Taxi!: A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver
Graham Russell Gao Hodges, "Taxi!: A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver".
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press| ISBN: 080188554X | 2007 edition| PDF | 240 Pages | 1.68 MB
Naturally identified with the Big Apple, New York City cabdrivers hold a special place in the American folk culture writ large. Cabbies proverbially counsel, console, and confound, all the while flitting through the snarling traffic and bustling masses of the nation's largest city. Variously seen as the key to street-level opinion, a source of reliable information, or mysterious savants who don't speak much English, the hacks who move New Yorkers have been integral to the city's growth and culture since the mid-nineteenth century when they first began shuttling residents, workers, and visitors in horse-drawn carriages. Their importance grew with the introduction of gasoline-powered cars early last century and continues to the present day, when more than 12,000 licensed yellow cabs operate in Manhattan alone.
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