The Yellow cabs of New York
The famous taxi`s of the Big Apple.There two coloured cabs in the city but the yellow cars run in Manhattan.The green taxi`s are known as the Boro cabs.You`re are only able to hail them in Upper Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens (excluding LaGuardia Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport), and Staten Island. At first they were horse-drawn cabs.Mainly driven by African-Americans or Irish immigrants. They carried the wealthy around New York.
The famous taxi`s of the Big Apple.There two coloured cabs in the city but the yellow cars run in Manhattan.The green taxi`s are known as the Boro cabs.You`re are only able to hail them in Upper Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens (excluding LaGuardia Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport), and Staten Island. At first they were horse-drawn cabs.Mainly driven by African-Americans or Irish immigrants. They carried the wealthy around New York.
All types of taxis are licensed by the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC)
John Hertz founded the Yellow Cab Company in 1920
Hailing a cab is as simple as holding out your arm.Check their lights are on.
New York taxi drivers must take you to any destination in the five boroughs.
Albert Rockwell of Bristol, Conn., had established a Yellow Taxicab Company operating in New York, and John Hertz’s Yellow Cab Company started in Chicago.
Times Square--Too busy to catch a Yellow cab