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Restaurant Closings in New York City and BankruptcyAs reported by many newspapers and websites, a significant number of restaurants are closing in New York City. These closings are due to the high cost of rent, insurance,  overhead and the increase in the minimum wage to $15 per hour for the restaurant staff.

How New York’s Taxi Titans Roiled Cities Hundreds of Miles Away

In the early 2000s, a group of New Yorkers did something unexpected.

They bought a bunch of taxi medallions that allowed them to own and operate vehicles hundreds of miles away, in Chicago. Medallions in that city were considered such an inexpensive commodity that Chicago had, at times, given them away free.

This turned out to be an early sign of a takeover of taxi markets across the country by some New Yorkers who were about to teach drivers in other cities a painful lesson.

From: The New York Times
By: Brian M. Rosenthal
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/27/nyregion/AOC-taxi-medallion-bailout.html

By Stephanie Pagones | Published September 10, 2019 | Transportation | FOXBusiness
Manhattan federal prosecutors are probing possible lending fraud in the New York City taxi industry, according to a report.

The Southern District of New York has been investigating possible crimes, such as bank, mail and wire fraud, over the past month in the wake of a string of suicides involving cabbies who were bogged down by heavy debt related to the ever-increasing cost of taxi medallions, The New York Times reported, citing sources with knowledge of the inquiry.