The lobby of this Beaux-Arts hotel, built by John Jacob Astor in 1904, is a compact marble space that bustles with top-hatted doormen escorting guests to and from their cabs, porters loading luggage on handcarts, the concierge staff working the phones.
Without so much as a flicker of annoyance, the driver climbs from his cab, slowly loads the batteries back onto the rear seat and resumes his glacial progress up the hill.
These privileges apply only for the duration of breaking-news coverage, and do not nullify all parking restrictions: red zones, fire hydrants, crosswalks, bus zones, disabled parking zones or access ramps, commercial loading zones, taxi cab zones, "no stopping" or "no parking" zones, transit lanes, and other towaway zones are still off-limits.
Standing on steel grates, visitors peer down into five concrete shafts that reveal portions of the tractor — sections of its cab, its excavating and loading buckets, frozen in time.
Shortly before noon, officers received a report about the accident and arrived to find the cab wedged into the loading bay of 405 Park Avenue, said Captain Keith Spadaro, the ranking officer at the scene.
Also, some Tacoma pickup owners may notice a rough ride when their 2005-8 Double Cab trucks are fully loaded.
On our final day, my father put his hand out to stop me from tipping the bellboy who loaded our cab to the airport.
"I love this boat," I said as the cab driver helped us load all of our things into the car.
She then joined me in the lobby, we got into the cab that had been efficiently loaded up, and were just pulling away when the maid came running out shouting in Italian.
That's not the end of the world, of course, but when you have something very heavy to load into the cab of a truck, it's better when the seat moves to create more floor area, so you don't have to lift your TV or case of wine as high.
