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Bensonhurst West (TLC zone 22) is a mid-sized, local-trip zone. In the 12 months to August 2026, 956,755 trips started here, about 2,621 a day, and 99.2% were app trips. The top hour is 8 a.m. on weekdays, most riders stay in southwest Brooklyn, and only 1.3% of app pickups go to an airport, tied with Bensonhurst East for the second-lowest share in the borough.
All counts come from TLC trip records (yellow, green and high-volume app trips such as Uber and Lyft), September 2025 to August 2026, added up by TLC Help. Black car and livery trips that are not high-volume are not included.
Bensonhurst West at a glance
TLC's zone lookup has zone 22 as a Brooklyn "Boro Zone". That label is for data only; it is not a legal boundary. On TLC's zone map its neighbors are Bath Beach, Bensonhurst East, Borough Park and Dyker Heights.
It is 29th of 61 Brooklyn zones by pickups. A few more trips start here than end here (936,614 drop-offs). Yellow taxis are scarce: 0.8% of pickups, tied with three other zones for the lowest share in Brooklyn.
When rides start
Weekdays average about 2,624 pickups, with a tall morning peak: about 183 at 7 a.m., 225 at 8 a.m. and 175 at 9 a.m. The afternoon is flatter, about 140–149 from 2 to 6 p.m.
Saturday is a little bigger (about 2,773) and builds all day to 6 p.m. (about 176) and 7 p.m. (about 173). Sunday (about 2,453) stays between about 124 and 140 an hour from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Weekend nights bring riders back: Sunday's drop-offs are as high at midnight (about 133) as at 8 p.m.
Month by month
December 2025 was the busiest month (90,047 pickups) and January 2026 close behind (88,209). September 2025 was the quietest (67,264). Summer 2026 held up well, at about 78,000–80,000 a month.
Yellow pickups were about 590 to 890 a month until May 2026, then 133–197 a month from June to August, while app trips kept going. The trip records do not explain the yellow drop.
Where trips go
- Bensonhurst West itself: 15.4%
- Bensonhurst East: 9.0%
- Bay Ridge: 7.8%
- Borough Park: 7.4%
- Dyker Heights: 5.9%
- Bath Beach: 5.6%
- Coney Island: 3.6%
Trips ending here start in the same zones, led by Bensonhurst West (15.7%) and Bensonhurst East (9.0%).
Fares, trip length and driver pay
The median app trip is 2.15 miles and 12.6 minutes, with a $14.29 fare and $11.66 driver pay before tips and tolls, 50th of 61 in Brooklyn. Tips are 3.5% of fares, $0.68 on average.
Long trips are uncommon in both directions: 1.3% of app pickups go to an airport and 3.7% are charged the Manhattan toll-zone fee (Brooklyn medians: 2.6% and 5.9%). Yellow taxi trips have a median fare of $26.09 over 4.78 miles.
The Bay Parkway taxi stand and pickup rules
DOT's sign data lists a TAXI STAND sign on the east side of Bay Parkway between West 7th and West 8th Streets (nfid-uabd, checked October 12, 2026). DOT's record has no map point. The block itself lies on the line between Bensonhurst West and Bensonhurst East on TLC's zone map. There is no relief stand in the zone (vqu8-xef9).
At a taxi stand, yellow taxis and green cabs may take any open position (80-19(d)(1)). App drivers must not pick up there (80-19(d)(2)). Taxi drivers must not cruise for hails within 100 feet of the stand (80-19(a)(4)(ii)) (Chapter 80).
Bensonhurst West is in TLC's Hail Zone: yellow and green cabs may take hails, and app drivers need a base dispatch for every pickup. Riders going into Manhattan at or below 60th Street pay $1.50 per app trip or $0.75 per taxi trip as of 2026-10-12 (MTA). See who can pick up where. This is general information, not legal advice.
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.
- Bensonhurst West: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 22 (Bensonhurst West, Brooklyn) 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.
- Bensonhurst West: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 22, 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.
- Bensonhurst West: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 22 (Bensonhurst West, Brooklyn) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Bensonhurst West: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 22, 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 956,755 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Bensonhurst West: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 22, 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 936,614 drop-offs.
- Bensonhurst West: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 22, 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).
- Bensonhurst West: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 22 (Bensonhurst West, Brooklyn) 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 app pickups are there in Bensonhurst West?
About 2,601 a day. In the 12 months to August 2026, 956,755 trips started in zone 22: 949,230 by app, 7,397 by yellow taxi and 128 by green cab. It ranks 29th of 61 Brooklyn zones.
Do riders in Bensonhurst West go to the airport?
Rarely. Only 1.3% of app pickups here went to an airport, tied with Bensonhurst East for second-lowest in Brooklyn. The Brooklyn zone median is 2.6%.
When is the morning rush in Bensonhurst West?
The 8 a.m. hour on weekdays, with about 225 pickups. 7 a.m. (about 183) and 9 a.m. (about 175) are next. On Saturdays the top hour is 6 p.m. (about 176).
Is there a taxi stand near Bensonhurst West?
DOT's sign data (checked October 12, 2026) lists a TAXI STAND sign on Bay Parkway between West 7th and West 8th Streets. That block sits on the line between Bensonhurst West and Bensonhurst East.
Sources
Last reviewed against the official sources on .
- NYC TLC Trip Record Data nyc.gov
- TLC Taxi Zone Lookup Table d37ci6vzurychx.cloudfront.net
- 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
- TLC Rules Chapter 80: Rules Applicable to All Drivers (PDF) nyc.gov
- MTA: Congestion Relief Zone taxi and FHV tolls mta.info
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