Marathon day:

It's always a good idea to have knowledge of what streets are closing, and when. For the best traffic overview click here: Gridlock Sam's Daily News Traffic Page, especially on weekends, especially today.

For an even more detailed look at street closings and the course overview visit here: NYC. gov's ING New York Marathon course description

Green Cabs A No Go? This Cabbie Cries: "Say It Ain't So!"

Ask 50 cabbies what they would rather drive, hybrid or Crown Victoria, and at least 20 if not more, will tell you they'd prefer less gas consumption. I say once we go green, we'll never go back, I know it's not quite so catchy but it's the truth. 

The Metropolitan Taxi Board of Trade just won a preliminary injunction against Mayor Bloomberg's green taxi agenda. What really rubs me the wrong way, is that we cabbies have been mis-represented. The MTBOT doesn't represent all New York taxi drivers. Quite the contrary, it mostly represents taxi owners, most of whom lease their cabs to drivers and thus do not have to pay for gas themselves. The reason the judge halted the green taxi fleet plan was not because of safety issues, or durability concerns. Rather, the judge halted further greening of our taxis because only federal government and not local government, has "the right to set fuel efficiency standards."-NYTimes

To further prove my point I encourage you, the reader to survey  50 cabbies who already drive hybrids as taxis, if 90% don't say they are glad they made the switch, well, I'll be surprised.  

Click here for The New York Times article: 

Judge Kills Mayor's Try At Greening Taxi Fleets 

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Astoria, Queens

West Midtown, near Penn Station

Hell's Kitchen

Chelsea

Harlem

Chelsea

Greenwich Village

Midtown

Shots from 7/27/08

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Tudor City and The United Nations

SoHo

Shots from 8/9/08

Hybrids vs. Big Taxi

For several years now hybrids have been proving their safety and reliability to the public not only as private cars, but as taxis. One of the few things the mayor has done right was buckling down on both the taxi and private for hire business. I posted a piece over at YellowCabNYC.com.

Stay tuned over at YellowCabNYC, I'll be publishing pictures and stories over there too, while also publishing over here at NYCtaxiphoto.blogspot.com

YellowCabNYC.com is a great source for current news relating to the world of NYC taxi, and I'm glad to be a part of it. I'll make sure NYC taxi photo continues to be as awesome as it always has been as well.

Nissan Altima hybrid taxi

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The Strand Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Fort Greene, Brooklyn

Times Square

Sometimes the police have scheduled times and locations where a few precincts show up at once and park their cars everywhere. The woman in front of the car didn't realize he was parking.

Shots from 7/26/08

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Chelsea

Sunnyside, Queens

Far West Side

Shots from 7/6/08