City Recruits Taxi Drivers To Make Home Deliveries

The city is recruiting under-worked taxi drivers to help deliver food to New Yorkers who can’t or shouldn’t leave their homes.

Driver Nasser Amadou, 34, has a child to support, and bills to pay, including $325 a week rental fee for his 2004 Toyota Camry. And he has no customers. But that changed two weeks ago when he began delivering food to elderly residents.

“That is joyful, especially to want to stand up and offer the little help that we can,” Amadou told WNYC.

The Taxi and Limousine Commission will recruit what it says is a small number of drivers and will pay them $15 an hour for now, plus gas and mileage.

Drivers can sign up online, and will be recruited on a first come first serve basis.