Posted by Leonard Steinberg on January 10th, 2015 UBER hit New York like a ton of bricks just a few short years ago, turning the whole industry upside down by actually making it easy and seamless to hire a car/limo within minutes, often less. UBER had been an inspiration to us at URBAN COMPASS in… [Read More]
MORE CABS COMING TO NEW YORK, BUT….
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on November 15th,2013 About 200 more cabs will hit the New York streets after an auction yesterday for new medallions, the first since 2008. Bidders, restricted to medallions for wheelchair-accessible vehicles, offered as much as $1.26 million for a single placard, which permits the holder to operate one of the city’s 13,000… [Read More]
BLOOMBERG'S TAXI FIGHT IS THE RIGHT FIGHT – PLEASE REPLACE THE CABS OF NEW YORK!
The NEW YORK POST continued its attack on Mayor Bloomberg who claimed yesterday he doesn’t remember unloading an f-bomb-laced tirade on a taxi-fleet kingpin during a Knick game last week. Taxi Club Management CEO Gene Freidman, who won a legal challenge to Bloomberg’s “Taxi of Tomorrow” based on a technicality requiring more Hybrid cabs, told The… [Read More]