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Arrochar/Fort Wadsworth (taxi zone 6) is the Staten Island zone whose trips lean most visibly toward Brooklyn: Bay Ridge is in its top 10 destinations, which no other busy zone on the island can say. It averages about 420 pickups a day, almost all by app. It also has the island's highest yellow taxi share (0.6%, or 945 pickups in a year), and 3.4% of its app pickups were charged the Congestion Relief Zone fee, the most of any Staten Island zone with more than 1,000 pickups.
All trip figures come from TLC trip records (yellow, green, Uber and Lyft), September 2025 to August 2026, counted by TLC Help. Non-app car service trips are not included.
Zone 6 at a glance
On TLC's map, zone 6 touches Stapleton (221), Grymes Hill/Clifton (115), Heartland Village/Todt Hill (118) and South Beach/Dongan Hills (214). TLC labels it "Boro Zone"; that is a data label, not a pickup rule (zones explained).
When rides start
Weekdays peak at 8 a.m. (about 38 pickups) and stay in the mid-20s through the afternoon, with a small bump at 2 p.m. Saturdays hover around 21–24 an hour from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sundays peak mid-afternoon at about 19. Drop-offs follow almost the same curve, peaking at 8 a.m. on weekdays.
Month by month
App pickups ranged from 11,133 in September 2025 to 13,827 in March 2026. Yellow taxi pickups were 74–97 a month until March 2026, then lower (48–82) from April to August.
Where trips go
The top destinations are South Beach/Dongan Hills (12.1%), Stapleton (10.0%) and the zone itself (8.5%), then Grymes Hill/Clifton (7.0%) and St. George (6.8%). Bay Ridge in Brooklyn is 9th at 3.8%. The top 10 together cover only 66.8% of pickups, so the rest spread across many other zones.
Fares, pay and odd taxi records
The median app trip runs 3.62 miles and 13.2 minutes, with a $17.23 fare and $14.34 driver pay. Tips are 3.9% of the fare, about $0.89. Pay per engaged hour is $68.06, which only counts time with a rider.
Be careful with the yellow taxi row in the table. It shows a median fare of $9.35 for a median trip of 7.11 miles. TLC's meter charges $3.00 to start plus 70 cents per 1/5 mile at speed (taxi fare page, as of October 12, 2026), so the distance alone would cost far more. That suggests many of these records carry unusual fare entries, so don't read this row as a typical taxi fare from here.
Tolls and pickup rules
- Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, taxi trips. For a yellow or green cab trip from Staten Island to Brooklyn, the passenger pays no Verrazzano toll. From Brooklyn to Staten Island, the passenger pays two times the toll (Chapter 58, §58-26(f)). A car pays $7.46 per crossing with an E-ZPass from the New York Customer Service Center (NYCSC) or $12.03 by mail (MTA, rates as of October 12, 2026). More on the Verrazzano toll page and for app trips in who pays tolls on Uber/Lyft trips.
- App drivers may only pick up base-dispatched trips (80-19(c)(1)).
- Yellow and green cabs may take hails here; the zone is in TLC's Hail Zone (Chapter 51; who can pick up where).
- Breaks: DOT's relief-stand data shows no stand in Arrochar/Fort Wadsworth or elsewhere on the island (vqu8-xef9, checked October 12, 2026).
Nearby zones
Data on this page
Aggregates of public data. They describe trips and vehicles, never individual people.
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. Monthly cells with 1–9 trips are shown as blank (null). Pairs with fewer than 10 trips are not listed.
- Arrochar/Fort Wadsworth: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 6 (Arrochar/Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island) by sector, 12 months.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026Taxi tips: tip_amount records credit-card tips only (cash tips are not recorded), so taxi tip rates use credit-card trips (payment_type 1). App tips are the tips field on every trip. Tip rate = tips ÷ fare. Medians and rates need at least 250 trips in the cell (else blank); counts of 1–9 are blank. Pickup-side stats (fare, pay, tips) describe trips that START here.
- Arrochar/Fort Wadsworth: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 6, on weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays (all sectors).NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026Average over all such days in the window, holidays included.
- Arrochar/Fort Wadsworth: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 6 (Arrochar/Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Arrochar/Fort Wadsworth: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 6, as a share of all its pickups (12 months, all sectors).NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026Out of 153,387 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Arrochar/Fort Wadsworth: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 6, as a share of all its drop-offs (12 months, all sectors).NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026Out of 160,030 drop-offs.
- Arrochar/Fort Wadsworth: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 6, on weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays (all sectors; hour of pickup).NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026Hour is the trip's pickup hour (TLC records both, but a trip is binned by when it started).
- Arrochar/Fort Wadsworth: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 6 (Arrochar/Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- All 263 taxi zones: trips and key facts (map-ready) — One row per TLC taxi zone (LocationID 1–263) with pickups, drop-offs, sector mix, app driver pay, fares and tip rates — the source for zone maps, hubs and the zone explorer.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026Medians/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).
Frequently asked questions
How many rides start in Arrochar/Fort Wadsworth?
153,387 from September 2025 to August 2026, about 420 a day, 13th of Staten Island's 20 zones. Apps made 152,440 and yellow taxis 945, the most yellow pickups of any zone on the island.
Do trips from here go to Brooklyn?
Some do. Bay Ridge, in Brooklyn, is the 9th most common destination, with 3.8% of pickups. No other Staten Island zone with more than 1,000 pickups has a Brooklyn zone in its top 10.
Who pays the Verrazzano toll on a taxi trip from here to Brooklyn?
On a taxi trip from Staten Island to Brooklyn over the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, the passenger pays no toll (TLC rule 58-26(f)(1)(i)(C)). On a trip the other way, from Brooklyn to Staten Island, the passenger pays two times the toll.
What does an app trip from Arrochar pay?
The median app trip is 3.62 miles and 13.2 minutes, with a $17.23 fare and $14.34 driver pay before tips, 4th of Staten Island's 19 zones with more than 1,000 pickups.
Sources
Last reviewed against the official sources on .
- NYC TLC Trip Record Data nyc.gov
- TLC Taxi Zone Lookup Table d37ci6vzurychx.cloudfront.net
- TLC Rules Chapter 58: Taxicab Owners (PDF) nyc.gov
- TLC: Taxi Fare nyc.gov
- MTA: Tolls by vehicle type mta.info
- TLC Rules Chapter 51: Definitions (PDF) nyc.gov
- NYC Open Data: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands (DOT, vqu8-xef9) data.cityofnewyork.us
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