Ride-hailing’s NYC dominance, and the impact of DeleteUber
7 years ago you&#x27;d have to jump into a yellow cab before telling the rider if you were going from Manhattan to Brooklyn or Brooklyn to Brooklyn. If you told them before you got in, they&#x27;d speed off.<p>You used to have to walk to arterial roads in hopes of finding a yellow cab (in the outer boroughs). That is if you lived in neighborhoods that the article points out now skews towards Lyft. Well to do, post gentrification areas. If you didn&#x27;t live in those neighborhoods, forget finding a yellow cab.<p>If you didn&#x27;t find a yellow cab, you call a car service like Arecibo or Eastern. You say &quot;73 Atlantic Ave, at Hicks st.&quot;, they say &quot;10 minutes&quot; and hang up. 25 minutes later a beat up town car with an illegal tint job pulls up, and you walk to the passenger door and knock on the window, or, if the window no longer works, open the rear passenger door -- but you don&#x27;t get in. Instead you say the neighborhood you are going and the guy sort of waffles and says... 20. You say, forget it and go to close the door (but you don&#x27;t), he says 18. You say 12, he says 15. You get in the car. Last week you paid 10 for the same ride.<p>The last time I called an UberT, a few years ago, the green taxi pulled up and someone ran over and threatened to fight me since they&#x27;d hailed the cab first. That&#x27;s the last time I messed around with the old way of doing things and it sounds like a lot of New Yorkers feel the same way.