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Crown Heights South (TLC zone 62) is Brooklyn's middle zone: its 943,467 pickups (about 2,585 a day) from September 2025 to August 2026 put it 30th of 61, almost exactly at the borough median. What sets it apart is airport work. 4.7% of app pickups went to an airport, and JFK is one of its ten most common destinations. Most trips, though, go just next door, to Crown Heights North and Prospect-Lefferts Gardens.
Figures come from TLC trip records for yellow, green and high-volume app (Uber, Lyft) trips, aggregated by TLC Help. Non-app black car and livery trips are not included.
Crown Heights South at a glance
TLC's zone lookup labels zone 62 a Brooklyn "Boro Zone". That is a data label, not a legal line. Its five neighbors on TLC's map are Crown Heights North, East Flatbush/Remsen Village, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Prospect Heights and Prospect Park.
Apps did 97.7% of pickups. Yellow taxis had 2.3% (21,245 pickups), but they brought in many more riders than they took out: 34,171 yellow drop-offs.
When rides start
Weekdays have two equal peaks: the 8 and 9 a.m. hours (about 151 and 150 pickups) and the 6 p.m. hour (about 152).
Saturday builds through the day to its top at 11 p.m. (about 185 pickups). Sunday is nearly as busy as Saturday (about 2,749 pickups against 2,836), and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. it is unusually flat, at about 135 to 148 an hour. A weekday averages about 2,502 pickups.
Month by month
December 2025 was the busiest month (85,491 pickups) and September 2025 the quietest (73,505). April 2026 also dipped, to 74,233. Yellow pickups ran at about 1,700 to 2,200 a month through May 2026, then about 1,000 a month in June to August.
Where trips go
Two neighbors take more than a fifth of all pickups:
- Crown Heights North: 12.5%
- Prospect-Lefferts Gardens: 10.1%
- Crown Heights South itself: 5.9%
- Park Slope: 3.9%
- East Flatbush/Remsen Village and Flatbush/Ditmas Park: 3.3% each
- JFK Airport: 2.7%
JFK appears on the arrivals list too: 2.4% of trips that end here came from JFK. For the rules there, see the JFK Airport page.
Fares, trip length and driver pay
The median app trip is 2.43 miles and 15.4 minutes, with a $16.48 fare. The median driver pay is $13.95 before tips and tolls, right at the Brooklyn norm. App tips equal 3.3% of fares (average $0.74).
The table shows what riders pay before extras. On a yellow taxi trip from Brooklyn to JFK, the fare is metered. TLC's $70 flat fare (as of 2026-10-12) covers only trips between Manhattan and JFK (TLC fare page). Yellow trips from here have a median of 4.4 miles and $26.50, and 13.1% were charged the Manhattan congestion fee.
Pickup rules here
Zone 62 is in TLC's Hail Zone. Yellow and green cabs may accept street hails; app drivers may only pick up riders their base dispatched (80-19(c)(1)). If you bring a rider to JFK, remember that taxis may not solicit or cruise for passengers at the airports (80-19(a)(4)(i), Chapter 80). More in who can pick up where. This is general information, not legal advice.
Stands: DOT's open data shows no relief stand, taxi stand or taxi/FHV pickup zone in zone 62 (checked October 12, 2026).
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.
- Crown Heights South: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 62 (Crown Heights South, 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.
- Crown Heights South: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 62, 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.
- Crown Heights South: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 62 (Crown Heights South, Brooklyn) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Crown Heights South: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 62, 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 943,467 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Crown Heights South: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 62, 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 956,166 drop-offs.
- Crown Heights South: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 62, 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).
- Crown Heights South: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 62 (Crown Heights South, 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 pickups are there in Crown Heights South?
About 2,585 a day. From September 2025 to August 2026, 943,467 trips started in zone 62, which puts it 30th of 61 Brooklyn zones, almost exactly the borough's median zone. Apps did 97.7% of pickups.
Do many trips from Crown Heights South go to the airport?
More than in most Brooklyn zones. 4.7% of app pickups went to an airport (16th of 61 in Brooklyn; the zone median is 2.6%), and JFK Airport alone took 2.7% of all pickups, the 9th most common destination.
Where do most trips from Crown Heights South end?
In the two zones next door: Crown Heights North (12.5% of pickups) and Prospect-Lefferts Gardens (10.1%). Another 5.9% stay inside the zone.
Sources
Last reviewed against the official sources on .
- NYC TLC Trip Record Data nyc.gov
- TLC Taxi Zone Lookup Table d37ci6vzurychx.cloudfront.net
- 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
- TLC: Taxi Fare nyc.gov
- TLC Rules Chapter 80: Rules Applicable to All Drivers (PDF) nyc.gov
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