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Like so many who hail yellow taxis in the city, businessman Amit Agrawal says he's fed up with hearing cabbies talking on their cell phones while driving.
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Transportation Department opens a high-level meeting to deal with the problem.

"That could be dangerous," he said Friday as he walked to a pearl jewelry subway stop in lower Manhattan near the World Trade Center construction site. "I think that it should be prohibited in a place like New York City where the traffic is so bad."

But Agrawal and anyone else who has ever been frustrated by cabbies on the phone might get their full attention soon.

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Taxi drivers have been prohibited from using handheld and handsfree phones while driving since 1999. But the new rules would biwa pearl significantly increase penalties and prohibit drivers from even wearing wireless headsets.

New York state banned texting while driving earlier this year.

The National Safety Council, a nonprofit advocacy organization, has called for a nationwide ban on all cell phone use while driving because of hazards associated with the practice.

TLC Commissioner and Chairman Matthew Daus said the rules being proposed would be novel in targeting wireless handsfree headsets. Cabbies often use headsets on their right side, away from the window, making it harder for law enforcement officials to see them, he said.

"There really is no reason that you should be having it. There's no point," Daus said, adding that drivers often wear the devices to be able to akoya pearl ask friends for directions or to talk to their relatives while they're driving. "You know, it's a tough job, I understand that, but lives are at stake and at risk here, and it's the wrong thing to do to your passengers."

Taxi driver Adnan Aziz admitted that he sometimes uses his handsfree headset to talk on his cell phone and agreed that it could be unsafe to talk or even take a call while driving

Sachertorte. Magnificent palaces. Splendid museums. When Phillip Kalantirsky had his fill of Vienna the Opulent, he stayed on for a taste of Vienna Noir — in a walking tour built around the cult film "The Third Man."

"I'm obsessed with the movie," the 37-year-old lawyer from New York said on a recent afternoon as he and his wife waited for the tour to pearl jewelry start. "Most old films are very dated, you don't buy into them. 'The Third Man' is different."

Starring Orson Welles, the film tells the story of Holly Martins, a naive and broke American writer who investigates what appears to be the mysterious death of his old friend, Harry Lime, in a Vienna replete with rubble and racketeers, divided into zones run by the biwa pearl Western allies and the Soviet Union. Before long, he discovers that Lime is not dead but rather wrapped up in the trafficking of stolen, diluted penicillin, a scheme that has crippled and killed children.

Based on a screenplay by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed, the film is set to haunting Viennese zither music that's instantly familiar yet also unsettling — the perfect accompaniment for film noir.

While "The Third Man" won an Oscar and grand prize of the akoya pearl Cannes Film Festival, it was less of a hit in Vienna, with locals unappreciative of the portrayal of the city's residents as grasping and cowardly. But with "The Third Man" wildly popular elsewhere, the Austrian capital now offers an array of attractions based on the movie.

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