New York City may have the Taxi of Tomorrow these days, but a new take on the classic Checker cab could soon be on the road. Checker Motor Cars of Haverhill, Mass., is planning to manufacture two ...

"I've loved Checkers ever since I was a little kid," Joe Fay says. The Naperville resident isn't referring to the board game. Fay has a passion for the Kalamazoo, Michigan, taxi-building company. One ...

For nearly four decades, the boxy yellow workhorse roamed the streets of New York and became a symbol of the city itself.

Commentator Daniel Pinkwater recalls a Checker cab he once owned. He rode around with his large dogs. Occasionally, people would mistake the car for a real taxi. He tells about one old woman who ...

The Checker Cab—an exemplar of four-wheeled Americana—owes its existence to Russian emigrant Morris Markin. Born in Smolensk in 1893, Markin immigrated to the United States in his late teens. He ...

Once a vital part of day-to-day transportation in major cities like Chicago, Boston and, most notably, New York, Checker-brand taxis ceased production in 1982 and the cabs have since been replaced by ...

Q: Greg, I enjoyed the article on the USPS delivery vans and wonder if you can shed some light on those great Checker Taxi cabs from the 1970s. Thanks, Bob L., Pennsylvania. A: Bob, I have to admit ...

Checker Cab Manufacturing Co.’s first cab rolls off the line in Kalamazoo, Mich., on June 18, 1923. The company was founded by Morris Markin, a Russian immigrant, in 1922 as Checker Cab Manufacturing ...