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Brownsville (TLC zone 35) is a busy, local, daytime zone. From September 2025 to August 2026, 1,573,816 trips started here (about 4,312 a day), 16th of 61 Brooklyn zones. The busiest hour is 8 a.m. on weekdays, and most trips are short rides inside Brownsville or to the zones around it. Riders tip less here than in any other Brooklyn zone. The zone also has one of the few taxi stands in Brooklyn's sign data.
All numbers come from TLC trip records for yellow, green and high-volume app (Uber, Lyft) trips, aggregated by TLC Help. Black car and livery trips that are not app-dispatched are missing.
Brownsville at a glance
TLC lists zone 35 as a Brooklyn "Boro Zone". The lookup table uses that label for data only; it has no legal effect. Brownsville has five neighbors on TLC's zone map: Crown Heights North, East Flatbush/Remsen Village, East New York, East New York/Pennsylvania Avenue and Ocean Hill.
Apps did 98.1% of pickups. Yellow cabs had 28,632 (1.8%) and green cabs 930, the 17th-most green pickups in Brooklyn. Pickups (1,573,816) are a little higher than drop-offs (1,503,113).
When rides start
Brownsville runs on daytime demand. On weekdays the 8 a.m. hour is the busiest (about 300 pickups). A second, wider rise peaks at about 262 in the 5 p.m. hour. Evenings fall off steadily after 6 p.m.
Weekends add only a little. Saturday averages about 4,806 pickups and is busiest in the afternoon and early evening, at 255 to 274 an hour from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday (about 4,037) is quieter than a weekday (about 4,268), with a gentle peak at 2 to 3 p.m.
Month by month
App demand grew through the year, from 110,033 pickups in September 2025 to 132,743 in August 2026. March 2026 was the busiest month overall (149,157).
Yellow pickups were about 2,400 to 3,500 a month until May 2026 (3,179). In June they fell to 989 and stayed under 1,000 through August. The data doesn't say why.
Where trips go
14.3% of trips start and end inside Brownsville, the zone's top "destination". The ten top destinations, all in Brooklyn, take 64.6% of pickups:
- East New York: 10.9%
- Crown Heights North: 7.6%
- East Flatbush/Remsen Village: 7.0%
- Ocean Hill: 6.3%
- East New York/Pennsylvania Avenue: 5.1%
- Canarsie: 5.0%
The trips that arrive here come from the same zones.
Fares, trip length and driver pay
The median app trip is 2.14 miles and 13.6 minutes, with a $14.33 fare. The median driver pay is $12.19 before tips and tolls, 46th of 61 in Brooklyn. Long trips are rare: 1.7% of app pickups go to an airport, and 1.8% enter the Manhattan congestion zone.
Recorded tips are the lowest in Brooklyn: 1.0% of app fares, or $0.19 a trip on average. On yellow trips the recorded card tip rate rounds to 0%. Cash tips are not in the data, so this does not mean nobody tips.
The East 98th Street taxi stand
DOT's sign data (checked October 12, 2026) shows a taxi stand on East 98th Street between Ralph Avenue and Sutter Avenue (nfid-uabd). DOT lists no relief stand in the zone. TLC's Chapter 80 sets the stand rules:
- Yellow cabs may take any vacant position, and no one may interfere (80-19(d)(1)). Green cabs have the same right at stands in the Hail Zone, which includes all of Brooklyn (Chapter 51).
- App and other for-hire drivers must not pick up at a taxi stand: $350 for a first violation, revocation for a third within 36 months (80-19(d)(2)).
- Taxi and green cab drivers must not solicit or cruise for passengers within 100 feet of an authorized stand (80-19(a)(4)(ii)). Join the line at the rear (80-19(d)(4)), and the first two drivers must stay in their seats (80-19(d)(6)).
The sign on the street is what counts. See taxi stand rules and who can pick up where. This is general information, not legal advice.
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.
- Brownsville: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 35 (Brownsville, 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.
- Brownsville: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 35, 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.
- Brownsville: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 35 (Brownsville, Brooklyn) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Brownsville: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 35, 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 1,573,816 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Brownsville: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 35, 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 1,503,113 drop-offs.
- Brownsville: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 35, 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).
- Brownsville: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 35 (Brownsville, 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 Brownsville for Uber and Lyft?
About 4,231 app pickups a day. In the 12 months to August 2026, 1,573,816 trips started in zone 35, 16th of 61 Brooklyn zones, and apps did 98.1% of them.
Is there a taxi stand in Brownsville?
DOT's sign data shows a taxi stand on East 98th Street between Ralph Avenue and Sutter Avenue (checked October 12, 2026). Yellow cabs and green cabs may take a vacant spot there. App and other for-hire drivers must not pick up passengers at any taxi stand (TLC rule 80-19(d)(2)).
Do riders tip in Brownsville?
Rarely, in the recorded data. App tips equal 1.0% of fares, the lowest of Brooklyn's 61 zones, with an average of $0.19 a trip. Yellow card tips are close to zero; cash tips are not recorded.
When is Brownsville busiest?
The single busiest hour is 8 a.m. on weekdays (about 300 pickups). On Saturdays, pickups stay between about 255 and 274 an hour from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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: Parking Regulation Locations and Signs (DOT, nfid-uabd) data.cityofnewyork.us
- NYC Open Data: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands (DOT, vqu8-xef9) data.cityofnewyork.us
- TLC Rules Chapter 80: Rules Applicable to All Drivers (PDF) nyc.gov
- TLC Rules Chapter 51: Definitions (PDF) nyc.gov
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