Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'northside'
September 16, 2008
Northside Car Service, the dominant livery cab company in Williamsburg, has become the target of a boycott after an accident with a cyclist last week. In a widely circulated email, a friend of the unidentified cyclist—who himself called for a boycott in a Gothamist comment Friday—says that on September 10th the driver made an “irrationally fast turn” from Kent onto North Seventh, forcing the cyclist to "slam on the brakes, flip completely over the handlebars,......
Continue Reading "Cyclists Demand Boycott of Williamsburg's Northside Car Service "January 11, 2007
As much as I pretend to act like it, I am no working class hero. True, I've done a number of blue collar jobs. But that hardly makes me a member of the proletariat. My mom was a teacher and is now a counselor. My dad was a professor, then a high level government official, and is now a lobbyist. And they paid for my undergraduate degree at NYU. No matter how long I drive......
Continue Reading "The Hungry Cabbie Eats The Outer Boroughs: Defonte's Sandwich Shop"
