It's Not Your Imagination!

N.Y. / Region
Where Do All the Cabs Go in the Late Afternoon?
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Published: January 11, 2011
Just when homebound workers need them, cabs on duty decline by nearly 20 percent. City officials have been unable to prevent it.


Of course, if they did something about this incredibly annoying and seriously stupid fact of life here in NYC, that would take away the small - admittedly evil - ego boost I get each time I see a newcomer to the city or tourist trying to hail a cab at 5 p.m., and walk by them muttering under my breath, "Good luck with that."