OK, Hailey Rivera, womans name, now send your thugs to beat me up. you are no different than the thugs (criminals) that operate the transit system in the DR, trucks and buses. only here, NYC, you can't burn tires in the street or beat up those that choose to work when their family needs food as your counterparts do in SD. the yellow cabs in manhattan do a great job and get paid for it, and pay dearly for the license. outside of manhattan every dominican family has posted on their refrigerator, or they know the number by heart, the phone of the local dominican guy who has a lincoln town car that will take them anywhere that they do not normally travel by bus or subway. senora hailey wants it so that if a guy is waving his arm in mid-town, times sq, wall st. that his illegal(only that they are not licensed "taxis") can cut off ten other "licensed" cabs, cut off traffic, cut across 5 lanes, and scoop up the fare. this is why they are hassled and rightfully so. i drove my way through Harvard University working for a boston cab. co. it was illegal for me to pick up in cambridge massachussetts, just across the small river, home to harvard and MIT, and for an out of towner or newcomer looks just like boston. it was illegal, i didn't do it, i went back into the city of boston to look for legal work. senora hailey. reminds me, of the cute blonde hailey mills, wants his boys to have the same rights as those that go the legal route and pay for them. in typical dominican fashion he wants to sit in the front row when he has bought tickets for the balconey and if he does not get his way cries "racism, anti-latino"........face facts senora, i may be in la guardia or JFK tomorrow, look for me, i do not pick up in the airport, against the law in my case, but if you are in the international arrival area of American Airlines, you will be approached by several scumbags that will inquire if you need a taxi. this is before you get out the door and outside the door is a taxi dispatcher and many "legal" cabs ready to go to work. i've known many a taxi "driver" in my years, sometimes we'll bend the truth, a little, i've known many who couldn't take the heat and become dispatchers, limo instead of taxi, went to work as phone answerers, mechanics, etc. and now we have una senora, (how many years have you in the "seat") the politician asking for privelages that others pay for. take your phony non-profit CUNY, what a laugh, and try running for NY state assembly or congress, that's where the money is. yellow taxi's pay for their turf and althoughyou cry, cry, cry me a river, ozama, you will not turn the streets of NYC into the free for all that goes on in SD. also, senora, trust me, i have many dominican friends driving town cars that make in excess of 1000US a week just driving in the bronx and brooklyn, without speaking english. Al Sharpton you are not, Jesse Jackson you are not, if you could shut your mouth and drive you'd be making much more money......as a matter of fact, taxi's, and carro publicos in SD are very regulated, break the rules and get shot. Why do you have a problem if NYC has rules and laws? is it because in NY you won't get shot.....go away senora!!!