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Breezy Point/Fort Tilden/Riis Beach, TLC taxi zone 27, is the most seasonal zone in this part of Queens: a beach zone at the west end of the Rockaway Peninsula. Riders started 20,159 trips here from September 2025 to August 2026, but 4,380 of them in July 2026 alone, against 645 in February. On summer weekends riders arrive around noon and leave around 6 p.m. Trips are long, and app pay per trip is the 3rd-highest in Queens.
The zone at a glance (zone 27)
TLC's lookup table calls zone 27 a Queens "Boro Zone", a label used for trip data and not a legal line. On the TLC map its only land neighbour is Rockaway Park to the east. Many more trips end here (30,009) than start here: for every 100 drop-offs there are only 67 pickups, the 2nd-lowest ratio in Queens after Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
Beach days: arrive at noon, leave at six
From October 2025 to April 2026 the zone had 645–946 pickups a month. Then it jumped: 1,540 in May, 2,935 in June, 4,380 in July and 4,152 in August. Drop-offs rose even more, to 6,102 in July.
The week has the same rhythm. Weekends are much busier than weekdays (about 104 pickups on a Saturday, 92 on a Sunday, 38 on a weekday). On weekends drop-offs peak at noon, and pickups peak at 6 p.m.; 39.5% of Saturday pickups start between 4 and 8 p.m.
Where riders come from and go
Rockaway Park is the top destination (26.6%) and the top origin (30.7%). 9.8% of pickups stay in the zone and 4.6% go to Hammels/Arverne. Brooklyn is unusually present: Marine Park/Mill Basin (3%), Sheepshead Bay (2.9%), Flatbush/Ditmas Park (2.7%), Bay Ridge (2.4%) and Park Slope (1.4%) are all in the top ten, 12.4% of pickups together. JFK takes 3.7%.
Sectors and pay
Beachgoers mostly ride apps: 19,891 pickups (98.7%), against 266 for yellow taxis; green cab cells are zero or hidden. The median app trip was 7.26 miles and 20.7 minutes, more than twice the median in the other Rockaway zones, with a $32.13 fare and $26.50 driver pay before tips. Pay per engaged hour was $75.05, 3rd in Queens, but it does not count the drive out to the beach or waiting for a ride. Yellow medians are blank because there were too few clean yellow trips.
Tolls and pickup rules
The Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge links Brooklyn to the west end of the Rockaway Peninsula; five Brooklyn zones are in this zone's top ten destinations. Under TLC rules (§58-26(f)(1), §59A-23(b)(1)), a taxi or FHV trip from Brooklyn over that bridge to the peninsula costs the passenger two times the toll, and a trip back to Brooklyn over it costs the passenger nothing. Rates: Marine Parkway Bridge.
The zone is in the Hail Zone (Chapter 51); app and other FHV drivers may only pick up riders booked through a licensed base (80-19(c)(1)). DOT data showed no relief stand in zone 27; the nearest is in Hammels/Arverne, about 2.6 miles away (checked 2026-10-12).
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.
- Breezy Point/Fort Tilden/Riis Beach: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 27 (Breezy Point/Fort Tilden/Riis Beach, 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.
- Breezy Point/Fort Tilden/Riis Beach: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 27, 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.
- Breezy Point/Fort Tilden/Riis Beach: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 27 (Breezy Point/Fort Tilden/Riis Beach, Queens) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Breezy Point/Fort Tilden/Riis Beach: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 27, 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 20,159 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Breezy Point/Fort Tilden/Riis Beach: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 27, 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 30,009 drop-offs.
- Breezy Point/Fort Tilden/Riis Beach: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 27, 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).
- Breezy Point/Fort Tilden/Riis Beach: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 27 (Breezy Point/Fort Tilden/Riis Beach, 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 busy is the Breezy Point/Fort Tilden/Riis Beach zone?
Quiet most of the year, busy in summer. TLC trip records show 20,159 pickups in zone 27 from September 2025 to August 2026, about 55 a day on average, but 4,380 in July 2026 against 645 in February.
When do people take rides here?
Summer weekends. Drop-offs peak around noon on Saturday and Sunday, and pickups peak at 6 p.m. On a Saturday, 39.5% of pickups start between 4 and 8 p.m.
Where do riders come from and go to?
Rockaway Park, next door, is the top destination (26.6%) and origin (30.7%). Several Brooklyn zones are in the top ten both ways: Marine Park/Mill Basin, Sheepshead Bay, Flatbush/Ditmas Park, Bay Ridge and Park Slope.
What do app trips from here pay?
The median app trip from zone 27 was 7.26 miles and 20.7 minutes, with $26.50 driver pay before tips, 3rd-highest in Queens. Riders tipped 6.3% of the fare, $2.68 on average.
Sources
Last reviewed against the official sources on .
- NYC TLC Trip Record Data nyc.gov
- TLC Taxi Zone Lookup Table d37ci6vzurychx.cloudfront.net
- MTA: Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge mta.info
- TLC Rules, Chapter 58 (Taxicab Owners), §58-26 nyc.gov
- TLC Rules, Chapter 59 (For-Hire Vehicles), §59A-23 nyc.gov
- TLC Rules, Chapter 51 (Definitions) nyc.gov
- NYC Open Data: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands (DOT, vqu8-xef9) data.cityofnewyork.us
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