12 AIRPORT VOICE, AUGUST 2021
Taxi Appreciation
Day at Airports
Time for Taxi Recognition!. It was the PANYNJ Taxi Appreciation Day at both JFK and LGA airports. (L-R) JFK
GM Charles Everett, Port Executive Director Rick Cotton, and TLC Commissioner Aloysee Heredia Jarmoszuk
with the Airport Taxi Driver of the Year winner Charles Voltus holding the complimentary blue Port bagin
front of a vintage Checker Cab. Cotton and Jarmoszuk thanked the drivers for their years of service to
travelers and afterwards chatted with several yellow cab drivers listening to some of their needs and
expectations.
Rick Cotton arrives at the Taxi holding lot in a Yellow Cab.
A Yellow Taxi driver listens to the day's Taxi Recognitions who both the Port Executive and TLC Commissioner
heralded as vital to the community and for their service during the pandemic.
In Taxi Appreciation Day
ceremonies held at JFK & LGA
airports, Port Authority Executive
Director Rick Cotton was
joined by Taxi and Limousine
Commission (TLC) Chair Aloysee
Heredia Jarmoszuk in expressing
appreciation for the
drivers’ contributions since
the start of the pandemic. Gift
cards were awarded to the
highest-performing cabbies
for exceptional service to and
from the airports and most
trips completed during the
pandemic.
Rick Cotton listens to Prosper Guirand, who paid $360,000 for a Yellow
Medallion in 2004, who explained that he is underwater on his
payments due to the TLC approval of UBER and LYFT to work the airports.
Charles Voltus celebrates his 60th birthday and award of Taxi Driver
of the Year with a cupcake. Photopage by Jeff Yapalater