LI Checker Cab of New Hyde Park

Bye bye LI Checker Cab I will NEVER use you again. You charged me $ 28 (plus tip) from Farmingdale train station to Melville at 1am which took not even 10 minutes. Are you kidding with your prices???
EVERYONE do yourself a favor and call an über ahead of time. At Least you will get Better service at a much BETTER price!

The old fat dispatching lady is the rudest, most disgusting, horrific person i ever saw or dealt with. I feel bad saying that but its really the only way i can describe her nasty attitude. She is just so miserable its sad, i feel bad for any family members she might have shes so nasty to deal with. She is constantly turning calls down, and hanging up on people. The make dispatcher in the evening is great. I get a cab every day after work and hes cool, very nice guy… Unlike negative nancy ugh. The drivers all seem nice as well, never had a problem.

Very disappointing.
Used this twice. 1^st time– the driver kept honking right outside my house to make me awake he arrived. That’s rude i’m not late Not sure any reason he did that, The cab was kinda smelly too.
2^nd time i had no time researching other cab service and used it again.
It was a SHARED CAB, so horrible we pay for a regular price $ 45 but sharing with 2 other groups in JFK (Long wait too at the airport)
I called to complain the staff explained they are running out of drivers so there’s a long wait I complaint again then got hung up on the phone. we finally saw the car but realize it is a shared minivan that nite it took us one and ½ hours back home (normally 30 mins) Never ever want to use it anymore!

such bad car service that i have to put my review in all capital letters… such bad car service, that me… of all people on god’s green earth is writing a review about them. if i could give them zero stars i would… and, if i can give them 0 stars i am. they have this one dispatcher that is always there that is always miserable and is horrible to speak to, talk to, call. and, she’s always mean and rude and miserable to deal with. i call long island checker at my own peril. she is the main reason why i will never call them… i would take any other form of transportation other than horseback instead of calling long island checker cab for a ride to where i have to go. like, literally you could not pay me any money on this earth to go and take rides from long island checker cab company… specifically the long island checker cab company in new hyde park. who ever owns lij checker cabs needs to do their business a favor and also their other employees and especially their paying customers… who are located in elmont, new hyde park, stewart manor, floral park, etc, etc, etc… that owner needs to go and fire that woman who works as the car dispatcher in the new hyde branch of long island checker cab… the owner needs to fire, retire, assign to another job and/​or flat out get rid of that one female dispatcher for the company they have running in new hyde park. i fear her, the people i’ve gotten rides from fear and dread her and her nasty angry attitude… and, im a end on this note i called the number they have listed on here and another number on google that i found other than their (516) number and nobody picked up… im talking about multiple phone calls for two different numbers to get in touch with long island checker’s cab company in new hyde park and it just rang and rang and rang and rang and literally just continued to ring with no hope of anyone to answer the phone and guess what. i called back 20 minutes later? who do you think picked up? that miserable person they have working as the dispatcher. like if i owned the car service i wouldnt even let that woman do the dispatching if she volunteered to work for free. long island checker cab in new hyde park specifically has horrible, horrendous and appalling car service… i’d rather get a ride from nassau county police in the back of a patrol car. i cannot stress enough times that long island checker cab company needs they to fire that one female dispatcher to save their business. i also cannot even depict in this review how mean and rude and nasty their dispatcher is… all the time and every time that ive dealt with long island checker cab. she’s literally hung the phone up on me, argued with me and flat out has made me feel lesser than a human being on multiple occasions.

Picked us up quickly and got us where we were going quickly. Great all around!

Remember when Kevin Mcallister jumped into that taxi cab in Home Alone 2 only to discover that the cab even was scarier than the people surrounding Central Park… Well that’s basically the status of Long Island Checker.
The interior of the cabs have burn holes and haven’t been washed since the Cold War. The drivers go on racist tangents about which race tips the most/​least. I’m also pretty certain you’ll have lung cancer by the time they drop you off.
Service — I called for a cab at 3:45 PM to catch a 4:08 train. I let them know this and I was told that someone would be there right away-​AKA no one ever showed up. When I called back, whoever answered the phone told me it would be a while and had no recollection of the previous call– (and I bet if you check his
profile, it says he’s an honest guy).
Use Über

One star only due to the fact that the 3^rd driver finally took me to my destination. Dirty, broken down cars. No wonder Über is taking over. Don’t know how the car I was in passed inspection.

THE WORST CAB SERVICE EVER!!! Always late they tell you 10 mins then come 45 mins later! A month ago a driver went around in the neighborhood flashing people and the company told people they’re full of shit. Selling drugs out of the trunk. This place needs to get shut down asap

They’re horrible. Called for a cab bc too tired to drive. They said 5 minutes, but they never showed up! Why bother taking phone number if you’re not going to call or show up.

