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  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 09: A person enters a yellow cab on the Upper West Side amid the coronavirus pandemic on March 09, 2021 in New York City. It has been one year since COVID-19 was first reported in New York City. After undergoing various shutdown orders for the past 12 months, the city is currently in phase 4 of it's reopening plan, allowing for the reopening of low-risk outdoor activities, movie and television productions, indoor dining as well as the opening of movie theaters, all with capacity restrictions. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images)

    Uber will soon offer NYC yellow cabs via the app

    by 
    Kris Holt
    Kris Holt
    03.24.2022

    Passengers will pay around the same as they would for an Uber X ride.

  • NYC cabs will test app-based system to challenge Uber

    by 
    Mariella Moon
    Mariella Moon
    08.28.2015

    Around 7,000 NYC cabs are currently beta testing a new e-hail app called Arro, which the industry hopes can help it get back the customers it's lost to Uber. Arro isn't the first hailing app for cabs -- it actually works quite similarly to Uber -- but the startup believes it can do better than its predecessors. Why? Because; (a) it doesn't have surge pricing, meaning you'll just have to pay whatever shows up on the meter, and (b) it has a partnership with Creative Mobile Technologies (CMT). That's the company that controls the video screens and payment systems in about half of the 20,000 green and yellow cabs in the city.