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Taxicab confessions: Riding with a non-striking driver

amNewYork shadowed cab drivers Monday -- one who joined the strike and another who decided to go to work. Here are their stories:

Inside Crazy Legs Conti's training camp

The centerpiece of Crazy Legs Conti's cramped East Village kitchen is not a dining table or oversized refrigerator.

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Rollerblading against the flow

Conventional wisdom suggests it's safer to travel down city streets with the flow of traffic rather than against it. But our latest extreme commuter, Ingrid Tarjan, who has been rollerblading the avenues of Manhattan for more than 15 years, says skating the wrong way is the best way.

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Pedicab commute may soon be outlawed

Some commutes are extremely long, others expensive, some even dangerous -- but it's a rare commute that is actually illegal.

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A four-hour commute--if he's lucky

Staten Island is only a few miles south of Manhattan, but the two boroughs can feel a world apart. Few know this better than Jonathan Acierno, who spends upward of an hour on an "express" bus commuting across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to Grand Central Terminal.

'Extreme Commuter' cycles 200 blocks a day

Commuting more than 100 blocks to work and school is something millions of New Yorkers do by express subway, bus or car. But doing it by bicycle, at night, in this kind of weather, is a bit extreme.

Advocates name city's 'worst landlords'

Housing advocates Tuesday released a "dirty dozen" list of landlords, who they claim are harassing tenants to force them out of rent-stabilized apartments.

Opposites team up against gridlock

Law-and-order conservatives and quasi-anarchist bicyclists don't agree on much, but in recent weeks both have found a common enemy in the cars and trucks that clog Manhattan's arteries.

City to push fresh produce

If the busy cash register at a new food co-op in East New York is any indication, those living in the city's low-income neighborhoods are craving better options.

Residents fear LES building boom

With the city considering new zoning laws for the Lower East Side, residents say they fear a mad rush from developers who want to build big before the rules change.