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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Page 3, 8, & 24 EDITORIAL • INSIDER NEWS By David Pollack Page 4 • MEDALLION AUCTION TAXI ATTORNEY Last month I discussed buying NYC taxi medal- the benchmark of NYC yellow taxi information, so I By Michael Spevack lions. I mentioned that this is very good time for a included some basic information below copied from Page 9 medallion purchase based on some cur- the attorney’s/Trustee’s website. rent prices versus the income generated. I If you have any questions, call the • also gave you advice from my decades of Trustee Gregory Messer Esq. or as stated PUZZLE experience on what you should you look below, Richard Maltz at 516 349-7022 Page 9 for to insure a “safe” medallion transfer; X 202. • as far as monies, taxes or fees due - what Good luck with your new business What’s To Become Of Belmont? type of vehicle must be purchased - if entity, and be careful! You only have until there will be any WAV reimbursement, September 11th. By Jerry Kramer and who you could use to do the paper- Page 11 work and attain all the proper background Up to 46 • information required to protect your new NYC Taxi LOOK MA, NO HANDS investment. Interestingly enough, there is an auction, not Medallions By Matthew Daus, Esq. initiated by the city of New York, but by the legal Minimum of 5 Page 14 representative of a medallion debtor; in this case, • a legal Trustee. Medallions Will be Sold COMMISSIONER’S CORNER Nobody approached this monthly newspaper to Bidders May Present Bids on One, Multiple or advertise the upcoming auction, even though we are (Continued on Page 4) By Merra Joshi Page 15 • BUSTIN IT By Larry Fisher Page 17 • HOW UBER COULD HELP FIX THE SUBWAYS By David Pollack Page 28 • NYC ECONOMY Page 29 and 30 • BOOK SIGNINGS Page 31 TAXI DAVE’S • INSIDER DIRECTORY RADIO SHOW Page 32 • WOR-710AM BROADWAY SHOWS 8:00 – 9:00 PM Page 37 EVERY SUNDAY! PAGE 2 • TAXI INSIDER • SEPTEMBER 2017 BEST Prices in NYC! Yogi Transmission Shop, Inc. Come to US! Mr. Surjit Singh NYC INTERBORO MGMT. 21-10 39TH Avenue • Astoria, NY 11101 36-02 21st Street, Astoria Tel. (718)392-6320 • (800)609-6320 Business Hours: Mon - Fri. 9 am till 7 pm • 718 392-0520 Sat. 9 am till 2 pm

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FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE OUR AD ON PAGE 33 SEPTEMBER 2017 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 3 LETTERS JULY 2010 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 1 INSIDER MTA Metrocard Ripoff professionally. The fi rst 40 years of cabbing I never saw long distance rides. The Indian Siks at JFK have Publisher & Dear Taxi Dave, helped rid the airport of corrupt dispatchers. Like MTA not only takes the 50 cents out of each fare Preet Bahara getting rid of Sheldon Silver. they also deprive citizens of their money for several Editor-in-Chief Frank C. weeks after their Metrocard machines malfunction. I David Pollack bought a low-reduced monthly pass at the machine in the 14th street station and found out it only registered More Fares To Ferry as a weekly pass. I only found out after a week when it wasn’t letting me get thru the turnstile. It charged In Astoria me for a monthly pass so why would I question it? 3 Dear Taxi Dave, Stone street will only give you a temporary card with August 29, the fi rst Astoria Ferry to Manhattan said no money on it and force you to add more money Bon Voyage. This additional ferry stop will add 1,800 while they investigate the problem. While waiting on ferry riders to the current 12,000. Mayor DeBalsio ac- line there were others with a similar problem. knowledged the street congestion (caused by unlimited Columnists NYC Commuter TNCs) by stating: “We all know in New York city there is so much congestion on the roadways we need more and more people to use mass transit.” “Here’s a great Matthew Daus, Esq. Arro Been Good option, you get on a ferry, same price as the subway, Dear Taxi Dave, there’s no stop signs, no traffi c lights, to traffi c jams, Larry Fisher Using it a lot lately, it’s good! wherever it’s going it gets there — and it gets there Michael Simon smoothly. It’s a great ride.” This year Astoria and Long Nat Goldbetter Island City, next year the Bronx. Not A Good Idea Tim Ira Goldstein, Esq. Dear Taxi Dave, Having the idea that app companies should have Rants Abe Mittleman any percentage handicap cars is a disaster. Time to Dear Taxi Dave, cancel the contract with access a ride and give these My rants for the month: fares to yellow cabs to keep us alive. 1. Bike lanes are created for the bicyclists to use Michael Spevack, Esq. Hakw them. Why isn’t the city ticketing these morons not using them! Jerry Kremer Disability And 2. I got a ticket for making a right turn from center lane on 50 st & 2 Ave but there is a bus stop on 50st at the Black Car Drivers corner of 2 Ave with a MTA bus at the stop discharging Layout & Graphics Dear Taxi Dave, & picking up passengers. Wtf! So I’m supposed to wait Dragonfl y Graphics LLC I don’t believe drivers are going to want to drive for behind the bus on a green light trying to make a right turn Black cars when they are forced to use a wheelchair while it’s discharging and picking up. I can understand accessible vehicle. A good deal of their job is the fact if it was a school bus with red lights fl ashing. that they own a nice private car to enjoy personally 3. Speaking of turning. Drivers when turning u don’t Taxi Insider beside making money. When they are forced to have have to turn to the closest lane to you. Especially when a wheelchair accessible vehicle the fun is over and it ur turning for on a street to an avenue. Pull up to center 11 Edge Water lane becomes just a job and a hard job at that. or avenue and turn at the middle or farthest lane. This Mike allows fl ow of traffi c to move and more cars to turn Haverstraw, NY 10927 after pedestrians cross. 4. These app cars are causing more & more traffi c Phone: (718) 706-TAXI(8294) Taxi Ride to Smithtown by “parking/standing” on zones that have signs there is — Township LI, Suffolk not no standing/parking during hours that allow smoother fl ow of traffi c. They just sit there and wait to pick up a E-mail:[email protected] Nassau 44 miles from passenger or for their apps to ring. Especially around the areas where bridge & tunnel crossings are as well JFK Copyright © 2017 by TAXI INSIDER. All as the busy areas. Why don’t they get tickets? Where Dear Taxi Dave, rights reserved. Neither this newspaper nor are the cops and traffi c agents. Especially the traffi c August 23, 2017 from Terminal 4 at Jfk Airport any part therof may be reproduced, copied, agents that drive around. That should be the priority of three cagey old ladies needed to get to Smithtown or transmitted in any form, electronic or the traffi c agents driving in the nypd traffi c cars. Township Suffolk County LI Their fl ight was delayed mechanical including photocopying, mi- 5. Drivers! High beams not for city use or to hide 6 hours So they needed a cab to get them home. I crofi lming, recording or by any information your broken head light! stopped the meter at $180.00 and received $200.00 retrieving system without the express written 6. Spare tire (donut) is not a replacement tire don’t cash for the ride. At approximately 6 or 7 miles from permission of the publishers. The copyright put your passenger & yourself in danger because u want their destination one was getting upset about the cost is extended to the design and text created to work and make money. Those donuts are not meant of the ride. The metered receipt indicated 35 miles for advertisements. This publication will to exceed 30+ mph. traveled. But it was more like 42 miles to their des- not be responsible for errors in advertise- 7. Turn signals & hazards! OMG my biggest con- tination. I feel I was kind hearted to not be a stickler ment beyond the cost of the space occupied cern. Use them! and just work with the meter. I took the Southern by the error. Bylined articles represent the Tommy State Pky and probably started the out of town rate sole opinion of the writer and are not neces- a few miles too soon. The LIE via the Cross Island sarily in accordance with the views of TAXI Pky would have been cheaper for them. One woman Lower Our Meter Rate INSIDER. had mentioned the LIE being better. Had I stayed This Publication reserves the right to with the meter the cost would have been unfair. The On Sunday’s limit or refuse advertising it deems objec- LIE way would have been approximately $195.00 . Dear Taxi Dave, tionable. My meter was turned off at $180.00. But going the We are getting killed on Sunday , more biz if we TAXI INSIDER is published monthly at Southern State Pky it would have been $210.00 or have the ability to lower our rate on Sunday ? a subscription rate of $48.00 per year. $15 overcharged. All in all I handled the ride very M. Simon (Continued on Page 8) PAGE 4 • TAXI INSIDER • SEPTEMBER 2017 Insider News DID TLC REVOKE YOUR LICENSE? Suspect Riding Bicycle Wanted In 7 YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO $$$ Yellow Cab Robberies In Manhattan The NYPD is trying to catch a suspect who robs yellow cabs in the city NOTICE OF CLASS ACTION while riding a bicycle. He’s wanted in seven robberies throughout Manhattan. SETTLEMENT TO: One incident, from July 25th, was caught on camera. In that incident, the suspect rides up to the open window of a yellow cab. NEW YORK CITY NON-PRO- reduced under certain circumstances That’s when he grabs money right out of the cabbie’s front pocket. BATIONARY TAXI OR FOR-HIRE set forth in the Stipulation of Settle- The money fell and the suspect rode away. VEHICLE DRIVERS WHO HAD ment. The Settlement Agreement also The incidents began back on June 28th with the most recent occurring THEIR LICENSES REVOKED OR provides that the TLC will use its best on July 31st. WHO SURRENDERED THEIR LI- efforts to achieve certain changes in He’s never gotten away with more than $200 in any of the robberies. CENSE BETWEEN JANUARY 23, the TLC revocation rules. The Settle- The suspect is described as 5’10” to 6’0” tall and 200 lbs. 2005 UNTIL JANUARY 14, 2014 ment also provides for a release of all Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the BECAUSE OF A DRIVING WHILE claims by anyone who is a member NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, ABILITY IMPAIRED (“DWAI”) of the Settlement Class who does not 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). CONVICTION WHERE SUCH opt out of the Settlement. To opt-out CONVICTION WAS BASED ON or exclude yourself from the Settle- AN ACT THAT DID NOT OCCUR ment, you must mail a written request TLC= CITYWIDE WHILE THE DRIVER WAS ON- postmarked no later than October 2, DUTY OPERATING A TAXICAB 2017, or send an email, no later than ACCESSIBLE DISPATCH OR FOR-HIRE VEHICLE. October 2, 2017, to Class Counsel. The TLC will launch the Citywide Accessible Dispatch Program on September This Notice contains important On July 20, 2017, the Hon. Sidney 20, 2017. As of that date, all rules passed by the Commission on December 8, information that may pertain to you. H. Stein, United States District Court 2016 will be in full effect. These rules include obligations for licensed drivers, Please read it carefully. Under the Judge of the Southern District of New owners, agents, and bases of accessible taxicab and SHL vehicles to participate Settlement Agreement in Rothenberg York granted Preliminary Approval in the program by installing equipment and completing trips. The rules are et al. v. Daus et al., No. 08- CV-00567 of the Settlement and scheduled a published on the TLC website here. MTM (Medical Transportation Manage- (SHS), certain non-probationary taxi Fairness Hearing on the 16th day of ment, Inc.) has been selected as the vendor to manage the Citywide Accessible and for-hire vehicle drivers, licensed November, 2017 at 10:00 AM. The Dispatch Program. For more information about the program, contact MTM at by the New York City Taxi and Lim- Fairness Hearing will take place in 1-888-828-1115 or [email protected]. ousine Commission (“TLC”) who, Courtroom 23A at the Daniel Patrick during the time period from January Moynihan United States Courthouse, Medallion Auction est or best individual medallion bids 23, 2005 until January 14, 2014, (i) 500 Pearl Street, New York, New York “Individual Bids” will be invited to the (Continued from Page 1) surrendered their license to TLC, 10007-1312. live auction. or (ii) had their license revoked by A Settlement Class Member may All Medallions Bidders May Present Bids on One, TLC after attending a fitness hearing, object to the fairness, reasonable- Details:Gregory Messer, Esq., was Multiple or All Medallions. or (iii) had their license revoked by ness, or adequacy of the proposed appointed as Chapter 7 Trustee for the Bid Submission Documents are TLC after failing to attend a fitness Settlement in writing or in person Debtors’ jointly administered bank- Attached Under the “Documents” tab hearing, based solely on a conviction at the Fairness Hearing, or both. ruptcy estates of Hypnotic Taxi LLCet on Right Side of this Page . for driving while ability impaired Written objections to the proposed al. Each Debtor entity owns two or Please Call Richard Maltz at (“DWAI”) where such conviction was settlement must be mailed or emailed three Medallions for an aggregate of 516.349.7022 x 202 with Questions based on an act that did not occur no later than thirty (30) days before 46 Medallions issued by the New York or to Discuss Stalking Horse Oppor- while the driver was on-duty operat- the date of the Fairness Hearing, and City Taxi and Limousine Commission tunities ing a taxicab or for-hire vehicle, may requests to opt-out of the settlement (TLC). Overview of Sales Process: This be entitled to a payment. must be mailed or emailed no later The Trustee has 34 Non-Restricted is a two-step bidding process. The On January 23, 2008 and Sep- than forty-five (45) days before the Medallions, 6 Alternative Fuel/Hybrid fi rst step is the submission of binding, tember 23, 2009, Plaintiffs Saul Fairness Hearing, to: Medallions and 6 Handicap Medal- sealed bids that are due Monday, Sep- Rothenberg, Ebrahim Abood, Tobby HERBERT TEITELBAUM NOR- lions. tember 11, 2017. The top 7 highest or Kombo, Konstantinos Katsigiannis, MAN SIEGEL SIEGEL TEITEL- The Trustee has the authority to sell best Bulk Bids and the top 25 highest Boubacar Doumbia, Robert Dyce BAUM & EVANS, LLP Attorneys for up to 46 Medallions, with a minimum or best Individual Bids will be invited and Moustach Ali (“Named Plain- Class 260 Madison Avenue, 22nd Fl. of fi ve Medallions being sold in this to bid at the live auction (subject to the tiffs”) filed a putative class action New York, NY 10016 HTeitelbaum@ auction. Terms & Conditions of Sale approved complaint or amended complaint, stellp.com A detailed Notice of Class This is a two-step bidding process: by the bankruptcy court) on Monday, as the case may be, in which they Action Settlement explaining the i) the fi rst step is the submission of September 18, 2017. Please Note: If challenged the constitutionality of Settlement will be mailed to Settle- binding sealed bids; and ii) the top two equivalent bids are received, the certain procedures employed by ment Class Members’ last known ad- 7 highest or best multiple medallion best bidder will be identifi ed as the the TLC to adjudicate the fitness of dress. If you do not receive a mailed bids “Bulk Bids” and the top 25 high- fi rst bid received. TLC licensees in response to either Notice of Settlement and want to a criminal conviction or a positive determine if you are in the Settlement result on a drug test. After lengthy Class or wish to learn more about the settlement negotiations, on July 14, Settlement, contact Class Counsel at 2017, the Named Plaintiffs and De- 212-455-0300. fendants entered into a Stipulation of Settlement (the “Settlement Agree- ment” or “Settlement”). This Settle-

