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Clinton Hill, TLC taxi zone 49, is a mid-sized Brooklyn zone with an early weekend evening. Between September 2025 and August 2026, riders took 1,562,488 trips from here, about 4,281 a day, 17th in Brooklyn. Its busiest hour is Saturday at 7 p.m., while its neighbours to the east and west peak at 11 p.m. (Clinton Hill's own 11 p.m. hour is close behind.) Taxis of both colours come here mostly to drop riders off.
Clinton Hill at a glance (zone 49)
TLC's lookup table gives zone 49 the borough Brooklyn and the label "Boro Zone", a grouping in the trip data with no legal force. On the TLC map, Clinton Hill borders six zones: Bedford, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Crown Heights North, Fort Greene, Prospect Heights and South Williamsburg.
When rides start and end here
On weekdays, pickups rise from about 6 a.m. (14.9% of them start between 7 and 10 a.m.) to a 6 p.m. peak of about 268. Saturday brings about 5,920 pickups and peaks earlier than you might expect, at 7 p.m. (about 402). It stays high all evening: the 11 p.m. hour has about 397. Next door, Fort Greene and Bedford both peak at 11 p.m. on Saturday. On Sunday the top hour is midnight, the end of Saturday night.
Drop-offs come later: on weekdays they peak at 10 p.m. (about 316), and on Saturday at 11 p.m.
Through the year
December 2025 led the year with 140,778 pickups; September 2025 trailed with 117,150. Summer 2026 was also below the winter level, with about 121,600–123,400 pickups a month in June to August. Yellow pickups fell more sharply in summer, to 2,792–2,932 a month, from 3,057–4,203 earlier in the year.
Where trips go
Riders from Clinton Hill spread out across central Brooklyn. Crown Heights North takes 6.4% of pickups, Fort Greene 5.4%, Bedford 5.3%, trips within the zone 4.3%, Park Slope 4.2% and Stuyvesant Heights 4.1%. JFK makes the top ten at 2.7%. Overall, 5.8% of app pickups went to an airport and 14.9% paid the Congestion Relief Zone charge.
Yellow, green and app: who serves the zone
Apps did 1,519,692 pickups and almost exactly as many drop-offs (1,520,088). The taxi picture is lopsided. Green cabs dropped off 5,192 riders but picked up only 796. Yellow taxis dropped off 81,623 and picked up 42,000. So most taxi trips that touch Clinton Hill end here rather than start here.
Fares, trip length and driver pay
A middle-of-the-pack app trip from Clinton Hill covered 2.6 miles in 16.7 minutes, for an $18.80 fare and $15.31 driver pay before tips and tolls. App riders tipped $1.23 on average, 5.0% of the fare. Yellow trips had a median 4.34 miles and $26.89. Card-paying yellow riders tipped 2.2%, and cash tips are not recorded. App pay per engaged hour was $58.76. It only counts time with a passenger.
Pickup rules and notes
All of Clinton Hill is in TLC's Hail Zone (Chapter 51). A yellow taxi or green cab that has just dropped off here may take a street hail for the next trip. App drivers may only take riders booked through their base (80-19(c)(1)). Neither DOT's relief-stand list nor its sign records (both checked 2026-10-12) put a taxi stand or relief stand in zone 49. 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.
- Clinton Hill: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 49 (Clinton Hill, 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.
- Clinton Hill: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 49, 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.
- Clinton Hill: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 49 (Clinton Hill, Brooklyn) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Clinton Hill: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 49, 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 1,562,488 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Clinton Hill: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 49, 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 1,606,903 drop-offs.
- Clinton Hill: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 49, 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).
- Clinton Hill: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 49 (Clinton Hill, 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 many rides start in Clinton Hill?
TLC trip records show 1,562,488 pickups in zone 49 from September 2025 to August 2026, about 4,281 a day, 17th of Brooklyn's 61 zones. There were 1,606,903 drop-offs.
When is Clinton Hill busiest?
Saturday evening. The top hour is Saturday at 7 p.m., with about 402 pickups on an average Saturday. That is earlier than in nearby Fort Greene or Bedford, where Saturday peaks at 11 p.m., though Clinton Hill's 11 p.m. hour is almost as busy (about 397). Weekdays peak at 6 p.m.
Do green cabs work in Clinton Hill?
Mostly as drop-offs. Green cabs ended 5,192 trips here but started only 796. Yellow taxis also dropped off almost twice as many riders (81,623) as they picked up (42,000).
How much do app trips from Clinton Hill pay?
The median app driver pay was $15.31 per trip, before tips and tolls, for a median trip of 2.6 miles. Riders tipped an average of $1.23, about 5% of the fare.
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
- 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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