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INSIDER VOL. 16, NO. 3 “The Voice of the NYC Transportation Industry.” MARCH 2015

Letters Start on Page 2 • EDITORIAL Insider News By David Pollack Page 5 • Updated Relief Stands Hijacking Democracy Page 6 • (Tolls On All Bridges) Taxi Attorney Are you ready to pay $5.50 to cross the 59th replenish a credit card. Even IF they have a credit By Michael Spevack Street Bridge driving an empty cab twice card that hasn’t been maxed-out or charged off Page 7 a day? How about taking that $10.00 they do not have the disposable income • fare into downtown Brooklyn only to to store a few hundred bucks that EZ-Pass Puzzles come back over the Brooklyn Bridge, holds. (That is another editorial). One Page 7 and 21 Manhattan, Bridge or Williamsburg City Councilman even had the balls to • Bridge and pay another $5.50? The state that only rich people own cars! Hey Press Conferences MTA already taxes our fares, yet the Councilman, I drive a used cab that has Page 13 Congestion Pricing proposal now has a 350,000 miles on it, and it is not because • softer name: Fair Pricing: What a crock I am nostalgic. I did notice you drive a Transportation Technology of sheep. (Brainwashing: Fair Fair Fair) 2014 Japanese car though. Issues In London Baaaah! This plan, whatever you choose This gross toll ripoff is just another at- tempt at money using the the tentacles(and By Matthew Daus to call it, is nothing less than a ploy by MTA supporters that hurts the hardest testicles I might add) of the MTA, by Page 15 working New Yorkers. wrapping them around the policies of a growing • Many politicians throughout the state are un- list of politicians and around their souls. One does Commissioner’s Corner der the cloaked control of the MTA but have no not have to be a politician to make a case for Fair By Meera Joshi idea why so many New Yorkers, even their own Fair Fair Pricing: Hear that Gridlock Sam? I’ll Page 17 constituents, use the cash lanes at the Triboro call it Sad Sad Sad Pricing. It is possible that this • Bridge (oops RFK). Here is breaking news for is yet another attempt by Bloomberg supporters Quotable Quotes those dummies: It is because MANY New Yorkers pushing for a leftover policy behind the $cenes Page 17 live paycheck to paycheck and cannot afford to (Continued on Page 4) • Red Light and Speed Cameras Oh, The Horror Who is This ‘UBER Guy’? Starts on Page 18 By Larry Fisher, Loan Department Supervisor By Abe Mittleman • MELROSE Credit Union How many times have you heard a politician make Current Madellion Agents Do you remember the a promise when running for offi ce only to abandon Starts on Page 19 scene in the fi lm, “Apoc- the promise after the votes are in and victory is • alypse Now,” when the achieved? If only we could pick these promises apart Economy main character, Captain before the election, certainly the results of elections Willard, approaches the would be different! Page 27 island commanded by Michael Alegretti, is a politician. Having lost his • renegade Colonel Kurtz? 2010 bid for the Republican seat in New York’s 13th Hotel Listing The foggy, surreal sen- Congressional District, Mr. Alegretti was available Page 28 and 30 sibility is heightened and hired by UBER in January of 2015 to be their • by the visage of decapi- ‘Director of Public Policy for New York. Events and More tated heads strewn along On February 12 at a public hearing of the TLC, Starts on Page 29 the shore. Sometimes I industry representatives were invited to give their • wonder if this is the world view of those longing to opinions of how FHV Apps should be regulated. Insider Directory dominate the globe, like ISIS, Al Qaeda, or Uber. There were some very sincere and dedicated industry Page 32 The absolute medieval barbarism of ISIS has been representatives in attendance who gave very educated • on display for some time now. They are so evil that input with their testimony. They had very thoughtful Embassy Listing even a nation that counts itself as our enemy, Iran, and honest opinions of how to structure the rules so Starts on Page 33 is working to help rid the region of ISIS insurgency that this segment of the industry would be within • in Iraq and Syria. What would the globe look like if the guidelines of licensed FHV service. Around The World ISIS or Al Qaeda were successful in their quest for Then, there was Michael Alegretti. He was rep- Page 46 (Continued on Page 8) (Continued on Page 8) PAGE 2 • TAXI INSIDER • MARCH 2015 JULY 2010 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 1 LETTERS INSIDER Yellow Drivers Leave ago. My husband worked hard. We paid our mort- Publisher & gage, we put our kids through college and we For Uber lived like human being. now the promise the city Editor-in-Chief Dear Mr. Pollack, made to us has been broken. gypsies, uber cars, Do you want to know the real reason yellow green cabs etc . are working the street. Where is David Pollack drivers leave for UBER. It is because of the police the promise the city made to us when we invested harassment done to yellow cab drivers. UBER in the city?.where is the protection? we help the drivers never get stopped and yellow cab drivers, MTA (50c) we help disabled (30C). Who is help- even the best ones, get stopped often. The longer ing US? my husband is working very long hours. we work, the better the chances of getting a police we don’t see him anymore. we ‘re strugling to summons, and usually for nothing. And the TLC make ends meet. points are unjust also. A passenger asked me to Please ask the commissioner what she is going look up an address on my iphone because her to do? I heard her saying on your show in the past battery was dead. I handed her the phone and she she is hiring new inspectors. Where are they? Columnists found the address. When she handed me back the I leave you with this: my grandfather used to phone, i looked at the address and made it bigger say. While the doctors trying to figure the cure, Matthew Daus, Esq. at a red light. A TLC inspector was next to me The patient die !. Tony Falese and gave me a summons for using my cell phone Thank You, while driving. I only had it my hand. At court I Concerned Wife Larry Fisher told the truth and was found guilty. God bless you Hweida for what you do for the taxi drivers but the TLC Ira Goldstein, Esq. has to lower their points. Issac Helping The Industry Bob Mackle, Esq. Dear Taxi Dave, Abe Mittleman Continue your great advocacy for our industry. You Still Problem Bus Lane, are and have been a pivotal voice for the industry. Alan Plafker Stay warm my friend. Pick Up And Drop Off Artie C Michael Spevack, Esq. Dear Taxi Dave, Chip Stern I got ticket for dropping off Passenger in bus lane on 34th street between 2nd and 3rd Ave last Uber Mark Twain week. Dear Taxi Dave, All the buses now have video cameras video- We prevent Uber from surge pricing because taping taxis and car services. We get tickets by most people use Uber when they can’t find a yel- Layout & Graphics mail for $95! low cab. So, it’s in the public interest to keep the Also I got a ticket picking up a Passnger at 404 medallion strong and add more medallions. Dragonfl y Graphics LLC East 55th Street. The Passenger seated herself in Michael Simon my car, and as we start driving, 2 police cars and 4 officers jumped out of their cars, kicked out my Passenger and gave me tickets for No Parking, More Cars Taxi Insider Parking was only for trucks loading and unload- Dear Taxi Dave, ing. Cost? $115! There is no limit to the number of black cars 14 Alexander Drive The commissioner of TLC lie when she said we crowding the Manhattan streets. How are yellow Washingtonville, NY 10992 stop or don’t give tickets for pick up and drop off. cabs supposed to provide proper service when the It’s not fair and honest. This harassment needs TLC keep adding more cars? Phone: (718) 706-TAXI(8294) to stop. We enjoyed that week when all police of- Attusa ficers did not give any tickets because they were — mad at DeBlsio the mayor. That’s was the best Protect Medallions E-mail:[email protected] week: no crime no accident Dear Taxi Dave, Please no name Let me get this straight. The city auctions Copyright © 2015 by TAXI INSIDER. All Because the NYPD & TLC will be coming after medallions and lets UBER cars come into the rights reserved. Neither this newspaper nor me for complaining industry. Every time they add one more UBER any part therof may be reproduced, copied, Thank you. car, they are taking one yellow cab off the road. or transmitted in any form, electronic or Peace and love, They can buy a Mercedes versus the NV-200 I mechanical including photocopying, mi- Avner must buy. There is a limit on (the number of) yel- crofi lming, recording or by any information lows but no limit on them. This means the TLC retrieving system without the express written TLC COmMISSIONER is definitely destroying our business. I know you permission of the publishers. The copyright Dear Taxi Dave, thanked the Chairwoman for all she has done for is extended to the design and text created I heard that the TLC commissioner will be on the yellow cabs on your radio show, but what are for advertisements. This publication will your show. If you could bring up these matters to they really doing to help us? Basically, they stole not be responsible for errors in advertise- her that would be great. Why does TLC sell the our business after the last auction. If they don’t ment beyond the cost of the space occupied medallion and not protect their owners? I work protect the medallions, then the medallion won’t by the error. Bylined articles represent the on E84 and lexington, countless times I’ve been be worth anything. sole opinion of the writer and are not neces- asked to be picked up on the street by UBER cars, Vito sarily in accordance with the views of TAXI green taxis, or gypsy cars, which is not only illegal INSIDER. but dangerous. Jobs In Jeopardy This Publication reserves the right to Thank You, Dear Taxi Dave, limit or refuse advertising it deems objec- Lorraine 20-30 year experienced drivers are being put tionable. in jeopardy of losing their jobs. In the past 35 TAXI INSIDER is published monthly at years I never got a speeding ticket but I just got a a subscription rate of $48.00 per year. TLC Commissioner Hi Taxi Dave, speeding ticket in the transverse for doing 35mph. My husband bought his medallion many years (Continued on Page 4) MARCH 2015 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 3

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(Continued from Page 2) It was from the TLC. I am not against enforcing have the money. All these extra uber cars are fill- against reckless driving, but I was coming through ing every avenue and street. Get these cars out of the park while a Lincoln was tailgating me, one Manhattan please. inch from my rear bumper. When I got to the other Harry D side, bam! They should be more understanding and go after the reckless-fast drivers. The past year I have seen a change to maybe one out of ten nutty Winter Foul Up drivers. Before Vision Zero I would see 4 out of 10 Dear Taxi Dave, nutty drivers and that is a good thing. What sucks The city has done a horrible job cleaning up is we don’t want to end up on public assistance. I the streets in the 5 boros. I see the plow and salt Jaouad Ezzaher was recently honored by Attorney trucks, but they aren’t applying salt. The roads General Matt Denn for stopping a senior citizen from see yellow cabs every day getting tickets, no one being scammed. else, just yellows, and drivers at my garage tell me are impassable. I feel like the Sanitation Dept It’s an all-too-familiar story: A senior citizen they get 3 at a time from NYPD. Someone needs is striking against the city and Mayor. So I have gets a call from someone claiming to be from a to tell the NYPD not to target yellow cabs. decided not to work on this snow day March 5th. government agency and is scammed into giving Alex The roads are treacherous. the caller a significant amount of money. The city takes money from us to pay for sala- However, thanks to a Newark-based cab driver, Driver’s and Traffi c ries and improvements that aren’t being applied. this particular story has a happier ending. Dear Taxi Dave, Surcharges after surcharges...for what??? When Jaouad Ezzaher, who drives for the FEZ taxi As a career taxi driver I just wanted to let the are things going to improve Dave? I’m trying to company, was honored last week by Attorney Gen- world know that during rush hour, passengers pay cope with all this and just drive. I guess it could be eral Matt Denn for his actions to prevent an 85-year- an extra $5 per fare because of traffic. worse, but it would be fair to see improvements. old man from losing money to a scammer. The driver loses too and the pollution has to All drivers work so hard to make a living , just to “Mr. Ezzaher is a hero,” Denn said in a prepared be bad with all cars crawling. You can’t move in make a small profit. I guess Bloomberg will be statement. “He could have just gone about his busi- NYC especially during rush hour. This was done number 2 on the Forbes wealthiest list before I ness, done his job and moved on. But instead, he on purpose by Mayor Bloomberg because he felt can make a good decent living. The rich get richer went the extra mile to protect one of Delaware’s if he caused more traffic and congestion, the city and middle class eliminated. most valuable resources…a senior citizen.” could charge more for congestion pricing and To be continued..... Taxi Solomon Ezzaher, 31, said the incident began when he crime. Hijacking Democracy got a call from someone with a foreign accent – Ezzaher has been driving a cab for two years to (Continued from Page 1) presumably the scammer – who ordered a taxi pay for his tuition to the University of Delaware, pick-up for the elderly man at his house. where he is studying computer engineering. He that was already voted down. This, is nothing less The victim asked to be dropped off at a bank said that he doesn’t think he did anything out the than an attempt to hijack true democracy. First on Kirkwood Highway, and Ezzaher noticed he ordinary. Bloomberg & the MTA used the NYCDOT to was on the phone during the whole ride. “The way he looked, anyone would have done cause congestion using those phony left turn lanes, “He was very frustrated and very scared,” Ez- it,” he said. bike lanes, and pedestrian malls. zaher said. Reprinted with permission from The Newark- And, Senator Avella is absolutely right when he At one point, the man mentioned he was talk- Post. says, “These new tolls are nothing less than a tax, ing to the IRS. destined to be increased in the future.” I agree with “As soon as he said that, it clicked,” Ezzaher the Senator. When the MTA cries for more money said. “The IRS is official. They don’t call you on in the future, what do you really think is going to the phone and request a taxi for you.” happen to these tolls? His suspicions raised, the cab driver struck up Let’s not forget that the MTA currently has a $15 a conversation with the man. BILLION shortfall on future projects, they call it a “My intuition was I wanted to warn him,” he Capital Plan. I believe this shortfall to be caused by said. decades of mismanagement including nepotism. “I The victim said the “IRS agent” told him his have a great idea, pass the buck onto the public!” assets were frozen and instructed him to take the (Look at any of your monthly bills energy or phone money to a nearby pharmacy parking lot, where bills and you will fi nd an MTA tax. Selling a house? an agent would meet him. 1.74% is an MTA tax.) The middle calss, the up- “I said, ‘Don’t do it. It’s a scam,’” Ezzaher per middle class and the lower claqss of residents recalled. “I saw the relief on his face.” deserve free transportation into every Borough. So He then drove the man to the Delaware State let’s keep the bridges free. After all: “You can’t fool Police barracks at Prices Corner to report the a Corleone.” Third $ term $ anyone? TAXI DAVE’S RADIO SHOW WOR-710AM 8:00 – 9:00 PM EVERY SUNDAY! MARCH 2015 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 5 Insider News TLC's March 5th Public Hearing: facets of an applicant’s history and background when determining if an applicant is fi t to hold a license. New Rule Changes Coming! Currently, TLC does not accept a driver’s license application for two years Double-Shifting Requirement from any person found driving for-hire without a TLC license or from any TLC proposes repealing the double-shifting requirement that now applies previously-licensed driver who has committed six or more violations of TLC to vehicles operating on certain taxicab medallions. Currently, vehicles