New “Boro Taxis” To Be Puke Green

By on May 1, 2012  Traffic & Transit
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It's not easy seeing green. (Source: nycmayorsoffice)

Color me unimpressed.

This summer, you may have to shield your eyes from the waves of Granny Smith-colored car service vehicles waiting to be legally hailed on the streets of South Brooklyn.

While the decision has many, including Gothamist’s Christopher Robbins staring in disbelief, TLC Commissioner David Yasskey seems absolutely pleased with the livery cabs’ puke-green pallor. Yasskey describes the new color as contextual camouflage for the outer borough urban jungle. Maybe he just really digs pickled tomatoes?

“Apple Green is very fitting for the new Boro Taxis,” TLC Commissioner David Yassky says in a release. “It’s pleasing to the eye, easy to see from a distance and blends well with the urban landscape.”

A total of 18,000 new permits for the Boro Taxis are expected to become available, starting with an initial release of 6,000 this June. The new livery cabs will include lights on the roof, credit card machines, and meters, giving the “green machines” all the same qualities included in yellow cabs.

That is, except for the taxi’s iconic canary color. Thanks to the TLC, the green cabs of Brooklyn will be branded with the blush of envy.

  • http://www.bayridgeodyssey.com/ Brian

    I don’t know if “puke green” is the right term, here. In my experience, as someone who eats a lot of pizza and not so many vegetables, and someone who rarely tosses unless I’ve had a lot to drink, I tend to associate red and amber as the colors of sick. This green is closer in color to a baby’s diaper after a steady diet of those Gerber peas. There you go – “Gerber green.”

    At any rate, I think they wanted a distinctive color, one that wouldn’t be found on many other cars on the road, since no sane person would want that as the color of their own personal vehicle. Yellow used to serve cabs well for that same reason, until it became the Official Color Of Midlife Crisis Cars.

  • BrooklynBus

    Is this story correct? The TV reported that all new cabs will be this color and not only the borough cabs. They made it sound like yellow is the color of the past.

    • http://www.bayridgeodyssey.com/ Brian

      I just read through the entire press release from the City. Gerber Green is just for the Boro Taxis. Though it doesn’t really surprise me that the TV news would get tripped up by the simple stuff.