Illegal Taxis Fight Back Against Green Cabs

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News >> National News | Blogs How Some Illegal Taxi Drivers Are Fighting Back Against the Green Cab Program by Elizabeth Flock It was a busy night, two days before Christmas, and the streets of Bedford-Stuyvesant were packed with shoppers. So Emmanuel* was out later than usual. He had just picked up one last fare from his corner in Bed-Stuy, which was usually a safe zone, but moments later he was pulled over by a Ford Econoline van. Emmanuel knew the model. It was what New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission officers used when they did undercover sweeps for illegal cab drivers. more >> Why Are New York Courts Lumping in Sex Workers With the Victims of Human Trafficking? The state's Human Trafficking Intervention Courts assume there is little difference between victims of trafficking and people voluntarily undertaking sex work. Any notion that prostitution could be chosen as a form of work was dismissed as an "antiquated notion." That assumption, says the Red Umbrella Project, has led to some strange, sometimes troubling issues during the human trafficking courts' first year. more >> Music >> Top Picks The Return of the Giant NYC Dance Club by Steve Weinstein Victor Calderone is looking forward to the October 4 debut of his residency at the newly opened Space Ibiza NY as a long-delayed homecoming. Sure, Calderone, one of the city's true superstar DJs, has enjoyed residencies at nearly every big-room club in town. And he has been fielding other offers. But this time, it clicked. more >> Ethan Hawke (!) Leads Off the Best Comedy Shows in NYC This Week This week in Cheap Laughs, we have movie stars, trashy bars, improv legends, characters with edges, comic-book hits, tasseled tits, retired cops and exhilarated immigrants. 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I just can't help wondering whether a smaller splash might have made a larger impact. more >> Why Donna Bartender Jeremy Oertel Just Wants To Make Daiquiris All Night Long Anyone who builds a career around a craft can likely recall the exact moment when basic encounters turned into hopeless appreciation, and for Donna bartender Jeremy Oertel, it was a properly made Manhattan. more >> Movies >> Showtimes Gone Girl Is Smartly Crafted, Well-Acted -- and a Bit Too Slick by Stephanie Zacharek Everything about Gone Girl, David Fincher's adaptation of Gillian Flynn's enormously popular 2012 thriller about a deteriorating marriage and a wife gone missing, is precise and thoughtful -- it's as well planned as the perfect murder, with its share of vicious, shivery delights. more >> Transparent's Jill Soloway Continues TV's Sexual (R)evolution Adultery, abortion, threesomes, lesbians, transgenders, interracial hook-ups, Holocaust insensitivity -- there's something for everyone in Transparent, the fall's most promising -- and most empathetic -- new drama. more >> Arts >> Sculptor Gabriel Orozco Has a Circular Worldview, But He Damn Sure Takes You Places by Christian Viveros-Faune For Orozco, an artist of subtle yet pointed allegories, problems are also routinely solved by practical doing. 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