this climate only a Green cars don’t need a partition, Dear Taxi Dave, don’t want to bother with elderly people jackass will buy one. why the heck not? Just took a businessman to JFK from or moms with baby carriages because Comrade De Blasio has done noth- Syed Manhattan. He told me thought the fl at they take too long to get in and out of your ing but to pander to Al Sharpton and to rate to JFK included a tip. Perhaps cab; who constantly ignores the rules of attack the horse carriages. Maybe if he Uber others feel that way too? the road; who refuses to acknowledge took his head out of the horse’s ass, he Larry your passengers with a simple greeting; can see what’s really happening in this “Innovation” who refuses to thank your passengers as city. Shootings are up, squeegee men Dear Taxi Dave, Only Paper? they pay to leave your cab; who keeps are back, aggressive panhandling is While the ignorant media continues to Dear Taxi Dave, driving around asking people “where are more rampant. And he’s telling us “all praise Uber for their major, transformative The city and the TLC should give you going?” before they get in your cab; is well and we’ve never been better. innovation, there is a complete lack of the safe drivers something besides a who refuses to take passengers to their You guys Can start sending money for understanding that Uber has done nothing piece of paper, so they feel they are outer-boro destinations; who chooses to his reelection campaign but I’ve been new technically. The Passenger mobile not working for nothing. Some kind be selfi sh and arrogant for all the reasons to that rodeo before. application has been around long before of benefi t or something after 10 years I can’t think of right now. Sincerely, Uber. The only “innovative” thing Uber of service would be benefi cial to the PLEASE DO US ALL A HUGE Raymond Goolcharran SEPTEMBER 2014 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 21

DOT Updates InsiderYou News Be The Judge ! NYC Plaza Program: —by ContinuedTONY from FALESE page 3 — • Authorized TLC Representative Now Accepting Round 7 Applications! Here's how this works. We give you the facts exactly like they were given to a TLC Judge. We give you the defense that was made before the judge. You We are pleased to announce that Round 7 of the NYC Plaza Program is make up your mind whether he or she is guilty or not guilty. Once your vote now open and accepting applications until Wednesday, October 1, 2014. Here is in, we'll give you the TLC Judge's decision. is your opportunity to apply for city funds to create a vibrant community gathering place in your neighborhood! Charges: To learn more about the program we encourage you to attend an infor- 54-12E action against public interest mation session listed below. If you’re unable to attend, please make sure 54-12F threaten or abuse a passenger to read the ‘Guidelines’ thoroughly before applying, which can be found at 54-12G use of physical force http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pedestrians/nyc-plaza-program.shtml. 54-13A4i ID after accident Please contact Emily Weidenhof at [email protected] or 212-839-4325, 54-14E1 use of cell phone if you have any questions. 54-16G comply with passenger requests NYC DOT Announces Fines: 54-12E $150-$350 3 pts (susp/revocation) Second Phase of Arterial Slow Zones 54-12F $350-$1,000 3 pts (susp/revocation) with Fourteen New Locations 54-12G $500-$1,500 4 pts (susp/revocation) As one of the 63 initiatives part of Vision Zero, Arterial Slow Zones 54-13A4i $350 3 pts (susp/revocation) expands the combined efforts of DOT and its partners to prevent traffic 54-14E1 $250-$350 4 pts (suspension) fatalities and improve safety on New York City streets. The speed limit at 54-16G $50-$200 s pts all Slow Zones will be lowered by 5 mph and new distinctive signs and in- creased enforcement by the NYPD will make for safer streets in New York. Facts: Citywide, arterials like these make up only 15 percent of total mileage but On Broadway and Keap Street at 10:00 PM the taxi collided with a vehicle have accounted for some 60 percent of pedestrian fatalities. stopped at a red light. The complaining passenger said the driver was on a cell On all Arterial Slow Zones, DOT will update signal timing to maintain phone when the accident happened. According to the passenger the cabbie caused mobility, prevent diversions to residential street, while staying consistent damage to the other car and refused to provide license and insurance to the other with the new speed limit. The locations will also benefit from increased motorist. The cabbie also refused to call the police to report the incident. When enforcement by the NYPD, with temporary speed boards installed in key the passenger lost patience with the scene between the two drivers he requested locations to alert motorists of the new speed limit. Slow Zone areas will the trunk be opened so that he could leave. The driver refused to open the trunk feature distinctive blue-and-white signs with the name of the corridor, until the passenger paid what was on the meter. The driver repeatedly referred complementing the DOT’s existing Neighborhood Slow Zone program. to the passenger as “f…ing Jews”. When the passenger and his wife loudly Beginning this week, the first of this second round of Slow Zones will objected the driver attempted to physically strike them. They had to jump out be implemented at Jerome Avenue in the Bronx, between East 161 Street of the way to avoid being hit. to Bainbridge Avenue, a five-mile stretch. The speed limit will be lowered by 5 mph and new signs indicating this change will be put up. Jerome Av- enue, will be joined by thirteen additional new Arterial Slow Zones in the Defense: program’s second phase: Coney Island Avenue, Utica Avenue, and Flatbush The driver claimed that the whole story was exaggerated and full of lies. He Avenue & Flatbush Avenue Extension in Brooklyn; Roosevelt Avenue and denied using a cell phone but admitted that he tapped the bumper of the stopped Metropolitan Avenue in Queens; Victory Boulevard in Staten Island; Seventh car. The two drivers got out and checked for damage. When the two drivers Avenue, Amsterdam Avenue, Bowery, Houston Street, Park Avenue, and agreed that it was nothing they decided to move on. It was the passenger who Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan; and Third Avenue in the Bronx. In started insisting that the “incident” be reported. He was being so obnoxious total, dangerous speeding will be reduced on more than 65 miles of major that the cabbie said “Fine, now we wait for the police”. The passenger refused corridors that have seen 83 fatalities. “Slow Zones are a critical and widely to sit and wait for the cops and demanded to have his bags from the trunk. The endorsed element of Vision Zero,” said DOT Commissioner Trottenberg. driver didn’t want to get beat for the fare so he demanded payment. The cabbie “We are glad to work closely with local communities in bringing these life claimed that the passenger was angry because he was forced to pay