oper- rules. TLC proposes removing these limitations to permit a case-by-case review ated in Fleets and Minifl eets are required under TLC rules to be driven at least of an applicant’s fi tness for licensure. TLC does not want to delay the licensure of two nine-hour shifts each day, including holidays and weekends. The ability of applicants who, although they were previously caught driving illegally for-hire, fl eets and minifl eets to lease their medallions for two shifts per day depends on now wish to provide safe and licensed service. Similarly, TLC does not want demand from drivers, and sometimes it is not possible for a Fleet or Minifl eet to to delay the licensure of applicants who violated TLC rules six times without lease all of its medallions for two shifts every day. Other non-use rules prevent considering the specifi c rules violated as well as the time within which these medallion owners from keeping their medallions out of service for an extended violations occurred. period of time, and TLC believes these are suffi cient to ensure that taxis are suf- In addition, TLC currently does not allow a driver to reapply for a license for fi ciently available. Furthermore, Fleet and Minifl eet operators have an economic one year after a prior application was denied because the applicant was found incentive to lease their medallions for as many shifts as possible, and removing not fi t to hold a license. This period is measured from the date on which TLC the double-shifting requirement enables them to use their business judgment to denied the prior application. TLC proposes that this one-year period be counted determine the optimal number of shifts for this purpose. from the date on which the applicant previously applied for a new license. Renewal Extensions Finally, TLC currently does not accept license applications for three years TLC proposes increasing the amount of time a driver can postpone an expiration from drivers whose TLC licenses were revoked, including those revoked under date on a current license. Currently, TLC allows a one-time extension of 31 days the Critical Driver or Persistent Violator programs. This allows a driver, in the to taxicab and For-Hire Vehicle drivers who request additional time to complete case of a prior Critical Driver or Persistent Violator revocation, to demonstrate the renewal process. TLC proposes extending the time granted for an extension a safe record of driving over a three-year period prior to being permitted to to 60 days to allow more time for licensees who may be out of the country and provide for-hire service again. The three-year period currently begins when the miss the opportunity to extend an expiration date. Increasing the extension time TLC license is revoked by the Commission. Since a TLC drivers license cannot will help prevent many drivers from having to reapply as new licensees. be revoked under the Critical Driver or Persistent Violator programs until after Yellow Taxi Vehicle Retirement Schedules the driver is convicted of the underlying summonses, there can be a delay in time In 1996, the Commission introduced retirement schedules for all taxicabs to between when the underlying violations occurred and when the driver’s TLC improve the quality of vehicles on the road. At that time, taxis were failing 71 license is revoked. TLC recognizes that a driver with no further traffi c violations percent of their tri-annual inspections.1 The oldest taxicab vehicles on the road following the last violation triggering the revocation may be able to demonstrate in 1996 were more than ten years old. Retirement requirements were established three years of safe driving before the period, as currently measured, expires. according to the operation schedule of each medallion type; vehicles operated Therefore, TLC proposes that drivers who can demonstrate three years of safe on fl eet medallions without long-term drivers were limited to three years in driving following the last violation triggering the revocation and prior to the end service, and medallions with long-term drivers (i.e., drivers who own or lease a of the ban, may apply for a new license before the ban is lifted. medallion, are named on the rate card, and drive the taxicab at least 160 hours per month) were limited to fi ve years. Industry Notice #15-08 These three- and fi ve-year retirement schedules could be lengthened through Important Notice about Improvement retirement extensions offered for vehicles using Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) and for minivans, incentivizing the adoption of certain vehicles through retire- Surcharge, Payment Process for ment extensions. This continued when the New York City Council passed Local Law 52 of 2006, amending the New York City Administrative Code to extend Street Hail Livery, Permit Owners and retirement periods for wheelchair-accessible taxis and for hybridelectric and Medallion Owners and Agents other clean-air taxis. On January 1, 2015, a $0.30 per trip Improvement Surcharge went into ef- Today, the retirement schedules for some taxis allow twice as much time on fect and taxicabs and Street Hail Liveries (SHLs) were automatically updated to the road as others, even though in many cases the vehicles travel a comparable charge the new rate for all hailed trips. This surcharge will help fund an increase distance each year. Vehicles with different retirement schedules fail their inspec- in the number of wheelchair accessible vehicles (WAVs) on the road to assist in tions at about the same rate. For both Minifl eet and Independent Medallions, the achieving the City’s goal of a 50% wheelchair accessible taxi fl eet by the year inspection failure rate remains steady at about 30 percent after the second year 2020. Medallion owners/agents and SHL permit owners are responsible for send- of service, a complete reversal from the passing rate of 29 percent in 1995. ing the surcharges to the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission (TLC) These high rates of success at TLC safety and emissions inspections suggest each quarter which will be placed into a Vehicle Fund and a Driver Fund. The that most vehicles remain in good condition for many years of service. Because TLC will then issue payments to WAV owners and drivers starting in 2016. vehicles perform better today, regardless of the length of time they are permitted Payment for the fi rst quarter of 2015 is due by May 1, 2015. Failure to submit to operate, than when retirement schedules were introduced, TLC proposes a your payment by that date may result in the issuance of a summons which could uniform retirement schedule of seven years for all vehicles which are Hacked- result in fi nes and/or possible suspension of your license until compliance. up after April 20, 2015. This change will allow owners to keep vehicles on the Each SHL permit owner, medallion owner, and/or medallion agent will receive road for their full useful lives and correspondingly reduce vehicle expenses, a quarterly statement from their TPEP or LPEP provider. The TLC will provide one of the larger expenses of taxicab operation. Accompanying this change, further guidance in an upcoming Industry Notice on how to access statements TLC proposes removing all retirement extensions for vehicles Hacked-up after through TPEP and LPEP Provider web portals. For the fi rst quarter the surcharges the same date, except the hardship extension provided in §67-19(a) of the TLC will be due on May 1, 2015 and will follow the timeline below: rules, so that all vehicles will retire after seven years. 2 All vehicles Hacked-up • April 5, 2015 – 5th day after quarter end. Improvement Surcharge state- before April 20, 2015, will remain subject to the retirement schedule assigned ments will be available on the TPEP and LPEP Provider web portals. Do not to them at Hack-up. access the statements before April 5th to ensure that all trips are included in the Bans on Driver Applicants statement. Under current driver rules a number of specifi c incidents trigger automatic • April 5 – April 20, 2015 – Challenge Period starts. Owners and agents will denial of a license application for a certain number of years. These limitations be able to review their Improvement Surcharge statements and raise any discrep- currently apply to all applicants for medallion, for-hire, paratransit, and com- ancies to their TPEP or LPEP Providers during the 15-day Challenge Period. muter van driver licenses. They were established in 2011 to clearly articulate • April 20, 2015 – Challenge Period ends. Amounts due are fi nalized. minimum lengths of time between an incident which TLC determined causes • May 1, 2015 – Payment is due to the TLC. Payments may only be made an applicant to be unfi t for licensure and the time at which the applicant may using the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission’s License Applications, Renewals be eligible to apply for a license. The purpose of these minimum standards was & Summonses (LARS) system which can be found at: www1.nyc.gov/lars/ to avoid repeated submission of applications and application fees by applicants Subsequent quarters will follow the same timeline. Improvement Surcharge who were clearly not fi t for licensure. TLC has recently undertaken a review of statements will be available on the 5th of the month following the quarter’s end. the limitations and the related time periods associated with each type of incident The 15-day Challenge Period for the quarter will end on the 20th of that month, and is proposing changes to some of the limitation criteria. In line with the traf- and payments will be due to the TLC on the fi rst day of the subsequent month. fi c safety goals of Vision Zero, TLC will continue to take into consideration all (Continued on Page 22) PAGE 6 • TAXI INSIDER • MARCH 2015

TAXI AND FOR-HIRE VEHICLE Uber’s Driver Data Breach RELIEF STANDS Hidden For Five Months DOT is not responsible regulating taxis. Taxis are regulated by the New York 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 locations where drivers can wait, in their cars, to pick up passengers. The type column indicates if the relief stand is for taxis alone, or both taxis and For-Hire Vehicles (FHVs). Staten Island currently has no relief stands. BRONX TYPE LOCATION CROSS STREET Taxi Jerome Ave. (E. Side) Eliot Pl. & E. 170th St. Taxi Metropolitan Ave. (N. Side) Purdy St. & Red Oak Dr.

MANHATTAN EAST SIDE ABOVE 23RD STREET Taxis E.77th St.(N. Side) First & Second Aves. Taxis E. 86th St. (N. Side) Henderson Pl. & York Ave. Taxis E. 78th Street (N. Side) Lexington & Third Ave. Taxis E. 78th St. (S. Side) Lexington & Third Ave. Taxis & FHVs E. 29th St. (S. Side) Madison & Fifth Ave. Taxis E. 27th St. (N. Side) Park Ave. S. & Madison Ave. Taxis & FHVs E.28th St. (N. Side) Park Av. S. & Lexington Ave. Taxis & FHVs Madison Ave. (W. Side) E. 26th & 27th St. Taxis E. 26th Street (S. Side) Third & Second Aves.

MANHATTAN WEST SIDE ABOVE 23RD STREET Taxis W. 55th St. (S. Side) Tenth & Eleventh Aves. Taxis & FHVs Sixth Ave. (W.Side) W. 55th & 56th Sts. Taxis & FHVs Eighth Ave. (E. Side) W. 52nd & 53rd Sts. Taxis Broadway (E. Side) W. 48th & 47th Sts. Taxis Eighth Ave. (W. Side) W. 46th & 47th Sts. Taxis & FHVs Sixth Ave. (W. Side) W. 39th & 40th Sts. Uber announced last week (Feb. recommend these individuals moni- Taxis & FHVs Sixth Ave. (W. Side) W. 38th & 39th Sts. 27) that the data of roughly 50,000 tor their credit reports for fraudulent Taxis Broadway (E. Side) W. 43rd & 42nd Sts. drivers may have been impacted in transactions or accounts,” Tassi wrote Taxis Ninth Ave. (E. Side) W. 42nd & 41st Sts. a security breach, but the car-hailing in the post. “We have also filed what Taxis West 39th St. (S. Side) Eighth & Ninth Aves. service company failed to report the is referred to as a ‘John Doe’ lawsuit Taxis Ninth Ave. (E. Side) W. 30th & 29th Sts. information to drivers for five months so that we are able to gather informa- after learning of the incident. tion that may lead to confirmation of MANHATTAN BELOW 23RD STREET In a blog post on Uber’s website the identity of the third party.” Taxis E. 23rd St. First & Second Aves. written by Katherine Tassi, Uber’s But according to some data breach Taxis & FHVs Sixth Ave. (W. Side) W. 22nd & 23rd Sts. managing counsel of data privacy, experts, Uber’s failure to notify its Taxis Third Ave. (W. Side) E. 14th & 15th Sts. she shared details of the breach. Tassi drivers within two months may been Taxis & FHVs Third Ave. (W. Side) E. 15th & 14th Sts. said Uber’s information database may longer than what state guidelines Taxis & FHVs Sixth Ave. (W. Side) W.13th & 14th Sts. have been compromised on May 13, dictate. According to a report by Taxis Sixth Ave. (W. Side) Thompson & Grand Sts. 2014, by a third-party source, but was The Wall Street Journal, California Taxis & FHVs Canal St. (N. Side) E. Broadway & Essex St. not discovered by the company until (Uber’s home state where 20,000 Taxis Park Row (SE. Side) Ann & Beekman Sts. Sept. 17, 2014. She indicated Uber drivers were impacted) requires Taxis & FHVs Fulton St. (S. Side) Broadway & Church St. “immediately changed the access companies to tell impacted parties Taxis & FHVs South St. (N. Side) Old Slip & Broad St. protocols for the database and began “in the most expedient time possible Taxis & FHVs Water St. (W. Side) Whitehall & Broad Sts. an in-depth investigation,” which is and without unreasonable delay.” Taxis Whitehall St. (W. Side) South & State Sts, how the company learned that 50,000 The report noted that most state driver may have been impacted by the laws have 60 days as a guideline, but BROOKLYN breach. Still, Uber did not notify its the restrictions are often vague. An Taxis N. Sixth St. (N. Side) Berry St. & Wythe Ave. drivers until recently. The files that Uber spokeswoman told WSJ that the Taxis Fourth Ave. (W. Side) Third & Sixth Sts. were accessed contained the name investigation is ongoing and drivers and driver’s license numbers of some were notified as the law requires. QUEENS of the drivers, Tassi said. “I usually expect it’s no more than Taxis & FHVs 43rd Ave. (N. side) 11th & 12th Sts. All drivers have been notified, she 60 days before you start notifying Taxis 44th Rd. (N. Side) 21st & 11th Sts. said, but she noted that there have people,” Brian Finch, a cybersecurity Taxis & FHVs Hunterspoint Ave. 27th & 30th Sts. been no reports of the information and data-breach expert at law firm Taxis 31st St. (W. Side) 34th & 35th Aves. Taxis & FHVs 43rd Ave. 36th & 37th Sts. being used for fraudulent purposes. