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'Taxi King' No More: How Gene Friedman RUINED The Entire Cab Industry

‘Taxi King’ No More: How Gene Friedman RUINED The Entire Cab Industry

The advantages and efficiency brought by the taxi industry are unfathomable – it mobilizes the entire region that it serves, and helps too many families to make ends meet and put food on the table. For many cab drivers, this is their entire life. But for ‘Taxi King’ Gene Friedman, this is all just one big game of monopoly.

The 49-year-old Russian-American businessman once ran more than 1,000…

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Adult Dropout Looks Back -- and Forward

Adult Dropout Looks Back — and Forward

Guest post by Steven Broiles I have been asked to describe my experiences as a cab driver. Well, here’s my story. I was a high school English teacher here in New York City from 1984 to 1996. As I did not have a Masters Degree, by State Law, they had to let me go. Someday I will describe what I witnessed there. In the meantime, here is my story as a cab driver, and what I’ve learned about politics…

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