the fare and saving measures to corridors across the City”. he made up the rest of the story. (Decision on Page 34) Reckless Driving Kills DOT’s Reckless Driving Kills public safety awareness campaign engages Cabbie Art with drivers on the consequences of dangerous driving. The campaign can By Meryl Rosner be seen and heard across the city through throughout the summer—on bus shelters and billboards, in movie theatre previews and on the radio. “Reckless Driving Kills” captures the images of grieving family members at the fatal crash sites of their loved ones, asking New Yorkers to slow down and drive with caution. DOT is grateful for the courage of Audrey Anderson, whose son Andre was killed in 2005 on his bicycle in Queens, and David Shepard, whose fiancé Sonya Powell was killed in 2009 in a Baychester Avenue crosswalk in the Bronx. By sharing their stories, we hope to bring awareness to the critical need for safer New York City streets. Looking Ahead NYCDOT will continue education efforts with our HIQA and Safety Education Street Teams, in coordination with NYPD and will continue to develop public communications tools aimed at reducing speed- ing, failure-to-yield and other forms of reckless driving. Experience the Jamaica Bay Greenway NYC DOT is currently leading a community-driven planning process to complete and enhance the Jamaica Bay Greenway. Save the date to attend one of the planning workshops around Jamaica Bay! • 09.30.2014, Canarsie/Spring Creek • 10.07.2014, Howard Beach/Ozone Park • 10.16.2014, Rockaway/Broad Channel • 10.22.2014, Marine Park/Sheepshead Bay For more information about the project, download the NEW! Jamaica Bay Greenway Guide! PAGE 22 • TAXI INSIDER • SEPTEMBER 2014 Commissioner’s Corner Fare Well to A Great Fare By Meera Joshi By Abe Mittleman I wanted to start this month’s column and I have to admit that I had sometimes Driving a taxi in New York City would be a mob of people there in no with both thanks and congratulations wondered how much these sobering has always been noted as a business time. He said “It’s worse than Elvis to longtime friend and colleague Iris facts and fi gures about safety and the where you meet well-known people, Presley.” So he wanted me to go into Weinshall, who, after 11 distinguished terrible price of not heeding these com- celebrities of society. I’ve had several the building on W 93rd street and go up years, has stepped down from her role mon sense lessons really resonated with over the years. Here is the story of one to the 20th fl oor to call on a lady friend as a Taxi and Limousine Commission people. Any doubts I may have had about I’ll never forget. of his and to tell her he was waiting for her. I agreed. member. While we will certainly miss whether the lessons of Vision Zero were It was a slow Sunday night on Feb- I left James Brown in my taxi with her wisdom and experience – not to being heard, however, were dispelled by ruary 20, 1983. I was driving a Ford the doors locked and the engine running. mention her perspective as the daughter a single driver, I whose life it made a Fairmont, one of the worst cars ever I locked myself out of my own taxi. I of a career NYC cab driver – we wish tangible difference. Without identifying to be a NYC taxi. I was in the process had never before done something like her well on her appointments as Chief the individual who wrote it, I’d like to of letting out three passengers in front of th St. Moritz Hotel on Central Park this. I have never done anything like that Operating Offi cer of the New York share that message with you: South. since. I told him that if he needed to Public Library, and as a mayoral rep- A month ago or so you came to my Suddenly the one and only “James take the taxi to escape it would be ok. I resentative on the MTA Board, as well garage to address the cab drivers, in Brown- The Godfather of Soul” ap- said I would catch up to him later at his as on her recent election to the Chair of particular concerning the city’s speed pears and walks right in front of my hotel. In hindsight, that may not have the Prospect Park Alliance. limit. taxi. I watched as he placed his hand been a wise thing to do. But, I was much Okay, let’s talk about safety. As you I would have been involved in a on the door of a Checker taxi that was younger then, I don’t think I would ever all most likely know, the TLC is one ghastly accident last Monday morning positioned next to mine. He was about do anything like that now. of three lead agencies working toward by 5:00 am while driving west bound to get into the Checker Taxi. Upon entering the building I had to the ambitious, but very reachable, goal on West 86th Street and Amsterdam I shouted out “James Brown, James go past a security guard. So, I had no of zero traffi c fatalities set in Mayor Avenue. Brown How are you? It’s great to see choice than to inform him what I was up de Blasio’s Vision Zero plan. While I was making about 28 miles per you.” Mr. Brown turned to me and to. I went to the 20th fl oor and rang the there are some enforcement tools built hour when a car going uptown on Am- said “I think I’ll get in your taxi.” He bell of the lady. There was no answer. into Vision Zero that will be powerful sterdam Avenue ran the red light while then turned toward my taxi, opened the So, I felt a little funny about having to deterrents against reckless driving, there I was approaching the middle of the door and sat down in the back seat. He go back and tell him that there wasn’t intersection. is also a movement to thank and honor asked me to take him to W 93rd street an answer, but I did. He then asked me He swerved to the left, avoiding my those drivers whose responsible driving and Columbus Avenue. I made a quick to go back and leave a note under the cab by only a few feet, at a speed of about serves as an infl uential example to their U-turn and headed toward Central Park door. I did. brothers and sisters behind the wheel. 50 miles an hour. That brought home West. Upon exiting the building for a sec- I am pleased to announce that the to me, how observing the 30 mph speed I don’t remember the entire con- ond time, two young men asked me if approximately 300 drivers from among limit in the city could save lives. versation. But, I do remember that we James Brown was in my taxi? I don’t the TLC’s regulated industries have met I feel you need to hear this. It hap- talked all through the ride. What I do recall if I answered. But I do recall that the criteria, and have secured a place pened barely 24 hours ago. If I had remember is that he said that any time I was worried he would be upset that I on the TLC’s 2014 Vision Zero Driver entered the intersection at 32 mph, I anyone asks him who the greatest singer had let it be known he was there. So, I Safety Honor Roll. To say thank you would have either died or my body in the world is he always says “Mick made a dash for the taxi. He opened the to these leading drivers, we will honor would have been mangled by the impact Jagger” and any time anyone asks Mick door for me and we took off. We headed