A delivery worker rides a cargo bike with a trailer that says
Bikers at MetroSpeedy make $15 per hour plus tips, while drivers who provide their own vehicles make $20-25.
  • Native New Yorker Andy Zhicay makes deliveries for the same-day and next-day courier called MetroSpeedy.
  • On any given day, he makes hundreds of deliveries in New York's boroughs, Long Island, or Connecticut.
  • Zhicay says his detailed knowledge of the city makes him good at his job.

Andy Zhicay, 23, has been working as a delivery driver in New York City for four years — the last one with local company MetroSpeedy where he thinks he could stay for a while. 

"It's like a fast-paced job and I guess you could say I'm a little bit independent. I enjoy it," Zhicay told Insider.