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Bloomfield/Emerson Hill (taxi zone 23) is Staten Island's second-busiest zone at about 1,131 pickups a day, and it takes in even more riders than it sends out: 454,147 drop-offs against 412,851 pickups. Riders arrive in the morning (about 111 drop-offs in the 8 a.m. hour) and leave in the afternoon, when pickups peak at 3 p.m. App trips from here are mid-length for the island and pay $14.08 at the median.
Source: TLC trip records (yellow, green, Uber and Lyft), September 2025 to August 2026, counted by TLC Help. Non-app car service trips are not in the data.
Zone 23 at a glance
On TLC's map, zone 23 borders Mariners Harbor (156), Port Richmond (187), Westerleigh (251), Heartland Village/Todt Hill (118) and Freshkills Park (99). Its "Boro Zone" label is a TLC data category with no legal meaning (zones explained).
In by morning, out by afternoon
The two charts below tell one story. On weekdays, drop-offs jump from about 62 at 6 a.m. to 111 at 8 a.m., the second-highest morning drop-off peak on Staten Island after St. George. Pickups are moderate in the morning (about 71 at 8 a.m.) and reach their high in the afternoon: about 83–88 an hour from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. The trip data shows the pattern but not the reason.
Weekends are flatter. Saturday pickups sit around 46–57 an hour from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Month by month
App pickups ranged from 31,237 in September 2025 to 38,445 in March 2026, with December 2025 (38,120) close behind. Summer 2026 eased back to about 32,000–34,000 a month.
Where trips go
20.8% of pickups end inside the zone. Mariners Harbor takes 11.6% and Heartland Village/Todt Hill 9.6%, then St. George (6.1%), Westerleigh (6.0%) and Port Richmond (4.5%). Trips out of the city stand out: 3.2% end outside NYC (TLC zone 265), the 3rd-highest share on Staten Island.
Fares and pay
The median app trip is 3.72 miles and 12.8 minutes, with a $17.00 fare and $14.08 driver pay. That beats the north shore zones nearby, where medians run $10.57–$12.03. Pay per engaged hour is $70.69, 6th on the island; it counts only time with a rider. Tips are modest at 3.8% of the fare ($0.89 on average).
Yellow taxis made 368 pickups. Their median trip was 9.92 miles and $35.93 on the meter, the highest median yellow fare of any Staten Island zone with enough taxi trips to measure. 10.1% of those taxi pickups were charged the Congestion Relief Zone fee, against 1.9% of app pickups.
Rules for trips here and beyond the city
- App drivers: base-dispatched pickups only (80-19(c)(1)). See who can pick up where.
- Yellow and green cabs can accept street hails in Bloomfield/Emerson Hill, which lies in TLC's Hail Zone (Chapter 51).
- Out-of-city taxi trips: for a destination outside NYC other than Westchester, Nassau or Newark Airport, agree a flat dollar fare before you start and keep the meter recording (80-17(f)(1)). For Newark Airport the meter runs the whole way (Chapter 80); see out-of-city taxi fares.
- No relief stands on Staten Island in DOT's data (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.
- Bloomfield/Emerson Hill: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 23 (Bloomfield/Emerson Hill, 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.
- Bloomfield/Emerson Hill: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 23, 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.
- Bloomfield/Emerson Hill: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 23 (Bloomfield/Emerson Hill, Staten Island) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Bloomfield/Emerson Hill: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 23, 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 412,851 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Bloomfield/Emerson Hill: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 23, 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 454,147 drop-offs.
- Bloomfield/Emerson Hill: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 23, 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).
- Bloomfield/Emerson Hill: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 23 (Bloomfield/Emerson Hill, 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 busy is Bloomfield/Emerson Hill?
It is Staten Island's second-busiest zone for pickups: 412,851 in the 12 months to August 2026, about 1,131 a day. It ranks second for drop-offs too, with 454,147.
When is the best time for pickups in Bloomfield/Emerson Hill?
The data shows weekday afternoons are busiest: about 83–88 pickups an hour from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., with the top hour at 3 p.m. Mornings are the busy time for drop-offs, about 111 in the 8 a.m. hour.
What does an app trip from here pay?
The median app trip is 3.72 miles and 12.8 minutes, with a $17.00 fare and $14.08 driver pay before tips. That is 6th of Staten Island's 19 zones with more than 1,000 pickups.
Do many trips from Bloomfield leave New York City?
More than from most Staten Island zones. 3.2% of pickups end outside NYC (TLC zone 265), and 2.5% of app pickups go to an airport.
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 51: Definitions (PDF) nyc.gov
- TLC Rules Chapter 80: Rules Applicable to All Drivers (PDF) nyc.gov
- NYC Open Data: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands (DOT, vqu8-xef9) data.cityofnewyork.us
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