them all at a gala ceremony at Borough from side collision. Jagger the same question he always says back to the St. Moritz hotel. of Manhattan Community College in This was a powerful message from “James Brown.” I don’t know if he was When we arrived back at The St. early September. Just to share a few fun this driver, and I am so grateful for his putting me on but he implied that he was Moritz Hotel on Central Park South facts about these safety achievers, 178 sharing it with us, allowing me to share under the impression that taxi drivers the taxi meter was $7.50. Keep in mind of them drive yellow taxis, 110 drive it with you all. made several hundred thousand dollars this was 1983. The fare would be much black cars or livery cars, and four of Last but not least! I wanted to men- a year. I informed him that he defi nitely more in today’s market. James handed them drive both. Eighteen from both tion that the TLC was recently honored had that wrong. He also seemed wor- me a $20 bill and said “God Bless You.” hack and FHV license types also drive to thank and congratulate Mr. Uppkar ried that the economy was slumping I then asked him if he would sign a Street Hail Liveries. Thind, a medallion owner since 2006, and that it may affect his record sales. blank trip card. He wrote “My Thanks These “super drivers” are your neigh- for his exemplary contributions to the I remember telling him that I didn’t to Abe from James Brown.” I have kept bors! Thirty eight percent of Honor Roll City’s Electric Vehicle Pilot Program. think he had any thing to worry about. that trip card in a safe place ever since. drivers live in Queens; 27 percent live Just to remind folks about this, on I said to him “James, if people have It is still in the same condition as the in Brooklyn; 20 percent in the Bronx; Earth Day 2013, we partnered with Nis- one dollar to buy one record it would day he signed it. seven percent in Manhattan; two percent san North America to launch a test of be his that they bought” On December 25, 2006, at approxi- in Staten Island; and fi ve percent outside electric vehicles, not to test a particular We proceeded up Central Park West mately 2:30 a.m, I was driving home NYC. They’re also experienced -- on vehicle, but to see how they fi t into the to W 93rd street. I turned and drove to after working the night shift when I average, Honor Roll drivers have held business model of the New York taxi Columbus Avenue. When we reached heard the news of James Browns pass- a TLC license for 13 years! industry. It was visionary and generous the corner he asked me if I could do ing. I was sad to hear this. I felt as if I Honor Roll drivers driving yellow of Nissan to do this, and we learned a him a favor. I said “you name it.” He lost a personal friend. Good Bye James taxis have logged nearly 20 million miles LOT of valuable lessons from it. told me that if he got out of the car there Brown. Fare Well to a Great Fare! with passengers since 2009, serving over But we couldn’t have done it without eight million passengers. One Honor Uppkar Thind…..the word committed Roll member who drives a yellow taxi doesn’t really do Uppkar’s participation Judge Sullivan’s Ruling In Taxi has driven over 190,000 passenger-miles justice……he truly went above and since 2009, serving over 50,000 passen- beyond as a participant, making sure Driver Suspension-On-Arrest Case gers. Well-deserved congratulations go the vehicle stayed on the road each and out to Taxifl eet Management, a Com- every day when that was sometimes In a case challenging the NYC a hearing or due process of any kind. It mittee For Taxi Safety fl eet, which was extremely challenging. For example, Taxi and Limousine Commission’s then holds what is known as a “summary the fl eet garage with the highest number when no one was available to fi x one longstanding policy of suspending taxi suspension hearing” before an admin- of Honor Roll drivers leasing sometime of the level III quick chargers, he put drivers because they were arrested for istrative law judge (ALJ) ostensibly from 2009 to mid-2014 with 41 drivers. his electrician’s background to work, a crime--before they are convicted or to determine whether the suspension The second highest number of drivers opening up the complex charger and even tried-- United States District Court should be lifted while the charges are have leased from All Taxi Management fi xing it himself! Judge Richard J. Sullivan has issued pending. 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Employment Private sector jobs in New York City rose by 23,200 in June 2014 after a rise of 10,000 jobs in May 2014. In 2013, New York City experienced its third straight year of signifi cant job Government jobs in the City fell by 100, resulting in a net overall increase growth of over 85,000. The City added 88,807 jobs between 2012 and 2013, of 23,100 total private and public sector jobs in June. a 2.8 percent increase in total private sector jobs. 27.8% of these jobs were in Since June 2013, private sector employment has risen by 97,100 jobs or 2.8 boroughs outside Manhattan. Staten Island posted the greatest single-borough percent. employment growth over the year, rising 4.1 percent, with Brooklyn and the New York City’s unemployment rate remained steady between May and June Bronx right behind with 3.9 and 3.8 percent increases, respectively. Brooklyn 2014 at 7.9%. had the highest rate of establishment growth with 3.9 percent. Between May and June 2014, the number of employed City residents increased Employment in the Health Care and Social Assistance sector increased by by 19,600, and the number of unemployed City residents fell by 800. 12,660 between 2012 and 2013 in boroughs outside Manhattan. The sector ac- Employment and Establishment Growth by Borough counted for 30.7 percent of job growth in these four boroughs. Accommodation Data on jobs and establishments in New York City’s fi ve boroughs for the and Food Services and Retail Trade continue to be strong employment drivers year 2013 recently became available from the Quarterly Census of Employment outside Manhattan. Employment increased by 8,434 and 6,825 in these two and Wages (QCEW). The data reveal solid growth in jobs and establishments sectors, respectively. over the last decade in all fi ve boroughs. In Manhattan, Professional, Scientifi c, and Technical Services led employment New York City gained 429,537 private sector jobs between 2003 and 2013, growth last year, adding 11,397 jobs. Of these, Advertising and Related Services a 14.9 percent increase, while establishments grew by 41,427 (a 19.7 percent contributed 3,717 (a 6.4 percent increase) and 80 additional establishments. Man- increase). Manhattan accounted for just over half of jobs gained, but Brooklyn, agement, Scientifi c, and Technical Consulting Services added 2,504 jobs, while Queens, and the Bronx gained jobs at a faster rate. Brooklyn saw the greatest Computer Systems Design and Related Services grew by 2,041 employees. absolute gain in establishments, adding 14,445 over the decade, a 36.2 percent increase.

