Results tagged “melissaplaut”

MOVIE: Guess it's only fitting that Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Team America play somewhere tonight. This Bushwick theater is new and on an outdoor rooftop -- so check the sky before you head out. If it's all clear, get ready for food from their grill, drinks from their bar and the wind in your hair.

The New York Taxi Workers Alliance said that it definitely will strike on Wednesday and Thursday to protest the city's plans to put new technology, including GPS systems, in all taxi cabs. NYTWA spokeswoman Bhairavi Desai said, "Leave the car parked at home or at the garage. No yellow cabs for hire."

As we mentioned, Doug Aitken's Sleepwalkers opened earlier this week at the MoMA. Now P.S.1's PopRally series and MoMA are bringing the non-celluloid Chan Marshall to the museum.

- Borough Park guy speaks about the rioters and police, and a controversy about something a high ranking police official said: "F--- the Jews'' and "F--- the community"!

Usually when Gothamist is riding in a cab in New York, we're just happy if we can communicate, get to our destination in one piece, and that the driver doesn't get lost. All reasonable expectations, we think. The Taxi and Limousine Commission announced their cab driver of the year yesterday, who, by most standards seems to have done his job very well. Hossam Abdalla, an Egyptian cab driver, has been driving a taxi since 1999, returned $1 million worth of gold, diamonds, and titanium left in his cab last year. With all that, he could have joined the some of those other millionaires out there.

- And the AP interviews the blogging taxi driver, Melissa Plaut, who is awesome

Melissa Plaut, Yellow Cab Driver