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Columbia Street, TLC taxi zone 54, is one of Brooklyn's smallest zones for rides, and it runs on a commuter clock. It had 153,426 pickups from September 2025 to August 2026, only about 420 a day. Weekday pickups peak at 8 a.m., and evening arrivals are stronger here than anywhere else in Brooklyn: 28.0% of weekday drop-offs land between 5 and 8 p.m. Riders also tip well: an average of $1.88 per app trip.
Columbia Street at a glance (zone 54)
The TLC lookup table lists zone 54 as Brooklyn, label "Boro Zone". The label only sorts zones in the trip data; it is not a legal boundary. On the TLC map, the zone has four neighbours: Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill and Red Hook.
A commuter pattern: out in the morning, home in the evening
On an average weekday, pickups rise quickly to an 8 a.m. peak (about 30 an hour), and one in five weekday pickups starts between 7 and 10 a.m. Pickups then drop to about 15 an hour at midday and climb again after 4 p.m., reaching about 28 at 9 p.m., nearly the morning level. So a weekday here has two busier windows: the morning rush and the late evening.
The return trips arrive in the evening. Weekday drop-offs peak at 6 p.m. (about 41), and 28.0% of them land between 5 and 8 p.m. No other Brooklyn zone has a bigger share of its weekday arrivals in those three hours.
Weekends are different. Saturday is the busiest day (about 540 pickups), with a peak at 10 p.m. Sunday is the quietest (about 393), and its curve is flat: from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. it holds at about 20–23 pickups an hour. Monthly pickups ranged from 13,906 (December 2025) down to 11,095 (August 2026).
Where trips go
Riders mostly go to nearby zones: Brooklyn Heights (6.5% of pickups), Park Slope (6.4%), Boerum Hill (5.6%), Carroll Gardens (4.0%) and Red Hook (3.6%). Trips are fairly long for Brooklyn: the median app trip was 3.64 miles, 4th-longest in the borough. 21.8% of app pickups paid the Congestion Relief Zone charge (6th in Brooklyn), and 5.2% went to an airport. Trips into the zone come from the same neighbours: Brooklyn Heights sends 7.2% of drop-offs and Boerum Hill 7.0%.
Who serves the zone, and what it pays
App trips were 148,766 of the pickups; yellow taxis had 4,558 and green cabs 102. Yellow taxis drop off about two and a half times as many riders here (11,210) as they pick up. Yellow trips are long: a median of 5.24 miles and a $28.06 fare, and 43.8% paid the CRZ charge.
The median app trip paid $16.69 before tips and tolls, and riders added $1.88 on average. Pay per engaged hour was $62.98, 8th in Brooklyn, but that counts only time with a passenger.
Pickup rules and notes
Columbia Street is in TLC's Hail Zone (Chapter 51): yellow and green cabs may pick up street hails. App drivers may pick up only riders who booked through their base (80-19(c)(1)). DOT relief-stand and parking-sign records checked on 2026-10-12 show no relief stand or taxi-stand sign in this zone. See who can pick up where and the Brooklyn zone rankings.
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.
- Columbia Street: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 54 (Columbia Street, 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.
- Columbia Street: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 54, 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.
- Columbia Street: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 54 (Columbia Street, Brooklyn) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Columbia Street: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 54, 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 153,426 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Columbia Street: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 54, 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 156,080 drop-offs.
- Columbia Street: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 54, 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).
- Columbia Street: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 54 (Columbia Street, 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 the Columbia Street zone?
Few. TLC trip records show 153,426 pickups in zone 54 from September 2025 to August 2026, about 420 a day. Only three Brooklyn zones had fewer pickups.
When do riders leave and return in Columbia Street?
It follows a commute. On weekdays, pickups peak at 8 a.m. and 20.5% of them start between 7 and 10 a.m. Drop-offs peak at 6 p.m., and 28.0% of weekday drop-offs land between 5 and 8 p.m., the highest evening share of any Brooklyn zone.
Do app riders tip well from Columbia Street?
Yes, for Brooklyn. App riders tipped an average of $1.88 per trip, 7.0% of the fare, the 2nd-highest tip rate in Brooklyn. Median driver pay was $16.69 per trip before tips.
Why are green-cab numbers blank for Columbia Street?
Green cabs did only 102 pickups here in 12 months. Medians and rates need at least 250 trips, and monthly counts of 1 to 9 are hidden, so those cells are left blank.
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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