ment may provide for payments of Photo by David Pollack $34,840 to individuals whose licenses were revoked after a hearing and for payments of $26,130 to individuals whose licenses were revoked after failing to appear at a hearing or whose licenses were surrendered prior to the hearing. Such amounts may be SEPTEMBER 2017 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 5

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Tappan Zee Bridge, it is more collo- DESIGNER - Emil Praeger, the quially known as just the Tappan Zee designer of the original Tappan Zee, The Philadelphia Parking Authority any consructive comments are often Bridge. The origin of the name com- entered into World War II as the design will make good on its promise to start ignored by the Authority or drowned bines the name of a Native American manager for the US Navy’s Bureau developing regulations on ridesharing out by unproductive voices.” tribe from the area called Tappan, and of Yards and Docks. He served as a in August, yet the efforts are eliciting See a January meeting where doz- the Dutch word zeemeaning “sea.” senior offi cer in charge of all civilian skepticism from stakeholders in the ens of members of the cab industry The Original Tappan Zee was De- and military design for a committee city’s taxi industry who want to know stepped to the mic and repeated their signed to Last 50 Years to implement Winston Churchill’s why the required public comment pe- calls for heavier restrictions on TNCs, The reason the bridge became such plan to protect harbors from invasion riod doesn’t come after a fi rst draft. only to have City Councilman at-Large a huge infrastructural danger in the past in Europe. Praeger’s other designs Christine Kirlin, the leader of the Al Taubenberger, also a PPA board few years is because Tappan Zee was include the structural engineering for PPA’s Taxi and Limousine Division, member, question why these concerns deliberately built only to last 50 years. the General Assembly, Meeting Hall told the Business Journal last month the hadn’t been brought to lawmakers in It passed its expected expiration date in and underground parking garage of the agency intended to schedule a public Harrisburg. They had. 2005. The reason for the short timeline? United Nations, and was chief engineer hearing seeking advanced comment on “The Authority has direct knowl- There was a material shortage during of the proposed extension of the West rules governing transportation network edge about how industry members feel construction because of the Korean War, Side Highway. companies (TNCs), or ridesharing fi rms about TNCs as it has been hearing the so the project was built on the cheap TOLL - Currently, the toll is $5, a like Uber and Lyft. A few weeks later, industry’s grievances for years. It is from the beginning at a low budget of welcome price compared to the $15 the Authority announced the meeting fi nally time for the Authority to present $81 million. toll on the George Washington Bridge would take place Thursday, Aug. 31 us with drafted proposed regulations,” There were cracks in the concrete heading into the city. As of now, Gov- from 10 a.m. to noon at the IATSE Friedman’s letter continued, suggest- columns, while the rest of the metal ernor Cuomo has promised to keep the Ballroom at 2401 Swanson St. ing the agency looks to New York as rusted away with the decks almost worn $5 toll the same until 2020. After that The time between when the Author- a guide. through. But now drivers can rest easy remains unclear. ity fi rst made the public hearing known With the 30-day public comment pe- and Aug. 31 allows the PPA to meet riod taking place before a draft is made, Manhattan and Brooklyn Cruise the minimum 30-day public comment Abitbol said, the agency is just trying to period required by the state’s Indepen- check a box. “But it is not meaningful Terminal Schedule dent Regulatory Review Commission. or constructive work,” he said. 9/02/17 Manhattan Norwegian Gem Canada & New England The PPA will not offer a rough draft His criticism comes as Executive 9/02/17 Manhattan Carnival Sunshine Canada Cruise of regulations ahead of the hearing, Director Clarena Tolson has vowed to 9/03/17 Manhattan Norwegian Breakaway Bermuda instead a regulatory framework will bring more transparency to the agency, 9/07/17 Brooklyn Queen Mary 2 Transatlantic Crossing start from scratch with Thursday’s open after it was rocked with several scandals 9/08/17 Manhattan AIDAluna Port of Call forum. By structuring the rule-making to close out her predecessor’s decades- 9/09/17 Manhattan AIDAluna Port of Call process in this way, the Authority is long run in the job. 9/09/17 Manhattan Norwegian Gem Canada & New England now facing questions over its motives Uber and Lyft, the largest rideshar- 9/09/17 Manhattan Carnival Sunshine Canada Cruise and whether it is looking to thwart a ing fi rms in the Philadelphia market, 9/09/17 Brooklyn Aurora Port of Call – Canada & USA closer look by industry members once are planning to submit testimony on 9/10/17 Manhattan Norwegian Breakaway Bermuda pen hits paper. Thursday. Both companies say Act 164, 9/10/17 Manhattan AIDAluna Port of Call “They have used that blank com- the state law that legalized ridesharing 9/10/17 Manhattan MS Insignia Cottages, Coves & Coasts ment period as the comment period across the commonwealth, is compre- 9/10/17 Manhattan Zuiderdam New York City to required by the IRRC. Then they craft hensive. The taxi industry counters the Quebec City legislation in secrecy,” suggested Ev- legislation gives the PPA a chance to 9/10/17 Brooklyn Aurora Port of Call – Canada & USA erett Abitbol, the owner of Freedom even the playing fi eld for medallion 9/11/17 Manhattan AIDAluna New York, Florida & Taxi. “What becomes of these forums cabs and the TNCs. Caribbean is almost useless.” Despite calls to change course, the 9/15/17 Manhattan Crystal Serenity Port of call Insinuating the hearing will be a PPA’s Thursday meeting will go on 9/16/17 Manhattan Norwegian Gem Canada & New England waste of time, Danielle Friedman, an as scheduled, said Kirlin, although an 9/16/17 Manhattan Carnival Sunshine Canada Cruise attorney representing Abitbol’s Free- additional public comment period is 9/16/17 Manhattan Crystal Serenity New York City to dom Taxi, as well as 215 Get A Cab “something we can do.” Quebec City and PHL Taxi, compelled the PPA in “Once a fi nal draft of any proposed 9/17/17 Manhattan Norwegian Breakaway Bermuda a letter last week to forgo the Thursday regulations are crafted, we can certainly 9/17/17 Manhattan AIDAdiva Port of Call meeting. send that out for further written com- 9/17/17 Brooklyn Crown Princess Canada & New England “This proposed rulemaking needs to ment. That option is always there,” 9/18/17 Manhattan Arcadia Port of Call be handled by industry professionals, Kirlin said. She insisted starting with 9/18/17 Manhattan AIDAdiva Port of Call who have real expertise in the fi eld, not no framework demonstrates the agency 9/19/17 Manhattan AIDAdiva New York City to Montreal in an open forum,” Friedman wrote. is doing its due dilligence. 9/19/17 Manhattan Silver Whisper New York to Montreal She said the forums are often “It is kind of putting the cart before 9/20/17 Manhattan MS Insignia Capitals & Coastlines unproductive because they become the horse. We want the comment fi rst,” 9/22/17 Brooklyn Queen Mary 2 Transatlantic, New England “disjointed platforms for industry she said. and Canada members to air their grievances, and Reprinted with permission from 9/23/17 Manhattan Norwegian Gem Canada & New England as we have seen time and time again, Philadelphia Business Journal. 9/23/17 Manhattan Carnival Sunshine Canada & New England 9/23/17 Manhattan AIDAluna Port of Call 9/23/17 Brooklyn Regal Princess Canada & New England Would You Like To Receive...... 9/24/17 Manhattan AIDAluna New York, Florida & Caribbean • Weekly Traffi c Advisories 9/24/17 Manhattan Norwegian Breakaway Florida and Bahamas 9/24/17 Brooklyn Crown Princess Canada & New England • Important Messages from The TLC 9/25/17 Manhattan AIDAluna Port of Call 9/27/17 Manhattan Disney Magic Canadian Coast from • Important Industry Notices New York 9/27/17 Manhattan Silver Explorer Port of Call E-mail: [email protected] 9/27/17 Manhattan Seven Seas Mariner Port of Call 9/30/17 Manhattan Norwegian Gem Canada & New England 9/30/17 Manhattan Zuiderdam New York City to And we will place you on our Quebec City 9/30/17 Manhattan Carnival Sunshine Bermuda Cruise Industy E-Mail List. 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HELP WANTED EXPERIENCE UNDERWRITER must be bilingual in SPANISH Contact 646-529-7920 or e-mail: barbarak@ mysticbrokerage.com PAGE 8 • TAXI INSIDER • SEPTEMBER 2017 We need to stop with this outdated AC supply to customers and start buying vehicles with AC vents in the passenger compartment. LETTERS Erhan Tuncel Illegal Pick Up

(Continued from Page 6) Doubletree Hotel Stone Drivers Soliciting In Street (Manhattan) Front Of Javits Center The vehicle below had a taxi sign and Uber Logo displayed on the windshield.

The rest of the cars below was outside the Javits.

This is were I observed them waiting for potential passengers. They also negotiate the fare in this area.

