ALBANY – The Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld the Bloomberg administration’s plan to permit 18,000 livery cabs to pick up customers who hail them, except in central Manhattan and at the city’s two airports, and to create and auction off 2,000 new taxi medallions for wheelchair-accessible yellow cabs.
The 6-0 ruling reversed a 2012 finding by Manhattan Acting Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron that the state’s authorization of taxi expansion illegally ignored the City Council’s opposition to the plan (NYLJ, June 5, 2012).
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