When you talk about New York, there are a lot of fascinating things and experiences that you can see and enjoy especially by looking around New York City. One thing for sure when you are in New York City, you could not miss the chance to see and even experience a ride around the city in New York with the finest and one of the famous icons in United States, the yellow taxicabs that has been running up and down the street for years and serving the people in the city, getting them from one place to another.
The taxicabs or New York City is painted distinctive yellow paint even checked as it could be recognized from far and they are under the cab association in the United States. The Taxicabs are operated by private companies and licensed by the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission. It is a commission by the New York government agencies that is responsible for more than 15 thousands taxis operating in the city alone. They too managed other for hire vehicle such as black cars, commuter vans and ambullettes. What makes this yellow cab unique and even special is that the yellow cabs are the only cabs that have the permission and license to pick up passengers when they are hail on the streets anytime when they saw a customer waving for their service. The taxis were painted yellow not because of being able to recognized from far by customers or others but it dated way back into the history of America where racial tension and unrest was happening around the states and the country was in a bad economy state. From there illegal taxi drivers and their unregistered taxi where they had been going around and servicing the people in the streets illegally making it hard for those registered to compete with such illegal taxi as they were using their own private cars. That is why the taxi were painted yellow as a distinction between legal and illegal taxi rides to curb illegal taxi and illegal taxi drives in New York city at that time.