Good Afternoon Commissioner, Vehicles parked outside the Javits Center. All of the drivers were standing on the sidewalk negotiating fares with pedestrians. It was diffi cult to match the vehicles to the drivers due to customers getting into my vehicle. However, I was able to capture vehicles that are questionable. Hopefully this information is helpful to your nforcement department. John Leon AC for the Customers

GoodAfternoon Commissioner, Complaint: Black Cars parked in front of hotels to solicit for illegal rides. While I was dropping my passenger off at the the doubletree hotel , I noticed black cars park directly across the street. Two of the black car drivers was out of there vehicles talking to one another. Then the door man came out and told the black car driver that was fi rst in line that one is coming. So the driver crossed the street to position himself in front of the hotel. As the passengers came out he grab some of there luggage to his vehicle as they followed. The driver is wearing a yellow dress shirt. JL (Continued on Page 24) SEPTEMBER 2017 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 9 The Taxi Attorney September Taxi Driver Puzzle Hello everybody, I hope that you 212.754.1011 if you wish to speak to are working hard and making good me about this issue for a free initial Do you know the stories behind each word? money. This month I consultation. You would if you listened to Taxi Dave’s Radio want to talk about eight Fifth, remember to Show, Sunday’s at 8:00 PM on WOR710. Brought topics. bring me your DMV First, there is a lot and TLC tickets. It is to you by Melrose Credit Union. You will also of talk about what to do important to fight all understand the puzzle better if you read our if you own a medallion your DMV (issued by articles. and a lending institution NYPD) and TLC tickets. has contacted you about Be careful. Don’t skimp T C H C K E O P P E L L A foreclosure or other loan on the lawyer only to lose A J F I L P N A S S I N L type issues. I am happy your license later. Please to discuss this situation fight every yellow or P T L T H U K G B E N D T with you in private at pink ticket you receive S M A Y D E L P H I A R A my office in Rego Park, from NYPD and every Queens (97-77 Queens TLC ticket you receive. I E X W O P S T O E N I X Blvd., Suite 1120, Rego Park, NY If you are uncertain whether to use an D A J I O E A W C N 2 V H 11375 212.754.1011). I have helped attorney for a particular ticket, please numerous owners with this issue and come see me and I will tell you, no E L Y D A R D O A D O E U I welcome the opportunity to talk to charge, if the ticket has points and you about your situation. Sometimes you do or do not need an attorney L I O E V E I H M B O R D bankruptcy is an option. Other times or representative for a particular B E N A U L O S R Y R S N there are other remedies available. summons. The brief initial consultation is free Sixth, please take the defensive I E I C T I O N Y H I O F for cabbies. driver course every 18 months. Do S S E C E U O H T D E W N Second, if you are arrested and you not wait three years to take the DDC possess a TLC license, it is impera- class that takes points off of your U C L A S S A C T I O N S tive that you hire the best criminal NYS driver’s license. Please take P O U E R R N W E S T W E attorney that you can afford. This is the course every 18 months so if so because TLC will hold your license TLC sends you a letter to suspend P T R V T E D S O W Y A T until the criminal case is finished and or revoke your Hack or TLC license O R A D I S T N E M E L T the TLC will take it permanently from you will have taken the class before you if the criminal matters is NOT you get such TLC letter. Now TLC is Find the following words/accronyms in the puzzle above resolved to the TLC’s satisfaction. 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But passwords are hardly Separate analysis announced in a words of Ecclesiastes 3 triggered a proposal to the best line of defense against hacks news report last week also highlighted (King James version). It build a new hockey arena and other cyberattacks. the weakness of passwords, as well as lists the various stages there. The owners of the New research from Intercede, con- some of the seemingly more secure of life, and suggests that New York Islanders are ducted by Vanson Bourne, finds that alternatives. there is a time for every- committed to keeping security passwords’ lack of reliability An investigation by The Daily thing. In my thinking, it’s the team in our area, but in defending against a cyberattack is Mail and Germany-based Security time for Belmont to be- they don’t want to use far from a problem only for individual Research Labs found that not only can come a vibrant, attractive the Nassau Coliseum, consumers. passwords be easily cracked, but more and income-producing which is too small for a According to the data released last sophisticated technologies like facial property that will benefit National Hockey League week, a whopping 86 percent of sys- recognition and fingerprint scanning not just Long Island, but team. Recently, some lo- tem administrators (sysadmins) use are also easily cracked. the rest of the state. cal elected officials announced their only basic username and password Keiron Dalton, global program New York state has quite a few support for moving the team back to authentication measures to protect senior director at cybersecurity firm places that are desperately in need the renovated Coliseum, but that’s a corporate accounts. Aspect Verify, commented on the of revival. The rehabilitation of La- pipe dream. It’s important to note that the investigation, the results of which Guardia Airport is well under way, So, what now? If the state were sample set was small — just 84 may have significant implications after years of neglect and indiffer- to approve the construction of a new survey respondents across organiza- for how businesses move forward in ence. Despite growing demand for arena at the Belmont site, there would tions with at least 1,000 employees their cybersecurity strategies. air transportation, the state and the be no question that the surrounding in the U.K. “These kinds of security technolo- region ignored the rapid decay of a community and this region would But the report may highlight a gies do have benefits over conven- vital facility. benefit greatly. A new facility would deeper issue at work: businesses tional passwords, whose weaknesses After LaGuardia, Belmont ranks mean local jobs, revenue for the area failing to understand just how at-risk are demonstrated by recent research close to the top as a state stepchild. and a modernized Long Island Rail they are putting themselves when it from Aspect,” he said, noting that Opened for business in 1905, it has Road station. Local residents would comes to cybercrime. According to the company found 88 percent of been the home of some of horserac- have easy access to mass transit, the survey, half of respondents ac- individuals who have experienced ing’s most memorable events. People and their daily commutes would be knowledged that their user accounts some form of fraud in their bank in the racing business will tell you that shortened. Tax revenue for the county within the organization were “not accounts in the last year noted they Belmont is considered one of the great and state would be enormous. very secure.” had to use a password or PIN to log facilities in the nation, along with Local civic groups might register Seventeen percent said they in to those accounts. Churchill Downs, in Kentucky, and their disapproval, but like most of the aren’t using complex passwords, “By contrast, the benefits of fin- Santa Anita, in California. In addi- not-in-my-backyard crowd, they rare- but separate analysis suggests even gerprint and facial expression include tion to its beauty and charm, Belmont ly have any positive counterproposals. credentials with all of those punc- ease of use and reduced vulnerability possesses another quality: lots of Generally, the opposition to any proj- tuation marks and capitalizations to basic social engineering, [but] available land for development. ect either wants a park or is content aren’t helping to safeguard systems. they are also open to rudimentary If you polled Nassau County to just say no. If the state decided to According to recent analysis, it takes workarounds,” Dalton continued. residents, most would have no idea sell the land for housing development, less than 72 hours for a cybercriminal “For example, facial recognition what should be done with the Belmont the community would be faced with to crack such a passcode. technology usually looks for blink- property. The number of fans who at- year-round traffi c headaches and a Intercede and Vanson Bourne’s ing as a way to ensure that it isn’t tend horse races there is probably at drain on local resources. report also identified retailers as simply being shown a picture of the an all-time low, because of the state’s At this point, the state has no the businesses that are lease secure, intended person.” failure to attract big-name horses and option but to allow Belmont to be with 92 percent of retailer sysadmins In the Daily Mail’s investigation, the general lack of enthusiasm for the new home of the Islanders. Both saying passwords are their top line however, a security consultant faked racing. Saratoga Race Course has horseracing and hockey are seasonal, of defense, followed by the manufac- this “blinking” by quickly plac- always been the politicians’ darling, and there is no threat that the stadium turing sector at 82 percent. ing a pen in front of a picture of a because it makes a lot of money in a would become a major entertainment But even in financial services, just face, ultimately fooling the security short time and attracts the rich and venue with the Coliseum nearby. a quarter of survey respondents said measure. powerful. Hopefully the state will see the vir- they are using sophisticated security According to the Aspect Verify As far back as 1960, there were tues of a new arena and the benefits it measures like virtual smart cards senior director, the solution to these suggestions about how the Belmont would bring. Otherwise, the Belmont and PINs. problems exists within the sys- property could be improved, and land will be doomed to be Long Is- “Sysadmins effectively hold the tems themselves — not in forcing made more of a place that people land’s largest parking lot. ‘keys to the kingdom,’ and relying on end-users to handle the burden of would want to go to. Franklin D. Jerry Kremer was a state assem- username and password authentica- security. Roosevelt Jr. suggested that a dome blyman for 23 years, and chaired the tion is a bit like relying on a basic Yale “The bare truth is that [the] more be built over the track so there could Assembly’s Ways and Means Com- lock to secure your front door,” said parts of security that you leave on the be year-round events, including mittee for 12 years. He now heads Intercede CEO and Chairman Richard customer’s side, the more friction you concerts and social gatherings. That Empire Government Strategies, a Parris in a statement. “Even the least introduce into their experience and proposal went nowhere, because the business development and legislative security-conscious of us also bolt the the more open you leave your system state didn’t want to commit large strategy firm. door with a five lever mortice lock to gamesmanship and social engineer- sums of money to a location that and many go much further. In today’s ing from malignant actors.” was too close to the old Roosevelt age of the hack, when compromised Reprinted with permission from Raceway. passwords are the root of the vast PYMTS.com In 2007, then Gov. Eliot Spitzer wanted to close Aqueduct Racetrack Listen to Podcasts of and make Belmont a year-round fa- cility, according to Wikipedia. Those The Taxi Dave Show plans died when Spitzer left office, and the state’s enthusiasm for doing and Read Taxi Insider on-line @ something with the property died with them. Recently, state economic NYCTAXINEWS.COM development officials announced that PAGE 12 • TAXI INSIDER • SEPTEMBER 2017 New Legislation Cracks Down Uber Loses, Amazon Wins Under New Financial Rules On Fake Cabbies An upcoming change to accounting revenue can be booked by Uber and Lyft. There’s a new push to curb drivers bery, because the average ride into rules regarding the reporting of revenues The impact on Uber is very large: its fi rst ripping off people who need rides. Manhattan is only $40. and expenses is expected to have big quarter revenues would fall from $3.4 In an undercover investigation “There are many opportunities for impacts on the technology industry, the Fi- billion to $1.5 billion under the revised last year, CBS2 Political Reporter scams and we’re seeing it everyday in nancial Times reports. The upshot may be accounting standards, per the FT. Marcia Kramer exposed fake cabbies New York City,” Garodnick said. to spawn great confusion among investors, IMPACT ON and phony Uber drivers at LaGuardia The proposed legislation cracks leading to much higher trading volatility. SOFTWARE COMPANIES Airport. down on the fake drivers as well as Among headline-grabbing companies, Under so-called “ramp” deals, the Now, CBS2 has learned that City the licensed drivers who do illegal ride hailing service Uber Technologies annual license fees for software increase Council is about to take action. street hails. Inc. is expected to be a big loser, seeing in the later years of a contract. Accord- They’re aggressive hustlers whose There’s a fi ne of up to $7,000 for more than half its revenues cut pursuant to ing to the FT, license fees will have to only goal is to take unsuspecting pas- drivers who misrepresent themselves. the change. Meanwhile, e-commerce giant be spread evenly over the life of a con- sengers on a ride, but Councilman Dan “It’s not just going to be a slap on Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) and software tract, meaning that the software vendor Garodnick (D-4th) says his goal is to the wrist anymore,” Garodnick said. colossus Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), both of will recognize more revenue earlier on. give them a ticket to ride. “We’re now going to get these guys which are also leading players in the fast- Microsoft indicates that this will have a Big fat tickets to ride that, he hopes, out of business.” growing cloud-computing market, should material impact for them, the FT says. are a fast track to oblivion. Taxi and Limousine Commissioner be among the high profi le winners. Additionally, if hardware is bundled “The bad actors, they just got to Meera Joshi is thrilled with the pro- THE TIMETABLE with software under a contract, the go,” Garodnick said. “For these guys posed new laws. The new rules, which are supposed revenues for the full bundle will have who are scamming tourists and New “These people are preying on unwit- to align Generally Accepted Accounting to be recognized evenly over the life of Yorkers, yes, we want to put them out ting passengers putting them at risk,” Principles (GAAP) in the U.S. more close- the contract, the FT adds. of business.” she said. “It really focuses on those ly with International Financial Reporting Cloud-computing companies, which The Democratic councilman in- people who are taking an Uber logo and Standards (IFRS), must be adopted by all include Amazon.com and Microsoft, troduced the crackdown legislation slapping it on their car and pretending public companies in the U.S. by the start will benefi t from new rules that push the following last year’s investigation that undercover of that brand that they’re of 2018, the FT says. Private companies, recognition of expenses further into the found lots of apparently fake Uber operating legally.” such as ride booking services Uber and future, when the revenues generated by drivers scamming passengers at the A spokesperson for Uber said the Lyft, have until 2019. these expenditures actually start to ma- local airports. company is reviewing the legislation, PRINCIPAL OR AGENT? terialize. In particular, the FT notes that Offi cials say it happens thousands pointing out that rides from illegal One issue highlighted by the FT af- software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies, of times a week. scammers not only hurt drivers who fects Uber and its competitor Lyft. Both especially those that are growing rapidly, CBS2 undercover cameras discov- follow the rules but passengers who act as agents, matching riders with driv- have marketing and sales costs that can ered the hucksters not only grossly lack consumer protections. ers who are non-employee, independent reach 50% or more of their revenues, and overcharging, but they often added a The Taxi and Limousine Commi- contractors who own the cars that they will benefi t greatly from being able to defer phony sales tax. One particular receipt sion wants to expand a plan to confi scate drive. The drivers are the principals who them. SaaS companies host applications says it’s ten percent, further infl ating cars and put them up for auction. actually provide the core service, the rides on their own computers, which subscrib- their take to close to $100. Reprinted woth premission from themselves. ers then access over the internet. Under It’s a classic case of highway rob- CBS2. On regular rides, both companies rec- the new rules, Workday Inc. (WDAY), ognize as revenues just the agency com- which offers enterprise cloud applications Many Ways To $Ave The Subways missions paid to them by drivers who use in human resources and fi nance, saw its their apps, per the FT. However, on the pro-forma operating profi t margin rise By Lucius J. Riccio growing category of carpool or shared from 1.9% to 3.3% for its most recent Sam Schwartz’s Move NY conges- plan as drafted, and if de Blasio’s plan to rides (called uberPOOL and Lyft Line, fi scal year, per the FT. tion pricing plan, which would put tolls get Albany to raise the income surcharge respectively), Uber and Lyft claim to In other matters, the FT reports that on the now-free East River bridges but on New York City millionaires doesn’t be the principals actually providing the Amazon.com will be able to speed up the lower tolls on all other bridges, is, simply pass, where will the needed billions come service, and count as revenue the full fare recognition of revenue from unused gift put, brilliant. from? paid. Since these shared rides actually are cards, as well as from sales of its Kindle It would put tolls on the free East We’ve got a bunch of smart options provided by non-employee drivers and e-reader, and other devices, through third River bridges while lowering the tolls on — either to modify Move NY or to tap non-company-owned cars, they will be parties. all the tolled bridges — fi nally bringing other revenue sources by the users of our reclassifi ed under the new rules as agency Reprinted with permission from In- sense to a system that for decades has roads. transactions on which only commission vestopedia. made none. I have proposed “Congestion Pricing And, for good measure, it would raise Lite”: toll two of the East River Bridges I call it the Cruise Line Syndrome. share for using the public space. hundreds of millions of dollars for a transit (Manhattan and Williamsburg) and leave People pay one (large) lump sum to get on Cabs have to buy a medallion and then system that’s wheezing if not choking after two free (Queensboro and Brooklyn), a cruise, and then miraculously, everything pay 50 cents a ride to the MTA. Yet their decades of disinvestment. continuing to give people the option of onboard is then “free.” competitors — Uber, Lyft, Via, etc. — pay But it may be a real tough sell politi- choosing. How about charging people once basically nothing to get in the market and cally. People in the outer boroughs, many That may be more likely to get through, a year for having a vehicle? Raise the then don’t even pay the 50 cents. of whom say they have no choice but to and it could raise about a half a billion registration fee, which is now between Charge the for-hire vehicles a fee — I drive, see it as an elite, Manhattan-centric dollars a year. $26 and $140, depending on the size of propose $10,000 per year per car, or $4 per scheme to force them to pay to make life Another way to make congestion your automobile. A back of the envelope ride — to have the right to pick up in the better in Manhattan. pricing more politically viable is to tie estimate: Doubling it could generate $100 downtown or Midtown Manhattan area. Even when people are told the pricing it to income level. Using E-ZPass, we million annually. That would generate at least a quarter of a would only apply at rush hour, the backlash could connect the record of their usage to How about creating city residential billion dollars per year for the MTA. is substantial. their tax return — enabling lower-income parking permits? Right now, we gener- Lastly, I recently proposed in this Mayor de Blasio, riding this backlash, people to get most if not all of their toll ally give street parking away for free. column that the feds increase the gasoline says he “does not believe” in congestion fees back. The percentage returned would Charge $10 a month for New Yorkers to tax 10 cents per year for fi ve years, but not pricing and deems it “inconceivable.” depend on your tax bracket, with 100% park on their neighborhood streets, and keep a penny of it. All of the money would To meet the critical needs of the subway returned to low-income people and 0% substantially more to people are not from stay in the state where it was raised. system, he wants a new tax on New York returned to higher-income fi lers. that neighborhood. (This reserves parking The same plan could work for New City millionaires. Gov. Cuomo, for his But even if we can’t get congestion for residents.) And how about paying for York State. Albany can pass the same raise part, is fi nally warming to congestion pricing in any way, shape or form, there reserved commercial street parking? but not get a penny. All the money would pricing as a long-term funding stream are plenty other ways to raise cash for the Taken together, those ideas could raise stay in the cities or counties in which it — but it remains to be seen whether he’ll subways, if we think creatively. Although another $100 million per year. was paid. Since a billion gallons (yes, a spend the necessary political capital to get people have accepted for decades the no- One area I was delighted to hear the billion) are sold in New York City each it done, or even if he does, whether that tion of tolls, most people dislike having governor talk about was to levy new year, this would bring in a half a billion will be enough. to make continuous choices about paying charges on for-hire vehicles that are clog- dollars each year. Now we’re talking real So if we can’t count on this particular for road usage. ging our streets without paying their fair money. SEPTEMBER 2017 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 13 yp Hereford Insurance Company Established 1982 • Licensed by the New York State Insurance Department 36-01 43rd Avenue, LIC, NY 11101 • Tel: 718-361-9191 • Fax: 718-361-6243 Being seen is as important as seeing. DRIVING AT NIGHT •Reduce your speed and increase your following distances. 