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Carlyle Hotel 1568 Broadway 35 E 76th Street between 47th & 48th Streets TAXI INSIDER between Madison & 5th Avenues Drake Swissotel Hotel MANHATTAN HOTEL LIST !!! Carnegie Suites Hotel 440 Park Avenue at 56th Street 229 W 58th Street between 7th & 8th Avenues Dream Hotel Dear Readers of TaxiInsider, 210 W 55th Street bet. Drivers always tell me that they cannot know the location of every hotel in Casablanca Hotel 7th & 8th Aves. Manhattan. A lot of work went into the list of Manhattan Hotels below. Drivers, 147 W 43rd Street please send Taxi Insider any corrections or additional hotels not mentioned. between 6th & 7th Avenues Dylan Hotel Also, when you are finished reading this issue of Taxi Insider, do not throw this 52 E 41st Street at Madison Ave. Chambers Hotel newspaper in the garbage, give it to another taxi driver ! Thank you ! 15 W 56th Street Eastgate Tower Suites Hotel between 5th & 6th Avenues 222 E 39th Street 60 Thompson Street 226 W 54th Street at Broadway Benjamin Hotel between 2nd & 3rd Avenues Between Broome and Spring Streets between 7th & 8th Avenues 125 E 50th Street at York Avenue Hotel Chandler 12 E 31st Street off 5th Avenue Edison Hotel 70 Park Avenue Amsterdam Inn Hotel Bentley Hotel 228 W 47th Street at 38th Street 340 Amsterdam Avenue 500 E 62nd Street at York Avenue Chelsea Hotel between 7th & 8th Avenues at W 76th St. Best Western Convention Center 222 W 23rd Street 414 Inn Hotel between 7th & 8th Avenues Elysee Hotel 414 W. 46th Street Arlington Hotel 522 W 38th Street 60 E 54th Street between 9th & 10th Avenues 18 W 25th Street at 5th Avenue between 10th & 11th Avenues Chelsea Lodge Hotel between Park & Madison Avenues 318 W 20th Street Affi nia 50 Suites Avalon Hotel Best Western Hospitality between 8th & 9th Avenues Embassy Suites Hotel 155 E 50th Street at 3rd Avenue 16 E 32nd Street House Hotel 102 North End Ave. between Madison & 5th Avenues 145 E 49th Street Chelsea Savoy Hotel World Financial Center, Manhattan Affi nia Dumont between 3rd & Lexington Avenues 204 W 23rd Street 150 E 24th Street Beacon Hotel between 7th & 8th Avenues Fairfi eld Inn & Suites Chelsea- between 3rd & Lexington Avenues 2130 Broadway at 75th Street Best Western President Hotel 116 W. 28th St 234 W 48th Street Chelsea Star Hotel (near 6th Ave) Affi nia Manhattan Hotel Bedford Hotel between 7th & 8th Avenues 300 W 30th Street at 8th Avenue (formerly the Southgate Tower Hotel) 118 E 40th Street Four Points Manhattan SoHo- 371 Seventh Avenue at 31st Street Best Western Seaport Inn Hotel City Club Hotel 66 Charlton St. Beekman Tower Hotel 33 Peck Slip at Front Street 55 W 44th Street (near Spring St) Algonquin Hotel 3 Mitchell Place 49th Street between 5th & 6th Avenues 59 W 44th Street & 1st Ave. Blakely Hotel Fairfi eld Inn & Suites Times Square between 5th & 6th Avenues 136 W 55th Street Clarion Park Ave. Hotel 330 W. 40th St Belleclaire Hotel between 6th & 7th Avenues 429 Park Avenue South at (near 9th Ave) Allerton Hotel 250 W 77th Street at Broadway 29th Street 302 W 22nd Street Broadway Plaza Hotel Fairfi eld Inn & Suites Fifth Avenue Belnord Hotel 1155 Broadway at 27th Street Club Quarters Downtown Hotel 21 W. 37th St Americana Inn Hotel 207 W 87th Street 52 William Street 69 W 38th Street between Amsterdam & Bryant Park Hotel between Pine & Wall Streets 5th Avenue Club Hotel between 5th & 6th Avenues West End Aves. 40 W 40th Street 3 W 51st Street at 5th Avenue between 5th & 6th Avenues Club Quarters Midtown Hotel Ameritania Hotel Belvedere Hotel 40 W 45th Street Fitzpatrick Grand Central Hotel 230 W 54th Street at Broadway 319 W 48th Street Carlton New York Hotel between 5th & 6th Avenues 141 E 44th Street between 8th & 9th Avenues 88 Madison Avenue at 29th Street between 3rd & Lexington Aves. Amsterdam Court Hotel Comfort Inn Central Park Hotel 31 W 71st Street Fitzpatrick Manhattan Hotel between 687 Lexington Avenue at 57th St. Central Park West & Columbus Ave. Four Points Sheraton Chelsea Hotel Comfort Inn Manhattan Hotel 160 W. 25th Street 42 W 35th Street between 6th & 7th Avenues between 5th & 6th Avenue Happy Rosh Hashanah Four Points Midtown Times Square Comfort Inn Midtown Hotel 326 W. 40th St (near 9th Ave) 129 W 46th Street between 6th & 7th Avenues Four Seasons Hotel 57 E 57th Street Comfort Inn New York Hotel between Park & Madison Aves. 442 W 36th Street between 10th & Dyer Avenues Flatotel International Hotel 135 W 52nd Street Cosmopolitan Hotel between 6th & 7th Avenues 125 Chambers Street at W Broadway Franklin Hotel Courtyard Manhattan 5th Avenue 164 E 87th Street 3 E 40th Street between 3rd & Lexington Avenues FROM YOUR FRIENDS AT between Madison & 5th Avenues Gershwin Hotel Courtyard Midtown East Hotel 7 E 27th Street 866 3rd Avenue between Madison & 5th Avenues between 51st & 52nd Streets Giraffe Hotel Courtyard Times Square Hotel 365 Park Avenue South at 26th Street 114 W 40th Street between 6th & 7th Avenues Gramercy Park Hotel 2 Lexington Avenue at 21st Street Crowne Plaza Times Square Hotel 1605 Broadway Grand Hyatt New York Hotel between 49th & 50th Streets Park Avenue & 42nd street

