Farewell to New York's famous yellow taxis - in pictures

A Nissan NV200 has been chosen as the winner of the Taxi of Tomorrow competition and will become the city's exclusive taxicab for a decade
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1900s: An early electric hansom taxicab in New York Photograph: George Eastman House/Getty Images

1923: Miss Maude Odell, one of the first women taxi drivers in New York Photograph: Corbis

1940: New York checkered taxicab workers strike Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images

1961: George Peppard and Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's Photograph: Allstar

1976: Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver Photograph: Allstar

1978: Andy Kaufman and Danny DeVito in TV comedy Taxi Photograph: ABC Photo Archives/Getty Images

1980: Steam rises from the sidewalk as businessmen get a taxicab Photograph: Ernst Haas/Getty Images

1991: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Rosie Perez and Giancarlo Esposito in the New York scene of Night on Earth. Five different cab drivers in five US and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night Photograph: Allstar

1996: Vintage design taxicab Photograph: Leon Morris/Redferns

2000: A woman uses a PalmPilot in the back of a taxi using its wireless internet access Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

2004: The Taxi film premiere, featuring a taxicab drive-in Photograph: Evan Agostini/Getty Images

2007: Three Ford Escape hybrid taxicabs. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the city's taxi fleet will be fully hybrid by 2012 Photograph: Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images

2007: Yellow taxi cab on the Brooklyn Bridge leaving Manhattan Photograph: Alamy

2010: A taxi being cleaned at the 55Stan Operating Corporation Photograph: Jan Johannessen/Getty Images

2010: Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex and the City 2 Photograph: Startraks Photo/Rex Features