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More fatal crashes take place on weekend nights than at any other time in the •Observe night driving safety as soon as the sun goes down. Twilight is one week. Fortunately, you can take several effective measures to minimize these of the most diffi cult times to drive, because your eyes are constantly changing after-dark dangers by preparing your car and following special guidelines while to adapt to the growing darkness. you drive. RECOMMENDED: •Clean headlights, taillights, signal lights and windows (inside and out) once a week, more often if necessary. •Have your headlights properly aimed. Misaimed headlights blind other drivers and reduce your ability to see the road. •Don’t drink and drive. Not only does alcohol severely impair your driving ability, it also acts as a depressant. Just one drink can induce fatigue. •Avoid smoking when you drive. Smoke’s nicotine and carbon monoxide hamper night vision. •If there is any doubt, turn your headlights on. Lights will not help you see better in early twilight, but they’ll make it easier for other drivers to see you. PAGE 14 • TAXI INSIDER • SEPTEMBER 2017 Look Ma, No Hands! The Impact of Autonomus Vehicles on the Taxi & For-Hire Ground Transportation Industry By Matthew W. Daus, Esq. There has been a tremendous one driver assistance system (such amount of attention and media hype as cruise control) is automated. The involving “Driverless Cars” or “Au- driver is disengaged, with their hands tonomous Vehicles” (AVs) over the off the steering wheel and foot off last year or so, generating excitement, the pedal. Drivers are still neces- concern and misunderstandings as to sary in Level 3, but safety-critical how, what and when such technol- functions are shifted to the vehicle ogy will be commonplace under certain traffic or en- on our roads. I have been vironmental conditions. The very involved in studying driver is still available to Autonomous and Connected intervene if necessary. Level Vehicle (CV) transportation 4 reaches the “fully autono- technology and policy, and mous” category of vehicles an employee who created a start-up regulations must be changed that most recently co-chaired designed to perform all that was later acquired by Uber. In apply to traditional automobiles and an emerging technology safety-critical driving func- June 2017, it was announced that vehicle and traffic laws (e.g., involv- forum of government and tions and monitor roadway Audi of America Inc. would be the ing steering wheels), and it remains private sector transportation conditions for the duration first to test AVs in New York State, to be seen whether regulation will be lawyers at the 56th Annual of a trip. However, they are as part of a pilot program initiated federal, state and/or local. There are Transportation Law Work- limited to the “operational by Governor Cuomo. Reported ac- a multitude of federal agencies, state shop organized by the Transporta- design domain” of the vehicle-and not cidents involving vehicles using transportation and local traffic agen- tion Research Board of the National all driving scenarios. Lastly, a fully self-driving technology have raised cies and the path for governance is Academy of the Sciences. Also, I autonomous Level 5 vehicle meets concerns about the safety of AVs. A not clear, and jurisdictions turf wars have been very involved in annual the performance of a human driver Tesla driver was killed in May 2016 are likely to emerge and slow down AV/CV symposia organized by the in every scenario. This includes be- while using the semi-autonomous policy, approvals and progress. U.S. Department of Transportation’s ing able to navigate difficult terrain Autopilot mode on his Model S in the • Safety: The ethical “trolley prob- Research Center at the City Univer- such as dirt roads. Much like AVs, first fatality involving a self-driving lem” often surfaces when discussing sity of New York, and moderated a ConnectedVehicles (“CVs”) are able car. Similarly, a collision involving AVs: in a potential crash, does a car high-level policy discussion with NY to communicate with other “smart” one of Uber’s self-driving vehicles “decide” to swerve out of the way to State and local elected and appointed vehicles on the road, but they are not was reported in Arizona. avoid hitting a person on the street, transportation officials for this 5th necessarily fully autonomous. CVs Transportation Network Compa- or does it default to keeping the annual event focusing on impacts use wireless communication that is nies (TNCs, like Uber and Lyft) and passenger(s) inside safe? Also, there to the taxicab and for-hire vehicle supported by dedicated short-range their smartphone app competitors is the “hand-off” issue – the split industries, as well as identifying communications (“DSRC”). By (i.e., Gett), vehicle manufacturers, second when a driver is prompted principles for testing in urban cen- gathering data from other vehicles, and technology companies, are now to take back control of the vehicle ters. I have also partnered with the CVs anonymously transmit traffic partnering in the hope to create new from the computer, during which a International Association of Public and road condition information to for-hire vehicle fleets, as the auto new safety risk appears. Transit (UITP) to train RTA (Roads other CVs and connected transporta- industry prepares for less car owners • Privacy and Cybersecurity: AVs and Transport Authority) government tion networks, with applications that and more shared rides. It seems that generate massive amounts of personal employees in Dubai about AV/CVs, include crash warning or avoidance most every smartphone transportation data and the immediate concern in- organized sessions with top experts functions. Currently, the connected app has an automobile and technology volving the privacy and access to at the International Association of vehicle environment includes three partner or partners at the AV dance. this data by third parties, is coupled Transportation Regulators’ confer- major approaches to communication: While Uber has partnered with Volvo, with cyber-security concerns on the ences starting back in 2015. (1) Vehicle to vehicle (V2V); (2) Ve- Daimler and Didi Chuxing, Lyft is ability to hack into an AV remotely Driverless vehicles are motor hicle to infrastructure (V2I); and (3) working with General Motors Co., to control the vehicle, which could vehicles in which internal vehicle Vehicle to pedestrian (V2P). Jaguar Land Rover and Alphabet facilitate terrorist attacks. systems operate all driving func- Nevada was the first state to au- Inc.’s Waymo in a bid to develop its • Insurance: As car accidents are tions, without human input. People thorize the operation of AVs in 2011. own fully autonomous vehicles. On expecting to decrease and the legal have imagined driverless cars since Since then, 19 other states and the July 5, 2017, Chinese search giant responsibility for accidents may shift the 1920s. At the time, driverless District of Columbia have passed Baidu announced that more than 50 away from drivers to automobile cars were more commonly known as legislation related to AVs. Google companies, including big names in the manufacturers. Cyber insurance poli- “phantom autos,” and were remotely first began testing self-driving car auto and tech industries such as Ford, cies might also develop to cover the controlled by radio waves. The first technology in 2009. The Google self- Daimler, Nvidia, Intel, and Microsoft, risks associated with cyber interfer- actual autonomous vehicle was cre- driving car project became Waymo in have joined its Apollo self-driving car ence with AVs. ated in the 1980s, and used a Light 2016, a stand-alone company under platform. Other examples of reported • Impact on Labor: In 2016, it was Detection and Ranging (“LIDAR”) the Alphabet corporate umbrella. partnerships include: Toyota working reported that 5 million people make system. There exist various degrees Tesla Inc. started testing four self- with Microsoft and Nvidia; Waymo their living driving taxis, buses, vans, of vehicle automation, ranging from driving cars on California’s public partnering with Lyft, Avis and Fiat trucks and e-hailing vehicles—that’s light automation (i.e., “cruise con- roads in October 2016, a month after Chrysler Automobiles. Hertz an- 3% of the overall workforce in the trol”) to full automation—a state Uber began testing self-driving cars nounced a collaboration with Apple, United States. where the vehicle is in complete in Pittsburgh. Uber then expanded RideScout with GlobeSherpa, while • Sustainability: The impact of control of all driving functions at all to Arizona after it was banned from Volkswagon and Gett and Bosh cre- AVs on environmental resources times. In 2013, the National High- operating AVs in San Francisco in ated an alliance with Nvidia, Daimler and transportation infrastructures way Traffic Safety Administration December 2016. By January 2017, and Baidu. Sharing data, integrating still need to be determined, and will (“NHTSA”) announced a policy con- driverless cars or buses were being hardware and software, and collabo- depend in part on the regulation of cerning vehicle automation wherein tested on public roads in the cities rating on open-source platforms, are AVs. While AVs are expected to the agency defined five automation of Las Vegas, Boston, and Chandler, all incentives for these companies to contribute to air pollution reduc- levels, which was amended and Arizona. That same month, the U.S. work together to win the AV race. tion, it is not certain whether they adopted in September 2016. Level Department of Transportation desig- Meanwhile, many legal, regula- will add to or reduce overall vehicle 0 is completely driver-dependent. nated 10 proving ground pilot sites tory and policy issues and concerns roadway use. The driver controls steering, brakes, to encourage testing and information will need to be addressed before • Equity & Accessibility: Autono- throttle, and power. With Level 1, sharing around automated vehicle AVs become part of our daily lives, mous vehicles can offer mobility to most functions are still controlled technologies. In February 2017, including the taxicab and for-hire people who cannot drive and/ or by the driver, but specific functions Waymo sued Uber over the alleged transportation industries. Here is a people who do not have ready access (like steering or accelerating) can be theft of its intellectual property cov- sampling of some of the issues: done by the car. In Level 2, at least ering driverless car technology by • Regulation & Governance: Many (Continued on Page 18) SEPTEMBER 2017 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 15 Commissioner’s Corner Sikh Taxi Driver Stabbed to Death in By Meera Joshi ‘Racist’ Attack following a series of robberies of taxi While driving a taxi, a 22-year-old it’s not that hard.” drivers in Manhattan, where a suspect on Sikh man was stabbed to death by his Singh happens to be a nephew of a cycle had reached through the window passenger in what is believed to be a Manmohan Singh Raju, a Congress and taken money from the driver’s front racist attack. leader based in Jalandhar, India, pocket. We are thankful to learn that The crime took place in Bonner who believes that the incident was a the police department has made this ap- County, Idaho, on Tuesday. racist attack. prehension. Although an arrest has been Gagandeep Singh was attacked by According to the Hindustan made, it is always important to remain Jacob Coleman, 19, whom he picked Times, Manmohan said: vigilant. Whenever possible, avoid up from Washington’s Spokane Inter- “My nephew became a victim of putting cash in your front pocket, and national Airport. racial hatred. As the Trump govern- be particularly cautious when the taxis According to reports, Coleman, ment is now showing exit doors to windows are down and the vehicle is who flew from Seattle, asked Singh the Asians due to few job opportuni- stopped in traffi c. Your safety is the top to drive him to a fake friend’s house ties, Indians and Asians as a whole priority, and we are greatly appreciative in Bonner County and attacked him are becoming the victims of racial of drivers’ heightened awareness. with a knife on their way. hatred.” TLC UP Coleman surrendered to authori- In an interview with the Times of I hope that you and your families The TLC recently launched the ties shortly, claiming that he was India, Manmohan said that Singh’s had a safe and happy summer. There TLC Upload Portal (TLC UP), which frustrated for not getting admitted to family has been living in Spokane is always a lot happening at the TLC, is a quicker and easier way for new Spokane’s Gonzaga University. How- since 2003, running a cab service and I am happy to get you up to speed driver and vehicle applicants to submit ever, the police found no evidence that for business. on the latest developments. documents needed for licensing online. he had applied to the university. Singh, a software engineering stu- Green taxi driver to the rescue! Through the portal, applicants can check Singh’s mother, Kamaljit Kaur, dent in his final year, decided to drive We were pleased to learn that a the status of their submitted documents, was still able to communicate with her a cab as he was free for the day. green taxi driver recently helped save and see whether a document has been son before his death. She learned that Coleman was charged with first the day by assisting a woman who accepted. If an incorrect document has his passenger was a “white man” who degree murder. had left a purse on a Brooklyn bus last been uploaded, you can remove it and behaved just like a “gentleman.” month. The story is an only in New York submit the correct one. You can see a “He was talking to my mom, he story-- with a high-tech update. After log of each item that has been submit- was a little nervous,” Balgit Singh, realizing she left her purse on a bus in ted, and an always up-to-date list of his older brother, told KREM 2. “That Bushwick, passenger Stephanie Seiler all missing requirements. The process was the last call from our family. So e-hailed a green taxi with the ride app is more effi cient and informative for my mom’s like ‘well, if he already Curb. Stephanie and the taxi driver, Mr. applicants than sending in documents paid you just drop him off another Khojaly Nour, were then able to track through email or postal mail. ten miles.’” down the bus at the end of the line in As of writing this column, over According to Balgit, Coleman Downtown Brooklyn, using BusTime 22,000 documents have been uploaded took his brother’s phone and texted and Waze. “He was very kind, com- by applicants via TLC UP, and 90% them, “You just f***ing call the cops, petent, and helpful,” Stephanie told the have been reviewed and accepted by TLC about the great service Mr. Nour the TLC. We look forward to making provided. our licensing processes easier and more When Stephanie recognized the convenient, and appreciate the feedback NYS DMV Point System driver from her bus trip, she learned we have received so far about the ease had her bag at the front of the bus with of use of TLC UP. Speeding (mph over posted limit) him for safekeeping. We were gratifi ed Access-a-Ride 1to10...3points to hear that Stephanie was able to fi nd Over the summer, the MTA board the missing bag, and we commend Mr. approved a one-year test and evalua- 11 to 20 . . 4 points Nour for his outstanding service. tion program to dispatch Access-a-Ride Paying Our Respects to a Long- (AAR) trips to yellow and green taxis us- 21 to 30 . . 6 points time Driver ing the Curb app. This approval followed 31 to 40 . . 8 points Last month, taxicab driver Mehari at least 35,000 successful AAR trips Bokrezion passed away in a taxi stand with TLC-licensed vehicles -- including More than 40 . . 11 points in Soho. Those who saw Mr. Bokrezion vehicles using the Curb app --- between thought he was resting, but he had left late 2016 and July 2017. The pilot con- Reckless Driving ....5points this world for about eighteen hours tract calls for about 1,000 Access-a-Ride Failure to stop for a School Bus .5points before he was discovered. According trips daily being completed with taxis to media reports, Mr. Bokrezion and through the Curb app over the course of Following too closely (tailgating) 4 points his family were originally from Eri- the year. Drivers receive a metered fare trea, and he had friends from the fl eet for the completed trip. We anticipate the Inadequate Brakes ..4points Susan Maintenance that came from all use of taxis providing greater fl exibility, (while driving employer's vehicle)2 points over the world. The City was a better effi ciency, and mobility for paratransit place for the time Mr. Bokrezion spent riders, and greatly appreciate the work Failing to Yield Right-Of-Way...3points as a professional driver. We share our of TLC-licensed drivers in providing deepest condolences with his family, these trips. Violation Involving Traffic Signal, and thank Mr. Bokrezion for his years FHV Accessibility Hearing Stop Sign, or Yield Sign ...3points of service to the riding public, doing his If you haven’t yet heard, we will be part to help more than one million New talking about enhanced accessibility Railroad Crossing Violation3 points Yorkers and other visitors to our City in the For-Hire Vehicle (FHV) sec- get safely home each day. tor in a public hearing this month on Improper Passing or Lane Use ..3points FYI, the NY Times had a very infor- September 28. You can learn about the Leaving scene of an incident involving property mative piece about Mr. Bokrezion’s life rules the TLC has proposed here: http:// “Call Sunny& Save Money” and memorial service, which really reads www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/downloads/pdf/ damage or injury to an animal .. 3points like the tribute he deserved: https://www. proposed_req_wheelchair_accessibil- nytimes.com/2017/08/17/nyregion/ ity_6_30_17.pd. Safety restraint violation involving person family-remembers-cabby-dead-for-18- As always, we look forward to hear- under 16 .3points hours-in-taxi.html?_r=0 ing your input and seeing you there. Gratitude to NYPD Until next time… drive like your Any other moving violation 2 points The NYPD recently made an arrest family lives here! Note: Speeding when speed not indicated is 3 points PAGE 16 • TAXI INSIDER • SEPTEMBER 2017 Your Medallion Headquarters ! LOMTO Generation Brokerage, Inc. TAXI and BLACK CAR INSURANCE SPECIALISTS ——And Medallion Transfer, Inc. Licensed TLC Broker #R0018 · Insuring the For Hire Industry - Taxi & Black Car · Providing You Service the Way It Should Be - FAST & COURTEOUS · Convenient Mid-Town Location - Hack Stand In Front of Office · Medallion Sales, Leasing, and Financing · Over 25 Years of Industry Experience