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman Taxis 34th St. (W. Side) 37th & 38th Aves. Uber is also providing a year mem- in Washington, D.C., told The Wall Taxis Skillman Ave. 37th & 36th Sts. bership to Experian’s ProtectMyID Street Journal. “Unless they were Taxis Queens Blvd. (S. Side) 50th & 51st Sts. Alert. cooperating with law enforcement, Taxis Queens Blvd. 55th & 54th Sts. “To date, we have not received any which is a possibility, it would seem Taxis & FHVs 45th Ave. (S. side) Jackson Ave. & 23rd St. reports of actual misuse of any infor- to be an unusual delay.” Taxis & FHVs Pearson St. (W. Side) Jackson Ave. & dead end mation as a result of this incident, but Reprinted with permission from Taxis 49th St. Newtown Rd & Northern Blvd. we are notifying impacted drivers and By Pymts. Taxis 55th St. Queens Blvd & Roosevelt Ave. Taxis Van Dam St. Queens Blvd & Skillman Ave. Taxis & FHVs 36th St. Skillman & 43rd Aves. NEED AN ACCOUNTANT? Don’t risk a summons trying to fi nd a Relief Stand on the list SEE 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 THE TAXI INSIDER for future use! DIRECTORY ON PAGE 32 MARCH 2015 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 7 The Taxi Attorney March Taxi Driver Puzzle Hello everybody, I hope that you are best behavior at all times and if you are working hard and making good money. happy to have a job, even this tough one, Do you know the stories behind each word? This month I want to talk in this economy, then you You would if you listened to Taxi Dave’s Radio about eight topics. will make the yellow cab First, I have moved experience memorable Show, Sunday’s at 8:00 PM on WOR710. Brought my offi ce to 160 E. 56th for your customers in a to you by Melrose Credit Union. You will also Street, Floor 7, New York, good sense and hope- understand the puzzle better if you read our NY 10022. The offi ce fully all the competition is between Third Avenue for yellow cab business, articles. and Lexington Avenue both legal and illegal will H U S T L E I H Y R M A C on the south side of the cease. Something to think street. My phone number about. I know that police 0 U S E D R L I N C H I L remains 212.754.1011 are targeting yellow cab 3 L N A T S U G P A E M I or 866.LAW.MIKE or drivers but try to remain 866.529.6453. There is diligent and safe as you O E S D X A V H R R E G N a taxi stand on Lexington drive. Easy to say. Tough H L S I R D U L I A J R G Avenue and 56th Street. It is a good idea to do. to call me before you come over to the Sixth, remember to bring me your T O P R I E L A 1 S O E C offi ce. I look forward to seeing you all DMV and TLC tickets. It is important to H T E A V D I N 9 P S B I at my exciting new space at 160 E. 56th fi ght all your DMV (issued by NYPD) Street, 7th Floor, NY NY 10022. and TLC tickets. Be careful. Don’t A S L A E S N D 2 I H M T Second, if you are arrested and you skimp on the lawyer only to lose your T N E W R S D E 5 T B O Y possess a TLC license, it is imperative license later. Please fi ght every yellow that you hire the best criminal attorney or pink ticket you receive from NYPD E A T A D E A R % S L O W that you can afford and maybe one that and every TLC ticket you receive. If you D R N P R I C E G O U G I you cannot afford. I suggest that you are uncertain whether to use an attorney borrow money to pay the attorney. This for a particular ticket, please come see G C O I T Z O N C X A T N is so because TLC will hold your license me and I will tell you, no charge, if the R V A L I E F F I I D S G until the criminal case is fi nished and ticket has points and you do or do not the TLC will take it permanently from need an attorney or representative for E F I L A D E A R W O N R you if the criminal matters is NOT a particular summons. resolved to the TLC’s satisfaction. I Seventh, please take the defensive E N E D D M O N T H L Y O work with a very high quality criminal driver course every 18 months. Do Find the following words/accronyms in the puzzle above attorney who can speed up criminal not wait three years to take the DDC matters and obtains excellent results, class that takes points off of your NYS • PRICE GOUGING • 30 HUSTLERS ARRESTED • so please call me at 212.754.1011 if driver’s license. Please take the course • HUNDREDS SEIZED MONTHLY • you get arrested. every 18 months so if TLC sends you a Third, please listen to the Taxi letter to suspend or revoke your Hack • STOLEN DRIVER DATA • USED TAXIS • Insider radio show on 710 am WOR, or TLC license you will have taken the on Sunday evenings between 8pm and class before you get such TLC letter. • HIGHLANDER • NYC HAILING CITY • 9pm. David Pollack is the host. He is If you take the class after you get the • MEERA JOSHI • APRIL 19 • smart, entertaining, informative and TLC letter, even if otherwise eligible, best of all, knows the truth about what TLC will NOT reduce your points. • 25% TIPS • MEDALLION RENEWAL • is happening in your Industry. So, please Also, there is a persistent violator • POTHOLES • COALITION • TRAFFIC • tune in to listen. course available to reduce TLC points Fourth, all drivers need a will and which are now being combined with • SLOW IN SNOW • important estate documents such as a DMV points and can result in your power of attorney, living will, health losing your TLC license very quickly • BLOOMBERG • GREENFIELD • care proxy, etc. If you own a medallion, (Continued on Page 16) • CAMRY • TAXI • you must have a will; otherwise your family will have trouble with, among others, the TLC, after you die. Also, if you have young children – you need a will. Even if you don’t own a medal- lion, you need to do a will and a power of attorney. . Every driver needs these documents. All matters are confi dential and handled with care. As my ad states, there is a special price for readers of this publication. Please handle these matters appropriately. You can reach me at 212.754.1011 to set up an ap- pointment. Fifth, please remember that you are best ambassador for the yellow cab industry that there is. One down side to driving a yellow is that you are an open target. Anyone at any time can complain against you if you drive a yellow. Your face and name are on display and you are very easy to identify and complain against. Even red light camera tickets and speed camera tickets are more dangerous to yel- low drivers because TLC knows who is driving the cab. But, if you are on your PAGE 8 • TAXI INSIDER • MARCH 2015 Oh, The Horror different than ISIS? Not much, except surge pricing, and price cuts in various into the hands of Uber IPO investors the direct acknowledgement of respon- cities, it is easy to realize that Uber would defi nitely not be in the public’s (Continued from Page 1) sibility for murders and decapitations. will rip off the public, and be unable to interest. And when passengers have to world domination? Clearly, they believe Uber is a direct threat to the livelihoods provide their drivers a livable wage. Go pay hundreds of dollars to entice drivers in a form of Islamic Fundamentalism of thousands of drivers and support on Uberpeople.net if you don’t believe to take them to the airport, that won’t that declares all non-Muslims to be personnel that have thrived in the taxi me. The site is rife with complaints be in the public interest either. enemies, and therefore ripe for murder. business for generations. Instead of from drivers regarding price cuts, and So now it’s up to the politicians to Clearly, they believe in the subjuga- working with the existing structures many of them won’t log into the Uber step up to the plate and do what’s right tion of women relegating them to an in the industry, they have broken the system unless there is a price surge in for both the riding public and those who uneducated, submissive role with no law, lied to their constituent drivers, effect, basically manipulating the sys- provide those services. It’s up to the rights, civil or otherwise. This funda- gouged their customers, all in the hope tem. The government would be handing politicians in Washington and abroad mentalist worldview is at odds with all of industry domination. At this junc- over control of this public utility to a to do the right thing in terms of dealing progressive cultures and counts on the ture, they claim to have the equivalent group of corporate thugs who are not with ISIS. Ultimately, the politicians apathy of those cultures as ISIS and number of vehicles as the yellow fl eet. responsible to their customers or their will listen to their various constituents Al Qaeda rises in infl uence among the Because it is diffi cult to ascertain what “partners.” The NYC taxi industry, to some extent, so it is incumbent upon desperate and poor in both the Islamic their actual numbers are due to their just in terms of medallion values, is a you to exert as much pressure as possible and non-Islamic nations. As the price lack of transparency in the most highly $13 billion industry based on recent to combat the effects of the billions of of oil declines, this may only fuel the regulated business in America, let’s say values. That would be a lot of wealth dollars being spent by Uber in their desperation and generate into more they are correct. And let’s say that they to disappear, and certainly legal activity own political activities. You must call, Jihadists. attain their goal of industry leader, and would abound in efforts to recover that write, or e-mail. What makes the assent of Uber any destroy the yellow medallion. Between wealth. The movement of that wealth Who, Is This MANHATTAN POLICE PRECINCTS (Continued from Page 1) Precinct Address Direct line 1 Precinct 16 Ericsson Place 1-212-334-0611 Police Precincts resenting UBER in a way that sounded 5 Precinct 19 Elizabeth Street 1-212-334-0711 more like a political campaign than a constructive opinion as the other repre- 6 Precinct 233 West 10 Street 1-212-741-4811 In New York City sentatives at the meeting put forward. 7 Precinct 19 1/2 Pitt Street 1-212-477-7311 Taxi Insider Info Using “Sound Bites” - as politicians 9 Precinct 130321 AvenueEast 5th C Street 1-212-477-7811 often do in campaign speeches - Mr. 10 Precinct 230 West 20th Street 1-212-741-8211 71 Precinct 421 Empire Boulevard 1-718-735-0511 Alegretti addressed the TLC commis- 13 Precinct 230 East 21st Street 1-212-477-7411 72 Precinct 830 4th Avenue 1-718-965-6311 sioners. The following is my analysis Midtown South Precinct 73 Precinct 1470 East New York Avenue 1-718-495-5411 of the “Sound Bites” he had to offer. MSP 357 West 35th Street 1-212-239-9811 Partnership’ With The TLC 75 Precinct 1000 Sutter Avenue 1-718-827-3511 17 Precinct 167 East 51st Street 1-212-826-3211 The TLC is a Regulatory Agency 76 Precinct 191 Union Street 1-718-834-3211 Midtown North Precinct of the NYC Government! 77 Precinct 127 Utica Avenue 1-718-735-0611 MNP 306 West 54th Street 1-212-767-8400 Since when are the regulated part- 78 Precinct 65 6th Avenue 1-718-636-6411 ners with the regulators? 19 Precinct 153 East 67th Street 1-212-452-0600 79 Precinct 263 Tompkins Avenue 1-718-636-6611 UBER Has Brought to NYC ‘A 20 Precinct 120 West 82nd Street 1-212-580-6411 81 Precinct 30 Ralph Avenue 1-718-574-0411 New Standard of Service ?? Central Park Precinct 83 Precinct 480 Knickerbocker Avenue 1-718-574-1605 Itemized receipts are not a ‘new 86th St & Transverse Road 1-212-570-4820 84 Precinct 301 Gold Street 1-718-875-6811 standard.’ This has been available to 23 Precinct 162 East 102nd Street 1-212-860-6411 88 Precinct 298 Classon Avenue 1-718-636-6511 all passengers from all segments of 24 Precinct 151 West 100th Street 1-212-678-1811 90 Precinct 211 Union Avenue 1-718-963-5311 the industry - and has been for some 25 Precinct 120 East 119th Street 1-212-860-6511 94 Precinct 100 Meserole Avenue 1-718-383-3879 time. Driver I.D. in advance does not 26 Precinct 520 West 126th Street 1-212-678-1311 tell the passenger anything of the driver’s background. Driver I.D. has 28 Precinct 2271-89 8th Avenue 1-212-678-1611 QUEENS POLICE PRECINCTS 30 Precinct 451 West 151st Street 1-212-690-8811 always been available in all segments Precinct Address Direct line 32 Precinct 250 West 135th Street 1-212-690-6311 of the industry. 100 Precinct 92-24 Rockaway Beach Blvd. 1-718-318-4200 What’s new is that they’ve brought 33 Precinct 2207 Amsterdam Avenue 1-212-927-3200 101 Precinct 16-12 Mott Avenue 1-718-868-3400 “Price Gouging” to new level, amateur 34 Precinct 4295 Broadway 1-212-927-9711 102 Precinct 87-34 118th Street 1-718-805-3200 drivers with questionable vehicles and the biggest group of rules breakers ever BRONX POLICE PRECINCTS 103 Precinct 168-02 P.O. Edwaard Byrne Ave. 1-718-657-8181 104 Precinct 64-02 Catalpa Avenue 1-718-386-3004 to be in this business. Stand out on the Precinct Address Direct line 105 Precinct 92-08 222nd Street 1-718-776-9090 street and see how many of them want 40 Precinct 257 Alexander Avenue 1-718-402-2270 to steal passengers that are “Street 106 Precinct 103-53 101st Street 1-718-845-2211 41 Precinct 1035 Longwood Avenue 1-718-542-4771 Hailing.” Yes, it’s a ‘new standard. 107 Precinct 71-01 Parsons Boulevard 1-718-969-5100 42 Precinct 830 Washington Avenue 1-718-402-3887 A new standard for all the WRONG 108 Precinct 5-47 50th Avenue 1-718-784-5411 43 Precinct 900 Fteley Avenue 1-718-542-0888 reasons! 109 Precinct 37-05 Union Street 1-718-321-2250 44 Precinct 2 East 289th Street 1-718-590-5511 Comprehensive Outer Borough 110 Precinct 94-41 43rd Avenue 1-718-476-9311 45 Precinct 2877 Barkley Avenue 1-718-822-5411 Service 111 Precinct 45-06 215th Street 1-718-279-5200 UBER has successfully halted the 46 Precinct 2120 Ryer Avenue 1-718-220-5211 112 Precinct 68-40 Austin Street 1-718-520-9311 issuance of Street Hail Liveries that 47 Precinct 4111 Laconia Avenue 1-718-920-1211 113 Precinct 167-02 Baisley Boulevard 1-718-712-7733 would have given a secure asset to 48 Precinct 450 Cross Bronx Expressway 1-718-299-3900 114 Precinct 34-16 Astoria Boulevard 1-718-626-9311 the drivers that bought into this new 49 Precinct 2121 Eastchester Road 1-718-918-2000 115 Precinct 92-15 Northern Boulevard 1-718-533-2002 service, along with those who were 50 Precinct 3450 Kingsbridge Avenue 1-718-543-5700 planning to do likewise. 52 Precinct 3016 Webster Avenue 1-718-220-5811 STATEN ISLAND POLICE PRECINCTS Instead, they use amateur drivers with cars that will deprecate while BROOKLYN POLICE PRECINCTS Precinct Address Direct line the UBER company appreciates. This Precinct Address Direct line 120 Precinct 78 Richmond Terrace 1-718-876-8500 leaves their drivers with practically 60 Precinct 2951 West 8th Street 1-718-946-3311 122 Precinct 2320 Hylan Boulevard 1-718-667-2211 nothing! It also gives the riding public 61 Precinct 2575 Coney Island Avenue 1-718-627-6611 123 Precinct 116 Main Street 1-718-948-9311 the opportunity to be subject to their 62 Precinct 1925 Bath Avenue 1-718-236-2611 “Price Gouging” rather than a standard metered rate! 63 Precinct 1844 Brooklyn Avenue 1-718-258-4411 Questions? Comments? We Doubled The Income of The 66 Precinct 5822 16th Avenue 1-718-851-5611 Drivers 67 Precinct 2820 Snyder Avenue 1-718-287-3211 E-Mail Taxi Insider at This is widely disputed! There have 68 Precinct 333 65th Street 1-718-439-4211 been many studies that show this to be 69 Precinct 9720 Foster Avenue 1-718-257-6211 [email protected] false! If any of their drivers are making 70 Precinct 154 Lawrence Avenue 1-718-851-5511 (Continued on Page 16) MARCH 2015 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 9

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Council members Helen Rosenthal and Carlos Menchaca held a press conference at city hall in support of Intro 423. Intro 423 requires the city New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission Chair Meera Joshi speaks Friday morning to report the number of city contracts awarded to worker cooperatives. at the New York Law School. Worker cooperatives are owned and managed by their employees, whereby The yellow cab industry is per- One medallion owner, Placida each employee owns an equal share of the business and has an equal voice fectly capable of recovering from a Robinson, questioned Joshi after in the running of the business. Worker cooperatives tend to provide higher 25-percent decline in the value of taxi the speech, accusing former Mayor wages, better hours and more job security. medallions despite the onslaught of Michael Bloomberg of plotting to competition from upstarts like Uber, undermine the industry. Robinson Joshi said. Borough cabs, smartphone to improve their business, and that it’s Taxi & Limousine Commission Chair cited the New York Post’s report- app services like Uber or Lyft, and not an existential threat to well-run Meera Joshi insisted today. ing that Bloomberg LP is a limited a seven-decade high in subway and businesses that can respond to the Speaking at the New York Law partner in the venture capital firm bus ridership all contributed to the competitive demands. School in Tribeca, Joshi said me- Andreessen Horowitz, which backs decline. Robinson wasn’t satisfied with the dallion prices — which peaked at Uber competitor Lyft. “But people still really like to hail answer, saying Joshi misunderstood $1.05 million in 2013 before falling Joshi considered the financial con- a taxi from the street,” she said. “And her concern about the city stacking to $805,000 late last year — were in nection a red herring. “In determining they still do at incredible volumes on the deck. “If they think they’re so an “artificial bubble” created by a how to value an asset, I’m not sure a daily basis. Over 400,000 people cute about speculating on medallion few outsized transactions. A fall off that New York Post headlines are a day.” values, why is she not holding another from the bubble, combined with new probably the best way to make that In general, she said the new auction?” competitors, caused the decline, she decision,” Joshi said, adding: “... competition from all sides of the car Reprinted with permission from acknowledged. ultimately this comes down to: How service industry are forcing operators the New York Business Journal. “Frankly, a lesser market would many passengers are going to get into TH be destroyed,” Joshi said. “The New your car every day? And that’s where UNTIL APRIL 19 York City yellow taxi market instead the focus is, and should be.” has taken a mild dip, and for those In 2014, yellow taxi trips declined HACK UP THESE CARS! segments adapting through improved 5 percent citywide from the prior Many drivers have been asking if they can hack-up Camry’s and Highlanders. driver retention and customer service, year and revenue declined by about 3 Here is your answer: UNTIL APRIL 19TH YOU CAN HACK UP CAMRYS rebounding is extremely doable.” percent, or by about $200,000 a day, AND HIGHLANDERS PERIOD! PAGE 14 • TAXI INSIDER • MARCH 2015 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 CARBON MONOXIDE DEFENSIVE DRIVING Beware Of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Vehicle Motors Give Off Carbon Monoxide Which Is Deadly To Avoid Carbon COURSE SCHEDULE Monoxide: • Do not leave the motor running in a garage. 