Taxi Zone Explorer: Data for Any NYC Zone

In short: TLC splits New York City into 263 taxi zones, and every trip record says which zone a ride started and ended in. Type a neighborhood name or a zone number (its LocationID) below, or pick a borough, and open that zone's page. Each zone page shows pickups and drop-offs by month, the busiest hours, where rides from there go, and typical fares and app pay, from TLC trip data for September 2025 to August 2026.

How to use it

1. Search by a word in the zone name ("Astoria", "Midtown", "Jamaica") or by the LocationID number from a trip record (for example 132 for JFK Airport).
2. Filter by borough to browse. Results are sorted A to Z and load more as you go.
3. Open a zone. The card shows its ID, borough and TLC data label. Click it to see the zone page.
4. Or click the map below: the darker the zone, the more pickups it had.

How the numbers on zone pages are worked out

• Zones and IDs come from TLC's official taxi zone lookup table, the same IDs used in trip records.
• Trips come from TLC's trip record files for yellow taxis, green cabs and high-volume app services (Uber and Lyft). Black car and livery trips are not included, because those files have no fare or pay fields.
• "Fare" means the meter fare or the app's base passenger fare, before tips, tolls, taxes and surcharges.
• App driver pay is TLC's driver_pay field. It leaves out tips and tolls. It is not TLC's minimum pay formula.
• Taxi tips are card tips only. Cash tips are not recorded.
• Very small counts are hidden so no one can be singled out.

These are the busiest pickup zones citywide:

Data labels are not legal lines

TLC's lookup table gives each zone a service zone label: 55 Manhattan zones are "Yellow Zone", 205 zones (including 14 in upper Manhattan) are "Boro Zone", and the airports have their own labels. These are data labels only. The lines that change what you may do are defined in TLC's rules and state and MTA rules:

A zone can sit on both sides of a line (Central Park, which runs up to 110th Street, is one). Our zone pages say "partly" when the boundary splits a zone. The full picture is in who can pick up where and the service zone glossary entry.

Relief stands and taxi stands

The explorer does not list curb spaces. NYC DOT says relief stands let taxi and FHV drivers "park and leave their vehicles for up to one hour", while taxi stands require drivers to stay in their cars. DOT's map "may not be reflective of all current posted regulations", so always follow the sign. Use the relief stand finder to find one.

Limits: what this tool can't tell you

• Zone data shows what happened over 12 months. It does not promise how busy a zone will be tonight.
• It does not show street-level rules: hydrants, bus lanes, hotel zones or event closures.
• Trip data has a delay of about two months and TLC can revise files.
• It is general information, not legal advice.

To rank every zone, see NYC taxi zone data; for zone-to-zone routes, the most common taxi and Uber routes; and how zones work, NYC taxi zones explained. Complaint data by area is in TLC 311 complaint statistics, and how to search other TLC open data in TLC open data lookups.