These centers embody the growing divide on New York City’s streets between old and new, tradition and innovation,br that have forced the taxi industry to embrace new ways to counter the growing reach of the ride-hailing apps.br Other ride-hailing apps have set up driver centers elsewhere in the city: Juno has a center near La Guardia Airportbr that serves about 150 drivers a day; Via has a center in Manhattan that, among other things, offers free parking for new drivers.br Shaon Chowdhury, 39, who manages a yellow taxi garage in Queens, said he was seeing more Uber drivers pick up shifts driving yellow cabsbr because Uber’s “rates are low” and they cannot make enough money.br Despite the conflicts, Uber is a relentless competitor, and the taxi and Uber centersbr that have opened in different sections of the same neighborhood in Queens are a visible manifestation of how the rival industries continue to take on each other out of view of their customers.br “It makes it simple and easy if you want to start driving for Uber,” said Sumeet Singh, 22,br a college student who was visiting the center for the first time a couple of weeks ago.br Even so, Mr. Gathers said he had heard so much about Uber that he could not resist checking out its new center recently.