when did they stop allowing cars on the staten island ferry
Staten Island Ferry In the past, ferries were equipped for vehicle transport, and operators charged $3 per automobile.[144] A vehicle ban was approved in 1992, after the Whitehall Terminal was destroyed and subsequently rebuilt without vehicle loading areas.[175][176] Although the temporary terminals included car loading areas, car boarding was discontinued after the September 11 attacks.[144] There was a plan to reinstate car boarding because of rising tolls on the Verrazano Bridge,[177] but that was seen as infeasible due to the amount of effort needed to screen every car.[178]
Taxicabs of New York City The medallion system was created in 1937 as a government imposed limitation on the supply of taxicabs, requiring that a "medallion" be purchased for the right to operate a taxi. Thereafter, New York did not sell any medallions until 1996, when it auctioned slightly more than 2,000. The lack of new medallions resulted in such a shortage that by 2014 they were selling for more than $1 million each, with about 14,000 medallions in existence. Since then, the increase in rideshare vehicles, which numbered about 63,000 in 2015 and 100,000 by August 2018, has drastically reduced the market price of medallions.[1][2][3][4]