Early on the morning of March 23, a Lyft driver committed suicide after being found in the back seat of a car parked next to a cemetery in Queens. This is not the first time New York City taxi drivers have committed suicide in recent years. The taxi driver, whose name has not yet been identified by the authorities...

The yellow taxi is the calling card of New York and a means of making money for many people from post-Soviet countries. There are quite a lot of Russian-speaking drivers, as well as Indians, emigrants from Bangladesh and Haitians. Some Russians have been working behind the wheel of a taxi for decades and are trying...