serves as a location for movie shoots so often that we actually have
fleets of New York City vehicles such as NYPD cars, U.S. Postal Service
trucks and Yellow Cabs. They’re typically stored in lots just off King
Street East (there’s one under the bridge at King and Sumach), but a couple of weeks ago, almost a dozen cabs were parked not far from my house on Phoebe Street.
I’ve always wondered how current the cab fare markings on the doors to
these movie cabs are. Any New Yorkers out there: are the prices shown
below current?
Update: My friend Alicia (a.k.a. “Leesh”) emailed me to let me know that the
prices on these movie cabs are the current prices on the streets of
Manhattan! She writes:
weirdly,
the cab fares are up to date. they went up pretty recently (within the
last six months), so some art director’s mum should be proud!
I suspect that for the purposes of movie-making, these cabs don’t play
the recordings of celebrities that remind you to buckle up when you
board and to check for belongings when you debark. This is also
accurate; according to the NYC Taxicab Fact Book,
the voice recordings were phased out in 2002 since they had no effect
on whether passengers buckled up and simply annoyed cabbies and
passengers. I miss them — it doesn’t feel like the Big Apple without Jackie Mason giving you friendly reminders!
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If you ever see a cab numbered 1729, Joey, be sure to photograph it, and get kilohits from mathematicians all over the world ;-)
Stu Savory
http://www.savory.de/blog.htm
That is what I paid earlier this week.
bnk