Painterly yellow taxi door passing a pigeon on a wet grey pavement.

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Cab Dispatcher

Can you drive to the Bronx? Manhattan?

— Taxi Driver ‧ 1976

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

A cab dispatcher asks whether a driver can cover the Bronx and Manhattan. It's a practical question about where the driver will go. The city and the job of driving through it are right there in the wording.

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