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Where TLC Summonses Are Written: Precinct Data

TLC's own precinct table shows where drivers get TLC summonses most: Midtown East, JFK and Jackson Heights led 2025. Which rules, where, and the trend.

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On this page (8)
  1. The numbers at a glance
  2. Top locations in 2025
  3. Rule mix: different places, different tickets
  4. Monthly trend
  5. Compare with where trips happen
  6. What the data can't tell you
  7. FAQ
  8. Sources

In short: TLC's own enforcement table shows that in 2025 the most TLC summonses were written in NYPD Precinct 17 (east Midtown Manhattan, 3,049), at JFK Airport (2,768) and in Precinct 115 in Queens (Jackson Heights, East Elmhurst, North Corona, 2,415). What drivers were cited for depends heavily on the place: refusals in Midtown, stop signs in Queens, unlicensed activity at JFK.

This is the only official TLC data we found that shows where TLC summonses are written. The OATH hearings dataset used elsewhere on this site has no usable location field. TLC publishes a monthly spreadsheet, Enforcement and Complaint Statistics, with the ten most-cited rules each month by NYPD precinct (plus JFK and LaGuardia), from January 2020 to August 2026. The 2025 totals below come from Table 3 of TLC's 2025 Annual Report.

The numbers at a glance

  • 21,942summonses for TLC's top 10 rules, by precinct, 2025

    Source: TLC 2025 Annual Report, Table 3

  • 3,049Precinct 17 (east Midtown), the most of any location
  • 2,768JFK Airport, incl. 1,687 for unlicensed operation
  • 656refusal summonses; 610 of them in Precincts 17 and 14

Top locations in 2025

Locations with the most TLC summonses (top 10 rules), 2025

13 rows
Precinct 17East Midtown Manhattan: Sutton Area, Beekman Place, Kips Bay, Turtle Bay, Murray Hill, Rose Hill3,049Moving violations 80-13(a)(2): 1,648
JFK AirportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport2,768Unlicensed operation 19-506(b)(1): 1,687
Precinct 115Northern Queens: Jackson Heights, East Elmhurst, North Corona2,415Stop sign 80-13(a)(3)(viii): 1,378
Precinct 1Southern tip of Manhattan: World Trade Center, SoHo, Tribeca, Wall Street1,306Moving violations: 587
Precinct 108Southwest Queens: Long Island City, Sunnyside, Woodside1,229Moving violations: 527
Precinct 18 (Midtown North)South of Central Park: Theatre District, Rockefeller Plaza, Diamond District1,178Moving violations: 414
Precinct 14 (Midtown South)Times Square, Grand Central, Penn Station, Madison Square Garden1,015Moving violations: 478
Precinct 106South Central Queens: Ozone Park, South Ozone Park, Howard Beach861Stop sign: 641
LaGuardia AirportLaGuardia Airport774Unlicensed operation: 379
Precinct 110Northern Queens: Corona, Elmhurst730Required items in FHV 80-24(a)(2): 182
Precinct 76South Brooklyn: Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, Cobble Hill596Unlicensed operation: 352
Precinct 90North Brooklyn: Williamsburg588Moving violations: 249
Precinct 94North Brooklyn: Greenpoint547Stop sign: 342

Source: TLC 2025 Annual Report, Table 3; precinct areas from NYPD precinct pages

Area descriptions are copied from each precinct's NYPD page. Precincts 14 and 18 are named Midtown South and Midtown North; TLC's older monthly sheets label them "MTS" and "MTN".

Rule mix: different places, different tickets

Across all locations in the 2025 table, the ten rules were cited this often:

TLC summonses in the 2025 precinct table, by rule

Sum of every location column for each rule. Only the ten rules TLC chose for its table are counted.