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Other horses entered included nally, the gate opened and my horse trip to Saratoga Springs, there for the action, the stakes winners and stakes quality exploded out of there as if shot out of New York is usually the betting, the cheering, the runners. This was not an easy spot. a cannon. He was in stride very early tonic for what ails me. ups and downs of win- Nonetheless, I was juiced. The race and the only question became was he As famed NY Herald ning and losing. I have was carded for the 8th race and my going too fast. As he hit the half mile Tribune and NY Times also owned very small horse was listed at 7-2 morning line mark in this 6 1/2 furlong race, the columnist, Red Smith, pieces of horses includ- odds, maybe third choice among the timer says 44.59 and the six furlong once said, “you drive ing one that recently ran early oddsmakers. I got more juiced. mark is 1:09, stakes quality. And he north for about 175 in Saratoga. My wife and One of the perks of being an owner still had the lead. In my heart, I know miles, turn left on Union Avenue and I planned a few days up in Saratoga is the chance to enter the paddock he had run too fast too early in this go back 100 years.” The county fair in late July, and as luck would have where the horses are saddled and race to win, but still, he ran a hell of atmosphere of the track’s grounds is it, my horse was carded for a big step shown to the crowd. Free parking a race finishing fourth as he faded in the first thing that becomes appar- up in class in a stakes race. His prior and free entrance are other perks. mid stretch. Never in my life was I so ent, from the red and white awnings start was a win in a starters allowance I’ve been in the paddock at Belmont, enthused by a loss. The horse ran his to the musical groups playing New race in which he won in impressive but the number of people in the pad- eyeballs out and had the race been 6 Orleans style jazz in between races. fashion and a quick time. Since I’ve dock at Saratoga was astounding for furlongs, he would have won easily. Words on a page don’t do justice to the never owned a piece of a horse at that a race of this caliber. It got me juiced Grandiosity got the better of me as I senses one experiences upon entering level, this was cause for much excite- up even further. As the horses were had thoughts of the Breeders Cup in the gates on Nelson Avenue. I have ment for me. My heart was beating a paraded around, time seemed to pass November in Del Mar, California. I likened it to the moment when I first little faster and my smile was quite a very quickly, until the man in charge was pumped. entered the Polo Grounds or Yankee bit wider. The day before the race was said, “riders up.” At that, the jockeys The next day, as I prepared to walk Stadium and saw the great expanse of to be run, word came from the trainer mounted their horses with the help over to the track, the e-mail pinged my ballpark and green grass. The “blue that the horse would be scratched, of their trainers and headed towards phone. The horse had torn a tendon blood” ladies in their formal attire would not run the race as it appeared the track. My horse looked ready and was done racing, though he will and hats alongside their men in busi- he was not training in top form, ac- to roll. survive. The thrill he gave me will ness suits must be owners of horses cording to the trainer. The emotional My friend and I went inside the last a lifetime, and the dream of a or guests of owners. The young girls roller coaster of thoroughbred horse old building which has been in place top shelf horse was only made more in skirts so small and tight attempt to racing had commenced. since 1863 to watch the race as thou- powerful by his effort. So, next sum- walk easily in their impossibly high We enjoyed our few days in Sara- sands of others have done. This time, mer, when I make my way through heels. And then there’s guys like me, toga anyway. The handicapping at the we watched from where the other the Nelson Avenue gates, maybe I’ll merely a small bit player in the overall track was difficult, but the restaurants owners hung out, which, by the way, have another horse who can compete race track scheme of things. in town were excellent and varied so was very convivial. We root for all at the top of the sport’s levels. If not, When Oscar Katz, one of the we were able to enjoy ourselves in any to come home safely, and if I can’t just being there is good enough. patriarchs of the taxi industry, was case. Later in the summer, I would be running Amalgamated Federal Credit returning as a guest of a friend who Union, he was known to cruise the rents an apartment near the track and parking lots of Aqueduct and Belmont close to downtown Saratoga. The race tracks in search of taxi owners fact that this would be Travers week who spent their afternoons gambling. made it even more appetizing. Travers These medallion numbers were added Day in Saratoga is the highlight of to the list of medallion owners who the racing season, the Travers Stakes Dragonfl y A Millennial Saved $100,000 With This Simple Habit Graphics llc. 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Meadows was writing about net Examples of assets include the worth for work when he became curi- money in your bank and investment ous about his own. He computed his accounts, as well as the value of pos- net worth only to fi nd it was a negative (Continued on Page 18) PAGE 18 • TAXI INSIDER • SEPTEMBER 2017 Daus Offering, by continuing to subsidize likely that all manufacturers will have ers. The increased safety options will driver earnings and fares to increase them, so there will be a level playing minimize risks and lead to benefits (Continued from Page 14) market share. The failure to do so, field (TNCs, taxis and FHVs will on insurance sooner rather than later. to a car. AVs could potentially help with billions in losses mounting, could all have the option to increase their Only time will tell when, where and people who are visually impaired or lead to Uber losing market share, and profit margins by not having drivers). how, but these are exciting times in- have certain physical disabilities. may fuel the rise of other TNCs or a On the issue of insurance, CVs and deed, and AV/CV technology issues However, fully autonomous vehicles comeback of the incumbent taxi and higher levels of automation are likely will eventually work themselves out may turn out to be inaccessible for for-hire industries. to prompt significant reduction in – but not as quickly as the media and wheelchair passengers. Once you In the mid-term (between 3 and 5 insurance premiums and new insur- private tech companies say or would remove the driver, who is there to years from now), more AV testing may ance products that may benefit the like. So, mothers everywhere need assist passengers in wheelchairs? lead to partnerships where certain independent contractor driver, with not worry about their children driving So what does it all mean for the select players, like TNCs and car shar- product liability for AV defects and with “no hands” anytime soon, and taxicab and for-hire ground trans- ing companies, may begin deploying other new forms of insurance being for-hire drivers can breathe a sigh of portation industry? In my view, not AVs before the widespread sale of purchased potentially by transporta- relief that their jobs will be there for much right now in terms of labor personal AVs to the general public. tion companies or auto manufactur- a long time to come. displacement or other major changes. However, for-hire or car-sharing However, the business relationships, (i.e. Car2Go) AV deployment would underlying economics/fi nancing and probably be limited to restricted Man Found Guilty Of Murdering lawsuits involving AV players could lanes or geographic areas, and not have a profound impact on the viabil- likely in dense urban environments Merced Taxi Cab Driver ity of the smartphone app transporta- where taxis and FHVs thrive. We It only took an hour for the jury and they plan to file an appeal after tion companies in the market. In the are more likely to first see AV buses to come to a verdict and end one sentencing. short-term (next few years), the race and freight vehicles platooning on family’s two year wait for justice. “He still expresses his innocence to develop and patent AV designs/in- special highway lanes, and at con- Joseph Castrillo was found guilty of in this, but we respect the jury and ventions has more to do with securing fined areas such as airport premises, first degree murder for killing Merced go from here,” said Defense Attorney intellectual property rights now than Disney, universities and retirement taxi driver Dean Barker in 2015. Michael Coughlin. with actually mass manufacturing or communities. AV technology will be Castrillo was charged with the Some members of Castrillo’s fam- using AVs right away. For example, here very quickly, with safe vehicles crime shortly after him and another ily claim his former stepmom was the lawsuit against Uber by Waymo, if that work well, but the ability for the man, Dante Woods, called Barker’s lying when she testified, and said it halts Uber’s AV program, could be a multitude of federal, state and local cab company for a ride. Attorneys the jury did not take long enough to huge blow to Uber’s ability to compete agencies to get on the same page to said Castrillo then shot Barker in the decide on the verdict. against incumbent and new ground deploy them right away, will be chal- head three times. Castrillo’s grandmother Vicky transportation players. Uber is likely lenging. We may get to levels 3 or 4 Woods testified he saw Castrillo Zepeda said, “Joseph is not a cold counting on increasing or justifying in less than 10 years for all vehicles pull out the gun and shoot barker. blooded murder-- far from it, they its company valuation by landing the on the road, but getting to that last Castrillo’s former stepmom also took have the wrong person.” patent rights to its prototype vehicle level of removing the driver, will the stand claiming Castrillo came to The Barker family was emotional (as well as ensuing manufacturing and be a long stretch. So taxicab, TNC her apartment after the shooting and after the hearing and said they are glad related business deals). This would and for-hire drivers losing their jobs was bragging about the murder. this part of their tragedy is over. help Uber to raise more private capital will not happen for a very long time. 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As Once the sun set, people showed up Medical Services showed up and basketball court in SoHo in Manhat- an independent contractor, he could for Jimmy’s, but it was a slow night, broke the car’s window and unlocked tan, beneath a sign that told cabbies drive as little or as much as he wanted. so there wasn’t a line. Down the street, the door. The police arrived. they could park for an hour and get Mr. Bokrezion chose to never work karaoke fans smoked cigarettes. Mr. Lambert drove over from some relief. He closed his eyes. Soon, weekends. He picked up a taxi in the The night shift left; the day shift Brooklyn. “Even myself, seeing her, he took his last breath. morning, and almost always turned it arrived. Mr. Ahmed walked by about seeing her around the cab, it was so The life of the city went on around in before 10 p.m. 3:30 a.m. to set up his food cart for the painful,” he said. “Such a painful thing Mr. Bokrezion, an Eritrean immigrant Other taxi drivers said Mr. Bokr- morning rush. He saw Mr. Bokrezion, to witness.” who was 59 and who had driven a ezion was the kind of friend who called but thought nothing of it. The authorities covered Mr. Bokr- yellow taxi for the same company when they were on vacation, just to Franklin Lambert, 71, a taxi dis- ezion’s body and hung yellow caution for almost half his life. Commuters check in. When he spotted a fellow patcher, showed up at Susan taxis tape around the taxi stand. People spilled out of the Canal Street subway driver walking through Pennsylvania about 5 a.m. At some point in the next gathered on the sidewalk, the hotel station and walked past the taxi. Driv- Station, he sneaked up and joked that hour, Mr. Bokrezion’s wife called Mr. workers, the commuters. ers parked in front of him and behind he needed a ride to Brooklyn. (It’s Lambert and said her husband never But soon enough, the tape was him, stood on the sidewalk chatting, taxi-driver humor; civilians might not came home. Mr. Lambert checked the pulled down. The taxis returned. All and then left. Workers left the swanky understand.) taxi’s GPS unit and saw that the car that remained of Mr. Bokrezion’s Soho Grand Hotel after their shifts, Mr. Bokrezion, who lived in the had not moved for almost a day. And time was a small pile of broken glass. exiting through the employees’ en- West Village, often showed up hours he told Mr. Bokrezion’s wife where People walking by just fi gured that the trance, across the street from where before his shift, to chat with friends the cab was parked. glass was left from a petty crime, from Mr. Bokrezion sat. at the two yellow picnic tables in- She lived about a half-mile away. something stolen inside a car. Night fell. Down the street, the side the Susan taxi garage, which At around the same time, at 6:30 Reprinted with permission from fabulous showed their drivers’ licenses had moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn, a.m., a passer-by noticed Mr. Bokr- The Daily News. to get into Jimmy, the rooftop bar at from Manhattan. It was a mini-United the fancy James Hotel. And fi nally, Nations, with drivers and dispatchers on Wednesday morning, just after the from countries like Senegal, Morocco sun rose, about 18 hours after parking, and Haiti. Most frequently, the drivers Quoteable Mr. Bokrezion, known as a quiet, kind talked about how tough it was to earn man who never made a fuss at work, a living, with Uber looming over their was found. livelihoods. August was also a slow “It’s just so sad that so many people month. Mr. Bokrezion said it was hard Quotes walked by during the day, and no one to fi nd a fare. noticed,” said Ramsey Ahmed, 33, On Tuesday, he took the subway “It’s really nobody’s business where I sleep” and “I could go to my girl- who runs a nearby food cart. “It’s just to work like always. He checked with friend’s house or my wife’s house. That’s my personal business.” life in New York. Nobody really cares the company’s insurance coordinator, Keith Lilly, a district leader in Harlem after being accused of living outside about anyone besides themselves.” Tony Hou, on whether a friend’s driv- the district in violation of state law The discovery was made by his ing violation had been cleared. Mr. wife and brother, who had been wor- Bokrezion then called the friend, who ried about Mr. Bokrezion and traced was on vacation overseas. Was Your TLC License Suspended? his GPS device with the help of his ga- After getting a taxi, about 10 a.m., Maybe We Can Help! rage. His wife started crying, scream- he drove to where he liked to start the ing, pounding on the window. day: La Guardia Airport in Queens, Cabs always parked in a neat line where he often waited for a customer along the west side of the street, one for an hour. Mr. Bokrezion dropped of 38 taxi stands in Manhattan where his fare in TriBeCa, in Manhattan, drivers are allowed to rest for a short just down the street from the Tribeca time without risking a ticket. Drivers Grill. always took power naps. Sure, the Then Mr. Bokrezion drove less sign — “Taxi 1 Hour Limit Relief than a mile, to a neighborhood he Stand” —indicated that rules were knew well: The taxi stand on Thomp- supposed to be followed, but on this son Street near the former home of part of Thompson Street, which makes Susan taxis. an abrupt turn into Avenue of the The biggest buildings nearby were Americas instead of heading straight the two boutique hotels, the Soho into Canal Street, no one seems to Grand and the James, but the hotels’ have paid attention to the taxi that main entrances were on other sides. stayed a little longer. Down the street, a karaoke lounge Yet in some ways, Mr. Bokrezion’s advertised “a peaceful corner” on its long wait to be found was just another brown awning. example of how in this city of almost Mr. Bokrezion parked carefully. Call Or E-Mail.... 8.6 million, the most crowded in the His doors were locked. His windows country, minding one’s own business were rolled up, almost all the way, but is an art form. it was a pleasant day, in the mid-70s The Law Offi ce of Despite the crowds, New York can with scattered clouds. Mr. Bokrezion sometimes feel like the most isolat- was sitting up. To anyone walking by, ing place in the world, a city where he seemed to be sleeping. Dan Ackman a man spent as long as fi ve hours His cause of death would later be ruled riding the No. 1 subway line in 1999 natural, due to cardiovascular disease. Tel: 917-282-8178 before anyone realized that he, too, Throughout the day, people walked had died. past Mr. Bokrezion’s body, those E-Mail: [email protected] Mr. Bokrezion’s family members with hair appointments at Haute Air, could not be reached for this article. those with acupuncture appointments www.danackmanlaw.com At some point, his family moved from at Yupo Wellness, those just with 222 Broadway, NYC NY 10038 Eritrea to America. He joined the taxi someplace to be. Other taxi drivers PAGE 24 • TAXI INSIDER • SEPTEMBER 2017

