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Briarwood/Jamaica Hills (TLC zone 28) wakes up early. On weekdays, drop-offs peak at 7 a.m. and pickups at 8 a.m., and more than a quarter of weekday pickups happen before 10 a.m. About 1,834 trips a day start here (669,477 in the 12 months to August 2026). Jamaica, next door, is the main link in both directions.
Figures come from TLC trip records for yellow taxis, green cabs and app trips (Uber, Lyft), totaled by TLC Help.
Briarwood/Jamaica Hills at a glance
On TLC's map, zone 28 has seven neighbors: Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (93), Hillcrest/Pomonok (121), Jamaica (130), Jamaica Estates (131), Kew Gardens (134), Kew Gardens Hills (135) and Richmond Hill (197). The "Boro Zone" label in TLC's lookup table is a data category, not a legal line.
An early-morning zone
The weekday morning comes in two steps. Drop-offs peak first, at 7 a.m. (about 130), then pickups peak at 8 a.m. (about 166), with 7 a.m. (about 143) and 9 a.m. (about 131) close behind. 28.5% of weekday pickups happen from 6 to 10 a.m.
Arrivals rise again in the evening: weekday drop-offs have a second high at 6 p.m. (about 107), and Saturday drop-offs peak late, at 10 and 11 p.m. (about 113 each). Saturday pickups peak at 9 a.m. (about 109), just ahead of 6 p.m. Sunday pickups are highest from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (about 88 to 95 an hour). Sunday nights matter for arrivals: 19.9% of Sunday drop-offs happen between midnight and 5 a.m., with the top hour at midnight (about 100).
Month by month
Pickups ranged from 49,983 in September 2025 to 60,770 in March 2026; drop-offs followed nearly the same line, from 48,826 to 59,914. Yellow taxi pickups ran 903 to 1,329 a month until May 2026, then about 545 to 575 a month in June to August.
Where trips go
Jamaica takes 14.9% of pickups, followed by trips inside the zone (8.1%), Forest Hills (6.7%), Kew Gardens (4.3%), Richmond Hill (4.2%) and Hillcrest/Pomonok (4.0%). Outside NYC (3.0%), South Jamaica (2.9%), JFK (2.9%) and Kew Gardens Hills (2.6%) complete the top ten. Only 4.3% of app pickups went to an airport, close to the Queens middle. For arrivals, Jamaica again leads (15.2%), and JFK is the 7th-biggest source (3.1%).
Fares and pay by sector
- App trips: median 2.83 miles in 14.3 minutes, a $16.43 fare and $14.07 driver pay, about the Queens middle. Pay per engaged hour is $62.32 (37th); it counts only time with a rider, so actual hourly pay is lower. Riders tipped 2.9%.
- Yellow taxis: 11,262 pickups and 26,381 drop-offs. Trips from here run a median 7.46 miles and $33.50; card riders tipped 8.7%, and 9.5% of yellow pickups paid the Manhattan congestion fee (app: 3.0%).
- Green cabs: 468 pickups against 3,114 drop-offs, so green cabs mostly bring riders here rather than take them away.
Pickup rules
Zone 28 is in TLC's Hail Zone (Chapter 51): yellow and green cabs may take street hails. App drivers may only pick up base-dispatched trips (80-19(c)(1)). DOT lists no relief stand in the zone. The nearest in its data are a taxi-only stand in Jackson Heights (about 4.2 miles) and a taxi/FHV stand in Woodside (about 4.6 miles).
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.
- Briarwood/Jamaica Hills: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 28 (Briarwood/Jamaica Hills, 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.
- Briarwood/Jamaica Hills: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 28, 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.
- Briarwood/Jamaica Hills: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 28 (Briarwood/Jamaica Hills, Queens) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Briarwood/Jamaica Hills: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 28, 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 669,477 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Briarwood/Jamaica Hills: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 28, 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 655,760 drop-offs.
- Briarwood/Jamaica Hills: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 28, 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).
- Briarwood/Jamaica Hills: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 28 (Briarwood/Jamaica Hills, 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 Briarwood/Jamaica Hills?
TLC trip records show 669,477 pickups from September 2025 to August 2026, about 1,834 a day, 26th of the 67 Queens zones outside the airports. Drop-offs were similar (655,760).
When is the morning rush here?
Early. Weekday drop-offs peak at 7 a.m. (about 130) and pickups at 8 a.m. (about 166). 28.5% of weekday pickups happen from 6 to 10 a.m., one of the highest morning shares in Queens.
Where do trips from Briarwood/Jamaica Hills go?
Jamaica takes 14.9% of pickups. Trips inside the zone (8.1%), Forest Hills (6.7%), Kew Gardens (4.3%) and Richmond Hill (4.2%) follow.
Do green cabs pick up here?
Rarely. Green cabs made 468 pickups but 3,114 drop-offs, almost seven drop-offs for every pickup.
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: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands (DOT, vqu8-xef9) data.cityofnewyork.us
- TLC Rules Chapter 51: Definitions (PDF) nyc.gov
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