Crowne Plaza UN Hotel Grand Union Hotel 304 E 42nd Street 34 E 32nd Street MAIN OFFICE: between 1st & 2nd Avenues between Park & Madison Avenues DaVinci Hotel (Hampshire Hotel) TH3TREETs"ROOKLYN .EW9ORKs0HONE   244 W 56th Street Quality Times Square Hotel between 6th & 7th Avenues 157 W 47th Street between 6th & 7th Avenues BRANCH: Deauville Hotel 103 E 29th Street Hampton Inn !VENUE:s"ROOKLYN .EW9ORKs0HONE   between Park & Lexington Avenues Times Square Hotel 851 8th Avenue at 51st Street www.brfcu.org Doubletree Times Square Hotel (Continued on Page 30) SEPTEMBER 2014 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 29 EVENTS AND MORE IN THE BIG APPLE Recommendations to passengers always increase the opportunity for a big tip! Here is is a listing that will help keep all taxi drivers in the loop on what's going on NYCNYC in New York City! Mention these events & promotions and watch the tips grow ! The Best Museums In NYC The Museum of the City of New York is located at 1220 5th Ave in East Screw the Smithsonian, the Louvre, collection of modern and contemporary Harlem (212-534-1672, mcny.org) $10 the Prado and the Uffi zi Gallery. The art is nothing to sneeze at. suggested admission. best museums in the world are right And the last-but-not-least of these here in NYC, and there are about a most celebrated New York institutions million of them, boasting everything is the American Museum of Natural from 13th century folk art to curious History, where we presume gigantic sex positions and embalmed baby dinosaurs and the Ghost of Teddy kittens. It’s hard to suss out which of Roosevelt haunt the halls at night. You The Museum of The City of NY these are the best of the best, but we’ve don’t have to like science to appreciate MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW sorted out some of our favorites for these adorable penguins, but this mu- YORK: The MCNY’s been culling art, you. Leave yours—and your preferred seum touches every aspect of biology, photos and objects out of New York’s mummifying techniques—in the com- ecology and geology imaginable, and history since it was housed in Gracie ments, and be sure to check out our you can even take a trip into space at Mansion in the 1920s. And now they’ve list of some of the city’s lesser-known the Hayden Planetarium next door. The Morgan Library & Museum got a collection of about 750,00 artifacts museums, too. The Museum of Modern Art is MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSE- squirreled away in a landmarked man- located at 11 West 53rd Street in Mid- UM: J.P. Morgan may be better known sion at the northern tip of Museum Mile; town West (212- 708-9400, moma. for his fi nancial services empire, but it these include images made by 19th cen- org) $25 admission. The Metropolitan turns out he was a pretty prolifi c art and tury printmaking fi rm Currier and Ives, Museum of Art is located at 1000 5th manuscript collector, too. The Morgan classic Broadway theater scripts, and a Ave at Central Park (212) 535-7710, houses this collection, along with newer 12-room dollhouse that once belonged metmuseum.org) $25 recommended acquisitions, in its Midtown East space, to socialite Carrie Walter Stettheimer admission. The Whitney Museum of boasting everything from original Sir and features tiny doll-sized artworks by American Art is located at 945 Madison Walter Scott and Charles Dickens man- artists like Marcel Duchamp. MCNY Ave on the Upper East Side (212-570- uscripts, ancient Neo-Babylonian stone unleashes some of its collection through 3600, whitney.org) $20 admission. The cylinder seals, renowned Renaissance The Met ongoing and temporary exhibitions, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is artwork and Einstein’s “Fundamentals THE BIGGIES: MOMA, MET, like “Activist New York”, “City As A located at 1071 5th Ave on the Upper and Methods of the Theory of Relativ- WHITNEY, GUGGENHEIM & Canvas” and the erstwhile “The Greatest East Side (212-423-3500, guggenheim. ity.” Past and present exhibitions have AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATU- Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, org) $22 admission. And the American included a look at The Little Prince RAL HISTORY: These fi ve museums 1811-2011.” Museum of Natural History is located (Continued on Page 42) include four internationally-renowned at 79th Street and Central Park West on art institutions and arguably the best the Upper West Side (212-769-5100, science museum in the world, and amnh.org) $22 suggested admission. 