If all 12,187 of the city's medallion cabs bought hood permits, it would bring the city more than $600,000 a year.
There is a gas station with not one but six medallion cabs filling their tanks.
They operate in neighborhoods where medallion cabs are rarely found.
Only yellow medallion cabs are allowed to respond to street hails.
The commission expects that all 13,000 medallion cabs in the city will have the equipment installed by the end of 2007.
Under city law, only the medallion cabs can cruise the streets for fares.
The industry evolved in the early 1980's when the city ordered medallion cabs to remove their radios.
Only yellow, medallion cabs are now allowed to pick up people who hail them on the street.
There are 11,787 medallion cabs in New York, a number that has been frozen for 55 years.
No, leave medallion cabs alone but control private car services.
