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Bayside (TLC zone 16) starts about 1,496 rides a day, a middle-of-the-pack number for Queens (35th of 67 zones outside the airports). Two things set it apart. Weekend nights run late: Sunday's busiest hour is 1 a.m. And 8% of trips leave New York City, the zone's second most common destination. App trips here move fast, so pay per engaged hour is among the best in Queens.
We built these numbers from a year of TLC trip records (September 2025 to August 2026) for yellow taxis, green cabs and app services such as Uber and Lyft.
Bayside at a glance
On TLC's zone map, zone 16 touches six Queens zones: Auburndale (9), Bay Terrace/Fort Totten (15), Douglaston (64), Fresh Meadows (98), Murray Hill-Queens (171) and Oakland Gardens (175). The lookup table's "Boro Zone" label is for data only.
Late weekend nights
On weekdays Bayside looks like a commuter zone: pickups peak at 8 a.m. (about 111) and drop off after 6 p.m. Weekends turn around. Saturday builds all evening to 11 p.m. (about 99), and the night carries on: Sunday's top hour is 1 a.m. (about 111), with about 101 at midnight and 93 at 2 a.m. 30% of Sunday pickups happen between midnight and 5 a.m. Sunday daytime is calmer, at about 43–61 pickups an hour from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Month by month
Pickups ranged from 40,422 in September 2025 to 48,760 in May 2026. Yellow taxi pickups were always small and dropped sharply in summer: from 340–349 a month in early 2026 to 126–137 from June to August.
Where trips go
19.2% of trips stay inside Bayside. Next is Outside of NYC (8%), then Oakland Gardens (6.0%), Bay Terrace/Fort Totten (5.9%), Murray Hill-Queens (5.4%) and Flushing (5.2%). Airport trips are few: only 3.7% of app pickups. Trips into Manhattan's congestion zone are rare too (2.6% of app pickups).
The flow out of the city is mostly one way. Riders arriving in Bayside come from Bayside itself (19.5% of drop-offs), Bay Terrace/Fort Totten (6.5%), Oakland Gardens (6.1%) and Flushing (5.9%), and "Outside of NYC" is not in the top ten origins. So far fewer recorded trips come into Bayside from outside the city than go the other way.
Fares and pay
The median app trip is 3.39 miles in only 12.8 minutes: a $16.95 fare and $13.68 driver pay (39th of 67). Because trips are quick, pay per engaged hour is $69.30, 11th in Queens. Engaged time leaves out waiting and driving to pickups, so it is not what you earn per hour. App riders tipped 4.6% of the fare, above the Queens middle of 3.3%.
Rules for trips here and out of the city
- Bayside is in TLC's Hail Zone (Chapter 51). Yellow and green cabs may take hails. App and other FHV drivers must only pick up base-dispatched trips (80-19(c)(1); who can pick up where).
- Trips out of the city: Rule 80-20(a)(1) says a driver must not refuse a passenger to any destination in NYC, Westchester, Nassau or Newark Airport without a justifiable reason. Taxi fares outside NYC are figured differently; see out-of-city taxi fares and tolls on trips outside NYC.
- For breaks, note that DOT's data has no relief stand in Bayside; the nearest Queens ones are more than 5 miles west, in Jackson Heights and Woodside (relief stands guide).
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.
- Bayside: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 16 (Bayside, Queens) 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.
- Bayside: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 16, 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.
- Bayside: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 16 (Bayside, Queens) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Bayside: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 16, 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 546,039 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Bayside: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 16, 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 537,531 drop-offs.
- Bayside: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 16, 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).
- Bayside: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 16 (Bayside, Queens) 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 Bayside?
TLC trip records show 546,039 pickups in zone 16 from September 2025 to August 2026, about 1,496 a day. That ranks 35th of the 67 Queens zones outside the airports.
Is Bayside busy late at night?
On weekends, yes. Sunday's busiest hour is 1 a.m. (about 111 pickups), and 30% of Sunday pickups start between midnight and 5 a.m. Saturday peaks at 11 p.m. Weekday nights are quiet.
How many trips from Bayside leave New York City?
8% of all pickups end outside NYC, the second most common destination after Bayside itself. TLC's data codes these as 'Outside of NYC' and does not say where.
Do yellow taxis have to take passengers from Bayside to Nassau County?
TLC Rule 80-20(a)(1) says a driver must not refuse a passenger to any destination in New York City, Westchester, Nassau or Newark Airport without a justifiable reason. Fares outside the city follow different rules; see the out-of-city fares guide.
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 80: Rules Applicable to All Drivers (PDF) nyc.gov
- 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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