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These rules tell drivers who goes fi rst and who must wait in Choose an object near the road ahead of you, like a sign or a telephone pole. As the different traffi c situations. vehicle ahead of you passes it, count slowly, One Thousand One, One Thousand Two, The law says who must yield the right-of-way; it does not give any driver the and One Thousand Three. If you reach the selected object before you fi nish counting, right-of-way. You must do everything you can, at all times, to prevent striking you are too close to the vehicle ahead of you. Make an immediate adjustment. a pedestrian or another vehicle, regardless of the circumstances. MARCH 2015 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 15 credit card processing machines in quirements, and emphasized the need Transportation Technology Issues in all black cabs. For a world class city, for a clear strategy that will ensure London: Mandating Credit Cards, Reg- with over 16 million visitors every the survival and prosperity of both year, there should be no regulatory services, while guaranteeing safety, ulating Smartphones & Other Reforms tolerance for driver resistance to availability, and accessibility of ser- By Matthew W. Daus, Esq. processing passenger credit cards to vice to passengers. In regard to new The last time I visited the Holy case indefinitely, which means the pay fares. When I was the Commis- transportation technology entrants, Grail of taxicab system in the world – case remains outstanding, and pre- sioner/Chair of the New York City the report, while acknowledging their London, I discussed the many issues cludes TfL from seeking declaration Taxi and Limousine Commission, I immense potential to increase service the city has in common with New York from the High Court. Following the faced the same resistance before we quality and availability, highlighted City (NYC) and the marble of the magistrate court’s adjournment, the prevailed and mandated all taxicabs that they may also cause unbalanced famous Knowledge exami- TfL has requested the LTDA to be equipped with credit card pro- blurring of the lines between taxis and nation for black cab drivers. to withdraw its case, and as cessing units. I told the committee private hire industry, which ultimately Little did I know at the same it stands, the LTDA is yet members that they should mandate may reduce passenger choice. time Uber was casting its net to respond to this request, credit cards in every black cab to Some of the specific recommenda- to take London by storm, which is delaying the process maintain the quality and service tions include; taking advantage of the lack and allowing Uber to expand standards, and to increase passenger • the Mayor of London to publish of clarity of some Transport its service unabated. satisfaction. Once this is done, and a long term strategy that clearly sets for London (TfL) rules and I returned back to London the drivers start increasing their tips out the actions that will improve pas- regulations. I have provided around the time of the strike and earnings, resistance should fade, senger and driver safety, guaranteeing advice to both TfL and the and legal wrangling to testify like it did in NYC. a sufficient number of high quality London Assembly on best before the London Assembly While I was in London, I had a drivers and vehicles across the city, practices and transportation Transport Committee at its chance to meet with the media to and ensuring that all services meet technology issues over the past few request, and discussed various issues discuss various issues I raised at the the highest possible standards for years, and things are now starting to that could help London to maintain committee hearing. The full inter- accessibility; move and change in London. its much celebrated taxi service view can be accessed here http://bit. • TfL to develop a database that Back in 2012, Uber introduced its standard. I was invited by Caroline ly/1rTTwSV. links drivers to vehicle and operator service in London, arming its drivers Pidgeon MBE, the Chairwoman of In December 2014, the Transport information with a tool that will en- with smartphones, to the dismay of the Transport Committee, to address Committee published its report on able passengers to check the status of black cab drivers that spent over 4 the committee on issues, among other the future of taxi and private hire their driver, vehicle or operator; years studding the “Knowledge” to things, the impact of strikes by taxi industry taking into account some of • TfL should produce a signage drive a cab, substituting smartphones drivers and the controversy surround- the issues and guidance I provided on strategy for the licensed taxi and pri- for taximeters. Initially, TfL noted ing TfL’s management of the trade my testimony before the committee. vate hire industries, including plans that “after a careful consideration groups; potential benefits and pitfalls The full report can be accessed here to commence a pilot program for new of the factual and legal position of of new transportation technologies; http://bit.ly/1E7yS4s. specialized license plates for black the use of smartphones to receive supply and demand issues of avail- The report called on the Mayor of cabs and private hire vehicles; and fare information, [that they] were ability and accessibility of taxi and London and TfL to maintain the ex- • the Mayor and TfL to introduce not unlawful for the purpose of private hire services across different isting distinction between black cabs options to incentivize the uptake of the private hire legislation”. How- parts of London and at different times and the private hire industry to meet cashless payment options, for both the ever, the industry fought back with of day; and areas of improvement the differing passenger service re- (Continued on Page 17) a strike bringing central London to based on the best regulatory practices a standstill, in part playing right to of other jurisdictions; integrating the hands of Uber, which saw a 400% taxi and private hire services with spike in downloads to its app. TfL other transport options (e.g. Tube and NYS DMV Point System yielded to the appropriate request by bus); the role of pedicabs in transport Speeding (mph over posted limit) the industry, and decided to pursue systems; and the different payment the matter through the courts, and options for taxi and private hire 1to10...3points requested Her Majesty’s High Court services including lessons to learn of Justice in England to once and for from New York City’s installation 11 to 20 . . 4 points all declare the correct interpretation of credit card readers. The webcast 21 to 30 . . 6 points of TfL’s rules regarding the use of of the hearing can be accessed here smartphone apps in Uber vehicles, http://bit.ly/1eihgbm. The committee 31 to 40 . . 8 points and if such apps are the equivalent was tasked with preparing a report of a taximeter. and to publish a recommendation More than 40 . . 11 points The industry trade group, the to the Mayor and TfL to improve Reckless Driving ....5points Licensed Taxi Drivers Association the service quality of both taxis and (LTDA), brought a private criminal private hire services in London, to Failure to stop for a School Bus .5points proceeding at the magistrate’s court further improve its much acclaimed (lower first instance courts) against a “gold standard” service. Following too closely (tailgating) 4 points small number of Uber drivers, alleg- The committee members had Inadequate Brakes ..4points ing breach of the taximeter prohibi- raised many legitimate concerns tion by Uber drivers as a result of their about the advent of transportation (while driving employer's vehicle)2 points use of smartphones in their vehicles to technology companies and their im- determine fares. As such, the LTDA pact on the London black cab industry. Failing to Yield Right-Of-Way...3points derailed the TfL’s application for I indicated to the committee that the Violation Involving Traffic Signal, determination by the High Court as it London black cab service has been the lacks jurisdiction to consider applica- gold standard for many years, and in Stop Sign, or Yield Sign ...3points tions for determinations where there order to maintain this standard, now is ongoing prosecution in the criminal is a good time to take a fresh look Railroad Crossing Violation3 points courts for the same legal issue. The at things. The rules that govern the Improper Passing or Lane Use ..3points LTDA was unwilling to withdraw its industry date back almost 400 years, proceeding fearing if TfL later failed and I applauded the committee and the Leaving scene of an incident involving property to take action, or if the High Court London Assembly’s efforts to take a “Call Sunny& Save Money” failed to hear the application, it would fresh look at the system holistically, damage or injury to an animal .. 3points be “time bared” and it will be unable and to revamp areas of the law that Safety restraint violation involving person to bring the cases back to court. After are outdated to make sure that the reviewing the allegation by the LTDA, industry does not slip and fall behind under 16 .3points the magistrate court concluded that the times. the matter should be considered by I also reiterated to the committee Any other moving violation 2 points the High Court and adjourned the members that London should mandate Note: Speeding when speed not indicated is 3 points PAGE 16 • TAXI INSIDER • MARCH 2015 Who, Is This what the TLC should be promoting !! what is good for the riding public! The will benefi t are the riding public and Pursue ‘Progressive Measures reality is UBER only cares about what’s the hard-working drivers. Fortunately, (Continued from Page 8) This is laughable! If they want to good.... for UBER. Uber must satisfy the TLC is a lot older AND wiser than more money, it’s only during the “Price pursue ‘Progressive Measures’ they will their start up investors who invested UBER and UBER’s ‘Executive of the Gouging” hours. Legislative bills are stop ripping off desperate passengers billions dollars into UBER’s initial suc- Month’ Mr. Alegretti should keep that now before the NYC Council and the and the working poor with their “Dy- cess. The last ones on their list of who in mind! Legislature in Albany to fi nally put an namic Pricing” and start a service for 3 months prior to the drug test and still end to this! Taxi Attorney the poor people in our city. The only fail. Be careful. I don’t know if the test Also, the term “Driver Partners” is (Continued from Page 7) thing that is ‘Progressive’ about UBER is more stringent or what but it appears often used while speaking of the drivers is their desire to progress to power over if you speed or talk on your cell phone to me that a decent number of drivers that work for UBER. ‘Driver Suckers’ the entire industry and the TLC that while driving. Basically, any moving have been failing the drug test. It is would probably be more appropriate!! regulates them! violation now puts you in jeopardy. virtually impossible to defend against While the drivers do all the work and Reform The ‘Broken’ Medallion Call me at 212.754.1011 if you want drug test failure. I am adamantly against take on all the expenses, UBER de- System to discuss your DMV or TLC tickets. the way TLC currently tests for drugs. ducts s a 30% cut of the fare off the This statement is made in reference There are now some instances when it It has nothing to do with regulating the top. They’ve referred to their “Driver to driver income, with a false promise makes sense to take the class more than behavior of drivers when they are on Partners” as the “Other Dude in The of $30 per hour with UBER, and not every 18 months. duty and everything to do with recre- Car” while investing in the development mentioning ALL the driver’s operating Also, please note that I will do an ational activity of drivers. But until the of driver-less cars that would get rid of expenses taken from that fi gure. The excellent job advocating for you at a laws change and TLC rules change. Be their “Driver Partners.” UBER claims medallion system isn’t broken. Medal- fair and reasonable price and I have advised. Do not mess around prior to their drivers can earn a real living. Yes lion drivers make as much money as been doing this business for about 20 your drug test. - but for whom?? UBER drivers and in many cases more. years now and really know what I am Thank you for reading this article. New Model for The Disabled Fleet drivers don’t have the headaches doing. Please call me at 212.754.1011 Call me at 212.754.1011 for all your le- UBER does not have any disabled of car maintenance. Private medallion or 866.LAW.MIKE to discuss your gal needs. Until next month, be well. accessible vehicles. The 50% acces- owners, as there are many, are building DMV or TLC problem. Visit my Mr. Spevack thanks you for reading sible regulation for the fl eet of Yellow wealth with every payment they make website at www.traffi cticketnyc.com. this article which is for entertainment and SHL’s is in the works. The medal- on their investment. UBER drivers have I am here to help you. Take care this purposes only and does not constitute lions that are still on the table to be that opportunity stripped away from month and I wish you the best of luck legal advice. For legal advice, contact auctioned and currently stifl ed by the them with empty false promises. UBER and happiness. Mr. Spevack.http://www.traffi cticket- UBER invasion will add many more drivers have nothing to look forward to Eight, do NOT do drugs before your nyc.com . accessible vehicles. With the adaptation except extinction! drug test. I have guys coming to me See his advertisement on page 38 of e-hail Apps in the medallion taxis, Mr. Alegretti asks the TLC not to who swear that they smoked pot up to of this issue. total accessibly needs will eventually stifl e progress by regulating how Apps become a reality. UBER should do their are run. Basically what he is saying to part and conform to the regulations for the TLC is don’t run UBER because NEED AN ACCOUNTANT? FHV accessibility. UBER wants to run The TLC and the SEE Dynamic Pricing entire industry. There is nothing ‘dynamic’ about So, the bizarre narrative is - appar- THE TAXI INSIDER DIRECTORY PRICE GOUGING !!! Taking advan- ently - believe in UBER because it is tage of the desperate in need is NOT UBER and not the TLC that knows ON PAGE 32

