Yellow Cabs and Subways: Everything Old Is New Again
Fewer taxis are on the streets, but for many New Yorkers, cabs and subways are inspiring a nostalgic (and budget-conscious) fervor.
These days, cabs are more affordable than car services like Uber and Lyft. New Yorkers have noticed. Credit.Caitlin Ochs for The New York Times
By Alyson Krueger
June 10, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
“It’s so satisfying hailing a yellow cab,” said Jelani Wiltshire of Staten Island. “Sometimes they pull an entire U-turn to get you. Or they are like, ‘Let me stop traffic just to pick you up.’”
“Getting in one feels like a win,” he added.
June 10, 2021
By Molly Meisels
Mx. Meisels is a graduate of Yeshiva University and an incoming art history M.A./Ph.D. student at the University of California, Los Angeles.
No one within earshot batted an eye at the slur. I was at a festive Shabbat dinner with other undergraduates at Yeshiva University, a few months into my freshman year at its Stern College for Women. âHeâs a fag,â I overheard a student in a spiffy suit say to the woman seated next to him.
A year earlier, as a senior at an all-girls Hasidic high school in Brooklyn in 2016, I had looked forward to being surrounded by open-minded, religiously committed Jews at the renowned Modern Orthodox university in New York City. But in that moment, my fantasies crumbled. As the slur echoed in my mind, glasses clinked, cheerful conversations continued, and the only visible concern in the room was mine. It was my first encounter with casual bigotry at Yeshiva, but not my last.