  1. 80-13(a)(2) moving violations6,572
  2. 80-13(a)(3)(viii) stop sign4,383
  3. 19-506(b)(1) unlicensed operation3,676
  4. 59A-27(e) daily owner inspection2,079
  5. 80-24(a)(2) required items in FHV1,693
  6. 80-13(a)(3)(vii) traffic signal1,085
  7. 80-13(a)(1) parking851
  8. 80-20(a)(1) refusing passengers656
  9. 59A-25(a)(1) pre-arranged trips only493
  10. 80-14(g)(1) phone or tablet use454
Show data table
LabelSummonses (summonses)
80-13(a)(2) moving violations6,572
80-13(a)(3)(viii) stop sign4,383
19-506(b)(1) unlicensed operation3,676
59A-27(e) daily owner inspection2,079
80-24(a)(2) required items in FHV1,693
80-13(a)(3)(vii) traffic signal1,085
80-13(a)(1) parking851
80-20(a)(1) refusing passengers656
59A-25(a)(1) pre-arranged trips only493
80-14(g)(1) phone or tablet use454

Source: TLC 2025 Annual Report, Table 3 (sum of all precinct and airport columns)

A few patterns stand out:

  • Refusals are a Midtown thing. Precinct 17 (370) and Precinct 14 (240) account for 610 of the 656 refusal summonses under rule 80-20(a)(1). No Queens, Bronx or Staten Island location had more than 2.
  • Stop signs are a Queens and Brooklyn thing. Precinct 115 alone had 1,378 stop-sign summonses under 80-13(a)(3)(viii), Precinct 106 had 641, Brooklyn's 94th had 342 and Midtown's 18th had 240.
  • Unlicensed activity is an airport thing. JFK had 1,687 and LaGuardia 379 summonses for operating unlicensed under Admin Code 19-506(b)(1), with Brooklyn's 76th (352) next. See airport solicitation summonses.
  • Phone use under 80-14(g)(1) was cited most in Precinct 17 (122).
  • Moving violations under 80-13(a)(2) led in Precinct 17 (1,648), then Precinct 1 (587), Precinct 108 (527) and JFK (484).

Monthly trend

TLC summonses in the monthly precinct sheets, Jan 2024 – Aug 2026

Each month counts only that month's top ten rules, so totals are a floor, not every TLC summons. The rule list changes from month to month.

Summonses

Feb 2024Aug 2024Feb 2025Aug 2025Feb 2026Aug 2026
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LabelSummonses (top 10 rules that month) (summonses)
Jan 20242,063
Feb 20241,954
Mar 20241,885
Apr 20241,905
May 20242,022
Jun 20241,778
Jul 20241,849
Aug 20241,564
Sep 20241,417
Oct 20241,442
Nov 20241,621
Dec 20241,472
Jan 20252,031
Feb 20251,964
Mar 20251,915
Apr 20252,124
May 20251,893
Jun 20252,000
Jul 20252,040
Aug 20251,548
Sep 20251,444
Oct 20251,912
Nov 20251,733
Dec 20251,460
Jan 20261,373
Feb 20261,094
Mar 20261,959
Apr 20261,932
May 20261,692
Jun 2026984
Jul 2026516
Aug 20261,362

Source: TLC Enforcement and Complaint Statistics (xlsx), monthly blocks; TLC Help sum of all location columns

From January to August 2026 the monthly sheets add up to 10,912, compared with 15,515 in the same months of 2025, with very low counts in June (984) and July (516) 2026. The sheet doesn't explain the drop. In 2026 the mix also shifted: unlicensed operation became the top rule, and JFK the top location (1,943 so far), ahead of Precinct 115 (1,181) and LaGuardia (677).

Compare with where trips happen

Busy places see more trips, so it helps to compare. The map below shows where taxi and app pickups happened from September 2025 to August 2026, with JFK and LaGuardia outlined. It is not a map of summonses: TLC's data is by police precinct, which doesn't line up with taxi zones.

All 263 taxi zones: trips and key facts (map-ready)

Pickups by yellow taxis, green cabs and app services by taxi zone (TLC trip records, Sep 2025 – Aug 2026). Outlined: JFK Airport (132) and LaGuardia Airport (138), two of the top enforcement locations in 2025.

Highlighted: JFK Airport · 5,817,376 tripsLaGuardia Airport · 6,102,397 trips

  • Pickups (all sectors)
  • 0 – <251K
  • 251K – <649K
  • 649K – <1M
  • 1M – <2M
  • 2M – 6.1M
  • No data
Show data table (263 zones)
ZoneBoroughPickups (all sectors)

