New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission has approved a new style guide for the city's cab drivers. So, what is acceptable attire and what isn't?

Cops arrested Shawn Peace—who was identified from this video of him shooting a Queens livery cab driver—this morning in Buffalo. They caught him by tracking his cell phone. Police made the arrest, but technology really caught this guy.

Show Media, the company that sells advertising on the top of New York City taxis, is giving back to the city—and making up for its slowest month—by featuring work by Chuck Close and Kehinde Wiley. Good stuff!

The NYPD has released video of a man pulling a gun on a Queens cab driver before shooting him several times. The suspect is still at large. This is one of those times we're glad Big Brother was watching.

Many of you have probably had the colorful urban experience of vomiting in a cab, due to drunkenness, intoxication, or just plain alcohol-induced motion sickness. You disgusting lush. How much should a cab driver be compensated for your mess?

When a friend downtown texts with a Woody Allen sighting, the gang decides that a "true New Yorker" wouldn't care. This spawns a discussion about which public transportation system is fastest and inspires an episode-long race through Manhattan.

[Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa gets out of a cab in New York today after being named the recipient of this year's Nobel Prize in literature. Image via AP]

It's unclear why, but this taxi jumped the curb and crashed through the scaffolding in front of the TD Bank at the corner of 21st and Park this morning. We're glad we took the subway! More inside.

So, Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler seems to have done something dumb yesterday. He got into an argument with a cabbie over when to pay his full fare, and then didn't pay at all, and then fled before the cops came.

[Is this what happens when a temperamental passenger realizes a cabbie has been price gouging? Nah. But this taxi did suddenly burst into flames on Ninth Ave in Manhattan today. Image via Splash]

Using wizardry — GPS analysis of six months' cab trips—some clever people have plotted exactly where the best place to get a cab is at any time. Clue: it's not likely to be Penn Station at 9am. [NYT]

The TLC tried to lure commuters into its cab sharing scheme with free breakfast today. It failed, as did giving away balloons yesterday. Maybe it's time to admit that, like "fetch" and soccer in America, this isn't going to take?

An alert tipster sends us this dynamic pic of a burning cab near Times Square, just moments ago. The NYT asks, and our readers answer. Another shocking inferno image after the jump.

For the second time this week, I got in a cab with a driver who did not understand this concept: "Greenpoint." Or, more shockingly: "the Williamsburg Bridge." Or! Actually! "THE BQE." Did a session of taxi school just end, I asked, trying hard not to actually slap myself in the face for not just getting out when I'd had the chance? "Yes," said the driver, "but I am a fast learner! I go one time to Greenpoint, I will always know how to get there." How very useful to me! And possibly to you, if you end up in this guy's cab wanting to go to that crazy place called Greenpoint, which is now one of the three places in Brooklyn (others: "Clinton Avenue" and "Pennsylvania Street") he knows how to get to. Also, it turns out that you can take a 24 hour, $85 course to prepare for the yellow cab licensing exam, which, clearly, cannot be very difficult. Long story short? Maybe it's time for us all to make like Zach Braff and get a bike.

The Assimilated Negro is the issuing authority for your own personal Ghetto Pass, helping you safely navigate among the people and places of browner territories.

From the website of The Central Park Zoo:

[Via Bucky Turco, of course.]