Cabbie Confidential

For every wild story a traveler might have about a ride in a New York City cab, the cabbie probably has a thousand more. These drivers range from dangerously manic to resourceful and daring, students working part-time, philosophers, anthropologists observing society's ills and quirks, immigrants waking to New York's wonders, captive audiences hearing the tales that anonymity releases. Amy Braunschweiger is no stranger to New York nightlife and brings us the best of the cities cabbie stories; we hear first-hand what all sorts of people have said and done in cabs. Sometimes lurid, poignant, always entertaining there fly-on-the-wall tales and all-too-close taxi encounters are the stuff that city life is made of - rarely seen by anyone who is not a cabbie