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Boerum Hill, TLC taxi zone 25, is a zone that sends riders out, often to the airport. It had 1,497,491 pickups from September 2025 to August 2026 (about 4,103 a day, 18th in Brooklyn) but only 1,377,376 drop-offs. Only two Brooklyn zones have a higher ratio of pickups to drop-offs. 6.8% of app pickups went to an airport, 3rd-highest in the borough. OATH's Brooklyn hearing office, where TLC summonses can be heard in person, is also in this zone.
Boerum Hill at a glance (zone 25)
TLC's lookup table files zone 25 under Brooklyn with the label "Boro Zone", a trip-data category that is not a legal line. On the TLC map, Boerum Hill borders seven zones: Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Downtown Brooklyn/MetroTech, Fort Greene, Gowanus and Park Slope.
When rides start and end here
Weekday pickups climb through the afternoon to a 7 p.m. peak (about 240). Saturday is the heaviest day, about 5,730 pickups, with 11 p.m. on top (about 361). Sunday's first hour, midnight, is nearly as busy (about 353), and a quarter of Sunday pickups (25.0%) start before 5 a.m.
Across the year, pickups ranged from 114,681 (February 2026) to 133,296 (May 2026).
Where trips go, including the airports
Park Slope is the top destination (6.6% of pickups), followed by Crown Heights North (4.2%), Brooklyn Heights (3.6%), and Clinton Hill and Fort Greene (3.4% each). LaGuardia (3.0%) and JFK (2.6%) are both in the top ten, and LaGuardia sends 3.4% of the trips that end here. Only Downtown Brooklyn/MetroTech and Brooklyn Heights have a higher airport share in Brooklyn. For airport runs, see the airport trip helper.
Who serves the zone, and what it pays
App trips: 1,442,544 pickups. Yellow taxis: 52,035 (a 3.5% share, 7th in Brooklyn). Green cabs: 2,912 (5th-most in Brooklyn). The median app trip was 3.31 miles and 18.6 minutes, with a $21.94 fare and $17.91 driver pay before tips and tolls. App riders tipped $1.55 on average, 5.5% of the fare. Yellow trips had a median $26.50 fare, and card-paying yellow riders tipped 8.2%. App pay per engaged hour was $61.25; it leaves out waiting and driving to pickups.
OATH's Brooklyn office
OATH lists its Brooklyn Hearings Division office at 9 Bond Street, 6th and 7th floors, open Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (OATH). DOT sign records on that block of Bond Street (between Fulton and Livingston Streets) carry map coordinates, and they fall inside zone 25 on TLC's zone map. OATH says it holds remote hearings and that an in-person hearing must be requested by email at least five business days before the hearing date. So don't just drive to Bond Street on your hearing day. Read in-person OATH hearing locations first.
Pickup rules and notes
Boerum Hill is in TLC's Hail Zone (Chapter 51), so yellow and green cabs can take street hails. App drivers must take only riders booked through their base (80-19(c)(1)). DOT data we checked on 2026-10-12 shows no relief stand or taxi-stand sign inside zone 25. It does show a "FOR-HIRE VEHICLES ONLY" sign on Smith Street between Fulton and Livingston Streets (nfid-uabd, order P-01814956); the posted sign sets its hours and limits. Next door, Downtown Brooklyn/MetroTech has two taxi-stand sign sites and a relief-stand sign on Adams Street.
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.
- Boerum Hill: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 25 (Boerum Hill, 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.
- Boerum Hill: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 25, 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.
- Boerum Hill: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 25 (Boerum Hill, Brooklyn) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Boerum Hill: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 25, 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 1,497,491 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Boerum Hill: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 25, 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 1,377,376 drop-offs.
- Boerum Hill: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 25, 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).
- Boerum Hill: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 25 (Boerum Hill, 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 rides start in Boerum Hill?
TLC trip records show 1,497,491 pickups in zone 25 from September 2025 to August 2026, about 4,103 a day, 18th of Brooklyn's 61 zones. Only 1,377,376 trips ended here, so about 120,000 more rides started than ended.
How many trips from Boerum Hill go to the airport?
6.8% of app pickups here went to JFK, LaGuardia or Newark, the 3rd-highest share in Brooklyn. LaGuardia took 3.0% of all pickups and JFK 2.6%.
Is the OATH hearing office in Boerum Hill?
OATH's Brooklyn office at 9 Bond Street (6th and 7th floors) is on a block of Bond Street that falls inside TLC zone 25 on the zone map. OATH lists its hours as Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. OATH says in-person hearings must be requested by email at least five business days ahead; otherwise hearings are remote.
When is Boerum Hill busiest for pickups?
Saturday at 11 p.m., with about 361 pickups on an average Saturday. Sunday's midnight hour is almost as busy (about 353). On weekdays the peak is 7 p.m. (about 240).
Sources
Last reviewed against the official sources on .
- NYC TLC Trip Record Data nyc.gov
- TLC Taxi Zone Lookup Table d37ci6vzurychx.cloudfront.net
- OATH: Hearing in Person (hearing locations) nyc.gov
- TLC Rules, Chapter 51 (Definitions) nyc.gov
- TLC Rules, Chapter 80 (Drivers) nyc.gov
- NYC Open Data: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands (DOT, vqu8-xef9) data.cityofnewyork.us
- NYC Open Data: Parking Regulation Locations and Signs (DOT, nfid-uabd) data.cityofnewyork.us
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