The cabbie who refused to take City Councilman James Sanders’ daughter from Manhattan to Yonkers last week now has Mayor Michael Bloomberg on his case.
“It is horrible,” Bloomberg declared on his weekly WOR radio show.
“We’ll go after that driver assuming Sanders was smart enough to get the cab number and that sort of thing.”
In fact, furious as he was at the time, the Queens legislator managed to jot down enough information to file a complaint following a series of humiliating taxi experiences in Soho last Friday.
Sanders, who is black, told The Post that he spent 45 minutes trying to hail a cab that day, only to have 20 pass by without stopping.
Eventually, Sanders said he and his daughter — who was visiting from Atlanta — made their way to a taxi stand outside a luxury hotel near West Broadway and Canal Street, where the experience was repeated four more times.
On the last occasion, Sanders called the city’s taxi chief, David Yassky, and had him listen in as a cabbie brazenly defied the law and refused the fare.
Yellow cab passengers have a right to go anywhere within the five boroughs, as well as Westchester and Nassau counties and Newark Airport.
“This is an outrage,” said the mayor. “We give a license, a medallion, sell it to people. That gives them the right to operate a cab on the streets. If you’re doing that, you have an obligation to serve everybody.”
Sanders has been down this road before.
A year and a half ago, he said he had to ask a white colleague — Councilwoman Gale Brewer (D-Manhattan) — to hail a cab for him outside the Council’s office at 250 Broadway to insure it would stop.
“I had to stand on the side,” he recalled.