I absolutely hate this cab company. Only call if you want to be late to anything. At any given time they have one cab running and you have to wait at the base for 30 to 40 minutes after you get off the train. Then, when you get in the cab, the dispatcher will put 2 more in the cab, so unless you’re the closest fare, you have to wait for the others to get dropped off first.
Twice I’ve been in the car, on the way, dispatcher called the cab back to pick up another fare, at the base.
Yesterday, I got in, and the lady called the guy back to give him something. I’m gonna walk all the way to my destination next time.

The dispatchers will try to cheat you on the price. I had to go to the doctor for a procedure that included anesthesia, otherwise I wouldn’t have taken a cab for a 4 minute drive. The dispatcher quoted me $ 11 for 2 people to go to 2800 Marcus from Hillside/​New Hyde Park RD. On the way back, the driver told me she was a dispatcher for 20 years and that pricing worked in zones. This trip should only have been $ 9. She called the dispatcher to find out why he quoted a higher price. He said «do what you want to do». He was a complete dbag. The price isn’t the issue. The drivers aren’t the problem, I’ve had great experiences with the drives. You just can’t trust that you won’t be cheated by this business. I won’t be using them again.

This is the worst cab service I have ever experienced. I unknowingly lost my cash on the train to LI. After the 0.8 mile trip from the new Hyde Park station to my destination in a disgusting car that smelled like a smoky nursing home, I realized I that I would have to pay the driver with my card as I had no cash. After explaining the situation, they said they didn’t take cards at first, then said it was a $ 25 minimum. when I reiterated that all I had was a card they said «well I guess we’ll just call the cops»
After threatening to imprison me, they finally agreed to *only* charge me $ 20 on my card, on the agreement that they would pick me up after 30 minutes to take me back to the train. I had leg surgery 7 days before so needed the ride even though it was only about a qtr to a half mile away. That would mean the sour ass driver would get an $ 8 tip. I waited 15 minutes after the agreed upon time and they never showed up. I called dispatch and they said it would be 5 minutes and that the one driver in the town had another customer. I waited another 30 minutes, after which I decided to walk. After the 5 minute walk to the station (which hurt like hell), I rounded the corner to the train station and noticed that the cab dispatch was right there, and that my cabbie was sitting in front of the dispatch, on his cell phone, in his stinky car, smoking stinky Marlboro Reds with the stanky windows rolled up. It really pissed me off. I may dispute the cc charge if they even think about charging the effing $ 20 for a service they never performed

Not happy, Although the driver came on time (my home) he was not prepared for a credit card payment. he expected cash so we had to drive to the station for my credit card payment. Also if you plan on wearing Sundays best, don’t call them for service, their cars are DIRTY ! and VERY OLD. Did I need to know that the car has over 400k miles?

If I could give no stars, I would. This company is a waste of time. Wait forever, get charged a different price every time you take the exact same trip, all the drivers smell and more than likely miss your train. Better off calling triple A 516−328−8888. Save yourself the headache. If it came between walking and Li checker I’d tie my shoes

as some of the other reviews have mentioned, this service is subpar — but service is limited in the area. the people who answer the phone always have an attitude problem, which gets exponentially worse if you want to pay by credit card. the cabs stink, the drivers aren’t much better. i try my best to avoid them, but with the limited service in the area it sometimes is inevitable. hopefully a new service pops up soon!

This place is not worth your time and money. If you are looking to catch a train you are better walking!
They make you wait LITERALLY twice as long as they say they are going to be and go COMPLETLY out of the way to pick up multiple passangers. The dispatcher is the most nasty, sewer bred person I have ever experienced.
If you take more than 20 seconds to order the cab and explain we’re they can pick you up, he literally starts cursing at you and telling you off.
Unfortunately, once you get off the phone with this guy, that is not the last you here from him. Your entire ride you here him screaming through the radio and belittling the drivers and complaining about callers. Even the driver I had was impatient and short tempered.

They’re the only game in town when you’re stranded 3.5 miles from your friends house after getting back from NYE in Manhattan — and once again when your buddy can’t get up to drive you to LaGuardia at 6:30am because he was «up too late» the night before.
Sure you might develop small cell lung carcinoma from the smokey cab — or worse, possibly contract a disease from sitting on the seats (wait…is that worse… I’m not sure) — but they’ll be on time, the price will be good, and you can be assured to hear at least 3 racist comments from your questionably sober driver during the ride (not directed at you, of course, but other minority groups like «arab terrorists.)
I dunno — its better and cheaper than a cab ride in Manhattan, at least.