Source: NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · Data as of Oct 12, 2026. Aggregated by TLC Help from TLC trip records, Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 (pickup date; TLC publishes trip files about two months after the month ends and may revise them). 'App' = high-volume for-hire services (Uber, Lyft). Taxi records with a negative fare (reversals) are excluded. Averages, medians and rates use 'clean' trips only: 1 minute to 4 hours, more than 0 and under 150 miles, fare above $0 and under $1,000. 'Fare' is the metered fare_amount for taxis and base_passenger_fare for app trips — before tolls, tips, taxes and surcharges — so it is not what the passenger paid in total. App driver_pay is TLC's 'total driver pay (not including tolls or tips and net of commission, surcharges, or taxes)'. Tips are separate. 'Per engaged hour' divides pay by passenger time only (pickup to drop-off). It leaves out time driving to pickups and waiting for requests, so real hourly earnings are lower; it is not the TLC minimum-pay formula. Medians/rates need ≥250 trips (else null). labels are LocationIDs as strings; zones[] has names, boroughs, service_zone (from taxi_zone_lookup.csv), suggested slugs and neighbouring zone ids (shared boundary, from taxi_zones.zip).

Zone boundaries: NYC TLC taxi zones (LocationID 1–263).

Who writes TLC summonses also matters: some are written by TLC officers, some by the NYPD and some by the Port Authority Police at the airports.

Who writes taxi/FHV summonses filed at OATH (2021–2025)

Share by issuing agency from OATH case data. OATH data has no usable location, so it can't be matched to the precinct table above.

  • TLC88% 274,492
  • Port Authority Police12% 36,336
  • NYPD0% 294
Show data table
LabelSummonses (summonses)
TLC274,492
Port Authority Police36,336
NYPD294

Source: NYC Open Data: OATH Hearings Division Case Status (jz4z-kudi) · Data as of Oct 12, 2026. Counts are summonses filed at OATH by the agency, dated by violation_date (the date on the summons). A summons is not a finding of guilt. hearing_status, hearing_result, penalty_imposed, paid_amount and the charge descriptions are blank for taxi rows in this dataset, so it cannot show outcomes or fines. Port Authority Police patrol the airports and other Port Authority facilities, but this dataset has no usable location field, so it cannot show where any summons was written.

What the data can't tell you

  • Not every summons. Only ten rules per month (or per year in the annual table) are counted. A summons for a rule outside the top ten isn't here.
  • Not outcomes. These are summonses written, not violations proved. Many are settled, dismissed or still pending.
  • Not risk to you. High numbers reflect enforcement operations, which TLC and police aim at certain places and problems, and the volume of trips there.
  • Not who wrote it. The sheet doesn't say whether TLC, NYPD or Port Authority officers wrote each summons.
  • Monthly gaps. March 2021 is missing from the spreadsheet, and 2020 counts collapse during the pandemic.

For overall numbers, see TLC summons statistics and when TLC summonses are written. Related location data: taxi crashes in NYPD data, taxi stand and cruising summonses, busiest drop-off zones, where airport trips start and the most common routes. More on the enforcement topic page.

Frequently asked questions

Where were the most TLC summonses written in 2025?

In TLC's 2025 Annual Report precinct table, NYPD Precinct 17 (east Midtown Manhattan) had the most, 3,049, followed by JFK Airport (2,768) and Precinct 115 in Queens (2,415). The table counts the ten most-cited rules.

What are TLC drivers most often cited for by location?

Across all locations in 2025, the most common were moving violations under rule 80-13(a)(2) (6,572), stop-sign violations under 80-13(a)(3)(viii) (4,383) and operating unlicensed under Admin Code 19-506(b)(1) (3,676). Unlicensed-activity summonses were concentrated at JFK (1,687).

Where are refusal summonses written?

Almost all in Manhattan. Of the 656 refusal summonses (rule 80-20(a)(1)) in the 2025 precinct table, 370 were in Precinct 17 and 240 in Precinct 14 (Midtown South, which includes Times Square, Grand Central and Penn Station).

Does this show where drivers break the most rules?

No. It shows where summonses were written, which reflects where enforcement teams were sent and where trips happen. A summons is an allegation, not a finding, and the table only covers ten rules.

Sources

Last reviewed against the official sources on .

  1. TLC Enforcement and Complaint Statistics (monthly, by NYPD precinct, xlsx) nyc.gov
  2. TLC 2025 Annual Report (Jan 2026), Appendix Table 3 nyc.gov
  3. NYPD: 17th Precinct nyc.gov
  4. NYPD: 115th Precinct nyc.gov
  5. NYPD: Midtown South Precinct nyc.gov
  6. NYPD: Midtown North Precinct nyc.gov

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