A 21-year-old woman returning home to Harlem early Monday morning after drinking in Midtown says she got more than a ride from her cabbie. She says he pulled over near West 138th Street and Riverside Drive, climbed into the backseat with her and raped her. According to the Post's sources, when the woman begged him to stop he "simply snarled 'Come on, baby.'" more ›

Police have released a sketch of a yellow cab driver suspected of tying up and raping a female passenger in Williamsburg last Friday at 6 a.m. The victim had hailed the cab outside of Public Assembly on North 6th Street to take her to Manhattan, but she fell asleep—only to wake up to find "her hands had been bound with a scarf and the driver was raping her," according to the Post. more ›

The cab driver who refused to take customers to the Bronx and then got arrested after allegedly driving his cab into them was arraigned on assault charges yesterday. And it turns out that Mohammed Azam has a history of being a bad taxi driver— and he was just trying to avoid paying a $30 fee. more ›

Last week, 50 of the worst taxi drivers were arrested for egregiously scamming passengers by overcharging them with out-of-city rates when the fares were just traveling within NYC. The lead offender, Santiago Rossi, pocketed over $11,000; he told the Post, "I did it for the gas money," and said the first overcharged was by accident but "It became a habit." He complained about the meters, "Why didn't the TLC know about the vulnerabilities [of the meters]?" and called the arrests "the TLC's way of not accepting any of the blame for what was happening. They're going to blame the cab drivers and then wash their hands like Pontius Pilate." more ›

Ahmed Sharif, the cab driver who was brutally stabbed by a drunken passenger last week, will miss at least four months of work because of his injuries. He turned to the New York Taxi Workers Alliance this weekend for help in raising money for his family. "He can't even pick up his baby because of the wounds to his arms. He can't turn his neck," said Bhairavi Desai, executive director for the Alliance. But his real hero turned out to be CNN! more ›

The 21-year-old SVA student who stabbed cab driver Ahmed Sharif after finding out he was Muslim has been moved to Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric ward from Rikers Island after being evaluated by medical staff. Michael Enright recently spent 35 days in Afghanistan filming a documentary with the Marines, and mentions in his journals that he has a drinking problem and is a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. However, the military says Enright showed no signs of trauma with the experience of traveling with combat troops overseas. Col. Hans Bush told the Post, "There was nothing in the packet to indicate (a lack of) robustness to face exposure to our operations." more ›

We are so team pedestrian in this one. A woman was crossing the street with her son at 129th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard when a cab driver allegedly drove into her son. Mama bear jumped into action, landing two punches to the cabbie's head and yelled, "You better not leave! You better stay right there for the police!" The driver remained at the scene until cops arrived, and no criminality was suspected. The child was taken to Harlem Hospital with minor injuries. more ›

Police have arrested a Bronx man in connection with the fatal shooting of a livery cab driver two weeks ago. Hosny Hernandez, 19, was one of two men suspected of shooting driver Cesar Santos after getting into an argument over the ride's fare. Police believe Hernandez fired the shot, not the second passenger, who is still at large. more ›

Yesterday, a cabbie who stopped taking his seizure medication pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide for a crash that killed a passenger in 2006. But Hassan Afzal was given a plea deal with a sentencing recommendation of five years probation—no jail time—which upset victim Danielle Ricco's family as well as the other women injured in the accident. Ricco's father said, "We're heartbroken. He's never expressed any remorse," while Anna Sallustio, whose pelvis and leg were shattered, said, "I am appalled." more ›

As data rolls in, the Taxi and Limousine Commission says its $8.3 million estimate of overcharging by scamming cabbies "will shrink significantly." Much has been made of how drivers pressed a suburban rate button on their meters, charging passengers twice the normal city rate. But now TLC Commissioner Matthew Daus says many cabbies did so accidentally, and only at the end of trips when fares had already been calculated (they may have been trying to turn meters off, investigators think). "How can you overcharge a person at the end of a ride when you don't get money for it?" asked Daus at a City Council hearing yesterday. more ›

Reader Daniel Jeffries sent us this picture of a cab at the corner of West End Avenue and West 106th Street—and we really hope no one was injured, either in the cab or on the street/sidewalk. While car mishaps are not unusual, let's just go over the past few weeks: On Thursday, a cab suddenly caught fire in Midtown (are they firetraps); last week, another overturned in Chelsea; on August 18, a cab struck the West 72nd Street subway station (no charges filed, of course); and on August 14, a little boy was fatally struck by a cab driver (the driver wasn't charged, but it also turns out he had many moving violations, enough for his license to be pulled). more ›

On August 14, a cab driver struck and killed 8-year-old Axel Pablo who was crossing 112th Street near Lexington Avenue. While some witnesses said the driver was speeding and talking on his cellphone, police investigators reportedly found no evidence of Shaiful Alam being on his phone and did not charge him. Now it turns out that Alam has "an astounding 11 points on his license from July 2007 to July 2008," according to the Post, which adds, "Under state law, a driver with 11 points or more in an 18-month period gets an automatic license suspension. State officials could not immediately determine why that did not happen to Alam." more ›

As he sues the city to get his livery cab license back, Angel Bautista tells the Daily News that allegations he was masturbating during a 2008 cab ride are untrue. The News runs down the details: Apparently, a female fare—picked up in Brooklyn but ended up sitting in the front seat because Bautista picked up two other passengers from Queens—was suspicious enough to confront him, "You're not doing what I think you're doing," causing Bautista to reply, "Oh come on, I wouldn't do that. I can't be doing that. How can I do that and I'm driving a car?" He also explained his coat was in his lap "because it's winter time" and that he had tissues close by due to seasonal allergies. But by the time the female fare was taken to her Manhattan destination, she contacted the TLC and accused him of bad driving—"jerking" and "drifting off to the other side." Bautista suggested to the News that this was the result of absent-mindedness after a bathroom break, "I was in a big rush and I didn't realize my zipper was down," adding, "I want my license back." Still, according to the administrate law judge who revoked Bautista's license, four other drivers have been fired over similar behavior. Ugh. more ›

The "not my baby back" cabbie who made headlines last year for his questionable Good Samartian act has now officially been charged with first-degree attempted rape. Klever Saliema is accused of forcing himself on a female passenger who had passed out during her cab ride home from Astoria to Woodside in Queens. more ›

A cab driver going after four fare-beating young women was intercepted by a second group who beat him to ground until he was bleeding from the face by a group who thought that the ladies were being mugged. The driver had picked up the women at the club Bogart's on Park Avenue in Midtown and driven them down to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal around 3 a.m. When the women tried to make a run for it towards the ferry, the driver chased after them and grabbed at their purses when a second car pulled up and intervened. The driver was beaten so bad that he had to be taken to Bellevue Hospital. Police gave the group of women summonses when they came off the ferry in Staten Island. The attackers, who fled the scene, have not been found. more ›

The Post is reporting about a disturbing crime: A woman who took a cab from the Lower East Side back home to Brooklyn says the yellow cab driver assaulted her. more ›

The driver who ran over cab driver Mohamed Elwaleed after an early Tuesday morning argument was arrested in Pennsylvania yesterday. Luis Flores, 24, told authorities he didn't mean to kill the cab driver, and authorities believe him. Flores, while driving his cousin's Nissan Altima, had apparently gotten into an accident with Elwaleed, a 44-year-old Sudanese immigrant. Elwaleed followed Flores for a few blocks, in hopes of trading insurance information. At Madison Avenue and East 65th... more ›