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* At Beaver Street ONLY! MARCH 2015 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 17 Commissioner’s Corner Quoteable By Meera Joshi Hello everyone… I hope you are much time and how many miles they all keeping warm during this stretch drive each and every day. Passenger of extremely cold weather we’ve been and driver communication is an es- experiencing. sential part of the taxi ride dynamic Quotes I’d now like to update everyone and we believe it is very important for on what has been going since my last passengers to share their priority of “I demand an apology from Council cluding expanding education require- column. safety over speed with their drivers. Member Mark Weprin for his outra- ments to FHV drivers. “ I want to start off by giving everyone One very tangible and compelling way geous comment made last night on “We have over 212 (inspectors) now an update on the Commuter Van decal for a passenger to let their driver know NY1’s Inside City Hall. In arguing his and we are actively recruiting for more pilot program which offi cially launched that safety, not speed, is their priority support of congestion pricing, he stated inspectors. We have a new assistant back in November 2014. The goal of this is for them to tip 25%. By doing this, that the East River bridges are used by commissioner whose focus is solely on pilot program is to create a uniformed passengers can let their driver know ‘rich people’ who can afford to drive. street enforcement, especially against logo for our licensed commuter van that safety is more important to them This statement completely ignores the straight plates. We did seizures on New drivers that allow passengers to easily than speed. small businesses and commuters of all Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.” distinguish a licensed commuter van We know drivers are very sensitive income levels who utilize these bridges “The driverless taxi sounds great from an unlicensed one. The TLC to their customers’ needs and there on a daily basis and for whom added for a sci-fi show or the movies, but I has been continuously working with are times when a passenger will ask a tolls would be a hardship. While I have truly believe it is unrealistic for taxi cab the commuter van industry to increase driver to “step on it.” For all the taxi been opposed to Move NY’s congestion service especially in NY. The relation- the number of licensed vans involved passengers out there reading this, please pricing plan from the start, I fi rmly be- ship between the driver and passenger in the pilot to maximize passengers’ resist that urge! Like I said previously, lieve that no matter the route we take, cannot be replaced. It’s nice to talk awareness of this legal transportation drivers already have a very diffi cult job the legislature must take into consider- about it as an idea, will there ever be option. and when they are also confl icted with ation the middle and low-income New a driverless taxi I highly doubt it and Since the pilot’s launch, the TLC has balancing the requests of their passen- Yorkers who rely on these free bridges I don’t see it in our future.” signed a Memorandum of Understand- gers and their desire and obligation to day in and day out.” Quotes by TLC chairwoman Meera ing (MOU) with 34 licensed commuter follow the law, it can create a stressful Statement by senator tony avella on Joshi on the taxi dave show (every van authorities who affi liate a combined environment for both the driver and council member weprin’s comments on sunday night 8:00 – 9:00 pm) 375 vans. In other words, 72% of the passenger. ny1’s inside city hall. • • • • • licensed commuter van authorities and TLC licensees have a unique and • • • • • “While I understand the need to 70% of the licensed commuter van fl eet powerful ability, though. With over “One thing for sure in the future, identify additional revenue to fund are participants in this pilot. 120,000 licensed drivers and 70,000 there will still be a strong hail market. the MTA capital budget and necessary To raise awareness about the pilot, licensed vehicles, our licensees are in The yellow taxi industry has withstood infrastructure projects, the latest ver- but more specifi cally, licensed com- a position to really set the tone on our all kinds of ups and downs and NYC sion of ‘congestion pricing’ still falls muter van service in general, we have streets by driving the speed limit. If clearly loves its yellow taxis. That will short of being a workable plan. The created an informational palm card that our drivers drive the speed limit, it will never change.” proposal neglects to address two criti- provides some of the most important send a ripple effect to all other drivers “Do you tip for speed or do you tip cal failings. First, the state legislature information for passengers to know who will then also have to drive the for safety? Passengers really need to has yet to develop a ‘locked box’ that about spotting licensed commuter van speed limit. tip for safety. They can’t put the driver cannot be opened. In effect, there is service. Lastly before I sign off this month, in an unsafe situation pressured to go no guarantee that the money raised I want to send thanks to all of the the TLC held a public hearing on fast. Who suffers in that situation? The will go toward MTA capital funding elected offi cials, police precincts, and February 12 to hear testimony from driver does. We want to raise safety or infrastructure projects. Second, local community boards that have industry stakeholders regarding a li- awareness with passengers. Passengers the proposal to place tolls on the East played an enormous role in helping censing structure to address the ways can show that appreciation with a 25% River bridge relies heavily on the com- us spread this information. With their in which for-hire vehicle (FHV) bases or larger tip. TLC drivers are profes- mitment to reduce the tolls on the other help, we have already distributed over use smartphones applications to dis- sional drivers, out of all the drivers in bridges, such as the Whitestone and 3,500 palm cards! patch vehicles. An important role of NYC, professional drivers are clearly Throggs Neck Bridges. However, just In other news, on February 5, the the TLC is to promote innovation, ac- the safest ones.” as in the case of a ‘locked box’, there TLC, in partnership with Cab Riders countability, customer service, safety, “We are still actively enforcing is no guarantee that the reduced tolls United and other devoted industry and consumer protection across all of through seizure and summonses. When on the other bridges would remain as groups launched a “Taxi Drive 25 Day.” our regulated industries. Holding this we see TLC licensed vehicles picking such. Although the Move NY proposal The goal of this outreach campaign was hearing enabled us to better understand up a street hail they get summonsed. is well-intentioned, in the end it is to raise awareness of the 25 mile per how the various dispatching apps oper- When we see straight plates picking nothing more than a sham.” hour speed limit in New York City and ate within New York City and how our up a street hail, they get seized. We are Statement by Senator Tony Avella, to help emphasize an important goal of licensees are using them. seizing hundreds of cars every month. Sponsor of Senate Bill S. 1100 to Ban Vision Zero. We had several volunteers We received a lot of valuable feed- We are at the airports now inside the East River Bridge Tolls, on the Move hitting the streets near the Grand Cen- back from those who attended the hear- terminals working with the Port Author- NY Fair Plan. tral taxi stand who were handing out ing and submitted written comments. ity arresting hustlers. We so far have In 2014, Senator Avella introduced fl iers to passengers in order to spread We are now in the process of digesting done over 30 arrests. It is a tremendous legislation to prohibit New York City the word “tip 25% to drivers who drive all positions that were discussed and deterrent when other hustlers see us from establishing East River tolls. 25mph”. will culminate the information into a arresting.” Senate Bill S.1100 was re-introduced Driving in New York City, profes- fair and effective proposal for a licens- “We are looking at education in- in 2015. sional driver or not, is no easy task. This ing framework. is why our licensees have a particularly That’s all for now. Until next time, ‘Bias At Work’ In Cop Quotas diffi cult job when you consider how stay warm and drive safely! City cops are routinely denied overtime and vacation, demoted to menial posts and ultimately threatened with being fi red for not making quotas, a form the system and move forward Driving On Snow scathing new class-action lawsuit charges. on their own. I believe that the (Continued from Page 15) The lawsuit, set to be fi led Monday in Manhattan Supreme Court, specifi - Mayor and the Assembly will reach a cally addresses minority offi cers being allegedly forced to make at least one taxi and private hire industries. middle ground and that we will soon arrest and issue 20 summonses a month. It remains to be seen how London be looking at many improvements to Reprinted with permission from The New York Post. will move forward on transporta- the system to make it stay at the top tion technology regulatory issues. of the regulatory world. The gold of While movement may be tied-up the London regulatory system may NEED A TOW TRUCK? in the courts right now, the London have some fingerprints and smudges Assembly is determined to move on it right now, but I am confident SEE forward, and technology disruptors that the ongoing conflicts will cause THE TAXI INSIDER DIRECTORY ON are not waiting for the governmental its gold to become shiny and brilliant authorities and are seeking to trans- once again. PAGE 32 PAGE 18 • TAXI INSIDER • MARCH 2015 RED LIGHT AND SPEED CAMERAS MANHATTAN Broadway @ 169 St. MHB-29 Brklyn S URDWY @ Twr 1 Ave. @ E. 14 St. Brooklyn Battery Tunnel @ West St. MHB-30 @ BRK S URW @ TWR Walk Way 1 Ave. @ 23 St. Brooklyn Battery Tunnel Entrance - INACTIVE Montgomergy @ South St. 1 Ave. and 34 St. Brooklyn Bridge - Ped Walk Way Park Ave. @ 23 St. 1 Ave. @ 42 St. Brooklyn Bridge @ Centre St. Park Ave. @ 34 St. 1 Ave. @ 79 St. Canal St. @ Allen St. Park Ave. @ 57 St. 1 Ave. @ 86 St. Canal St. @ Chrystie St. Pearl St. @ Dover 1 Ave. @ 96 St. Central Park S. @ Columbus Cr. Pearl St. @ St. James Pl. 1 Ave. @ 110 St. Church St. @ Vesey QBB LL CM @ W Channel 1 Ave. @ 124 St. Columbus Ave. @ 67 St. QBB NOR @ York Ave. 2 Ave. @ 23 St. Columbus St. @ 65 St. QBB SOR @ 1 Ave. - INACTIVE 2 Ave. @ 36 St.-Midtown Tunnel CPW @ 96 St. QBB UL CM @ Roosevelt - INACTIVE 2 Ave. @ 42 St. Dyer @ 42 St. QBB UL CM @ York Ave. 2 Ave. @ 49 St. E 57 St. @ QBB Queens Mid. Tunl. @ Manhattan Side - INACTIVE 2 Ave. @ 58 St. E 63 St. @ QBB RT. 9A @ N. Moore St. 2 Ave. @ 59 St. (QBB) - INACTIVE East Houston St. @ Ave. B South St. @ Broad St. 2 Ave. @ 110 St. East Houston St. @ Ave. D South St. @ Pike St. 2 Ave. @ 125 St. FDR Dr @ Brooklyn Bridge Exit NB St Nicholas Ave. @ 125 St. 3 Ave. @ 23 St. FDR Dr @ Brooklyn Bridge Exit SB St Nicholas Ave. @ 145 St. 3 Ave. @ 34 St. FDR Dr @ Catherine Street St Nicholas Ave. @ 181 St. - INACTIVE 3 Ave. @ 42 St. FDR @ Grand St. Sutton Pl. @ 58 St. 3 Ave. @ 49 St. FDR @ Jackson St. Triborough Bridges @ Manhattan Bound 3 Ave. @ 57 St. FDR Dr @ Old Slip Union Sq. @ 14 St. 3 Ave. @ 59 St. FDR @ E 6 St. - INACTIVE Varick St. @ Hudson St. 5 Ave. @ 23 St. FDR Dr @ 23 St. Water St. @ John St. 5 Ave. @ 34 St. FDR Dr @ 38 St. WBB-20 @ MidSpan 5 Ave. @ 42 St. FDR @ 48 St. WBB-21 @ SOR Manh Appr 5 Ave. @ 49 St. FDR @ E 53 St. WBB-22 @ S Manh Twr. 5 Ave. @ 57 St. FDR Dr. @ 73 St. WBB-23 @ N Manh Twr. 5 Ave. @ 72 St. FDR Dr. @ 79 St. West Broadway @ West Houston St. - INACTIVE 6 Ave. @ 14 St. FDR Dr. @ 90 St. West Houston @ Hudson St. 6 Ave. @ 23 St. FDR Dr. @ 96 St. West Houston @ Varick St. - INACTIVE 6 Ave. @ 34 St. - INACTIVE FDR Dr. @ 111 St. West St. @ Albany St. - INACTIVE 6 Ave. @ 42 St. FDR @ E 127 St. West St. @ Canal St. 6 Ave. @ 49 St. FDR Dr. @ 135 St. West St. @ Clarkson. - INACTIVE 6 Ave. @ 57 St. FDR Dr. @ 155 St. West St. @ Murray 6 Ave. @ 58 St. Ft Washington Ave. @ 178 St. West St. @ West Houston St. 6 Ave. @ West Houston St. - INACTIVE Ft Washington @ 179 St. West Street @ Intrepid - INACTIVE 7 Ave. @ 23St. Grand St. @ Allen St. - INACTIVE Worth St. @ Bowery 7 Ave. @ 34 St. Grand St. @ Broadway Worth St. @ Lafayette St. 7 Ave. @ 49 St. Grand St. @ Essex St. - INACTIVE Worth St. @ . Broadway 7 Ave. @ 57 St. Greenwich St. @ Morris St. 7 Ave. @ 145 St. Harlem River Dr. (FDR) @ 166 St. BROOKLYN 8 Ave. @ 14 St. Henry Hudson @ South Bound Adams @ Tillary - INACTIVE 8 Ave. @ 23 St. Henry Hudson @ 70 St. Atlantic Ave. @ Boerum St. 8 Ave. @ 34 St. Henry Hudson Pkwy @ 96 St. Atlantic Ave. @ BQE 8 Ave. @ 42 St.. Henry Hudson Pkwy @ 125 St. - INACTIVE Atlantic Ave. @ Vanderbilt Ave. - INACTIVE 8 Ave. @ 49 St Henry Hudson @ 137 St. Belt Pkwy. @ 150th St. - INACTIVE 8 Ave. @ Columbus Cr. South Henry Hudson @ 158 St. Belt Pkwy. @ 158 St. 9 Ave. @ 23 St. Holland Tunnel Belt Pkwy. @ 68 St. 9 Ave. @ 30 St. Houston St. @ Bowery St. Belt Pkwy. @ Bay 8th St. 9 Ave. @ 34 St. Houston St. @ Broadway Belt Pkwy. @ Erskine 9 Ave. @ 37 St. Houston St. @ Christies St. Belt Pkwy. @ Flatbush 9 Ave. @ 42 St. Houston St @ Lafeyette St. Belt Pkwy. @ Ocean Pkwy. 9 Ave. @ 48 St. - INACTIVE Lenox Ave. @ 125 St. - INACTIVE Belt Pkwy. @ Pennsylvania Ave. 9 Ave. @ 49 St. Lenox Ave. @ 135 St. Belt Pkwy. @ Cross Bay Blvd. 9 Ave. @ 57 St. Lexington Ave. @ 23 St. BQE @ Cadman Plz. Ent. 9 Ave. @ 207 St. Lexington Ave. @ 34 St. BQE @ Hamilton Ave B-G Ramp – INACTIVE 11 Ave. @ 34 St. - INACTIVE Lexington Ave. @ 42 St. BQE @ Varick St. – INACTIVE 11 Ave. @ 42 St. - INACTIVE Lexington Ave. @ 49 St. Brooklyn Queens Expy. - GCP @ 31st Ave. 12 Ave. @ 14 St. - INACTIVE Lexington Ave. @ 57 St. Brooklyn Queens Expy. @ Metropolitan Ave 12 Ave. @ 22 St. - INACTIVE Lexington Ave. @ 72 St. - INACTIVE Brooklyn Queens Expy. @ 31st Ave 12 Ave. @ 34 St. - INACTIVE Madison @ 34 St. Brooklyn Queens Expy. @ Adams St 12 Ave. @ 42 St. - INACTIVE Madison @ 42 St. Brooklyn Queens Expy. @ Atlantic Ave. 12 Ave. @ 57 St. - INACTIVE Madison @ 49 St. Brooklyn Queens Expy. @ Broadway St. Amsterdam @ 60 St. - INACTIVE Madison @ 57 St. Brooklyn Queens Expy. @ Congress St. Amsterdam @ 72 St. Madison @ 96 St. Brooklyn Queens Expy. @ Furman St. LL. Amsterdam @ 86 St. MHB-17 Manh LRW @ X OVER Brooklyn Queens Expy. @ Furman St. UL. Amsterdam @ 125 St. MHB-18 Manh LRW @ EOF X Over Brooklyn Queens Expy. @ Hamilton Ave. Amsterdam @ 178 St. MHB-20 Mahn S URW @ Anch - INACTIVE Brooklyn Queens Expy. @ Kent Ave. Baxter St. @ Canal St. MHB-21 Manh N URDWY @ Arch Brooklyn Queens Expy. @ Lee Ave. Broadway @ Chambers St. MHB-22 Manh N URDWY @ Twr Brooklyn Queens Expy. @ Manhattan Ave. Broadway @ 42 St. MHB-23 Manh LRDWY @ Twr Brooklyn Queens Expy. @ Middagh St. LL. Broadway @ 46 St. - INACTIVE MHB-24 Manh S URDWY @ Twr Brooklyn Queens Expy. @ Middagh St UL. Broadway @ 51 St. MHB-25 Manh S URW @ Twr Walkwy Brooklyn Queens Expy. @ Morgan Ave. Broadway @ 96 St. MHB-27 Bklyn N URDWY @ Twr Brooklyn Queens Expy. @ Sackett St. Broadway @ 125 St. - INACTIVE MHB-28 Bklyn LRDW @ Twr (Continued on Page 20) MARCH 2015 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 19 A0255 A0293 Current Medallion Agents Kim Cab Leasing Corp. NYC Taxi Network Inc. A0002 A0202 3864a Flatlands Avenue 801 Metropolitan Avenue Ann Service Corp All Taxi Management Inc Brooklyn, NY 11234 Brooklyn, NY 11211 142 West 21 Street 41-25 36 Street (718) 252-8300 (718) 388-8800 NY, NY 10011 LIC, NY 11101 (212) 929-3676 (718) 361-0055 A0257 A0301 Argon Management Corp. Napasei Management Corp. A0003 A0204 13-20 Jackson Avenue 607 West 47 Street Cab Management Corp B. Taxi Management Inc. LIC, NY 11101 New York, NY 10036 27-34 Jackson Avenue 314 West 53 Street (718) 482-0715 (646) 641-8307 LIC, NY 11101 NY, NY 10019 (718) 937-8668 (212) 957-0033 A0259 A0307 Mc Guinness Management Corp Taxifl eet Management LLC A0011 A0206 330 Mc Guinness Boulevard 54-11 Queens Boulevard J & I Maintenance Corp. AJB Taxi Management Inc. Bklyn, NY 11222 Woodside, NY 11377 341 Bergen Street 662 10 Avenue (718) 389-4483 (718) 779-5000 Brooklyn, NY 11217 NY, NY 10036 (718) 858-3502 (212) 956-3177 A0263 A0308 Steinway Express Mgmt. Corp. Taxifl eet Management LLC. A0013 A0213 36-06 Steinway Street 34-14 31 Street Team Systems Corp. J T L Management Inc. LIC, NY 11101 LIC, NY 11106 30-17 40 Avenue 36-16 Skillman Avenue (718) 361-1647 (718) 361-6363 LIC, NY 11101 LIC, NY 11101 (718) 786-0643 (718) 392-7000 A0267 A0312 2000 Management Inc. Gotham Yellow LLC. A0014 A0217 1817 Coney Island Avenue 75 Canal Street West Midtown Operating Corp. Medallion Maintenance Inc. Bklyn, NY 11230 Bronx, NY 10451 42-50 24 Street 11-38 44 Road (718) 336-6565 (718) 993-8100 LIC, NY 11101 LIC, NY 11101 (718) 937-2080 (718) 472-9000 A0272 A0313 Malcolm Management Corp. Northwestern Management Corp. A0015 A0224 374 FourtH Avenue 35-11 43 Avenue 2nd Floor 55 Stan Operating Corp S & R Medallion Corp. Brooklyn, NY 11215 LIC, NY 11101 45-16 Vernon Boulevard 625 West 51 Street (718) 222-4040 (718) 482-8181 LIC, NY 11101 New York, NY 10019 (718) 786-5811 (212) 957-9200 A0275 A0314 Avenue M Management Corp. L.I.C. Taxi Management Inc. A0017 A0225 1500 Mcdonald Avenue 37-28 30 Street 521 West 21st St Management Corp. Style Management Co. Brooklyn, NY 11230 LIC, NY 11101 415 West 127 Street 514 West 44 Street (718) 627-7097 (718) 361-0063 New York, NY 10027 New York, NY 10036 (212) 665-4900 (212) 279-3166 A0280 A0319 Eddie’s Management Corp. The Bridge Group Of NYC Inc. A0020 A0232 40-08 24 Street 35-11 43 Avenue Downtown Taxi Management LLC Wailing Management Inc. LIC, NY 11101 LIC, NY 11101 330 Butler Street 31-08 Northern Boulevard (718) 707-0072 (718) 786-6594 Brooklyn, NY 11217 LIC, NY 11101 (718) 435-0660 (718) 472-1800 A0281 A0320 Awesome Management Inc. Executive Owners Holding Corp. A0102 A0234 520 West 44 Street 21-03 44 Avenue Susan Maintenance Corp Woodside Management Inc. New York, NY 10036 LIC, NY 11101 374 4th Avenue 49-13 Roosevelt Avenue (212) 967-7577 (718) 784-9292 Bklyn, NY 11215 Woodside, NY 11377 (718) 222-4040 (718) 899-9369 A0282 A0322 Yellow Cab Sls Jet Managemen Corp. NYC Interboro Management Inc. A0105 A0236 22-05 43 Avenue 36-02 21 Street Utica Taxi Center Inc. D & J Management Of Queens Inc. LIC, NY 11101 LIC, NY 11106 465 Utica Avenue 34-14 64 Street (718) 