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When the numbers on top of the cab are illuminated - cab is empty.
When the numbers on top of the cab are turned off - cab is occupied.
Empty
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Occupied
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Hailing a cab: Stand at the curb and hold arm straight up and straight out.
Speak-up and speak clearly to the driver: It is difficult to hear you through the plexi-glass partition and above the traffic noise.
Fasten your seatbelts.
No smoking. It's the Law and you can be ticketed if stopped by the police.
The meter should click-over approximately every 4 or 5 blocks - faster than that is illegal.
Be sure to take your receipt. The medallion number of the taxi in which you were a passenger is on the receipt as well as a phone number to call if you need to report anything to the Taxi and Limosine Commission or if you lost any personal belonings in the cab.
Be sure to exit the cab at curbside so you don't risk injury from oncoming traffic.
Tipping the driver is not required but it is customary to do so if the driver did his job to your satisfaction.
The Taxi & Limousine Commission has a website that may answer additional questions.
http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/taxi/
Here are some
Tourist tips
to help you comunicate better with your cab driver.
Nycabbie Links
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Readio NY
- Readio NYC On Your Desktop Daily.
Daily updated photo tours of NYC; theaters, hotels, restaurants,
museums, galleries, clubs,
recipes and "As The Mouse Moves."
http://www.readio.com/
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City Guide, NY
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New York's Official City Guide Magazine
http://www.cityguideny.com/
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NYC blue: New York, New York, USA
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A link that provides you with everything you will need to know about NYC, and more.
http://www.december.com/places/nyc/blue.html
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Mapquest
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Need a map to help you get around? Here's the site for you.
http://www.mapquest.com/
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On Broadway
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Looking for Broadway Show Information, past and present, try this link.
http://www.on-broadway.com/newDomain.htm
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Talkin' Broadway
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Broadway & Off-Broadway theatre discussion, cast recording news, reviews of musicals and drama.
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/
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Taxi Links
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This link will enable you to search for more about taxi's, worldwide.
http://homepages.munich.netsurf.de/Werner-G.Pflaum/
Check out these helpfull books.
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