One day, we may all wistfully recall our own grim, turn-of-the-millennium on-the-town cab rides — hurtling home after a late night out, storefronts racing by in a blur, potholes rattling the hubcaps.
The driver of a silver Lincoln Town Car livery cab was turning left onto 145th Street when he was struck by a Toyota pickup truck traveling south on Seventh Avenue, the police said.
4 30 p.m. 1) CRISP COBBLESTONES Most sightseeing tours of Warsaw start in Stare Miasto, or Old Town, and a cab ride through the drab and ashen city makes it clear why.
7 30 p.m. 9. Urban Cuisine Cross the bridge again for dinner at what many locals consider the best restaurant in town, the Gypsy Cab Company (828 Anastasia Boulevard, 904-824-8244), and again prepare for a wait of up to an hour.
The Meltdown artists who reached New York in the 70s all share certain memories: the infernal rattling of the graffiti-smeared subway cars, the rent-paying jobs in dive bars and X-rated movie theatres, the hunt for cheap accommodation in parts of town where even cab drivers feared to venture, the culture shock of entering a rotting, neurotic metropolis.
In a postgrunge Seattle, where eclecticism rules — as if there has been a decree that no unifying trend should ever again emerge and bring national attention and thousands of Angelenos to town again — Death Cab's misty chords and cold steel hooks are as much a musical center as the town has these days.
The upshot of that heated exchange was that now, since my residency permit had run out, we had to go to the "Exits and Entry" bureau across town, meaning another cab ride.
Besides the Town Cars, yellow cabs whooshed north and south as an armored car and two trucks jockeyed for position near a loading dock.
His car is easy to spot, not only because it's one of the last functioning Checkers anywhere (the Checker Cab Manufacturing Company stopped producing them in 1983) but also because it's painted green and cream — which are popular taxi colors in, of all places, John D. Hertz's home town, where Lowich's cab originated.
Make your way around town by foot or cab.
You can take a cab across town for less than $10.