752-9097 (718) 392-0250 Bklyn, NY 11203 Woodside, NY 11377 (718) 774-9767 (718) 458-6609 A0289 A0323 Boulevard Taxi Leasing Inc. Yellow Cab Crescent Mgmt. LLC A0110 A0246 32-56 49 Street 22-05 43 Avenue Winners Garage Inc. 28 Street Management, Inc. LIC, NY 11103 LIC, NY 11101 34-14 64 Street 313 10 Avenue (718) 932-3312 (718) 752-9097 Woodside, NY 11377 NY, NY 10001 (718) 458-7000 (212) 244-6553 A0290 A0324 United Taxi Mgmt. Group, Inc. AstoRia Taxi Leasing Corp. A0113 A0249 43-10 39 Street 32-56 49 Street Checker Management Corp. On Our Way Management Corp. LIC, NY 11104 LIC, NY 11103 22-10 Jackson Avenue 6814 5 Avenue (718) 392-4600 (718) 932-3312 LIC, NY 11101 Bklyn, NY 11220 (718) 361-6300 (718) 833-8125 A0292 A0325 City Transport Mgmt Arthur Cab Leasing Corp. A0201 A0253 54-18 Broadway 25-11 41 Avenue Green Apple Management Corp. Queens Medallion Leasing Inc. Woodside, NY 11377 LIC, NY 11101 34-20 31 Street 21-03 44 Avenue (718) 507-4840 (718) 392-3013 LIC, NY 11106 LIC, NY 11101 (718) 361-5555 (718) 784-9292 (Continued on Page 34) PAGE 20 • TAXI INSIDER • MARCH 2015 Red Light Cameras New Eng Thru @ Bartow QBB UL @ Queens Pier New England Trwy @ East Tremont – INACTIVE QBB Uramp @ 23 St. (Continued from Page 20) Throgs Neck Bridge @ Bronx Bound – INACTIVE Qns Blvd @ 65 Ave. Brooklyn Queens Expy @ Sands St. Triborough Bridge Bronx Bound Qns Blvd @ 65 Pl. Brooklyn Queens Expy @ South 5th St. Whitestone @ Bronx Bound – INACTIVE Qns Blvd @ QnCnt Mall Brooklyn Queens Expy @ State St UL. QUEENS Queens Blvd @ 36 St. Brooklyn Queens Expy @ Union St. Belt Pkwy @ 130 St. Queens Blvd @ 51 St. Brooklyn Queens Expy @ Wythe Ave. Belt Pkwy @ Brookville Blvd. Queens Blvd @ Jackson Ave. BBT @ Brklyn Side – INACTIVE Belt Pkwy @ Springfi eld Blvd. Queens Blvd @ Skillman Cadman Plz. E @ Prospect St. BQE31 - EB at 54th Ave - Ex35 Queens Blvd @ Van Dam Cross Bay Blvd. @ Wildlife Refuge BQE33 WB at 45th St - Ex35 Queens Blvd Mid Span of QBB Cross Bay Blvd. @ 156 Ave. BQE35 EB at 61st St - Ex39 Queens Midtown Tunnel @ Queens Side – INAC- Cross Bay Blvd. @ Rockaway Blvd. BQE39 WB at Broadway - Ex40 TIVE Flatbush Ave. @ Willoughby BQE40 WB at Northern Blvd - Ex41 Queens Plaza N @ Northern Blvd. Flatbush Ave. and 4 Ave. BQE @ Stewart Ave. – INACTIVE Queens Plaza North @ 2811 (Westside) Flatbush Ave. and Atlantic Ave. Clearview @ Northern Blvd. Queens Plz S @ 27 St. Flatbush Ave. @ 6 Ave. Clearview Expy. @ 26th Ave. Rockaway Blvd @ Division St. Gowanus Expwy @ 57 St. Clearview Expy. @ 35 St. Springfi eld Ave @ Jamaica Ave. Gowanus Expwy @ 6 Ave. Cross Bay Blvd. @ 20 Rd. Springfi eld Blvd @ Merrick Blvd. Gowanus Expwy @ 63 St. - INACTIVE Cross Bay Blvd. @ North Channel Bridge Throgs Neck Bridge @ Queens Bound Gowanus Expwy @ 72 St. Cross Island Expy. @ 14 Ave. Triborough Bridge Queens Bound – INACTIVE Gowanus Expwy @ 79 St. Cross Island Pkwy. @ Bayside Marina Union tpke @ Little Neck Pkwy. Gowanus Expwy @ Fort Hamilton Pkwy. Cross Island Pkwy. @ Throgsneck – INACTIVE Van Wyck @ Atlantic – INACTIVE Gowanus Expwy btwn 6 & 7 Ave. Cross Island Pkw.y @ Union Tpke. Van Wyck Expwy @ 101 Ave SB Gowanus Expwy btwn 6 & 7 Ave. CrossBay @ North Bound Van Wyck Expwy @ 101 Ave NB Gowanus Expwy. @ Prospect Interchange CrossBay @ South Bound – INACTIVE Van Wyck Expwy @ 109 Ave. Gowanus Expwy. @ Sackett St. – INACTIVE CVE02 NB at 64th Ave. – INACTIVE Van Wyck Expwy @ 111 Ave. Gowanus Expy. WB @ 36 St. CVE03 SB at 56th Ave. – INACTIVE Van Wyck Expwy @ 133 Ave SB Grand Army Plaza CVE04 SB at 48th Ave. – INACTIVE Van Wyck Expwy @ 67 Rd. Marine Parkway @ North Bound – INACTIVE GCP @ 166 St. Van Wyck Expwy @ 87 Ave. MHB-31 Bklyn N URW @ Anch – INACTIVE GCP @ 214 St. Van Wyck Expwy @ 91 Ave. MHB-33 Bklyn LRW @ Ex Ramp – INACTIVE GCP @ 31 St. Van Wyck Expwy @ Alwick Rd SB Ocean Pkwy. @ Ave. I GCP @ Astoria Blvd @ 49 St. Van Wyck Expwy @ Atlantic Ave. Ocean Pkwy. @ Ave. U GCP Astoria N SR @ 49 St. Van Wyck Expwy @ College Point Blvd. Ocean Pkwy. @ Church Ave. GCP EB @ 126 St. – INACTIVE Van Wyck Expwy @ Foch Blvd. SB Ocean Pkwy. @ Ditmas Ave. GCP EB @ 37 St. Van Wyck Expwy @ GCP/Interchange Prospect Expy. @ 6 Ave. GCP06 WB at 27th Ave – Ex 6 Van Wyck Expwy @ Hillside Ave. Prospect Expy. @ 7 Ave. – INACTIVE GCP07 EB at Ditmars Blvd – Ex 9 Van Wyck Expwy @ Jackie Robinson Pkwy. Prospect Expy. @ 9 Ave. GCP08 EB at Roosevelt Ave – Ex 9 Van Wyck Expwy @ LIE Prospect Expy. @ Caton Ave. - INACTIVE GR Brewer @ Belt Van Wyck Expwy @ Queens Blvd.(entrance ramp) Prospect Expy. @ Fort Hamilton Pkwy. Grand Central Pkwy @ 37 St. Van Wyck Expwy @ Rockaway Blvd. Prospect Pkwy. @ 3 Ave. – INACTIVE Grand Central Pkwy @ 46 St. Van Wyck Expwy Btwn 115 Ave. & 116 Ave. Sands St @ BQE Ent. Grand Central Pkwy @ 72 St. Van Wyck Expy @ S Conduit Ave LL – INACTIVE Sands St @ Brooklyn Bridge Ent. Grand Central Pkwy @ 75 St. VWE01 SB at 134th St - Ex19 – INACTIVE Verrazano-Narrows @ Bklyn. Bound – INACTIVE Grand Central Pkwy E/Connector @ 126 St. VWE08 NB at Foch Blvd - Ex2 WBB-1 @ Bklyn Plaza Hillside Ave @ Little Neck Pkwy. Whitestone @ Queens Bound – INACTIVE WBB-14 @ NIR Bklyn Kent Ave. LIE @ Kissena Blvd. Whitestone Expwy @ 14 Ave (Median) WBB-16 @ SOR Bklyn Kent Ave. LIE @ Marathon Pkwy. Whitestone Expwy @ 25 Rd (Median) WBB-18 @ SOR Cntr Span LIE @ QMT- Pulaski Br. – INACTIVE Whitestone Nof Linden Pl. - INACTIVE WBB-19 @ Bklyn Tower LIE EB @ Pulaski Bridge – INACTIVE Woodhaven Blvd @ Furmanville Ave. WBB-2 @ NOR Bklyn-Driggs LIE @ 163rd St. Woodhaven Blvd @ Jamaica Ave. WBB-4 @ NOR Bklyn-Mid Span LIE @ 172nd St. Woodhaven Blvd @ Myrtle Ave. WBB-6 @ Delancy-Clinton LIE @ 185th St. – INACTIVE Woodhaven Blvd @ Union Tpke. BRONX LIE @ 27th St. STATEN ISLAND BRE04 WB at Bronx Rvr Pkwy Ex51 LIE @ 48 St UL – INACTIVE Gower St WOF Manor Rd Underpass – INAC- BRE05 WB at Castle Hill Ave Ex52 LIE @ 48th St LL – INACTIVE TIVE BRE07 NB at Quincy Ave - Ex7B LIE @ 58th St LL Hylan Blvd @ New Dorp Lane Bronx River Pkwy @ 233 St. LIE @ 75 St. Hylan Blvd @ Seaview Ave. Bruckner Blvd @ Lincoln Ave. LIE @ 84 St. – INACTIVE Korean War Veterans Pkwy @ Tyrellan Ave. Bruckner Expy. @ Bronx River Pkwy. – INAC- LIE @ 99 St. Korean War Vetrans Pkwy @ Bloomingdale Rd. TIVE LIE @ Francis Lewis Blvd. – INACTIVE MLK Jr. Expwy @ Forest Ave. Cross Bronx Expy. @ E of Bronx River Pkwy. – LIE @ Grand Ave. MLK Jr. Expwy @ Walker St. – INACTIVE INACTIVE LIE @ Grand Central Pkwy. MLK Jr. Expwy @ Watchogue Rd. Cross Bronx Expy. @ Randall Ave. – INACTIVE LIE @ Greenpoint Ave. Outerbridge Crossing @ Tyrellan Ave. Fordham Rd @ Hughes Ave. LIE @ Kissena Blvd. SIE @ Clove Rd. Fordham Rd and Grand Concourse LIE @ Lawrence St. SIE @ Richmond Ave. GCP @ LGA 94 St Exit LIE @ ramp to W/B BQE – INACTIVE Staten Island Expwy @ Bradley Ave. Grand Concourse @ 161 St. LIE @ Underhill Ave. – INACTIVE Staten Island Expwy @ Forest Ave. Henry Hudson @ North Bound – INACTIVE LIE btwn 50 St - 58th St. – INACTIVE Staten Island Expwy @ Gower St. – INACTIVE Henry Hudson Pkwy @ 232 St. – INACTIVE Long Island Expy ramp to W/B BQE Staten Island Expwy @ Richmond Ave. Hutchinson River Pkwy. @ E. Tremont – INAC- Marine Parkway @ South Bound – INACTIVE Staten Island Expwy @ SIE/MLK Interchange TIVE Northern Blvd @ 106 St. Staten Island Expwy @ Victory Blvd. Hutchinson Rvr. Pkwy. @ Whitestone Br. – INAC- Northern Blvd @ 68 St. – INACTIVE Staten Island Expwy @ W of South Ave. TIVE Northern Blvd @ 97 St. Verrazano-Narrows @ Staten Island Bound – IN- Macombs Dam Bridge Northern Blvd @ GCP ACTIVE Major Deegan @ Triboro Bridge Northern Blvd @ Honeywell Bridge Victory Blvd @ Bay St. Major Deegan Expy @ N of Alex Hamilton Bridge Northern Blvd @ Little Neck Pkwy. Victory Blvd @ Jersey St. Major Deegan Expy @ S of W 167 St. Oceania @ LIE Victory Blvd WOF Campus Dr. – INACTIVE MDE10 NB @ W.175th St - Ex7 CBX – INACTIVE QBB @ Crescent St. West Shore Expwy @ Englewood Ave. NE Thruway @ Conner St. QBB LL CM @ 11 St. (Continued on Page 22) MARCH 2015 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 21 Feb. Taxi Driver Puzzle Snow Problems Do you know the stories behind each word? You would if you listened to Taxi Dave’s Radio Show, Sunday’s at 8:00 PM on WOR710. Brought to you by Melrose Credit Union. You will also understand the puzzle better if you read our articles. E M L H S U C T I O N E L G E E L O D R P 2 2 3 T B R T Y G W E I G S O N A I A E E R A R V L E A W X S H R N C P E A O V C P I S C B T A P E C C O T A S E R A E B L F Y P R O U O C U C K 2 5 % T I P S O N C S T N E C 0 3 V R O W I A M E N T E 8 A P R I L L R E C A S X I O N O 2 A M I N R E E T X F M U 0 N W A S I R N E A T O H T G H H T E D L E I F N E E R E C N E M E E R G A E S A E L Find the following words/accronyms in the puzzle above •25% TIPS • LEASE AGREEMENTS • • WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE TAXIS • • 80% FEE REDUCTION • SURGE CAP • • COUNCILMAN GREENFIELD • AREN RIEDMAN •PRIVACY PROTOCOLS • YELLOW APP • K A. 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SUSPENSIONS & WARRANTS LIFTED include a winter survival kit in your • Avoid passing snow plows and vehicle: an ice scraper, snow shovel sand trucks, as the drivers can have CRIMINALLY RELATED MATTERS and sand/salt, battery jumper cables, limited visibility. fl ash light, cell phone and charger, extra • Monitor road and weather condi- Driving While Intoxicated (DWI); clothes/warm winter apparel. tions by checking local news stations • Be sure to clear snow and ice off and weather sites. Reckless Driving; your car- including windows, mirrors, • Avoid traveling during a major lights, hood, roof and trunk. snow storm or blizzard unless abso- Aggravated Unlicensed Operation • Be cautious of black ice and lutely necessary. If you must travel, slippery roads. Remember that speed inform someone of your travel plans. 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You will only need to make one payment to cover Uber and—surprised?—Google. Bloomberg said Google is developing the total amount owed for both funds. Please be aware that you will not be able Uber, a taxi-on-demand service, has its own driverless taxis. to pay an amount other than what is listed on your fi nal invoice, nor will you be partnered with Carnegie Mellon Uni- Bloomberg said Google Ventures, able to make any payments outside of the LARS system. No partial payments versity for a robotics research facility in Google’s venture capital arm, invested will be accepted. Also, a new quarter cannot be paid if previous quarters have Pittsburgh to build driverless cars. $258 million in Uber in August 2013 not been paid. To pay you must have a valid checking account, credit card, or “Uber and Carnegie Mellon Uni- but now appears to be developing is debit card, and e-mail address. American Express, Discover, MasterCard, and versity (CMU) are announcing today a own driverless vehicles. Visa are accepted. strategic partnership that includes the It added Uber executives have seen Questions regarding amounts owed should be directed to your TPEP or LPEP creation of the Uber Advanced Tech- screenshots of what seems to be a Provider for resolution during the 15-day Challenge Period so that a new amount nologies Center in Pittsburgh, near the Google ride-sharing app. owed can be provided and a revised statement printed. CMU campus. The center will focus on “Google has made no secret of its the development of key long-term tech- ambitions to revolutionize transporta- nologies that advance Uber’s mission tion with autonomous vehicles. Chief New TLC Rules For of bringing safe, reliable transportation Executive Offi cer Larry Page is said to Owner-Must-Drive Medallions to everyone, everywhere,” it said in a be personally fascinated by the chal- blog post. lenge of making cities operate more No More 180 - 9 Hour Shifts! It said Uber will work with CMU effi ciently. The company recently said Now 900 Hours faculty, staff, and students on campus the driverless car technology in devel- (i) General Rule. [From January 1, 2012, an] An Independent Medallion and at the National Robotics Engineer- opment within its Google X research Owner who acquired the Independent Medallion on or after January 7, 1990 ing Center for research and develop- lab is from two to fi ve years from being must drive his or her Taxicab a minimum of[180 nine-] 900 hours[shifts] each ment, “primarily in the areas of map- ready for widespread use,” Bloomberg calendar year[ for a total operating time of 1,620 hours per year].. ping and vehicle safety and autonomy said. NO MORE $5,000 PENALTY! technology.” Bloomberg noted Uber’s smart- (iii)] An Owner who provides the service required by section 58-20(a)([3]2) TechCrunch cited sources who said phone apps are based on Google by electing to use the Independent Driver Option will pay a penalty each calendar Uber is hiring more than 50 senior Maps - a situation that allows Google year for failing to provide service personally. The penalty the Owner will pay is scientists from Carnegie Mellon as to acquire data about transportation $[5,000] 1,000, unless the Owner is 62 or older at the time of election, in which well as from the National Robotics patterns in cities. case the penalty is $[2,500]500. Engineering Center. An added sign of a potential confl ict HAVE A PAGE FOR INDUSTRY NOTICES: It added its source said most of these between Uber and Google involved USED VEHCILES APPROVED! technologies came through a “massive” Google’s announcement it would start 15-07: On January 29, 2015, the Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) ap- military spending push over the past presenting data from third party appli- proved a pilot permitting the use of Used Vehicles in taxicab service. The Pilot of decade and should give CMU millions cations inside Google Now, its service Used Vehicles will allow TLC to determine whether such use will have a positive in IP licensing fees. presenting useful information promi- effect on vehicle owner costs, if the Pilot will provide fl exibility to those vehicle Also, TechCrunch said Uber will nently on Android smartphones. owners looking to transition between the for-hire and taxicab segments, as well develop the core technology, vehicles, “Google said it had struck deals to as if the Pilot will promote the use of the medallion-only lease under the Driver- and associated infrastructure at the draw data from such apps as Pandora, Owned Vehicle (DOV) model without adversely affecting public safety. Pittsburgh facility. AirBnb, Zillow, and the ride-sharing Who Can Participate? “They have already hired a number service Lyft. The company most obvi- Vehicle owners who own a Used Vehicle that meets all requirements listed of employees and made moves to outfi t ously missing from that list? Google’s below: them with software, including a multi- old and possibly former friend, Uber,” • Used Vehicle model must be listed on the current list of approved taxicab hundred-thousand dollar investment in it said. — GMA News vehicles, found here, on the date the Pilot Application and MOU are received by TLC. Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow! • Vehicles must be no more than two years old. Vehicle age is measured as the years between the current calendar year and the model year designated by the vehicle manufacturer (for example, a 2014 model year vehicle is 1 year old in calendar year 2015). • Vehicles must be previously licensed by TLC as either a taxicab or an FHV. • Vehicles must have passed all prior inspections required by TLC. 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Average Gas Prices As of March 5, 2015 New York Regular Mid Premium Diesel Current $2.675 $2.869 $3.021 $3.585 Joshi says we’re better off with the competition from those illegal apps. Keep drinking the Kool Aid suckers! We might as well have uber’s ceo as assistant Week Ago $2.566 $2.774 $2.962 $3.510 commissioner. Nyc medallion system bankrupt and owners unable to meet Month Ago $2.458 $2.682 $2.830 $3.472 their payments. HEADLINE NEWS- COMING SOON TO A NEWSPAPER IN YOUR AREA. Year Ago $3.796 $3.967 $4.111 $4.561 R. Goolcharran PAGE 28 • TAXI INSIDER • MARCH 2015

