With the MTA moving forward with plans to implement congestion pricing, which would be tolls for drivers coming into Manhattan below 60th Street, more and more…
Read more about Cab and ride-hailing drivers demand exemption for congestion pricingHe bid up the price of medallions and borrowed against them. When their value plummeted, immigrant cabbies were left deep in debt. Gene Freidman, a cabdriver’s…
Read more about Gene Freidman, ‘Taxi King’ Who Upended His Industry, Dies at 50In 2006, when Richard Chow bought his taxi medallion from the city for $410,000, it seemed like a great idea. The value of medallions was rising…
Read more about The Medallion Crisis Is So Bad That Taxi Drivers Are on a Hunger StrikeRestrictions are lifting, and so, too, are taxi and e-hail app trips. That’s more passengers for yellow taxi driver Md Azad. “Before, we make $100, $200.…
Read more about Taxi riders coming back, even as e-hail prices soarThe Tesla Model 3 is the first electric vehicle approved as a yellow cab in New York City, and the first one has hit the road.…
Read more about First Tesla Model 3 NYC yellow cab hits the roadNew York State’s attorney general has accused New York City of committing fraud by significantly inflating the value of yellow taxi medallions and demanded $810 million…
Read more about New York Attorney General Accuses N.Y.C. of Fraud Over Taxi CrisisFear of catching the coronavirus has some cabbies and ride-share drivers discriminating against customers. “I feel bad about it, but when I see Chinese passengers, I…
Read more about NYC cabbies avoiding Chinese neighborhoods over coronavirus fearsFrom the outside, Manny Anzalota’s yellow cab looks just like all the others cruising around New York City, but for Anzalota, the experience has been anything…
Read more about Meet The NYC Taxi Driver Who Has Driven The World’s Billionaires, Millionaires And RoyalsA decade ago the federal government stepped in to bail out the nation’s biggest banks. Now it may be time to for New York City to…
Read more about Bailout Up to $500 Million Proposed for Taxi Drivers Trapped in LoansFederal prosecutors have opened an investigation into possible lending fraud in New York City's troubled yellow taxi industry. The New York Times reports the U.S. attorney's office…
Read more about Federal Prosecutors Target Possible NYC Taxi Loan Fraud
