NYC's Hottest Cabbies Strip Down for 2017 Sexy Taxi Drivers Calendar: PHOTOS

NEW YORK CITY — The yellow cab is a New York City icon. Every New Yorker knows that when it's late, the weather sucks and the subway seems unthinkable, hopping inside a cab can feel like the height of luxury. There's nothing better than telling your driver where to go and burying your face in your phone until you get home.

But amid all this everyday opulence, New Yorkers sometimes forget to look up and appreciate the sheer amount of sexiness in the driver's seat.

Now you can make up for all those missed connections: Just snag a copy of the 2017 NYC Taxi Drivers Calendar, in which 12 of the city's most dashing cabbies burn up the pages with smoldering looks and scandalous poses.

The calendar, which dropped Tuesday, was created to show taxi drivers in a new light and combat their stereotypical portrayals in TV shows and movies, creator Phillip Kirkman told Patch.

"When you think of New York they are one of the iconic things that people experience here. The other thing is that they're rarely seen," Kirkman said. "You know you get in a cab and you don't really get the opportunity to see these individuals."

Phillip and Shannon Kirkman released the first version of the calendar in 2012, as an offshoot of a pin-up calendar Kirkman created as a "gag gift" for his brother's wife, featuring racy photos of his oldest brother.

In past iterations of the calendar, the Kirkmans had trouble finding 12 cab drivers willing to model for them. This year, though, process went quite smoothly, Kirkman told Patch: The 2017 calendar features four drivers who posed for previous calendars, and new models showed up through referrals.

Poses range from innocent (a driver gazing out from the top of his aviator sunglasses) to bold (a shirtless driver laying on the trunk of his cab, applying a block of ice to his chest). The models, who were paid $100 an hour, were told how to pose, but nobody was forced to pose in a way they didn't want to, Kirkman said. Photo shoots for this year's calendar took place from July through September.

A spot in the calendar offers a taxi driver the chance to stand out in ways not afforded to him while on the job, Kirkman said.

"It's incredibly difficult and it's not really a profession in which you can stand out," Kirkman told Patch. "A person taking a fare doesn't know the difference between one yellow cab and the other ones."

A portion of the money from calendar sales, which cost $14.99 each, is donated to the University Settlement organization, Kirkman told Patch. Since 2012, the calendar has helped raise $55,000 for the organization —which helps more than 33,000 immigrant families in NYC find services such as education, housing and wellness programs.

"We're very happy with this year, and thrilled we were able to secure such a diverse group," Kirkman said. "Actually, the drivers are from five different continents, which is pretty awesome."

Photos courtesy of Shannon Kirkman