TAXI AND FOR-HIRE VEHICLE RELIEF STANDS DOT is not responsible regulating taxis. Taxis are regulated by the New York LETTERS City Taxi and Limousine Commission. DOT does regulate taxi relief stands Taxi relief stands allow drivers to park their vehicles for up to one hour. This affords drivers the opportunity to leave their vehicles and take care of personal needs. Taxi relief stands should not be confused with taxi stands, which are (Continued from Page 8) locations where drivers can wait, in their cars, to pick up passengers. Bail out management & doormen) don’t real- The type column indicates if the relief stand is for taxis alone, or both taxis ize the potential legal trouble that you Dear Taxi Dave, and For-Hire Vehicles (FHVs). Staten Island currently has no relief stands. are putting your hotel and jobs on the Yellow cab drivers are going through BRONX line by giving fares to these black cars a quick sand. Daily income is down TYPE LOCATION CROSS STREET waiting outside that haven’t had prior 30%. Ask your guest what is a chance Taxi Jerome Ave. (E. Side) Eliot Pl. & E. 170th St. reservations. that New York State to bail us out? Taxi Metropolitan Ave. (N. Side) Purdy St. & Red Oak Dr. I understand that the doormen want Giving us a loan at 2.5% to pay back to make money when these drivers offer the mortgage on the medallion? MANHATTAN EAST SIDE ABOVE 23RD STREET them $5-$10 or more for passengers but Thanx. Taxis E.77th St.(N. Side) First & Second Aves. it takes one accident and lawsuit, which Hakw Taxis E. 86th St. (N. Side) Henderson Pl. & York Ave. I hope happens soon. Taxis E. 78th Street (N. Side) Lexington & Third Ave. For example, if you want a cab to Taxis E. 78th St. (S. Side) Lexington & Third Ave. Uber go to airport and doorman gets u into Taxis & FHVs E. 29th St. (S. Side) Madison & Fifth Ave. Dear Taxi Dave, Taxis E. 27th St. (N. Side) Park Ave. S. & Madison Ave. Uber is a mendacious scam perpe- a black car and that driver whether it’s Taxis & FHVs E.28th St. (N. Side) Park Av. S. & Lexington Ave. trated on the public, but particularly on his fault or not gets into an accident Taxis & FHVs Madison Ave. (W. Side) E. 26th & 27th St. the drivers, turning them into sharecrop- and your injured. Who do u go after? Taxis E. 26th Street (S. Side) Third & Second Aves. pers, while creating such incredible You can try to go after the drivers base, congestion in Manhattan, that now the whether it’s an app company or private MANHATTAN WEST SIDE ABOVE 23RD STREET drumbeat has begun again for Conges- company but you will lose because they Taxis W. 55th St. (S. Side) Tenth & Eleventh Aves. tion Pricing. This is what 80,000+Plus will say you never reserved the car with Taxis & FHVs Sixth Ave. (W.Side) W. 55th & 56th Sts. App Cars looks like, New York. Bon them and they aren’t liable. So you go Taxis & FHVs Eighth Ave. (E. Side) W. 52nd & 53rd Sts. Appetitie, suckers. after the driver and his insurance. Most Taxis Broadway (E. Side) W. 48th & 47th Sts. Chip likely the driver has nothing to offer Taxis Eighth Ave. (W. Side) W. 46th & 47th Sts. you and his insurance will probably Taxis & FHVs Sixth Ave. (W. Side) W. 39th & 40th Sts. not pay out as much as you’d like be- Taxis & FHVs Sixth Ave. (W. Side) W. 38th & 39th Sts. Taxi Stand cause they too will say he wasn’t hired Taxis Broadway (E. Side) W. 43rd & 42nd Sts. Dear Taxi Dave, through the base. So if your lucky you Taxis Ninth Ave. (E. Side) W. 42nd & 41st Sts. We need a taxi stand 37th and fi rst might get away with peanuts or atleast Taxis West 39th St. (S. Side) Eighth & Ninth Aves. Avenue north east corner lots of people medical payments. The best option is Taxis Ninth Ave. (E. Side) W. 30th & 29th Sts. in the morning get off the boats and they to go after hotel because they put you walk down 37th St. the cabs hover over into that car. I guarantee you the hotel MANHATTAN BELOW 23RD STREET there to wait for a fare. won’t want any bad publicity and pay Taxis E. 23rd St. First & Second Aves. Veteran Cabbie out. Especially the big hotels. Taxis & FHVs Sixth Ave. (W. Side) W. 22nd & 23rd Sts. Could someone please forward Taxis Third Ave. (W. Side) E. 14th & 15th Sts. Hotel this to all hotel/motel management Taxis & FHVs Third Ave. (W. Side) E. 15th & 14th Sts. & doormen. Is your hotel & jobs that Taxis & FHVs Sixth Ave. (W. Side) W.13th & 14th Sts. Management unimportant that you’d risk your guest Taxis Sixth Ave. (W. Side) Thompson & Grand Sts. To hotel management; lives on making a few extra bucks? Taxis & FHVs Canal St. (N. Side) E. Broadway & Essex St. I’d like to know how you (the hotel Tommy Taxis Park Row (SE. Side) Ann & Beekman Sts. Taxis & FHVs Fulton St. (S. Side) Broadway & Church St. Photo By David Pollack Taxis & FHVs South St. (N. Side) Old Slip & Broad St. Taxis & FHVs Water St. (W. Side) Whitehall & Broad Sts. Taxis Whitehall St. (W. Side) South & State Sts, Taxi Avenue A & First Street NE Corner

