Last fall's run on the coveted TLC license plates, which are required to accept app-based hails, came after the New York Taxi Worker's Alliance sued to stop the Adams administration from modifying ...

The 1,000 plates for EVs come on top of about 74,000 rideshares currently zooming around the city — a number capped through the TLC’s moratorium on issuing new rideshare plates.

TLC licensed drivers are using private cars as livery cabs in New York City. Unless you look at the plates, you would never know. That’s the concern, said Fernando Mateo, the founder of the New ...