Mayor of San Juan says she was kicked out of a NYC taxi

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico is claiming she was kicked out of a New York City cab because she wanted to be driven to the Bronx.

The mayor says all she wanted was a taxi ride from Manhattan to her hotel, but once on the road, the cabbie stopped and told her to get out.

"The cab driver said, 'Well this is in the Bronx.' And I said, 'Yeah.' And he said, 'Well I don't know how to get there,'" said Carmen Yulin Cruz Soto, the Mayor of San Juan Puerto Rico.

San Juan Puerto Rico Mayor Cruz Soto says her trip to New York City has yet again been amazing, but trying to get a cab to take her to hotel in the South Bronx has really been a headache.

"I said, 'So you're telling me you don't want to take me to the Bronx.' He said, 'No I'm not saying that because that would be illegal, but I'm telling you I don't know how to get there so you need to get off and take another cab.' Clearly he did not want to go to the Bronx," Mayor Cruz Soto said.

So she got out and hailed another yellow cab from Greenwich Village and that wasn't much better.

He took us and the whole way, he was complaining about this is why people don't want to go to the Bronx.

Mayor Cruz Soto says she got a taste of what it's like for some people trying to get a cab to the outer boroughs.

She told her friend Council Speaker Melissa Mark Viveritto who called the TLC.

"I encouraged her to stay in a hotel in my district in the Bronx and I was happy that she agreed to, so that it's disappointing and hearing that she is trying to get back to the hotel in the Bronx she was denied a ride," Viveritto said.

"No way do I think that's what all taxicab drivers are about," Mayor Cruz Soto said. "I still love New York and I will love it forever. This is New York City The place where dreams come true you know if I can make it there I can make it anywhere but in order to make it here you have to get to the place where you're going."