City Island Taxi Zone (46): Trips, Hours & Fares

City Island (TLC zone 46) is small but different from the rest of the Bronx. Only about 153 trips a day start here (55,780 in the 12 months to August 2026), so it ranks 41st of 43 Bronx zones. But the trips are long. The median app trip pays the driver $24.98, the highest of any Bronx zone. Business is seasonal: summer months had nearly twice as many pickups as winter, and evenings are the busy time.

The 55,780 pickups split into 54,947 app trips, 805 yellow taxi trips (about two a day) and 28 green cab trips. That is TLC Help's count from TLC's trip files, which do not include black car or livery rides booked outside Uber and Lyft.

City Island at a glance

City Island sits in Long Island Sound at the east edge of the Bronx. TLC's zone shapefile lists no neighboring zones for it, because it touches no other zone on land. In the data, its closest links are Pelham Bay (183), Pelham Bay Park (184) and Schuylerville/Edgewater Park (208). TLC's lookup table labels it a "Boro Zone"; that label has no legal meaning.

A summer and evening zone

The month chart tells the main story. Pickups fell from 4,423 in September 2025 to 3,292 in February 2026, then climbed to 6,156 in June 2026. June, July and August each had about 6,000. The busiest month had 1.87 times the pickups of the quietest. Among Bronx zones, only neighboring Pelham Bay Park swings more (2.3 times).

The day has a clear shape too. People arrive in the late afternoon and leave at night. On weekdays, 35% of drop-offs happen between 4 and 8 p.m. Pickups peak later, around 8 to 10 p.m. On Saturdays the busiest pickup hour is 10 p.m. (about 21 trips), and Saturdays average 219 pickups against 132 on a weekday. Mornings are very quiet: only 5.4% of Saturday pickups start between 6 and 10 a.m.

Where trips go: often out of the city

The top destination is outside New York City (TLC zone 265), with 12.9% of pickups. The trip records don't say where outside the city those trips ended. Next come Pelham Bay (5.1%), Schuylerville/Edgewater Park (5.0%) and Co-Op City (4.3%). Only 3.1% of trips stay on the island.

If you drive a yellow taxi or green cab, out-of-city trips have their own fare rules. A Westchester trip runs on the meter with the outside-the-city part doubled. Most other destinations outside the city need a flat price agreed before you start (80-17(f)(1)). The Bronx page explains both.

Fares and pay

The median app trip is 7.19 miles, 20.7 minutes and $28.78 in fare. Drivers' median pay is $24.98 per trip, and riders tip more than in most Bronx zones: 4.0% of the fare, or $1.41 a trip on average (4th-highest tip rate in the borough). 3.1% of app pickups went to an airport, tied for the highest share in the Bronx. Yellow trips are longer still: a median of 11.82 miles and $42.50 on the meter.

Rules and practical notes

• Hail Zone: City Island, like the whole Bronx, is in TLC's Hail Zone (Chapter 51). Green cabs may take hails here. App drivers may only take base-dispatched trips (80-19(c)(1)).
• No stands: DOT's relief-stand data (checked October 2026) shows no relief stand on City Island. The closest listed one is a 1-space taxi/FHV stand on Pelham Parkway South, nearly 3 miles away in a straight line.
• Low numbers: with about 2 yellow pickups a day and 28 green pickups in a year, many taxi cells are blank or rest on few trips.