Excerpts From the Taxi Compliments File Taxi drivers in New York City are known to generate hostility, disgust or, if particularly fortunate, indifference among New Yorkers. Rare is the case when passengers have something nice to say about cabbies. Rarer still are the people, so taken with their drivers, who call 311 to register their compliments. Yet a total of roughly 700 compliments were received by the service in 2012. The following is a sampling of some of the more unusual entries, which include a story about a lost engagement ring and the offer of a gift made by a late relative: