Month: April 2025

The Yellow Light Never Lasts
Steve Black
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You learn to live in the in-between when you drive a yellow cab in New York. The light turns green, you go. The light turns red, you wait. But the yellow? That’s the moment you live for — that brief, pulsing second between decision and instinct. Go or stop. Risk the ticket or play it…
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Nobody Notices the Driver
Steve Black
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In this city, you could vanish in plain sight and no one would even blink. That’s what being a taxi driver feels like most days — invisible. I open the door, you climb in, and for the next 15 blocks I’m just part of the background. A voice that asks, “Cash or card?” A hand…
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