More than 2,400 Uber driver-partners call the Bronx home and are responsible for completing over 3 million trips on the platform in the past 4 years.<\/p>\n
Since Uber\u2019s launch in New York City in 2011, partners have grossed over $70 million dollars in Uber fares, with the freedom and flexibility to create their own schedules and provide for their families.<\/p>\n
To kick off Bronx Week, we celebrated some of our long-term driver-partners and their communities with a Partner Appreciation Event at Willis Avenue Community Garden.<\/p>\n
In addition to the several hundred partners in attendance, we were fortunate to be joined by City Council Member Annabel Palma, who expressed her support for Uber and its 2,400+ Bronx driver-partners.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need choices\u2014and Uber is a great choice for my community.\u201d \u2013 Council Member Annabel Palma<\/p>\n
Thanks for a great day!<\/p>\n
SEE WHO\u2019S DRIVING THE BRONX<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a people person. I moved to the Bronx from Senegal 6 years ago. With Uber, it gives me more time to do the things I like, and I really like talking to riders and meeting new people every day. I love that Uber riders really appreciate what I do.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 Bassirou, Uber partner since 2014<\/p>\n
\u201cI was driving with Uber part-time while working in a butcher shop, but switched to full-time since I love it so much. To me, it\u2019s the perfect job. It gives me the flexibility to make my own hours and also have the time to spend with my 4 kids.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 Gilberto, Uber partner since 2013<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll be celebrating Bronx Week through May 17. Stay tuned for updates on our blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 2,400 Uber driver-partners call the Bronx home and are responsible for completing over 3 million trips…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-162419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}