New York’s Taxi Time Warp
September 14, 2012 at 07:24 AM EDT
The yellow taxi is a New York City icon. But in a city that prides itself on being on the cutting edge, those cabs are bound by an archaic system that shows no signs of budging. New York’s taxi medallion system was established back in 1937. For decades, there were 11,787 cabs in the city, [...]