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Thank you ! 15 W 56th Street Eastgate Tower Suites Hotel between 5th & 6th Avenues 222 E 39th Street 60 Thompson Street 226 W 54th Street at Broadway Benjamin Hotel between 2nd & 3rd Avenues Between Broome and Spring Streets between 7th & 8th Avenues 125 E 50th Street at York Avenue Hotel Chandler 12 E 31st Street off 5th Avenue Edison Hotel 70 Park Avenue Amsterdam Inn Hotel Bentley Hotel 228 W 47th Street at 38th Street 340 Amsterdam Avenue 500 E 62nd Street at York Avenue Chelsea Hotel between 7th & 8th Avenues at W 76th St. Best Western Convention Center 222 W 23rd Street 414 Inn Hotel between 7th & 8th Avenues Elysee Hotel 414 W. 46th Street Arlington Hotel 522 W 38th Street 60 E 54th Street between 9th & 10th Avenues 18 W 25th Street at 5th Avenue between 10th & 11th Avenues Chelsea Lodge Hotel between Park & Madison Avenues 318 W 20th Street Affi nia 50 Suites Avalon Hotel Best Western Hospitality between 8th & 9th Avenues Embassy Suites Hotel 155 E 50th Street at 3rd Avenue 16 E 32nd Street House Hotel 102 North End Ave. between Madison & 5th Avenues 145 E 49th Street Chelsea Savoy Hotel World Financial Center, Manhattan Affi nia Dumont between 3rd & Lexington Avenues 204 W 23rd Street 150 E 24th Street Beacon Hotel between 7th & 8th Avenues Fairfi eld Inn & Suites Chelsea- between 3rd & Lexington Avenues 2130 Broadway at 75th Street Best Western President Hotel 116 W. 28th St 234 W 48th Street Chelsea Star Hotel (near 6th Ave) Affi nia Manhattan Hotel Bedford Hotel between 7th & 8th Avenues 300 W 30th Street at 8th Avenue (formerly the Southgate Tower Hotel) 118 E 40th Street Four Points Manhattan SoHo- 371 Seventh Avenue at 31st Street Best Western Seaport Inn Hotel City Club Hotel 66 Charlton St. Beekman Tower Hotel 33 Peck Slip at Front Street 55 W 44th Street (near Spring St) Algonquin Hotel 3 Mitchell Place 49th Street between 5th & 6th Avenues 59 W 44th Street & 1st Ave. Blakely Hotel Fairfi eld Inn & Suites Times Square between 5th & 6th Avenues 136 W 55th Street Clarion Park Ave. Hotel 330 W. 40th St Belleclaire Hotel between 6th & 7th Avenues 429 Park Avenue South at (near 9th Ave) Allerton Hotel 250 W 77th Street at Broadway 29th Street 302 W 22nd Street Broadway Plaza Hotel Fairfi eld Inn & Suites Fifth Avenue Belnord Hotel 1155 Broadway at 27th Street Club Quarters Downtown Hotel 21 W. 37th St Americana Inn Hotel 207 W 87th Street 52 William Street 69 W 38th Street between Amsterdam & Bryant Park Hotel between Pine & Wall Streets 5th Avenue Club Hotel between 5th & 6th Avenues West End Aves. 40 W 40th Street 3 W 51st Street at 5th Avenue between 5th & 6th Avenues Club Quarters Midtown Hotel Ameritania Hotel Belvedere Hotel 40 W 45th Street Fitzpatrick Grand Central Hotel 230 W 54th Street at Broadway 319 W 48th Street Carlton New York Hotel between 5th & 6th Avenues 141 E 44th Street between 8th & 9th Avenues 88 Madison Avenue at 29th Street between 3rd & Lexington Aves. Amsterdam Court Hotel Comfort Inn Central Park Hotel 31 W 71st Street Fitzpatrick Manhattan Hotel between 687 Lexington Avenue at 57th St. Central Park West & Columbus Ave. Four Points Sheraton Chelsea Hotel Comfort Inn Manhattan Hotel 160 W. 25th Street 42 W 35th Street between 6th & 7th Avenues between 5th & 6th Avenue Four Points Midtown Times Square Comfort Inn Midtown Hotel 326 W. 40th St (near 9th Ave) 129 W 46th Street between 6th & 7th Avenues Four Seasons Hotel 57 E 57th Street Comfort Inn New York Hotel between Park & Madison Aves. 442 W 36th Street between 10th & Dyer Avenues Flatotel International Hotel 135 W 52nd Street Cosmopolitan Hotel between 6th & 7th Avenues 125 Chambers Street at W Broadway Franklin Hotel Courtyard Manhattan 5th Avenue 164 E 87th Street 3 E 40th Street between 3rd & Lexington Avenues between Madison & 5th Avenues Gershwin Hotel Courtyard Midtown East Hotel 7 E 27th Street 866 3rd Avenue between Madison & 5th Avenues between 51st & 52nd Streets Giraffe Hotel Courtyard Times Square Hotel 365 Park Avenue South at 26th Street 114 W 40th Street between 6th & 7th Avenues Gramercy Park Hotel 2 Lexington Avenue at 21st Street Crowne Plaza Times Square Hotel 1605 Broadway Grand Hyatt New York Hotel between 49th & 50th Streets Park Avenue & 42nd street

Crowne Plaza UN Hotel Grand Union Hotel 304 E 42nd Street 34 E 32nd Street between 1st & 2nd Avenues between Park & Madison Avenues

DaVinci Hotel (Hampshire Hotel) 244 W 56th Street Quality Times Square Hotel between 6th & 7th Avenues 157 W 47th Street between 6th & 7th Avenues Deauville Hotel 103 E 29th Street Hampton Inn between Park & Lexington Avenues Times Square Hotel 851 8th Avenue at 51st Street Doubletree Times Square Hotel (Continued on Page 30) MARCH 2015 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 29 EVENTS AND MORE IN THE BIG APPLE Recommendations to passengers always increase the opportunity for a big tip! Here is is a listing that will help keep all taxi drivers in the loop on what's going on NYCNYC in New York City! Mention these events & promotions and watch the tips grow ! The Best Museums In NYC The Museum of the City of New York is located at 1220 5th Ave in East Screw the Smithsonian, the Louvre, collection of modern and contemporary Harlem (212-534-1672, mcny.org) $10 the Prado and the Uffi zi Gallery. The art is nothing to sneeze at. suggested admission. best museums in the world are right And the last-but-not-least of these here in NYC, and there are about a most celebrated New York institutions million of them, boasting everything is the American Museum of Natural from 13th century folk art to curious History, where we presume gigantic sex positions and embalmed baby dinosaurs and the Ghost of Teddy kittens. It’s hard to suss out which of Roosevelt haunt the halls at night. You The Museum of The City of NY these are the best of the best, but we’ve don’t have to like science to appreciate MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW sorted out some of our favorites for these adorable penguins, but this mu- YORK: The MCNY’s been culling art, you. Leave yours—and your preferred seum touches every aspect of biology, photos and objects out of New York’s mummifying techniques—in the com- ecology and geology imaginable, and history since it was housed in Gracie ments, and be sure to check out our you can even take a trip into space at Mansion in the 1920s. And now they’ve list of some of the city’s lesser-known the Hayden Planetarium next door. The Morgan Library & Museum got a collection of about 750,00 artifacts museums, too. The Museum of Modern Art is MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSE- squirreled away in a landmarked man- located at 11 West 53rd Street in Mid- UM: J.P. Morgan may be better known sion at the northern tip of Museum Mile; town West (212- 708-9400, moma. for his fi nancial services empire, but it these include images made by 19th cen- org) $25 admission. The Metropolitan turns out he was a pretty prolifi c art and tury printmaking fi rm Currier and Ives, Museum of Art is located at 1000 5th manuscript collector, too. The Morgan classic Broadway theater scripts, and a Ave at Central Park (212) 535-7710, houses this collection, along with newer 12-room dollhouse that once belonged metmuseum.org) $25 recommended acquisitions, in its Midtown East space, to socialite Carrie Walter Stettheimer admission. The Whitney Museum of boasting everything from original Sir and features tiny doll-sized artworks by American Art is located at 945 Madison Walter Scott and Charles Dickens man- artists like Marcel Duchamp. MCNY Ave on the Upper East Side (212-570- uscripts, ancient Neo-Babylonian stone unleashes some of its collection through 3600, whitney.org) $20 admission. The cylinder seals, renowned Renaissance The Met ongoing and temporary exhibitions, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is artwork and Einstein’s “Fundamentals THE BIGGIES: MOMA, MET, like “Activist New York”, “City As A located at 1071 5th Ave on the Upper and Methods of the Theory of Relativ- WHITNEY, GUGGENHEIM & Canvas” and the erstwhile “The Greatest East Side (212-423-3500, guggenheim. ity.” Past and present exhibitions have AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATU- Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, org) $22 admission. And the American included a look at The Little Prince RAL HISTORY: These fi ve museums 1811-2011.” Museum of Natural History is located (Continued on Page 42) include four internationally-renowned at 79th Street and Central Park West on art institutions and arguably the best the Upper West Side (212-769-5100, science museum in the world, and amnh.org) $22 suggested admission. though each one warrants its own sprawling encomium, their virtues have been extolled so often we’re clumping them together to save space for some Dragonfl y of the city’s other worthy destinations. Even without a mind-blowing special exhibit, The Met’s permanent collection is worth a fi ve hour visit alone, boast- Graphics llc. ing everything from Greek sculpture to modern Pop art; the Cloisters, which •Design and Print is also under the Met’s jurisdiction, The Frick features some of the most spectacular FRICK COLLECTION: The Met media experts. medieval and religious art in the coun- might have the city’s most famous col- try. MoMA’s (and its Queens satellite lection of art, but the Frick may have •Over 25 years PS1) permanent collection of modern the most elegant. The museum, housed and contemporary art is unparalleled, in the former home of art collector experience in and the special shows that migrate and former Andrew Carnegie partner through its galleries are nothing short Henry Clay Frick, boasts an elegant Graphics. of breathtaking. Past exhibitions have collection of primarily European art, focused on Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, including works by Johannes Vermeer, •Certifi ed Union Vincent Van Gogh and Rene Magritte, Francisco Goya, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Printers. and ne’er forget recent Drudge Siren Rembrandt van Rijn and François blog events like The Clock, Sleeping Boucher. And though the art itself is Tilda and the Rain Room. certainly a draw, it’s the presentation 4 Court Square As for The Whitney, well, that that draws you in here; much of the Long Island City, NY 11101 Upper East Side standby and famed collection on view remains arranged (718) 392-3460 Biennial holder is on its way to a new as it was during Frick’s lifetime, spread Fax (718) 786-5931 out through the mansion’s rooms, halls, home in the Meatpacking District at www.dragonfl ygraphics.info vestibules and galleries. Be sure to save the end of the year. But for now, it’s e-mail: dragonfl [email protected] worth stopping by the bizarre Marcel time for a lengthy visit to the museum’s Breuer bunker to see the museum’s mas- spectacular Garden Court, check out sive Jeff Koons retrospective, on view all the amazing clocks, and note that a through October 19th. And then there’s secret bowling alley, billiards room and the Guggenheim, whose Frank Lloyd woodshop lurk beneath all that art. Wright building itself is perhaps more The Frick is located at 1 East 70th famous and beautiful than some of the Street between 5th and Madison Aves artwork inside, though its compelling on the Upper East Side (212-288-0700, frick.org) $20 admission. PAGE 30 • TAXI INSIDER • MARCH 2015

Moderne Hotel 161 Lexington Avenue at 30th Street Stanford Hotel Manhattan Hotel List 243 W 55th Street 43 W 32nd Street between 7th 7 8th Avenues Ramada New Yorker Hotel between 5th Avenue (Continued from Page 28) 481 8th Avenue at 34th Street & Broadway Hampton Inn SoHo between 2nd & 3rd Avenues’ Morgans Hotel Renaissance Hotel Super 8 Times Square Hotel 54 Watts St 237 Madison Avenue 714 7th Avenue at 48th Street 59 W 46th Street (near Varick St) La Quinta Manhattan Hotel between 37th & 38th Streets between 5th & 6th Avenues 17 W 32nd Street Regency Hotel Hayden Hall Hotel between 5th & 6th Avenues Morningside Inn Hotel 540 Park Avenue at 61st Street Surrey Suites Hotel 117 West 79th Street 235 W 107th Street 20 E 76th Street Le Parker Meridien Hotel between Amsterdam Ave. & Broadway between Columbus & Amsterdam Aves. Rihga Royal Hotel between Madison & 5th Avenues 118 W 57th Street 151 W 54th Street between 6th & 7th Avenues Murray Hill East Suites Hotel between 6th & 7th Avenues Thirty Thirty Hotel Helmsley Carlton House Hotel 149 E 39th Street 680 Madison Ave 30 E 30th Street Lombardy Hotel between 3rd & Lexington Avenues Riverside Terrace Hotel between Madison & 5th Avenues between 61st & 62nd Sts. 111 E 56th Street 350 W 88th Street between Lexington & Park Avenues Murray Hill Inn Hotel between West End Ave. & Riverside Drive Time Hotel 143 E 30th Street Helmsley Middletowne Hotel 224 W 49th Street between Lexington & Park Avenues 148 E 48th Street Lowell Hotel Riverside Inn Hotel between 7th & 8th Avenues Muse Hotel between Lexington & Park Aves. 28 E 63rd Street 319 W 94th Street between Madison & 5th Avenues 130 W 46th Street between West End Ave. & Riverside Drive Travel Inn Hotel between 6th & 7th Aves. Helmsley Park Lane Hotel 515 W 42nd Street Lucerne Hotel 36 Central Park South Riverside Tower Hotel between 7th & 8th Avenues 201 W 79th Street at Palace Hotel between 5th & 6th Avenues 80 Riverside Drive at 81st Street Amsterdam Avenue 455 Madison Avenue TriBeCa Grand Hotel Herald Square Hotel between 50th & 51st Streets Affi nia Gardens Suite Hotel Roger Smith Hotel 2 6th Avenue 19 W 31st Street 501 Lexington Avenue at 47th Street between White & Walker Streets between 5th & 6th Avenues (formerly Lyden Gardens) Newton Hotel 215 E 64th Street 2528 Broadway at 95th Street between 2nd & 3rd Avenues Roger Williams Hotel Trump International Hotel Hilton Garden Inn Time Square 131 Madison Avenue at 31st Street 1 Central Park West Novotel Hotel (formerly the Days Hotel New York) at Columbus Circle Madison Hotel 226 W 52nd Street 790 8th Avenue Roosevelt Hotel 21 E 27th Street at Madison Avenue between 7th & 8th Avenues between 48th & 49th Streets 45 E 45th Street at Madison Avenue W Court Hotel 130 E 39th Street Manhattan Broadway Hotel Off SoHo Suites Hotel Hilton New York Hotel Royalton Hotel between Lexington & Park Avenues 273 W 38th Street 11 Rivington Street near Christy Street 1335 6th Avenue between 7th & 8th Avenues 44 W 44th Street between 53rd & 54th Streets between 5th & 6th Avenues W New York Hotel Omni Berkshire Place Hotel Manhattan Seaport Suites Hotel 541 Lexington Avenue at 49th Street 21 E 52nd Street Hilton Times Square Hotel 219 Front Street Salisbury Hotel between Madison & 5th Avenue 234 W 42nd Street between Pine & Wall Streets 123 W 57th Street W Tuscany Hotel between 7th & 8th Avenues between 6th & 7th Avenues 120 E 39th Street On the Ave Hotel Mansfi eld Hotel between Lexington & Park Avenues 2178 Broadway at 77th Street Holiday Inn 12 W 44th Street San Carlos Hotel Downtown Hotel between 5th & 6t Avenues 150 E 50th Street Waldorf Astoria Hotel Paramount Hotel 138 Lafayette Street between 3rd & Lexington Avenues 301 Park Avenue 235 W 46th Street between Howard & Canal Streets Marcel Hotel between 49th & 50th Streets 201 E 24th Street at 3rd Avenue between 7th & 8th Avenues Shelburne Murray Hill Hotel Holiday Inn Martinique Hotel 303 Lexington Avenue at 37th Street Wales Hotel Maritime Hotel Park Central Hotel Broadway & W 32nd Street 1295 Madison Avenue 363 W 16th Street at 9th Avenue 870 7th Avenue at 56th Street Sheraton Manhattan Hotel between 92nd & 93rd Streets Holiday Inn Midtown Hotel 790 Seventh Avenue Mark Hotel Park Savoy Hotel 440 W 57th Street between 51st & 52nd Streets Wall Street Inn Hotel 25 E 77th Street 158 E 58th Street between 9th & 10th Avenues 9 South William Street between Madison & 5th Avenues between 6th & 7th Avenues Sheraton New York Hotel between Broad Street & Old Slip Holiday Inn Wall Street Hotel 811 Seventh Avenue Marriott Financial Center Hotel Park South Hotel 15 Gold Street at Platt Street 85 West Street between 52nd & 53rd Streets Warwick Hotel 122 E 28th Street between Albany & Carlisle Streets 65 W 54th Street at 6th Avenue between Lexington & Park Avenues Hotel 17 225 E 17th Street Sheraton Russell Hotel Between 2nd & 3rd Avenues Marriott East Side Hotel 45 Park Avenue at 37th Street Washington Jefferson Hotel Peninsula Hotel 525 Lexington Avenue 318 W 51st Street 700 5th Avenue at 55th Street Hotel 31 between 48th & 49th Street Sherry Netherland Hotel between 8th & 9th Avenues 120 E 31st Street 781 5th Avenue at 59th Street Pennsylvania Hotel between Lexington & Park Avenues Marriott Marquis Hotel Washington Square Hotel 401 7th Avenue 1535 Broadway at 44thStreet Shoreham Hotel 103 Waverly Place between 32nd & 33rd Streets Hotel 41 33 W 55th Street at MacDougal Street At Times Square 206 W 41st Street Mayfair Hotel between 5th & 6th Avenues Pickwick Arms Hotel Between 7th & 8th Avenues 242 W 49th Street Wellington Hotel 230 E 51st Street between 7th & 8th Avenues Signature Suites 871 7th Avenue at 55th Street between 2nd & 3rd Avenues Hotel 57 Greenwich Village Hotel 130 E 57th Street Mercer Hotel 160 Bleecker Street West End Studios Hotel Pierre Hotel Between Lexington & Park Avenues 99 Prince Street at Mercer Street between Thomson & Sullivan Sts. 850 West End Avenue 2 E 61st Street at 5th Avenue between 101st &102nd Streets Metro Hotel Hudson Hotel Skyline