Sal Locascio

“I had a passenger who came in as a guy and got out as a girl,” he recalled. “And I said to myself, ‘O.K., this is New York.’ ”

“So, what matters to me now is to keep myself going,” he said. “You’re a short time alive and a long time dead.”

“Everybody wants to drive my cab,” he said, “but I’ll only let three guys drive it: me, myself and I.”

Sal Locascio, 87, is the oldest medallion-owning cabdriver in New York City

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