To operate a yellow cab and solicit passengers on the street you need a medallion.
The star then got into a waiting yellow cab ringed with photographers and TV cameras and left.
"The traffic's been very bad today, especially this morning, " said yellow cab driver Alex Mario, 45, of Brooklyn.
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I'll grab the yellow cab right now and take it to South Beach to convince him to come home.
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The Glaubers called a livery cab, a hired car arranged via telephone, not hailed off the street like a yellow cab.
They called a livery cab, a hired car that is arranged via telephone, not hailed off the street like a yellow cab.
The Glaubers called a livery cab, a hired car that is arranged via telephone, not hailed off the street like a yellow cab.
The rides are more luxe than your standard yellow cab.
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His organization has already sued the TLC over its plan to create 18, 000 new street-hail taxis outside Manhattan's central business district, a move viewed by the yellow cab industry as a threat.
Along East 42nd Street, a yellow-cab driver pulls alongside the team to marvel at the cab.
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The suit argues that the regulations violate a law that bans yellow-cab drivers from prearranging rides with passengers.
The lawsuit was the culmination of weeks of quiet discontent for yellow-cab medallion owners, who believed their investments had been undermined by a deal to broaden taxi access.
The city also plans to sell 2, 000 new yellow-cab medallions.
The plan had outraged the yellow-cab industry and drivers, while winning support from livery companies and advocates who said boroughs outside Manhattan and minorities have long been underserved by taxis.
The Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade alleges that the city and the Taxi and Limousine Commission, which is expected to approve the rules for so-called borough taxis on Thursday, are depriving owners of the city's 13, 000 yellow-cab medallions of their "exclusive right" to accept street hails.
The decision has ramifications beyond striking down a plan to put street-hail cars in boroughs outside Manhattan's central business district, where people looking for a ride usually must call a livery cab to pick them up or hope that a yellow taxi passes by.
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