Borough Park Taxi Zone (26): Trips, Hours & Fares

Borough Park (TLC zone 26) is a short-trip zone with its own weekly rhythm. In the 12 months to August 2026, 1,305,774 trips started here, about 3,578 a day, and 99.2% were app trips. 39.1% of them ended inside Borough Park, the highest share of any Brooklyn zone. Weekdays and Sundays are busy; Saturday has less than half a weekday's pickups.

The figures are TLC trip records (yellow, green and high-volume app trips, September 2025 to August 2026), added up by TLC Help. Black car and livery trips that are not high-volume are not included.

Borough Park at a glance

In TLC's zone lookup, zone 26 is a Brooklyn "Boro Zone", a data label, not a legal boundary. It has eight neighbors on TLC's zone map: Bensonhurst East, Bensonhurst West, Dyker Heights, Flatbush/Ditmas Park, Green-Wood Cemetery, Kensington, Ocean Parkway South and Sunset Park East.

It ranks 22nd of 61 Brooklyn zones by pickups. Yellow taxis are rare: 0.8% of pickups, tied with three other zones for the lowest share in Brooklyn.

When rides start

Weekdays average about 3,992 pickups. There is no single sharp rush: the 9 a.m., 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. hours all run at about 250–270 pickups. The 10 a.m. hour is the top (about 270).

Saturday is very different. It averages only about 1,744 pickups, 44% of a weekday. That is the lowest Saturday-to-weekday ratio of all 61 Brooklyn zones. Saturday daytime is quiet and the busiest hours are 9 and 10 p.m. (about 161 each).

Sunday is busy again, about 3,331 pickups, with a peak around 6–7 p.m. (about 208 an hour).

Month by month

The seasons swing hard. January 2026 was the top month (135,367 pickups), and December through March all passed 125,000. July 2026 was the low (82,489), and October 2025 and April 2026 also dipped near 92,000–93,000. Peak to low is a 64% gap, one of the ten widest in Brooklyn.

Yellow pickups ran at about 760 to 1,370 a month until May, then fell to 214–312 a month from June to August 2026. App trips did not fall the same way. The trip records do not explain the change.

Where trips go

After Borough Park itself (39.1%), no destination gets more than about 5%:

• Bensonhurst West: 5.3%
• Sunset Park East: 4.7%
• Flatbush/Ditmas Park: 4.3%
• Kensington: 4.2%
• Midwood: 4.0%

Trips ending here mirror this: 37.5% of drop-offs started in Borough Park.

Fares, trip length and driver pay

Short trips mean small fares. The median app trip is 1.56 miles and 12.3 minutes, with a $13.43 fare and $10.61 driver pay before tips and tolls. Pay per engaged hour is $55.74, the lowest in Brooklyn. That figure counts only time with a passenger, not driving to pickups or waiting, so it is not what a driver earns per hour. Tips are small too: 2.2% of the fare, $0.42 on average.

Long trips are rare. Only 0.9% of app pickups go to an airport and 2.4% are charged the Manhattan toll-zone fee, both below the Brooklyn zone medians (2.6% and 5.9%). Yellow trips have a $23.50 median fare over 3.6 miles.

Pickup rules and stands

Borough Park is in TLC's Hail Zone: yellow and green cabs may accept street hails here. App drivers must take only base-dispatched riders (80-19(c)(1)). For the citywide picture, see who can pick up where. For trips into Manhattan at or below 60th Street, the rider pays a Congestion Relief Zone charge of $1.50 per app trip or $0.75 per taxi trip, as of 2026-10-12 (MTA). This is general information, not legal advice.

DOT's open data shows no relief stand and no taxi-stand sign inside zone 26 (checked October 12, 2026; vqu8-xef9, nfid-uabd). Two signed taxi stands sit a few blocks outside it: one on Bay Parkway between West 7th and West 8th Streets, on the line between Bensonhurst East and Bensonhurst West, and one on Avenue P between East 2nd Street and McDonald Avenue, in Ocean Parkway South. See taxi relief stands for break spots.