BROOKLYN Taxis N. Sixth St. (N. Side) Berry St. & Wythe Ave. Taxis Fourth Ave. (W. Side) Third & Sixth Sts.

QUEENS Taxis & FHVs 43rd Ave. (N. side) 11th & 12th Sts. Taxis 44th Rd. (N. Side) 21st & 11th Sts. Taxis & FHVs Hunterspoint Ave. 27th & 30th Sts. Taxis 31st St. (W. Side) 34th & 35th Aves. Taxis & FHVs 43rd Ave. 36th & 37th Sts. Taxis 34th St. (W. Side) 37th & 38th Aves. Taxis Skillman Ave. 37th & 36th Sts. Taxis Queens Blvd. (S. Side) 50th & 51st Sts. Taxis Queens Blvd. 55th & 54th Sts. Taxis & FHVs 45th Ave. (S. side) Jackson Ave. & 23rd St. Taxis & FHVs Pearson St. (W. Side) Jackson Ave. & dead end Taxis 49th St. Newtown Rd & Northern Blvd. Taxis 55th St. Queens Blvd & Roosevelt Ave. Taxis Van Dam St. Queens Blvd & Skillman Ave. Taxis & FHVs 36th St. Skillman & 43rd Aves. 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 2017 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 25 Fall Brings Art Back To The Park Odds and Ends As 100 Artists Participate In The Photos By David Pollack 87th Annual Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit Beginning Labor Day Weekend

Hard to believe that fall is almost versity Place starting on East 13th upon us! But with that, comes the 87th St. and continuing south to Waverly annual fall show of the Washington Place and the corner of Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit, this year Square Park. This is a sidewalk show featuring 100 artists and artisans. and is free to the public. Viewing All types of art and crafts will be and selling hours are noon to 6 pm on display and on sale directly from each day. the artists themselves, and this year This sidewalk show all began back will even feature hand blown glass. in the spring of 1931 when Jackson There’s something for everyone! Pollack, in need of rent money, Kick off your fall with art! One brought several of his works down a hundred exhibitors, including 14 few flights of stairs from his Green- new artists and artisans, will return wich Village studio to the sidewalk to the sidewalks around Washington near Washington Square Park. His Square Park to showcase and sell their friend and fellow Greenwich Village works directly to the public at the artist Willem de Kooning, equally 87th annual Fall Show of the Wash- in need of funds, soon joined him. ington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit While no one knows how many paint- (WSOAE). One of New York City’s ings they sold that day, several art most eclectic and beloved outdoor world luminaries such as Gertrude events, the WSOAE takes place Labor Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Day weekend, September 2, 3, 4 and Whitney Museum of Art, and Alfred the following weekend, September H. Barr, Jr., Director of the Museum of 9 and 10, drawing thousands of art Modern Art took notice. They helped lovers each year. Each exhibitor is organize what has grown to become selected by a jury of fellow artists a beloved, twice a year (spring and to ensure consistency of quality and fall) New York City institution. diversity. For many artists, this event DETAILS: Washington Square is a staple of their year and famed Outdoor Art Exhibit, Inc. - Fall Show artists such as Ben Georgia, Richard - www.WSOAE.org Stalter and Susan Grisell are among DATES: September 2, 3 and 4 the noteworthy names who have (Sat., Sun., Mon.) and September 9 been featured in the show for over and 10 (Sat. and Sun.) 20 years each. All registered artists TIMES: Noon to 6pm each day. are eligible to participate in several COST: Free to the Public award categories by medium and LOCATION: University Place “Best In Show.” starting on E. 13th and continuing Everything from painting, pho- south to the east side of the park to tography, sculpture, jewelry, glass, West 3rd Street. The southern end woodworking, ceramics, fiber, mixed of the show encompasses Schwartz media and even hand blown glass will Plaza between NYU’s Shimkin Hall be on display and on sale straight and Bobst Library. from the artists themselves. It’s a wonderful event that brings together the art community as well as a diverse group of attendees including art lov- ers, tourists, faculty, students and anyone with an appreciation of art. The variety of fine artists exhibiting ensures that there is something avail- able for everyone! The show will take place at Uni- PAGE 26 • TAXI INSIDER • SEPTEMBER 2017

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Maritime Hotel Ramada New Yorker Hotel Dear Readers of TaxiInsider, 363 W 16th Street at 9th Avenue 481 8th Avenue at 34th Street Drivers always tell me that they cannot know the location of every hotel in Manhattan. A lot of work went into the list of Manhattan Hotels below. Drivers, Marriott Financial Center Hotel Renaissance Hotel please send Taxi Insider any corrections or additional hotels not mentioned. 85 West Street 714 7th Avenue at 48th Street between Albany & Carlisle Streets Also, when you are finished reading this issue of Taxi Insider, do not throw this Regency Hotel newspaper in the garbage, give it to another taxi driver ! Thank you ! Marriott East Side Hotel 540 Park Avenue at 61st Street 525 Lexington Avenue 60 Thompson Street between 6th & 7th Avenues 157 W 47th Street between 48th & 49th Street Roger Smith Hotel Between Broome and Spring Streets between 6th & 7th Avenues 501 Lexington Avenue at 47th Street Comfort Inn New York Hotel Marriott Marquis Hotel Algonquin Hotel 442 W 36th Street Hampton Inn 1535 Broadway at 44thStreet Roger Williams Hotel 59 W 44th Street between 10th & Dyer Avenues Times Square Hotel 131 Madison Avenue at 31st Street between 5th & 6th Avenues 851 8th Avenue at 51st Street Mayfair Hotel Courtyard Manhattan 5th Avenue 242 W 49th Street Roosevelt Hotel Americana Inn Hotel 3 E 40th Street Hampton Inn SoHo between 7th & 8th Avenues 45 E 45th Street at Madison Avenue 69 W 38th Street between Madison & 5th Avenues 54 Watts St between 5th & 6th Avenues (near Varick St) Metro Hotel Salisbury Hotel Courtyard Midtown East Hotel 45 W 35th Street 123 W 57th Street Ameritania Hotel 866 3rd Avenue Helmsley Carlton House Hotel between 5th & 6th Avenues between 6th & 7th Avenues 230 W 54th Street at Broadway between 51st & 52nd Streets 680 Madison Ave between 61st & 62nd Sts. Doubletree Metropolitan Hotel San Carlos Hotel Amsterdam Inn Hotel Courtyard Times Square Hotel 569 Lexington Avenue at 51st Street 150 E 50th Street 340 Amsterdam Avenue 114 W 40th Street Helmsley Middletowne Hotel between 3rd & Lexington Avenues at W 76th St. between 6th & 7th Avenues 148 E 48th Street Michelangelo Hotel between Lexington & Park Aves. 152 W 51st Street Sheraton Manhattan Hotel Beacon Hotel Crowne Plaza Times Square Hotel between 6th & 7th Avenues 790 Seventh Avenue 2130 Broadway at 75th Street 1605 Broadway Helmsley Park Lane Hotel between 51st & 52nd Streets between 49th & 50th Streets 36 Central Park South Milford Plaza Hotel Belvedere Hotel between 5th & 6th Avenues 270 W 45th Street at 8th Avenue Sheraton New York Hotel 319 W 48th Street Crowne Plaza UN Hotel 811 Seventh Avenue between 8th & 9th Avenues 304 E 42nd Street Hilton Garden Inn Time Square Millenium Hilton Hotel between 52nd & 53rd Streets between 1st & 2nd Avenues 790 8th Avenue 55 Church Street Benjamin Hotel between 48th & 49th Streets between Fulton & Day Streets Sheraton Russell Hotel 125 E 50th Street at York Avenue Doubletree Times Square Hotel 45 Park Avenue at 37th Street 1568 Broadway Hilton New York Hotel Millennium Broadway Hotel Bentley Hotel between 47th & 48th Streets 1335 6th Avenue 145 W 44th Street Sherry Netherland Hotel 500 E 62nd Street at York Avenue between 53rd & 54th Streets between 6th & 7th Aves 781 5th Avenue at 59th Street Edison Hotel Best Western 228 W 47th Street Hilton Times Square Hotel Millennium UN Plaza Hotel Shoreham Hotel Convention Center Hotel between 7th & 8th Avenues 234 W 42nd Street 1 United Nations Plaza 33 W 55th Street 522 W 38th Street between 7th & 8th Avenues at 1st Avenue & 44th Street between 5th & 6th Avenues between 10th & 11th Avenues Elysee Hotel 60 E 54th Street Holiday Inn Murray Hill East Suites Hotel Skyline Hotel Best Western Hospitality House between Park & Madison Avenues Downtown Hotel 149 E 39th Street 725 Tenth Avenue at 49th Street 145 E 49th Street 138 Lafayette Street between 3rd & Lexington Avenues between 3rd & Lexington Avenues Embassy Suites Hotel between Howard & Canal Streets Sofi tel Hotel 102 North End Ave. Murray Hill Inn Hotel 45 W 44th Street Best Western President Hotel World Financial Center, Manhattan Holiday Inn Martinique Hotel 143 E 30th Street between 5th & 6th Avenues 234 W 48th Street Broadway & W 32nd Street between Lexington & Park Avenues between 7th & 8th Avenues Fairfi eld Inn & Suites Chelsea- SoHo Grand Hotel 116 W. 28th St Holiday Inn Midtown Hotel Muse Hotel 310 W Broadway Best Western Seaport Inn Hotel (near 6th Ave) 440 W 57th Street 130 W 46th Street between Canal & Grand Streets 33 Peck Slip at Front Street between 9th & 10th Avenues between 6th & 7th Aves. Four Points Manhattan SoHo- Solita SoHo Hotel Bryant Park Hotel 66 Charlton St. Holiday Inn Wall Street Hotel Palace Hotel 159 Grand St 40 W 40th Street (near Spring St) 15 Gold Street at Platt Street 455 Madison Avenue between 5th & 6th Avenues between 50th & 51st Streets St. Regis Hotel Fairfi eld Inn & Suites Times Square Hudson Hotel 2 E 55th Street at 5th Avenue Carlyle Hotel 330 W. 40th St 356 W 58th Street Novotel Hotel 35 E 76th Street (near 9th Ave) Between 8th & 9th Avenues 226 W 52nd Street Travel Inn Hotel between Madison & 5th Avenues between 7th & 8th Avenues 515 W 42nd Street Fairfi eld Inn & Suites Fifth Avenue Inter-Continental Barclay Hotel between 7th & 8th Avenues Carnegie Suites Hotel 21 W. 37th St 111 E 48th Street Paramount Hotel 229 W 58th Street between Lexington 235 W 46th Street TriBeCa Grand Hotel between 7th & 8th Avenues Four Points Sheraton Chelsea Hotel Park Avenues between 7th & 8th Avenues 2 6th Avenue 160 W. 25th Street between White & Walker Streets Casablanca Hotel between 6th & 7th Avenues Iroquois Hotel Park Central Hotel 147 W 43rd Street 49 W 44th Street 870 7th Avenue at 56th Street Trump International Hotel between 6th & 7th Avenues Four Points Midtown Times Square between 5th & 6th Avenues 1 Central Park West 326 W. 40th St (near 9th Ave) Park Savoy Hotel at Columbus Circle Chelsea Hotel JW Marriott Millennium 158 E 58th Street 222 W 23rd Street Four Seasons Hotel 160 Central Park South between 6th & 7th Avenues W Court Hotel between 7th & 8th Avenues 57 E 57th Street between 6th & 7th Avenues. 130 E 39th Street between Park & Madison Aves. Peninsula Hotel between Lexington & Park Avenues Chelsea Savoy Hotel Kitano Hotel 700 5th Avenue at 55th Street 204 W 23rd Street Flatotel International Hotel 66 Park Avenue at 37th Street W New York Hotel between 7th & 8th Avenues 135 W 52nd Street Pennsylvania Hotel 541 Lexington Avenue at 49th Street between 6th & 7th Avenues La Quinta Manhattan Hotel 401 7th Avenue Chelsea Star Hotel 17 W 32nd Street between 32nd & 33rd Streets Waldorf Astoria Hotel 300 W 30th Street at 8th Avenue Gramercy Park Hotel between 5th & 6th Avenues 301 Park Avenue 2 Lexington Avenue at 21st Street Pierre Hotel between 49th & 50th Streets Comfort Inn Central Park Hotel Le Parker Meridien Hotel 2 E 61st Street at 5th Avenue 31 W 71st Street between Grand Hyatt New York Hotel 118 W 57th Street Warwick Hotel Central Park West & Columbus Ave. Park Avenue & 42nd street between 6th & 7th Avenues Plaza Hotel 65 W 54th Street at 6th Avenue 768 5th Avenue at Central Park South Comfort Inn Manhattan Hotel Grand Union Hotel Lucerne Hotel Westin NEw York Grand Central 42 W 35th Street 34 E 32nd Street 201 W 79th Street at Plaza Athenee Hotel 212 E 42nd Street between 5th & 6th Avenue between Park & Madison Avenues Amsterdam Avenue 37 E 64th Street between 2nd & 3rd Avenues between Madison & 5th Avenues Comfort Inn Midtown Hotel (Hampshire Hotel) Manhattan Broadway Hotel 129 W 46th Street Quality Times Square Hotel 273 W 38th Street Radio City Suites Hotel 142 W 49th Street SEPTEMBER 2017 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 27