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 Dragonfl y of the city’s other worthy destinations. Even without a mind-blowing special exhibit, The Met’s permanent collection is worth a fi ve hour visit alone, boast- Graphics llc. ing everything from Greek sculpture to modern Pop art; the Cloisters, which •Design and Print is also under the Met’s jurisdiction, The Frick features some of the most spectacular FRICK COLLECTION: The Met media experts. medieval and religious art in the coun- might have the city’s most famous col- try. MoMA’s (and its Queens satellite lection of art, but the Frick may have •Over 25 years PS1) permanent collection of modern the most elegant. The museum, housed and contemporary art is unparalleled, in the former home of art collector experience in and the special shows that migrate and former Andrew Carnegie partner through its galleries are nothing short Henry Clay Frick, boasts an elegant Graphics. of breathtaking. Past exhibitions have collection of primarily European art, focused on Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, including works by Johannes Vermeer, •Certifi ed Union Vincent Van Gogh and Rene Magritte, Francisco Goya, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Printers. and ne’er forget recent Drudge Siren Rembrandt van Rijn and François blog events like The Clock, Sleeping Boucher. And though the art itself is Tilda and the Rain Room. certainly a draw, it’s the presentation 4 Court Square As for The Whitney, well, that that draws you in here; much of the Long Island City, NY 11101 Upper East Side standby and famed collection on view remains arranged (718) 392-3460 Biennial holder is on its way to a new as it was during Frick’s lifetime, spread Fax (718) 786-5931 out through the mansion’s rooms, halls, home in the Meatpacking District at www.dragonfl ygraphics.info vestibules and galleries. Be sure to save the end of the year. But for now, it’s e-mail: dragonfl [email protected] worth stopping by the bizarre Marcel time for a lengthy visit to the museum’s Breuer bunker to see the museum’s mas- spectacular Garden Court, check out sive Jeff Koons retrospective, on view all the amazing clocks, and note that a through October 19th. And then there’s secret bowling alley, billiards room and the Guggenheim, whose Frank Lloyd woodshop lurk beneath all that art. Wright building itself is perhaps more The Frick is located at 1 East 70th famous and beautiful than some of the Street between 5th and Madison Aves artwork inside, though its compelling on the Upper East Side (212-288-0700, frick.org) $20 admission. PAGE 30 • TAXI INSIDER • SEPTEMBER 2014

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All metros in the top 10 are in the previous month, from 1.8 percent to 1.9 percent. of 138.4 million jobs in 2008. the Northeast and coastal California • Average annual wage of jobs lost with the exception of Anchorage, AK in 2008-09 was $61,637, and average and Honolulu, HI. Construction wage of job gains through the second • 261 of 357 metros have a greater For the twelve months ending June 2014: quarter of 2014 equaled $47,171. This share of poor households (making less Building projects (including new, additions and alterations) that started con- wage gap of 23% is signifi cantly larger than $35,000) than of upper-income struction in NYC rose by 16.8 percent, and infrastructure (non-building) project than that of the earlier recession and households. starts fell by 9.1 percent from the twelve months ending June 2013. recovery (2000-2006), and implies • Phoenix, Riverside, Milwaukee, Planned space for building project starts rose by 7.3 percent from the same $93 billion in lower wage income. St. Louis, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, period in 2013. • In comparison, the wage gap Charlotte and Providence are among 3,104 residential building project starts began construction, a 23.8 percent following the 2000-2003 recession the large metros that have a nearly increase from the twelve months ending in June 2013. These starts contained was 12%. Wages earned in advanc- equal number of low (less than 25,255 units, an increase of 22.1 percent from last year. ing sectors fell $27 billion short of $35,000) and high ($75,000 and more) the annual wages lost in the declining income households. Credit Union Membership Milestones sectors over 2000-2003. HOUSEHOLD INCOME • Extensive job losses in high-wage INEQUALITY 2005-2012 manufacturing ($63K) and construc- • Average income nationwide in- Continue To Make Headlines tion ($58K) sectors were replaced by creased 14.0% from $62,556 in 2005 Credit union memberships have of the state’s credit unions has saved jobs in the lower wage sectors of hospi- to $71,317 in 2012. Median income climbed past the 5 million mark members more than $320 million tality ($21K), health care ($47K), and improved at a slower pace of 11.1% in New York while simultaneously in direct financial benefits since administrative support ($37K). from $46,242 to $51,371. The ratio surpassing the 100 million mark March, to a tune of about $125 per THE INCOME DISTRIBUTION between the average and median nationally. News of the membership household,” wrote Philip A. Vanno IN THE US household income increased by 2.6%, milestones has already potentially in The Observer-Dispatch. “With • The 2012 household median in- as wealth shifted to upper income reached millions of consumers, with more than 250,000 people receiving come of $51,017 was, in real terms, households during these years. media outlets such as The New fi nancial literacy education statewide the lowest since 1995. The median • Adjusted for infl ation, average York Post, The Washington Post, last year, and more than $20 million was greater in the West ($55,157), and household income fell 3.0%, while The Guardian and American City and 150,000 volunteer hours being Northeast ($54,627), than in the South median income dropped by 5.5% from Business Journals—including the given to charities and local organi- ($48,033) and Midwest ($50,479). 