NYC Mayor experiences significant fall-out over Uber deal
After the deal between Uber and NYC Mayor de Blasio was announced yesterday De Blasio was jeered at City Hall by yellow taxi drivers who yelled that he "caved" to Uber. A tabloid front page announced that the mayor "bails on limits" and credited Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the victory. Furthermore, the mayor received scathing criticism from City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, who objected to the mayor's assertion that he still wielded the threat of a cap if Uber failed to cooperate during the study. "I'm not going to allow anyone to attempt to save face at the expense of this Council," a visibly angry Mark-Viverito told reporters at a City Hall press conference. 
On Monday, the message from Mayor Bill de Blasio was unequivocal: Uber was growing too fast.

He lamented the app company’s singular focus on its “corporate bottom line.” He insisted that the car-hailing service was exacerbating city congestion. He called on the City Council to approve a bill “as quickly as possible” to cap Uber’s expansion during a traffic study.

Three days later, the plan had changed markedly. But the mayor’s tenor had not. “I don’t care how much money they have,” he told reporters on Thursday. “There will be rules.”

For now, though, a cap is not among them.

After a surprise agreement to table the cap proposal, mayoral allies, elected leaders and members of the taxi industry were left on Thursday to make sense of a move that has befuddled many.

And as City Hall aides scrambled to frame the maneuver as a triumph of negotiation, citing concessions from Uber on issues like data sharing, Mr. de Blasio attracted uncommon ire from one of his closest allies: Melissa Mark-Viverito, the Council speaker he helped install.