New York City taxis pass through New York's Times Square, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014. Under ambitious proposals that seek to get New York City cabs to slow down by taking the financial incentive out of speeding, black boxes inside cabs would shut the toll meter off whenever a cab goes above the posted limit - 25 mph in much of Manhattan - and drivers would be alerted they are going too fast. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Actor Alec Baldwin , shown here with wife Hilaria, has been cast to play the mayor of New York City in a new HBO drama. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP, file)
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, left, and Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, answer questions from the media following a meeting at the Cardinal's residence, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer walks to a cab after trying to collect signatures for his run for New York City comptroller in Union Square in New York, Monday, July 8, 2013. Spitzer, who stepped down in 2008 amid a prostitution scandal, says he is planning a political comeback with a run for New York City comptroller. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
** FILE ** New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during a news conference at Lucky's Cafe in New York, Tuesday, March 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
** FILE ** Defense lawyer Julie Gatto requests bail for her client, New York City policeman Gilberto Valle (right), in federal Court in New York's Manhattan borough, as depicted in a courtroom sketch from Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams, File)
A passer-by looks at the business hours of a check-cashing store in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. A bill in the House would exempt such outlets, as well as pawnshops and payday-lending places from oversight by a new federal consumer finance watchdog agency. (Associated Press)