> In NYC you can get a taxi 90% of the time by holding your hand up in a street corner. Maybe you mean s/NYC/Manhattan/? This is not true in much of the outer

> In NYC you can get a taxi 90% of the time by holding your hand up in a street corner. Maybe you mean s/NYC/Manhattan/? This is not true in much of the outer boroughs (and also in much of uptown Manhattan). In fact, in an attempt to address the problem, NYC created an entirely new class of cab that can only pick people up outside Manhattan.