TLC Lic. #A0329 PAGE 28 • TAXI INSIDER • SEPTEMBER 2017 green taxis. maintenance and repairs. It provides How Uber Could Help Forcing giants like Uber and Lyft nearly $100 million per year to help to pay their fair share would provide support our subways, buses and Fix The Subways a simple and sustainable way of railways. It’s no secret that Uber and By David Pollack generating hundreds of millions of other ride-hail companies are taking dollars for subway repairs over the passengers away from the yellow and Ride-hail companies should collect the same years to come. green taxis that provide much-needed 50-cent-per-trip MTA surcharge that taxis do It would not be a silver bullet, but support to the MTA. This means that it represents the kind of all-hands- the companies are boosting their own The disrepair afflicting New York getting creative to generate revenue on-deck approach that New Yorkers profits by shortchanging the MTA. City’s subways is rightly prompting for subway maintenance. need at a time when so many are It is only fair that Uber and Lyft are angry rebukes from straphangers who For example, the MTA would add struggling to see a light at the end held to the same standards as the want to know why the system is fail- tens of millions of dollars to its cof- of the subway tunnel. rest of the industry and make up that ing so badly. While it is tempting to fers each year if it made Uber and The MTA surcharge, first insti- deficiency. blame funding shortfalls, the reality other ride-hail companies pay the tuted in 2009, gives 50 cents from Uber and other transportation is that the Metropolitan Transporta- same 50-cent-per-trip surcharge that every yellow and green taxi fare network companies have never paid tion Authority has done a poor job of it collects from the city’s yellow and directly to the MTA for mass transit this surcharge. They pay sales tax instead and have long argued to keep it that way. But there are two huge reasons why that tax does not do nearly as much to help our city’s subway system. First, unlike the surcharge paid by taxis, sales tax goes into the state’s general coffers, not to the MTA. The reality is that only a small fraction of those taxes can even be used to sup- port mass transit. At a time of crisis, this is simply not the kind of approach that New Yorkers are looking for from their city and state officials. Second, because not all sales tax goes to the MTA, each Uber and Lyft trip does not generate nearly as much as a taxi trip to help fund the subway. MTA Chief Financial Officer Robert Owned and Operated by Foran has said that the average Uber fare would have to skyrocket to $133 the Greenbaum Family for 50 Years for the sales tax to generate as much money for the MTA as the taxi sur- charge does. Let’s not forget that Uber is valued Register at: www.PearlandNY.com at around $70 billion—more than four times the MTA’s 2017 operating “Because Life is Too Short To Waste Time and Lose $” budget—and Lyft is valued at over $7 billion and quickly growing. It is SAVE TIME & $ by Using absurd to think that these companies Your Cell Phone, Tablet, or Computer to: cannot afford to hand over 50 cents per ride to support mass transit, just as taxis have been doing for years. • View your current bill Last year, Uber celebrated 100 million trips in New York City—but • Pay by credit or debit card it might as well have celebrated tak- ing millions of dollars away from a subway system that is falling apart • Pay by E-check/ACH for FREE! with each passing day. EMAIL US at City and state officials have the [email protected] • Request Policy Changes to power to change that now. They Change Drivers or Change Address, etc. must act by requiring Uber, Lyft and companies like them to finally pay the MTA surcharge and help fix the • View your documents transit infrastructure they have been shortchanging for far too long. • Even set up recurring payments David Pollack is president of the Taxicab Service Association, an as- sociation of credit union lenders that Main Offi ce (LIC) finance yellow taxi medallions. 36-01 43rd Avenue • Long Island City, NY 11101 Tel: (718) 361-0033 • Fax: (718) 361-2549

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16 Spectacular throughout PS1’s exhibit halls and Museums along Museum Mile (Continued from Page 36) outdoor dome, and you can bet the El Museo del Barrio at 104th Street people watching will be on point as Museum of the City of New York at 103rd Street songwriter David Moore is beauty well. If you’re looking to get back Jewish Museum at 92nd Street distilled to its essence. Moore com- in touch with the cool kids, grab Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design at 91st Street poses, records, and tours under the your top 3 favorite totes and get to National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts at 89th Street name Bing and Ruth. A favorite of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum at 88th Street Queens. Metropolitan Museum of Art from 82nd to 86th Streets WNYC and Pitchfork (along with Fair runs Friday, September 22 Goethe House German Cultural Center at 82nd Street Gothamist), Bing and Ruth’s sound 1-7 p.m.; Saturday, September 23 takes a path between Brian Eno, 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.; Sunday, September Other Museums Philip Glass, Brad Mehldau, and 24, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. // MoMA PS1, The Museum of American Finance, the nation’s only independent public ... Museum Nils Frahm; piano motifs swell as 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island of American Finance, 48 Wall Street they gradually distort and morph African Burial Ground - corners of Duane and Elk Streets City, Queens // Free Entry. American Folk Art Museum 45 W. 53rd St. from minor to major. Emotions rise 15. Stay out late and get weird at American Museum of Natural History 77th St Central Park West like towering waves only to crash New York’s greatest festival of all Children’s Museum of the Arts 250 Lafayette St # A, softly as ripples. This sonic ocean things drag. Bushwig is back for an- Children’s Museum of the Arts will flood the basement of Le Pois- other year and will serve up 48 hours Free Art Island Outpost Program at Governors Island son Rouge as Bing and Ruth plays of gender-bending fashion, live Harbor Defense Museum - 230 Sheridan Loop, Brooklyn a rare live show. shows, and dance routines as filthy Italian American Museum-155 Mulberry St Wednesday, September 20th, Kehila Kedosha Jania Museum-280 Broome St and fabulous queen contestants vie Luxce Project 53 Stanton St 6 p.m. // Le Poisson Rouge, 158 for the top slot. The party is return- The Morgan Library and Museum-225 Madison Ave. Bleecker Street, Manhattan // Tick- ing to the Knockdown center, which Museum of Chinese In America-211 Centre St ets $15-20. last year proved itself to be an ideal Museum of Jewish Heritage- Holocaust 13. Carrying the same torch his spot for the ever-growing party. Now Edmond J. 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Don’t be Poets House - Ten River Terrace his Egypt 80 ensemble to Brooklyn seen without a proper wig and some Queens Museum of Art-49th Ave. and 111th St. Bowl for a night of jams that push lashes, darlings. (P.S. keep an eye Rubin Museum of Art-150 West 17th Street way beyond the 10-minute mark. Skyscraper Museum - 39 Battery Place out for afterparties!) South Street Seaport Museum - 12 Fulton Street Seun’s music is your best chance Saturday and Sunday, September at traveling back to the Old Afrika 23rd and 24th, 1 p.m. -- 11 p.m // Shrine, where Fela and his players Knockdown Center, 52-19 Flushing would tear through sets that lasted Avenue, Queens // Tickets $30-65. Broadway Off through the night and long into the 16. Earlier this year, pioneering next day. It’s impossible to duplicate emo goofballs Cap’n Jazz announced Shows Broadway that old magic, but this is still going they’d be reuniting (again) for an to be one hell of a show. eight-date tour, including one show (Continued from Page 37) Shows Wednesday, September 20th, 6 at new venue Brooklyn Steele. This MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY p.m. // Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe is good news for people who like WAITRESS VS. THE DEVIL: AN AMERICAN Avenue, Brooklyn // Tickets $20. skittish punk songs about burritos Brooks Atkinson Theatre MYTH 14. Spines will be broken and and toe jam and, more generally, for 256 West 47th Steet Acorn Theatre pages will be ripped at this year’s anyone who appreciates live music 410 West 42nd Street Art Book Fair, which will bring put on by hugely influential avant- WAR PAINT boutique publishers and genre- garde oddballs. Since their breakup Nederlander Theatre ME & ELLA bending artists from all over the in 1995, members of Cap’n Jazz 208 W. 41st St. York Theatre Company world to MoMA PS1 for three have gone on to play in American 619 Lexington Avenue days of printed brilliance that puts Football, Owen, Owls, Joan of Arc, WICKED your tumblr archive to shame. and The Promise Ring. As Brooklyn Gershwin Theater PERFECT CRIME Seriously, the Art Book Fair is a Vegan points out, several of those 222 West 51st Street perfect chance to get your Online- bands have recently embarked on Snapple Theatre Center infected brain away from the screen their own reunion tours, and Joan 210 West 50th Street and into the middle of a brand new of Arc just put out a delightful Off world, whether that be a limited- album. The Emo Revival is dead. THE PORTAL run photobook, a limited-run zine, Long live the Emo Revival. (Jake Broadway Minetta Lane Theatre or a limited-run coffee table tome Offenhartz) 18 Minetta Lane dedicated to corncobs and donuts Saturday, September 23rd, 7 p.m. Shows (yeah, you read that right). Booths // Brooklyn Steel, 319 Frost Street, THE QUANTUM EYE: representing 32 countries will wind Brooklyn // Tickets $27 (Continued from Page 37) MAGIC DECEPTIONS CABARET Theatre 80 Lucky Cheng’s 80 St. Marks Place 605 West 48th Street FIND EVERYTHING SHEAR MADNESS MURDERED BY THE MOB New World Stages Arno Ristorante 340 West 50th Street YOU MAY NEED IN OUR 141 West 38th Street SISTAS: THE MUSICAL TAXI INSIDER NAKED BOYS SINGING St. Lukes Theatre Kirk Theatre 308 West 46th Street 410 West 42nd Street DIRECTORY ON STOMP NEWSical Orpheum Theatre PAGE 29 Kirk Theatre 126 Second Avenue 410 West 42nd Street SEPTEMBER 2017 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 39

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