Hotel 45 W 35th Street Plaza Hotel 356 W 58th Street 725 Tenth Avenue at 49th Street Westin NEw York Grand Central between 5th & 6th Avenues 768 5th Avenue at Central Park South Between 8th & 9th Avenues 212 E 42nd Street Sofi tel Hotel Doubletree Metropolitan Hotel Plaza Athenee Hotel between 2nd & 3rd Avenues Inter-Continental Barclay Hotel 45 W 44th Street 569 Lexington Avenue at 51st Street 37 E 64th Street 111 E 48th Street between 5th & 6th Avenues West Park Hotel between Lexington & Park Avenues between Madison & 5th Avenues Michelangelo Hotel 308 W 58th Street SoHo Grand Hotel 152 W 51st Street Portland Square Hotel between 8th & 9th Avenues Iroquois Hotel 310 W Broadway 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Indonesian Consulate General 5 East Bahamian Consulate in New York, Con- sulate General of the Republic of Bulgaria, Phone: 646 981 4001 68th Street sul General of the Bahamas in New York New York, USA 121 East 62nd Street City, USA 231-East 46th Street Phone: (212) 935 4646 Danish Consulate in New York, Royal Irish Consulate, Permanent Mission of Phone: (212) 421-6925 Danish Consulate General One Dag Ham- Ireland, 1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 885 Cambodian Consulate in New York, Per- marskjold Plaza 885 Second Avenue, 18th Second Avenue, 19th Floor Bahraini Consulate in New York, Per- manent Mission of the Kingdom of Cam- Floor Israeli Consulate General 800 Second manent Mission of the Kingdom of Bahrain bodia to the United Nations 327 East 58th Phone: +1 (212) 223 4545 Avenue, 13th Floor to the United Nations 866 Second Avenue Street 14th fl oors Dominican Consulate in New York, Con- Italian Consulate General, 690 Park Phone: (212) 223-6200 Canadian Consulate in New York, The sulate General of The Dominican Republic Avenue Permanent Mission of Canada to the United 1501 Broadway Suite 410, Bangladeshi Consulate in New Nations, 1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, Phone: (212) 768-2480 Jamaican Consulate-General 767 Third York, Consulate General of Bangladesh Phone: 848 1100 Avenue, 2nd and 3rd Floors in New York, USA 211 East 43rd Street, Ecuadorian Consulate in New York, 800 Suite 50 Canadian Consulate in New York, Second Avenue, Suite 600 Japanese Consulate General 299 Park Phone: (212) 599 6767, (212) 599 Consulate General of Canada 1251 Ave. Avenue 6850 of the Americas Egyptian Consulate in New York, Phone: (212) 596 1628 Consulate of Egypt 1110 Second Avenue, Kazakhstani Consulate General 535 Bangladeshi Consulate in New Suite # 201 Fifth Avenue, 19 Floor York, The Permanent Mission of Bangla- Chilean Consulate in New York, Perma- desh to the United Nations 820 2nd Avenue, nent Mission of Chile to the United Nations Estonian Consulate in New York, Con- Kuwaiti Consulate, Permanent Mis- 4th Floor 885 Second Ave.; 40 fl oor sulate General of Estonia 3 Dag Hammar- sion 321 East 44th Street Phone: 212-867-3434 Phone: (917) 322- 6800 skjold Plaza Suite 6B, 305 East 47th St Kyrgyzstani Consulate, Permanent Barbadian Consulate in New York, Chilean Consulate in New York, Consul- Fijian Consulate in New York, The Per- Mission of the Kyrgyz Republic 866 United Consulate General of Barbados in New ate General of Chile in New York, 866 manent Mission of Fiji to the United Nations Nations Plaza, Suite 477 York, United States 800 Second Avenue, 630 Third Avenue 7th Floor (Continued on Page 34) PAGE 34 • TAXI INSIDER • MARCH 2015 Embassies.... 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March 29 - It Don’t Matta Cause It’s SOLD OUT Rubin Museum of Art-150 West 17th Street This tour is going to all 2,000 pizzerias within the fi ve boroughs. If we Skyscraper Museum - 39 Battery Place spend 5 seconds in each place and it takes 5 seconds to get from one place to South Street Seaport Museum - 12 Fulton Street the next, we can just about make it within the 4.5 hours of the tour! The Tenement Museum-108 Orchard St Walking Tours Whitney Museum of American Art-945 Madison Ave Walk the Path of Pizza History Crosstown Pizza Walk - Mon, Fri, Sat @ 11am Save The Dates The history of pizza in NYC as told through three pizzerias in Soho and Richard Nader’s 26th Annual Greenwich Village. Summer Doo Wop Concert Greenwich Village Pizza Walk - Thurs + Sun @ 11:15am Saturday June 6, 2015 7 PM The global history of pizza as told through three pizzerias in Greenwich IZOD Center East Rutherford, NJ Village and Soho. Mary Wilson of the Supremes “Baby Love” “Where Did Our Love Go” “Stop! in the Name of Love” Lower East Side Pizza Walk - Sun @ 4:30pm The Duprees Pizza hot spots in the Lower East Side, including Neapolitan, classic slice, “You Belong To Me” “My Own True Love” “Have You Heard” and thin Sicilian. Mel Carter “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me” “Band Of Gold” NEW Brooklyn Pizza Walk - Sat @ 11:45am “All Of A Sudden My Heart Sings” Brooklyn has loads of great pizza! We’re concentrating on Cobble Hill with Sonny Turner former lead singer of The Platters this brand new tour. “With This Ring” “My Prayer” “Only You” Fred Parris and The Five Satins Private Tours “In The Still Of The Night” “To The Aisle” The Heartbeats Create Your Own “A Thousand Miles Away” “Crazy For You” Willie Winfi eld and The Harptones Custom Pizza Journey “Sunday Kind Of Love” “Life is But A Dream” Celebrate your birthday, anniversary, bachelorette, company outing, school fi eld “The Shrine Of St. Cecilia” trip or the fact that you have a lot of friends with a private pizza adventure! Tommy Mara and The Crests with a tribute to Johnny Maestro BOOKING NOW FOR SUMMER 2015 “Sixteen Candles” “The Angels Listened In” “Cara Mia” • Flexible start times available Special guest • Weekdays and Saturday afternoons Ladd Vance son of Kenny Vance • Tour by bus or on foot Twin Gold will open the show with a salute to • DELUXE option includes wine pairings our veterans and the men and women in the Armed Forces. • All group sizes welcome Gates open at 3:00 PM for Go to the website: Tailgate party, https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uXr5d9bI4_F7F1yHJGcXMpyR4EJF- Classic car display javnV3JSyfPk2Oo/viewform Don K Reed’s a cappella stage and autograph session with the artists. To fi ll out the form. Tickets are available through [email protected]. PAGE 42 • TAXI INSIDER • MARCH 2015 The Best Museums In NYC commissioned subway station, and you crisis. You can marvel at a portion of can peek into a functional control room Keith Haring’s Pop Shop ceiling at (Continued from Page 29) to see the whole system at work. the admissions desk, or snap photos author Antoine Saint-Expurey, J.D. special stuff, though, this second largest The New York Transit Museum is of the statues of Abraham Lincoln and Salinger’s love letters, and fi rst edition museum in NYC has a massive perma- located at Boerum Place and Schermer- Frederick Douglass perched outside the works by modern masters like William nent collection, with noteworthy works horn Street in Brooklyn Heights, museum’s two entrances. Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Allen including Judy Chicago’s celebrated Brooklyn (718-694-1600, mta.info/ The New York Historical Society Ginsberg; book nerds will also appreci- feminist installation The Dinner Party, mta/museum). $7 admission. is located at 170 Central Park West ate Pierpont Morgan’s sublime library, Gilbert Stuart’s 1796 portrait of George at 77th Street on the Upper West Side which was restored to its 1906 glory a Washington (used on the $1 bill!) and (212-873-3400, nyhistory.org). few years ago. many, many mummies, which once gave The Morgan is located at 225 an acquaintance of my grandmother’s Madison Ave between 36th and 37th a rash back in the 1940s. Street in Midtown East (212-685-0008, The Brooklyn Museum is located at themorgan.org) $18 admission. 200 East Parkway at Washington Ave in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. (718- 638-5000, brooklynmuseum.org) $12 suggested admission.

New York Historical Society NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCI- ETY: When I was a child, there was an Lower East Side Tenement Museum exhibit in the basement of the New York LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT Historical Society dubbed “Kid City,” MUSEUM: This is another one for in which the museum had transformed the time travelers. This 19th century The Queens Museum West 82nd Street and Broadway into a fi ve-story tenement building housed QUEENS MUSEUM: The Queens tot-friendly version of its 1901 self. I around 7,000 immigrants from the Museum never gets enough love, and The Museum of Moving Image spent many hours there commandeering 1860s to the 1930s, and the Tene- that’s a real shame. The four-decade old a turn-of-the-century grocer’s market ment Museum’s restored the rooms art institution is a cultural gem, located THE MUSEUM OF MOVING IM- and forcing other children to make de- to mirror what they looked like from in a pavilion building built specifi cally AGE: You don’t have to be a fi lm buff to liveries to the neighboring horse goods the 1860s to the 1930s. Museum staff for the 1939 World’s Fair and used enjoy MoMI’s expansive special exhibi- store, and though “Kid City” has since provide guided tours of the rooms and briefl y as headquarters for the United tions on, say, The Muppets, or Breaking been replaced with a larger children’s businesses, which include a garment Nations General Assembly. Now, the Bad. But if you do love movies, this exhibition, I like to think it taught me workshop and a German saloon; there Queens Museum harbors a hefty col- Astoria museum is stuffed with all sorts a lot about New York’s history—what are even costumed staff members who lection of fi ne arts, Tiffany glass, and of memorabilia, interactive exhibitions nine-year-old knew Central Park didn’t take on the characters of the building’s collections stemming from the 1939 and and special programming that’ll tickle simply sprout fully-formed out of the former residents. Beyond the Orchard 1964 Worlds Fairs, the latter of which is your inner cinephile. MoMI’s ongoing ground? The NYHS underwent a major Street building, the museum provides currently on view as part of temporary exhibition, “Behind The Screen,” runs renovation a few years ago, and it’s walking tours of the neighborhood to exhibition Behind the Curtain: Collect- through the history of cinema, tackling since returned with some excellent remind you of what the LES was like ing the New York Fairs. everything from the earliest moving programming. before Max Fish moved in (and then But the museum’s best and most picture camera to makeup from Sex And There is, for instance, a show featur- out, and then back in again). famous offering is its Panorama of the The City. They also hold frequent fi lm ing 90 artworks by Madeline creator The Tenement Museum is located City of New York, a 9,335-square-foot screenings—all summer long, they’ve Ludwig Bemelmans; through the end at 103 Orchard Street between Broome model of the city’s fi ve boroughs that been continuously showing fi lms from of the month, the museum is showing and Delancey Streets on the Lower East was originally commissioned by Rob- the 1939 and 1964 Worlds Fairs, and re- work by street style photographer Bill Side (212) 982-8420, tenement.org). ert Moses for the 1964 World’s Fair. cent screening offerings have included Cunningham, and past exhibitions have $25 admission. Though the panorama hasn’t under- The Searchers, 2001: A Space Odyssey included works from the 1913 Armory Reprinted with permission from The gone a full-throttle update since 1992, and the original Godzilla. Stay tuned for Show and a look at the city’s AIDS Gothamist and Rebecca Fishbein. developments like Brooklyn Bridge their upcoming permanent Jim Henson Park and Citi Field have slowly gotten installation, planned for 2015. The 10 Best Art Galleries In NYC added over time thanks to the museum’s The Museum of the Moving Image “Adopt A Building” program, though it is located at 3601 35th Ave in Astoria, New York may have some of the long lines attest. Infi nity seems like seems Williamsburg’s condos have yet Queens (718-777-6888, movingimage. fi nest museums in the world, but not all something of a theme here— Yayoi to receive treatment in miniature. us). $12 admission. of the city’s best art is hidden behind a Kusama’s popular infi nity rooms were The Queens Museum is located at $20 entrance fee. Works by renowned on display here last year, and Doug the New York City Building in Flushing artists and lesser-known locals line Wheeler’s hypnotizing, white-light Meadows Corona Park (718-592-9700, the walls and hang from the ceilings saturated “infi nity environment” took queensmuseum.org) $8 suggested of galleries small and large, and visi- center stage in 2012. The gallery’s also admission. tors can often peruse them for no fee, hosted work by mainstream names often with a glass of wine in hand (if like Jeff Koons and Richard Serra. Up it’s a Thursday or sometimes Friday). next, look for works by Diana Thater, Here are a few of our favorite galleries Mamma Andersson, Al Taylor and Jan New York Transit Museum around town; as always, leave yours in Schoonhoven. NEWYORK TRANSIT MUSEUM: the comments. David Zwirner is located at 525 West Visiting the New York Transit Museum DAVID ZWIRNER GALLERY 19th Street in Chelsea (212-727-2070, is a bit like traveling back in time. davidzwirner.com). They have a second The nation’s only museum dedicated gallery at 537 West 20th Street between to public transportation, the NYTM 10th and 11th Avenue. boasts an astonishing collection of MTA GAGOSIAN GALLERY The Brooklyn Museum memorabilia, not the least of which is BROOKLYN MUSEUM: The its collection of antique subway cars, Brooklyn Museum has really been on a complete with antique ads that predate roll this century with a series of block- Dr. Zizmor. You can also peruse an buster exhibits, including 2008’s stellar extensive collection of subway tokens Takashi Murakami show, 2012’s Keith (ah, memories of watching my bus fare Haring exhibition, last year’s innovative roll under a car...) and fare collectors, German ex-pat David Zwirner opened Jean Paul Gaultier show, “Ai Weiwei: and for the young and young at heart, up his gallery in 1993, relocating According to What?” which is on view there’s a child-sized taxi cab, trolley car from SoHo to Chelsea in 2002. The until August 10th, and a site-specifi c and bus to play on. It’s also noteworthy exhibitions hosted at his current large piece by street artist Swoon. Beyond the that the museum is located inside a de- space are often wildly popular, as the (Continued on Page 44) MARCH 2015 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 43 Events For You and Your Passengers in The Big Apple Broadway Shows Off Broadway Shows

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Chelsea in 1985, is one of the city’s is located at 38-27 30th Street in Long exhibition through mid-January. most reputable galleries, exhibiting Island City, Queens (718-937-0727, Cheim & Read is located at 547 Off Broadway and representing works by the likes of fl cart.org). West 25th Street between 10th and 11th (Continued from Page 43) Gerhard Richter, Larry Clark, Pablo SEAN KELLY GALLERY Avenues in Chelsea (212-242-7727, Picasso and David Musgrave. And THE BERENSTAIN BEARS cheimread.com). Luhring Augustine was also one of The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theatre ON STELLAR RAYS the fi rst major art galleries to expand 5 West 63rd Street beyond Manhattan’s enclave, making THE EVENTS headlines when it opened a Bushwick New York Theatre Workshop outpost off the Morgan Ave L stop in 79 E. 4th Street 2012. That location boasts a stellar exhibition space for installations. THE FANTASTICKS Luhring Augustine has two locations Snapple Theater Center in the city: 531 West 24th Street between 210 West 50th Street 10th and 11th Avenues in Chelsea (212- Once a SoHo stalwart, Sean Kelly’s 206,9100, luhringaugustine.com) and 23-year-old gallery represents some THE LION at 25 Knickerbocker Avenue between of contemporary art’s biggest names, Culture Project Johnson Avenue and Ingraham Street including Robert Mapplethorpe, Ma- Candice Madey’s LES gallery was Lynn Redgrave Theater in Bushwick, Brooklyn (718-386-276, rina Abramovi and Mariko Mori. The one of the fi rst to hit the Bowery back 45 Bleecker Street luhringaugustine.com.com). gallery relocated to a two-story spot in in 2008, opening just one day before PIEROGI Midtown a few years ago, and continues Lehman Brothers brought the United THE LION, THE WITCH AND to host unconventional exhibitions, with States economy tumbling down. 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