2005-2012. Buffalo Business News, Albany zations, offi cials said the impact of • The highest-earning 20% of house- • 248 Metro areas experienced a Business Review and New York credit unions goes deeper than the holds saw their share of income rise shift in wealth towards upper- income Business Journal—reporting on the fi nancial.” from 43.6% in 1975 to 51.0% in 2012. households from 2005 to 2012, while benchmarks. The media spotlight has grabbed Most of this gain was among those in 109 moved in the opposite direction. The Association also helped co- the attention of elected offi cials. the highest 5% of income, which rose THE FORECAST FOR MEDIAN ordinate articles with several other New York Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy from 16.5% in 1975 to 22.3% in 2012, HOUSEHOLD INCOMES New York newspapers, including: expressed his support for the state’s a gain of $490 billion in 2012. • In 2014 median household income The Little Falls Evening Times, Her- credit unions on Twitter. “I am a huge • Each of the lower quintiles expe- will increase by 2.5%, and then by kimer Evening Times, Rome Sentinel fan of ESL and NYS’s credit unions,” rienced a declining share of income 3.8% annually through 2017. and Utica Observer-Dispatch. The wrote Duffy, who then linked to The since 1975. The lowest two quintiles, Mean household income will articles all mentioned the 5 million New York Post article, “Credit union or 40% of households, received just increase by 2.7% in 2014, and by and 100 million fi gures, as well as membership hits 100 million-client 6.6% of all US income gains since 4.1% through 2017. Thus, the middle the many benefi ts of credit union milestone.” 2005, and 9.5% of gains since 1995. income household continues to fall membership. Reprinted with permission from • The highest 20% of households behind as a greater share of income “The low fee and rate structure The Point. captured 60.6% of total income gains gains are captured by higher income from 2005 to 2012, and the top 5% levels. InsiderYou News Be The Judge ! received 27.6% of total gains. • The metro areas with the fastest Ci df 3 • In 2012 the 80th percentile (the growing median income rates are (Continued from Page 15) lowest income in the top 20%) income geographically diverse, and several Decision: of $104,906 was more than double of the 10 fastest growing metros, each The complainant didn’t show up for the hearing but the judge allowed the (2.04x) the median. That ratio has growing at a rate above 4%, share case to be rescheduled. The driver’s representative, Mr. Falese, objected but increased from 1.73 in 1975. proximity to oil and gas plays (Wil- was ignored. While awaiting the next hearing date Mr. Falese approached the METROPOLITAN AREA liamsport, Wheeling, and Midland) T.L.C. attorney for a settlement offer. He claimed that the complainants didn’t HOUSEHOLD INCOME or tech company agglomerations (San have a serious complaint or they would have made an attempt to contact the • In 2012, among US households, Jose and Boulder). T.L.C. and pursue the matter. With one day left before the hearing T.L.C. and 34.8% earned less than $35,000, • With the exception of Vallejo- Mr. Falese worked out a deal to have the driver plead guilty to the charge of 31.8% earned between $35,000 and Fairfi eld, the ten slowest-growing failing to comply with the passenger’s request for his luggage. The case was $75,000, while 33.5% earned more areas in terms of median household settled for a $200 fi ne and 2 points. All other charges were dismissed. than $75,000. income are all located in the South • Metros with the largest percent- and Midwest. age of households making less than MINIMUM WAGE $35,000 are largely in the South, • The federal minimum wage, at especially in Texas and Georgia. 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Scott Fitzgerald and Allen including Judy Chicago’s celebrated Brooklyn (718-694-1600, mta.info/ The New York Historical Society Ginsberg; book nerds will also appreci- feminist installation The Dinner Party, mta/museum). $7 admission. is located at 170 Central Park West ate Pierpont Morgan’s sublime library, Gilbert Stuart’s 1796 portrait of George at 77th Street on the Upper West Side which was restored to its 1906 glory a Washington (used on the $1 bill!) and (212-873-3400, nyhistory.org). few years ago. many, many mummies, which once gave The Morgan is located at 225 an acquaintance of my grandmother’s Madison Ave between 36th and 37th a rash back in the 1940s. Street in Midtown East (212-685-0008, The Brooklyn Museum is located at themorgan.org) $18 admission. 200 East Parkway at Washington Ave in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. (718- 638-5000, brooklynmuseum.org) $12 suggested admission.

