Aerial Video: Brooklyn's 'Taxi Graveyard'

GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN — Nowhere in New York City is the takeover of ride-sharing apps and the slow, painful death of the yellow-cab system more apparent than the few-block radius surrounding McGuinness Boulevard and Huron Street in Greenpoint, where un-rented cabs belonging to McGuinness Management are idling in such numbers that Gothamist has declared the area a "taxi graveyard."

Vice recently sent a drone above the lot to capture the true scope of the corpse pile. (Video above.)

"Two years ago on a Friday afternoon, people were clawing each other's eyes out for a yellow cab... and now, nobody wants these cabs," Brooklyn resident Mel Plaut, a former cab driver and current urban planner and writer, told Vice. "This is the new normal."

Nearby residents with cars of their own to park, predictably, are not fond of their new local graveyard. Back in August 2015, the owner of McGuinness Management, Gus Kodogiannis, said in an interview with Gothamist that he was in the process of working out a better parking solution with the owners of the cabs' medallions. We've reached out to Kodogiannis, as well as local leaders, for an update — we'll let you know if we find out anything more.