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Cobble Hill, TLC taxi zone 52, is a small zone with riders who tip better than most in Brooklyn. Only 411,824 rides started here from September 2025 to August 2026, about 1,128 a day, 50th of 61 in Brooklyn. But app riders here tipped an average of $1.85 per trip (6.6% of the fare), and card-paying yellow riders tipped 14.0%. Both rates rank in Brooklyn's top five. Trips are also longer than average for the borough.
Cobble Hill at a glance (zone 52)
In TLC's zone lookup, zone 52 is Brooklyn, "Boro Zone". That label groups zones in the data; it has no legal meaning. On the TLC map, Cobble Hill touches four zones: Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens and Columbia Street.
When rides start here
Cobble Hill is a daytime and early-evening zone. Weekday pickups peak at 6 p.m. (about 75), and 15.0% start between 7 and 10 a.m. The biggest day is Saturday (about 1,430 pickups), with its high point at 7 p.m. (about 104). Sunday's busiest hour is 2 p.m., not midnight.
Late nights are quiet. Only 4.0% of weekday pickups and 11.4% of Sunday pickups start between midnight and 5 a.m., one of the lowest Sunday shares in Brooklyn.
December 2025 was the busiest month (37,967 pickups). The quietest months were August 2026 (30,269), September 2025 (30,816) and July 2026 (30,899): late summer is slow here.
Where trips go
The top destination is Park Slope (7.0% of pickups), followed by Brooklyn Heights (5.7%), Boerum Hill (4.2%) and Carroll Gardens (3.5%). Red Hook and Fort Greene each take 3.0%. The median app trip was 3.51 miles, 7th-longest in Brooklyn. 5.9% of app pickups went to an airport, and 20.3% paid the Congestion Relief Zone charge, the 9th-highest share in the borough.
Yellow, green and app: who serves the zone
By sector: 394,737 app pickups, 16,552 yellow and 535 green. The yellow share, 4.0%, is 5th-highest in Brooklyn. Yellow taxis dropped off 31,920 riders here, almost twice their pickups. Of the yellow trips that started here, 41.2% paid the CRZ charge, which applies to every trip to or through Manhattan south of 60th Street (MTA). As of 2026-10-12 that charge is $0.75 per taxi trip and $1.50 per Uber/Lyft trip, paid by the rider.
Fares and driver pay
The median app trip had a $21.97 fare and paid the driver $17.50 before tips and tolls, 9th in Brooklyn. With the $1.85 average tip on top, a typical app trip here earned more than most Brooklyn trips. Yellow rides from here ran a median 4.68 miles for a $26.80 fare. App pay per engaged hour was $62.12; that counts only time with a passenger.
Pickup rules and notes
Cobble Hill is part of TLC's Hail Zone (Chapter 51), so yellow and green cabs can take street hails. App drivers can only take riders booked through their base (80-19(c)(1)). DOT relief-stand and parking-sign data checked on 2026-10-12 show no relief stand or taxi-stand sign inside zone 52. Next door in Brooklyn Heights, a current sign marks a relief stand on Court Street. 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.
- Cobble Hill: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 52 (Cobble 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.
- Cobble Hill: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 52, 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.
- Cobble Hill: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 52 (Cobble Hill, Brooklyn) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Cobble Hill: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 52, 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 411,824 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Cobble Hill: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 52, 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 386,900 drop-offs.
- Cobble Hill: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 52, 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).
- Cobble Hill: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 52 (Cobble 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 Cobble Hill?
TLC trip records show 411,824 pickups in zone 52 from September 2025 to August 2026, about 1,128 a day. That puts it 50th of Brooklyn's 61 zones.
Do riders tip well in Cobble Hill?
Better than in most of Brooklyn. App riders tipped an average of $1.85 per trip, 6.6% of the fare, 5th-highest rate in Brooklyn. Card-paying yellow-taxi riders tipped 14.0% of the fare, 4th-highest. Cash tips on taxis are not recorded.
When are pickups busiest in Cobble Hill?
Saturday at 7 p.m., with about 104 pickups on an average Saturday. Weekdays peak at 6 p.m. (about 75). Sunday is a daytime day: its busiest hour is 2 p.m.
Where do riders from Cobble Hill go?
Park Slope is the top destination (7.0% of pickups), then Brooklyn Heights (5.7%), Boerum Hill (4.2%) and Carroll Gardens (3.5%). LaGuardia is in the top ten at 2.5%.
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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