New York Historical Society NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCI- ETY: When I was a child, there was an Lower East Side Tenement Museum exhibit in the basement of the New York LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT Historical Society dubbed “Kid City,” MUSEUM: This is another one for in which the museum had transformed the time travelers. This 19th century The Queens Museum West 82nd Street and Broadway into a fi ve-story tenement building housed QUEENS MUSEUM: The Queens tot-friendly version of its 1901 self. I around 7,000 immigrants from the Museum never gets enough love, and The Museum of Moving Image spent many hours there commandeering 1860s to the 1930s, and the Tene- that’s a real shame. The four-decade old a turn-of-the-century grocer’s market ment Museum’s restored the rooms art institution is a cultural gem, located THE MUSEUM OF MOVING IM- and forcing other children to make de- to mirror what they looked like from in a pavilion building built specifi cally AGE: You don’t have to be a fi lm buff to liveries to the neighboring horse goods the 1860s to the 1930s. Museum staff for the 1939 World’s Fair and used enjoy MoMI’s expansive special exhibi- store, and though “Kid City” has since provide guided tours of the rooms and briefl y as headquarters for the United tions on, say, The Muppets, or Breaking been replaced with a larger children’s businesses, which include a garment Nations General Assembly. Now, the Bad. But if you do love movies, this exhibition, I like to think it taught me workshop and a German saloon; there Queens Museum harbors a hefty col- Astoria museum is stuffed with all sorts a lot about New York’s history—what are even costumed staff members who lection of fi ne arts, Tiffany glass, and of memorabilia, interactive exhibitions nine-year-old knew Central Park didn’t take on the characters of the building’s collections stemming from the 1939 and and special programming that’ll tickle simply sprout fully-formed out of the former residents. Beyond the Orchard 1964 Worlds Fairs, the latter of which is your inner cinephile. MoMI’s ongoing ground? The NYHS underwent a major Street building, the museum provides currently on view as part of temporary exhibition, “Behind The Screen,” runs renovation a few years ago, and it’s walking tours of the neighborhood to exhibition Behind the Curtain: Collect- through the history of cinema, tackling since returned with some excellent remind you of what the LES was like ing the New York Fairs. everything from the earliest moving programming. before Max Fish moved in (and then But the museum’s best and most picture camera to makeup from Sex And There is, for instance, a show featur- out, and then back in again). famous offering is its Panorama of the The City. They also hold frequent fi lm ing 90 artworks by Madeline creator The Tenement Museum is located City of New York, a 9,335-square-foot screenings—all summer long, they’ve Ludwig Bemelmans; through the end at 103 Orchard Street between Broome model of the city’s fi ve boroughs that been continuously showing fi lms from of the month, the museum is showing and Delancey Streets on the Lower East was originally commissioned by Rob- the 1939 and 1964 Worlds Fairs, and re- work by street style photographer Bill Side (212) 982-8420, tenement.org). ert Moses for the 1964 World’s Fair. cent screening offerings have included Cunningham, and past exhibitions have $25 admission. Though the panorama hasn’t under- The Searchers, 2001: A Space Odyssey included works from the 1913 Armory Reprinted with permission from The gone a full-throttle update since 1992, and the original Godzilla. Stay tuned for Show and a look at the city’s AIDS Gothamist and Rebecca Fishbein. developments like Brooklyn Bridge their upcoming permanent Jim Henson Park and Citi Field have slowly gotten installation, planned for 2015. Brooklyn Navy Yard visit http://www.nychoneyweek.com/ added over time thanks to the museum’s events/. The Museum of the Moving Image (Continued from Page 41) “Adopt A Building” program, though it is located at 3601 35th Ave in Astoria, The BEAT Festival: Private(i) seems Williamsburg’s condos have yet Queens (718-777-6888, movingimage. and Bien Hecho for a partnership as Date & Time: Thursday, 9/18 and to receive treatment in miniature. us). $12 admission. inspired as cookies and milk or lettuce Friday, 9/19. 5pm and 7pm. The Queens Museum is located at and tomato. Spend the morning learn- Location: Brooklyn Navy Yard the New York City Building in Flushing ing to make your very own wooden Center at BLDG 92 Meadows Corona Park (718-592-9700, salad tongs with Bien Hecho and the Cost: $30. $20 students/seniors. queensmuseum.org) $8 suggested afternoon touring Brooklyn Grange’s Members of BLDG 92 receive a 10% admission. urban farm oasis. Harvest a few veggies, discount. and settle in to enjoy a farm fresh salad Description: BLDG 92 Visiting Art- tossed with your freshly fi nished tongs. ists, Fixed Agency, return to Yard with For more information and to register, their critically acclaimed immersive New York Transit Museum visit http://bldg92.org/events/. experience, Private(i). After a sold-out NEWYORK TRANSIT MUSEUM: Busy Bee Costume Build and debut in April, BLDG 92 is thrilled to Visiting the New York Transit Museum Farm Exploration invite new visitors to “enjoy the hide” is a bit like traveling back in time. Date & Time: Wednesday, 9/10. in this unique experience of the Brook- The nation’s only museum dedicated Noon – 5pm lyn Navy Yard. Part of the Brooklyn to public transportation, the NYTM Location: Brooklyn Navy Yard BEAT Festival. For more information boasts an astonishing collection of MTA Center at BLDG 92 and to register, visit http://bldg92.org/ The Brooklyn Museum memorabilia, not the least of which is Cost: FREE w/RSVP events/. BROOKLYN MUSEUM: The its collection of antique subway cars, Description: To bee, or not to bee. Brooklyn Museum has really been on a complete with antique ads that predate For NYC Honey Week, City Growers roll this century with a series of block- Dr. Zizmor. You can also peruse an leads a bee costume-building session to buster exhibits, including 2008’s stellar extensive collection of subway tokens outfi t kids for Honey Fest’s Be-A-Bee Takashi Murakami show, 2012’s Keith (ah, memories of watching my bus fare Parade in the Rockaways. Afterwards, Haring exhibition, last year’s innovative roll under a car...) and fare collectors, head to the roof for a cooking demo Jean Paul Gaultier show, “Ai Weiwei: and for the young and young at heart, and family-friendly farm tour to learn According to What?” which is on view there’s a child-sized taxi cab, trolley car about bee-friendly plants that keep our until August 10th, and a site-specifi c and bus to play on. It’s also noteworthy little black-and-yellow friends so busy. piece by street artist Swoon. Beyond the that the museum is located inside a de- For more information and to register, SEPTEMBER 2014 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 43 Events For You and Your Passengers in The Big Apple Broadway Shows Off Broadway Shows

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