[cstejerean]

Except when it's 4 pm and you want to go to the airport from Manhattan, at which point none of the million cabs are interested in picking you up.

[1986]

Or in the other four boroughs of NYC, or Manhattan above ~125th St.

edit: which is exactly why the city rolled out the green cab system, which has inverted limitations on where they can accept street hails

[pbarnes_1]

I found that using Blacklane in that case was cheaper and more predictable than Uber.