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With a sea of yellow stretching into the distance, it looks like the taxi queue at a busy airport.
But this picture was actually taken outside a Mosque during a prayer service - with 200 Muslim cabbies illegally parked.
Residents of the wealthy Upper West Side of Manhattan are outraged that their streets are being taken over multiple times each day for the 45-minute service.
The taxi drivers are double and triple parking in a huge line that forces traffic into the oncoming lane.
The situation has flared up and on one occasion a cop telling a taxi driver to move on was swarmed by other hacks - and had to call for reinforcements.
When several other police cars arrived the taxi driver was handcuffed and led away.
Muslims have been parking illegally at the Islamic Cultural Centre for four years but the row has blown up because a road that connects to it that has been closed for the whole time has now reopened.
Prayers take place five times a day but the busiest is on Fridays at lunchtime when up to 300 worshippers - and 200 taxi drivers - are in attendance.
Most of the taxi drivers appear unrepentant with one claiming: 'I have to pray. I have no choice but to break the rules.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...time-Muslim-taxi-drivers-blocking-street.html
But this picture was actually taken outside a Mosque during a prayer service - with 200 Muslim cabbies illegally parked.
Residents of the wealthy Upper West Side of Manhattan are outraged that their streets are being taken over multiple times each day for the 45-minute service.
The taxi drivers are double and triple parking in a huge line that forces traffic into the oncoming lane.
The situation has flared up and on one occasion a cop telling a taxi driver to move on was swarmed by other hacks - and had to call for reinforcements.
When several other police cars arrived the taxi driver was handcuffed and led away.
Muslims have been parking illegally at the Islamic Cultural Centre for four years but the row has blown up because a road that connects to it that has been closed for the whole time has now reopened.
Prayers take place five times a day but the busiest is on Fridays at lunchtime when up to 300 worshippers - and 200 taxi drivers - are in attendance.
Most of the taxi drivers appear unrepentant with one claiming: 'I have to pray. I have no choice but to break the rules.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...time-Muslim-taxi-drivers-blocking-street.html
