Asking for flowers before having surgery, help hailing a cab on East Houston Street and more reader tales of New York City in this week's Metropolitan Diary.
Very cold air aloft is helping hail and graupel form in storms moving through our northwest suburbs.
After 23 years, Shadid Mahmood traded in his cab to work for Uber, a start-up company that runs an app to help people hail cars more efficiently.
UberTAXI is fully up and running for yellow cabs and we look forward to helping New Yorkers hail green cabs too.
This business model is pricier but may help cab-hailing apps gain more consumer confidence following the sexual assault of a female passenger by an Uber driver last year, which raised significant safety concerns.
The Yonkers Fire Department was called in to help clear the hail, which ruined the washer and dryer and covered the furnace in ice, Ms. Valedes said.
"You learn the hard way in games like this". A week after defeating Oregon State with the help of a Hail Mary touchdown pass before halftime, USC gave one up as time expired and dropped to 3-2 overall, 2-1 in Pac-12 Conference play.
Never mind that most of those being helped seem to hail from Iowa (first caucuses) and New Hampshire (first primary).
The partnership is an interesting one because it adds an element of 'club membership' to the Uber experience, which could help the ride hailing company differentiate its offering among growing competition.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. predicts that robo-taxis will help the ride-hailing and ride-sharing business grow from $5 billion in revenue today to $285 billion by 2030.
