New York City Vintage Cabs to be Dismissed from Existence?

Real heads from Flatbush and across New York City remember when checkered NY taxi cabs had standalone seats, where you had to pull them up from the floor of the cab, and hole onto a small strap. In those days, New York cabs didn't have modernized seatbelts. These were the days former New York City Mayor Ed Koch was in office and Mario Cuomo was governor of NYC.
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