When it comes to titling photos badly, I must claim to be number one! I have always been able to come up the worst titles humanly possible. Anyway, despite my poor choice of words, I think this picture has “Fared” well over the past 22 years. Even back in the 1980s when Checker taxis were everywhere, I knew their days were numbered. I have dozens of pictures of them and will one day have to do a book called “34 Checkered Taxi Cabs”
All Photos © Matt Weber
Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber 
Great picture and great idea!!
Why couldn’t people slam the doors of checkered cabs in 1988?
If they slammed the doors, the cabs would fall apart! The Checkers were built like the erector sets we played with as kids…