Get a Better Job

This ad is an attention getter for sure. Big bold yellow letters screaming at you to get a better job. The accompanying advertising is tuttleagency.com, a job placement agency or in their terms- a professional staffing service. Either way, you'll note that this taxi is a mini-van, a Toyota Sienna LE to be exact. In the last few years a variety of non-standard vehicles have begun to hit New York's streets as cabs including Toyota and Nissan mini-vans.
The large hulking building behind it is the James A Farley building- the main Post Office, on 33rd Street. Like NYC itself, this Post Office is open 24/7, only closing for a few select holidays. The building is part of a plan to be converted into a train station called Moynihan Station to serve as a replacement for the ugly/depressing/maze like/dungeon Penn Station across the street.

Feel Like a Woman!

This one is for legendary designer Diane von Furstenberg with some big pouty lips encouraging you to "feel like a woman". Diane is known for her wrap dresses and for being married to mogul Barry Diller (of ugly building fame).

Sunday Night Baseball

This is the future of taxi top advertising- electronic ads. Unfortunately they are ugly! Many of them flash updated sports scores in between ads which is pretty good if you want to know but not so good if you Tivo'ed the game and haven't watched it yet.Here you can see the ad cycles through to another screen advertising ESPN's Sunday night baseball game. Since it is baseball's opening day today for some teams, I thought this would be the perfect shot for today. This is in front of the Verizon building on 42nd and 6th.

Miami Vice

This is an older ad (newer ads coming soon- promise!) for the Miami Vice movie starring Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell. Movie ads are a popular category of taxi top advertisement- you'll see plenty more on these pages.