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Battery Park City (TLC zone 13) is a weekday zone. It had 1,322,474 pickups in the 12 months to August 2026 (about 3,623 a day), and an average weekday was busier than an average Saturday or Sunday. The weekday morning brings a sharp arrival rush, with 8 a.m. the top drop-off hour. Trips from here are long, so app driver pay per trip is high: a $20.87 median.
Zone 13 at a glance
Zone 13 carries the TLC label "Yellow Zone", which sorts data and has no legal meaning. It has just three neighbours: TriBeCa/Civic Center, World Trade Center and Battery Park. The city's street centerline map shows West Street (Route 9A) and Hugh L. Carey Tunnel ramps inside the zone.
When rides start and end here
Weekday mornings are about arrivals: 423 drop-offs in the 8 a.m. hour and 28.5% of all weekday drop-offs between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. Pickups build through the afternoon to peaks at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. (about 317 and 323), dip to about 270 at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m., and rise again to 327 at 9 p.m.
Weekends are quieter and earlier than in most of downtown. Saturday pickups peak at 6 p.m.; Sunday pickups peak at noon. Late nights are small: only 7.1% of Sunday pickups happen between midnight and 5 a.m.
October 2025 was the busiest month (125,326 pickups) and August 2026 the quietest (97,712).
Where trips from here go
The top destination is next door: TriBeCa/Civic Center (5.9% of pickups). Then come "Outside NYC" (4.8%), West Chelsea/Hudson Yards (3.8%), West Village (3.4%) and Financial District North (3.3%). LaGuardia Airport is 7th (2.9%). 8.4% of app pickups and 3.2% of yellow pickups went to an airport, one of the higher yellow airport shares in this part of Manhattan.
Fares and driver pay
Rides from zone 13 are long: the median app trip is 4.2 miles and the median yellow trip 3.59 miles. The median app fare was $30.43 and median app driver pay $20.87, with tips averaging $2.18. Pay per engaged hour was $70.49, but that counts only time with a rider, not waiting or driving to the pickup. Yellow trips had a $21.90 median meter fare and 21.9% card tips.
Legal lines
- Congestion Relief Zone. The area is south of 60th Street, but the MTA excludes West Street/Route 9A and the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel connections to West Street, and both pass through this taxi zone. Only 96.2% of app pickups and 96.0% of yellow pickups carried the fee, below most of Manhattan; the data doesn't give reasons. When charged, riders pay $1.50 (app) or $0.75 (taxi) as of 2026-10-12 (Congestion Relief Zone toll).
- Hugh L. Carey Tunnel. Toll rates and who pays are on the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel page.
- 20 mph slow zone. All of zone 13 is south of Canal Street, inside NYC DOT's Lower Manhattan Regional Slow Zone. Posted speed signs always apply.
Stands and practical notes
There is no DOT relief stand in the zone (checked 2026-10-12). DOT's sign file has two current taxi-stand sign records here, though without map points: South End Avenue between Liberty Street and Gateway Plaza (west side) and Little West Street between Battery Place and 3rd Place (east side). App drivers may not pick up at a taxi stand (TLC Rule 80-19(d)(2)). The nearest relief stand in DOT's list is in TriBeCa, on Greenwich Street between Reade and Chambers Streets (open to taxis and FHVs, 7 a.m.–7 p.m. except Sunday) (relief stand finder).
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.
- Battery Park City: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 13 (Battery Park City, Manhattan) 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.
- Battery Park City: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 13, 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.
- Battery Park City: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 13 (Battery Park City, Manhattan) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Battery Park City: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 13, 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 1,322,474 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Battery Park City: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 13, 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 1,226,279 drop-offs.
- Battery Park City: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 13, 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).
- Battery Park City: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 13 (Battery Park City, Manhattan) 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
Is Battery Park City busier on weekdays or weekends?
Weekdays. An average weekday had about 4,010 pickups, against 3,070 on Saturday and 2,240 on Sunday. That is the opposite of most downtown zones, where Saturday is the biggest day.
How much do app drivers make on trips from Battery Park City?
The median driver pay on Uber/Lyft trips starting in zone 13 was $20.87 per trip (before tips and tolls), above the $18.14 middle value for Manhattan's Yellow Zone zones. Trips are long: the median app trip was 4.2 miles.
Why do fewer Battery Park City trips pay the congestion fee?
96.2% of app pickups and 96.0% of yellow pickups here carried the MTA Congestion Relief Zone fee, lower than in most of Manhattan. The records don't give reasons. West Street/Route 9A and the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel connections to West Street, which pass through this taxi zone, are excluded from the MTA zone.
Is there a taxi stand in Battery Park City?
DOT's sign file (checked 2026-10-12) has current taxi-stand sign records on South End Avenue (Liberty Street to Gateway Plaza) and on Little West Street (Battery Place to 3rd Place). There is no DOT relief stand in the zone.
Sources
Last reviewed against the official sources on .
- NYC TLC Trip Record Data nyc.gov
- TLC Taxi Zone Lookup Table d37ci6vzurychx.cloudfront.net
- MTA: Congestion Relief Zone tolls mta.info
- NYC Open Data: NYC Street Centerline (CSCL) data.cityofnewyork.us
- NYC DOT: Speed limit reductions and Lower Manhattan Regional Slow Zone (Oct 2024) nyc.gov
- NYC Open Data: Parking Regulation Locations and Signs (DOT, nfid-uabd) data.cityofnewyork.us
- NYC Open Data: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands (DOT, vqu8-xef9) data.cityofnewyork.us
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