Last Friday, when I was out pedicabbing, I encountered a semi-desperate taxi seeker, burdened with a large portfolio, on 6th Avenue in the low 20s. He needed to go to 48th & 9th. I said I’d take him there. He said, “No, you guys all charge like $5 a block! I can’t afford it.” I… Continue Reading
At eleven last night I got a mysterious text message from a Minnesota area code (huh? what?) asking if I was watching the NYC pedicab episode of The Apprentice. No, I wasn’t. I don’t have a TV (or even an Internet connection at home). However, by googling this morning, I got the rundown: The team… Continue Reading
…for example, when you’re a food vendor participating in a press conference at the Arsenal in Central Park, and you can’t park right at the entrance to unload your stuff. Sigmund Pretzelshop, one of RR’s esteemed delivery customers, is about to set up shop at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, peddling their “properly chewy” (Florence… Continue Reading
One summer Sunday morning, RR was hunkered down at home chomping on Gnosis raw organic chocolate – Sugar Plum variety – when we got the bright idea to give them a ring to both sing the praises of their chocolate as well as pitch RR’s local ecological delivery services. To our surprise, the owner herself,… Continue Reading