5 million for nyc taxi cars

It’s Fall in New York, and Cabs Are in Bloom: 5 million for public art.

Many taxi drivers still do not know exactly why flower decals are being applied to their cars.

Many New Yorkers have been delighted this fall by the florid colors coursing through the city streets. Like real flowers, the petals and pistils painted by some 23,000 schoolchildren flourish in the sunshine. That is thanks to the work done at night by Garden of Transit workers, who coax drivers into allowing the flowers to be applied to their cabs.

Garden in Transit — a project of the community art organization Portraits of Hope, founded by Bernard Massey and his brother, Ed — persuaded the Taxi and Limousine Commission to approve the privately financed $5 million public art program a year ago to mark the centennial of the metered taxi in New York.