The mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico's capital, had a run-in with a New York cabbie on Wednesday when the driver refused to take her to her Bronx hotel, the New York Post reported.

Carmen Yulin Cruz was accompanied by three co-workers -- and $3.50 into the ride -- when the cabbie claimed that he had no way of locating the Opera House Hotel, a luxury boutique hotel on East 149th Street, where the mayor was staying "to support an outer-borough business."

"He kicked us out," Cruz told reporters in a City Hall press conference on Thursday.

"He told us we had to get out, and he knew he was not doing the right thing because I said, 'Well, I'm not going to pay you. You're kicking me out of the cab. (And) he said, 'You don't have to pay me.' So he knew."

When the dignitary and her helpers hailed another taxi in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, they had more luck and finally made it back to their hotel, according to The New York Times.

"He took us there, (but) all the while he was complaining that he was going to the Bronx," Cruz noted.

"She was surprised to learn what many New Yorkers have at times discovered: while it is technically illegal for a taxi driver to refuse a ride, some drivers scoff at traveling to boroughs outside Manhattan," The New York Times editorialized.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, who represents the district in which the Opera House Hotel is located, on Thursday condemned the driver's behavior, PIX11 noted. The Democratic lawmaker, who was born in San Juan, also promised an investigation of the incident.

"If somebody lives in the Bronx and wants to get home, they have the right to demand that service and to get that service, so it was really a shame," Mark-Viverito said

Cruz, San Juan's mayor since 2013, was in New York for the New Museum's "Ideas City" conference and had meetings with Mark-Viverito and with Mayor Bill de Blasio this week.