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College Point (TLC zone 53) is a morning zone. About 1,142 rides a day start here, and the single busiest hour of the week is 8 a.m. on a weekday, busier than any Saturday night. App trips from College Point are longer than most in Queens, so median driver pay ($17.30) is 6th-highest of the 67 Queens zones outside the airports. Flushing is the top destination, with about one trip in six.
These figures come from TLC trip records for yellow taxis, green cabs and high-volume app trips (Uber and Lyft) from September 2025 to August 2026, added up by TLC Help. Non-app black car and livery trips are not included.
College Point at a glance
On TLC's zone map, zone 53 touches Flushing (92), Whitestone (252) and LaGuardia Airport (zone 138, see the LaGuardia page). TLC's lookup table labels it "Boro Zone". That is a way to group data, not a legal line (taxi zones explained).
When rides start: the morning rush
On weekdays, pickups jump from about 33 at 5 a.m. to about 90 at 8 a.m., the busiest hour of the week. After about 75 at 9 a.m., they stay between about 39 and 68 an hour until midnight. 23.4% of the week's pickups start between 6 and 10 a.m.
Weekends are flatter. Saturday's top hour is 11 p.m. (about 67) and Sunday's is 11 a.m. (about 56). Drop-offs peak at 2 p.m. on weekdays and at 10 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, so evenings bring people in more than they take people out.
Month by month
The quietest month was September 2025 (30,873 pickups) and the busiest was December 2025 (37,973). From January to August 2026, every month was between about 33,700 and 36,200.
Where trips go
Flushing takes 16.2% of pickups, then trips inside College Point (9.9%) and Whitestone (8.2%). After that come zones to the west: Jackson Heights 3.7%, Elmhurst 3.4% and North Corona 3.0%. LaGuardia gets 2.9% and 2.4% leave the city.
Trips coming in mirror this almost exactly: Flushing is the top origin (15.4% of drop-offs), then College Point itself and Whitestone. One difference is yellow taxis. They dropped off 10,075 riders here but picked up only 3,596, about one pickup for every three drop-offs. Most taxis that bring a rider here do not get their next fare inside the zone.
Fares, pay and tips
The median app trip is 4.39 miles in 16.5 minutes, with a $20.06 fare (7th in Queens) and $17.30 driver pay. Trips take a long time for Queens (16.5 minutes, 7th-longest), and pay per engaged hour is $64.67 (23rd). Engaged hours leave out waiting and driving to pickups, so they are not hourly earnings.
App riders here tip little: 2.6% of the fare, an average of $0.63 a trip, below the Queens middle of 3.3%. Card-paying yellow taxi riders tipped 7.6%, but yellow cabs made only 3,596 pickups all year.
Pickup rules here
- College Point is in TLC's Hail Zone (Chapter 51), so yellow and green cabs may take street hails. Next door, LaGuardia Airport is in the Hail Exclusionary Zone, where green cabs may not take hails.
- App and other FHV drivers may only pick up riders who booked through their base (80-19(c)(1)). See who can pick up where.
- DOT's data has no relief stand in zone 53. The closest is on 28th Avenue in Astoria (taxis and FHVs, 2 spaces), about 2.7 miles away in a straight line (relief stands guide).
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.
- College Point: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 53 (College Point, Queens) 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.
- College Point: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 53, 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.
- College Point: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 53 (College Point, Queens) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- College Point: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 53, 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 416,699 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- College Point: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 53, 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 434,391 drop-offs.
- College Point: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 53, 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).
- College Point: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 53 (College Point, Queens) 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 College Point?
TLC trip records show 416,699 pickups in zone 53 from September 2025 to August 2026, about 1,142 a day. That is 44th of the 67 Queens zones outside the airports. 99.1% were app trips.
What is the busiest time in College Point?
Weekday mornings. The 8 a.m. hour on weekdays averages about 90 pickups, more than any hour on Saturday or Sunday. Nearly a quarter of the week's pickups (23.4%) start between 6 and 10 a.m.
How much do app drivers make per trip from College Point?
The median app trip paid the driver $17.30 before tips and tolls, 6th-highest of 67 non-airport Queens zones. The median trip was 4.39 miles and 16.5 minutes. Tips were low: 2.6% of the fare.
Does College Point border LaGuardia Airport?
Yes, on TLC's zone map zone 53 touches LaGuardia Airport (zone 138). Only 2.9% of College Point pickups go to LaGuardia, though.
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 (PDF) nyc.gov
- TLC Rules Chapter 80: Rules Applicable to All Drivers (PDF) nyc.gov
- NYC Open Data: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands (DOT, vqu8-xef9) data.cityofnewyork.us
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