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The Brooklyn Navy Yard zone (TLC zone 34) is small but has two very clear rush hours. On weekdays it works like a workplace: people arrive around 8 a.m. and leave around 6 p.m. On weekends it works like a late-night spot: pickups peak at 3 a.m. on both Saturday and Sunday. In total it had 229,126 pickups from September 2025 to August 2026, about 628 a day, 57th of 61 in Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Navy Yard at a glance (zone 34)
TLC's lookup table lists zone 34 as Brooklyn, "Boro Zone". That is a category in the trip data, not a legal zone or a property line. On the TLC map, the zone borders Clinton Hill, DUMBO/Vinegar Hill, Fort Greene, South Williamsburg and Williamsburg (South Side).
Weekdays: a morning arrival zone
Most Brooklyn zones get their drop-offs in the evening. This one gets them in the morning. On an average weekday, drop-offs jump to about 70 in the 8 a.m. hour, and 28.9% of all weekday drop-offs land between 7 and 10 a.m. No other Brooklyn zone has a higher morning share. Going home is the mirror image: weekday pickups peak at 6 p.m. (about 53), and 29.2% of them start between 5 and 8 p.m.
Weekends: 3 a.m. pickups
Weekend nights flip the pattern. An average Saturday has about 996 pickups, nearly twice a weekday (about 508). Pickups on both weekend days peak at 3 a.m.: about 120 on Saturday and about 134 on Sunday, the busiest hour of the week. On Sunday, 45.5% of pickups happen between midnight and 5 a.m., the highest share in Brooklyn. Weekend drop-offs peak around 11 p.m. and midnight, so riders come in late and leave later.
Busy months were in the fall: October 2025 had 26,785 pickups. December 2025 was the quietest at 15,153.
Where trips go
There is no main destination. The top ten each take between 2.7% and 4.4% of pickups, led by Fort Greene, Downtown Brooklyn/MetroTech and Clinton Hill. "Outside NYC" (TLC code 265) is in the top ten at 3.2%, which is unusual for Brooklyn. Airports are not: only 2.0% of app pickups went to one, against 2.6% for the middle Brooklyn zone.
Who serves the zone, and what it pays
App trips were 220,012 of the pickups, yellow taxis 8,508 (a 3.7% share, 6th in Brooklyn) and green cabs 606. Yellow taxis here pick up almost as many riders as they drop off (9,326). That is the closest balance of any Brooklyn zone.
Median app driver pay was $17.56 per trip on a 3.16-mile median trip. The pay per engaged hour, $64.95, was the best in Brooklyn, but it leaves out driving to pickups and waiting. Yellow fares had a median of $29.60, and 41.4% of yellow pickups paid the Congestion Relief Zone charge, which is collected on trips to or through Manhattan south of 60th Street (MTA).
Pickup rules and notes
Zone 34 is in TLC's Hail Zone (Chapter 51): yellow and green cabs may take hails. App drivers need a booking through their base for every pickup (80-19(c)(1)). We found no relief stand or taxi-stand sign in this zone in DOT data checked on 2026-10-12. We also have no official source for pickup rules on private property inside the zone, so follow posted signs. See who can pick up where.
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.
- Brooklyn Navy Yard: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 34 (Brooklyn Navy Yard, 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.
- Brooklyn Navy Yard: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 34, 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.
- Brooklyn Navy Yard: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 34 (Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Brooklyn Navy Yard: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 34, 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 229,126 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Brooklyn Navy Yard: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 34, 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 253,155 drop-offs.
- Brooklyn Navy Yard: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 34, 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).
- Brooklyn Navy Yard: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 34 (Brooklyn Navy Yard, 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 busy is the Brooklyn Navy Yard taxi zone?
It is small. TLC trip records show 229,126 pickups in zone 34 from September 2025 to August 2026, about 628 a day, 57th of Brooklyn's 61 zones. More trips ended here (253,155) than started here.
When do people arrive at the Brooklyn Navy Yard zone?
On weekdays, in the morning. Drop-offs peak in the 8 a.m. hour (about 70), and 28.9% of weekday drop-offs land between 7 and 10 a.m., the highest share of any Brooklyn zone. Weekday pickups peak at 6 p.m.
Why is 3 a.m. busy in the Navy Yard zone on weekends?
The trip data shows weekend pickups peaking at 3 a.m. on both Saturday (about 120) and Sunday (about 134), and 45.5% of Sunday pickups come between midnight and 5 a.m. The records don't say why; they only show when trips start.
Do app drivers earn more per trip here?
Median app driver pay was $17.56 per trip, 8th in Brooklyn. Pay per engaged hour was $64.95, the highest of any Brooklyn zone, but that only counts time with a rider, so it is not real hourly earnings.
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) nyc.gov
- TLC Rules, Chapter 80 (Drivers) nyc.gov
- MTA: Congestion Relief Zone taxi and FHV tolls mta.info
- 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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