An unlicensed, unmarked sedan that drives up and down a major thoroughfare in Brooklyn, presumably also Queens and the Bronx. Passengers hail the cab, or the driver may honk at people standing on street corners or at bus stops to solicit passengers. When a passenger is about to reach the cross street they want, they tell the driver where to let them off, and pay for the ride ($3 now due to inflation; it was a dollar in the 90s). The cabs only run up and down the busiest part of the same street, they do not take passengers all the way to another destination. These cabs are a good alternative to the bus when it is running late or when a person is in a hurry. However, some prefer the bus if they are going to transfer to a train, because the transfer is free so they wouldn't pay twice.
On the biggest busiest streets, such as Flatbush Avenue, white minibuses are used, which are known as "dollar vans."
One might think that these are harmful to the MTA's ability to run its systems, but in fact, without the dollar cabs and dollar vans, the buses would be overwhelmed with riders. Dollar vans and dollar cabs carry thousands of people a day; all those people aren't going to fit onto the existing bus service, which is often extremely crowded as it is. These conveyances are an important part of NYC's transit ecosystem and provide a valuable service.
On the biggest busiest streets, such as Flatbush Avenue, white minibuses are used, which are known as "dollar vans."
One might think that these are harmful to the MTA's ability to run its systems, but in fact, without the dollar cabs and dollar vans, the buses would be overwhelmed with riders. Dollar vans and dollar cabs carry thousands of people a day; all those people aren't going to fit onto the existing bus service, which is often extremely crowded as it is. These conveyances are an important part of NYC's transit ecosystem and provide a valuable service.
The bus wasn't going to come for another twenty minutes, so I hopped in a dollar cab and still made it to my destination on time.
by vcr71 August 5, 2024
Get the dollar cabmug. 
When a friend offers you a list and you jump in the back seat leaving the passenger seat vacant. Hence making it look like a taxi. Comments like.... can you put the AC on? and have you been working long? are actively encouraged.
by craster December 11, 2015
Get the mini-cabbedmug. She couldn't handle a minivan so she switched it to a crew cab ranger so she could could take it all!
by Miss Mona February 21, 2025
Get the crew cab rangermug. by #elizabethan2010 October 29, 2017
Get the taxi cabs for fleasmug. CAB -n - acronym that arranges to a word familiar to a pedestrian that walks the streets of New York. Initial meaning is "Cunt Ass Bitch". Permeated throughout the Northeast town of Allenhurst by Kate O'Rourke. She discovered this word while backpacking through Europe while she was studying abroad.
"Wow, that tourist was such a CAB" exclaimed young Billy, as he was flung to the sidewalk by the oblivious tourist...
by Chris Fumatumahufalla May 5, 2009
Get the CABmug. by torquemada:D May 4, 2011
Get the cabmug.