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Downtown Brooklyn/MetroTech, TLC taxi zone 65, is the borough's green-cab and airport-trip centre. It had 16,124 green-cab pickups in the 12 months to August 2026, more than any other Brooklyn zone. It also had the highest airport share of app pickups in Brooklyn (7.6%). In total there were 1,256,848 pickups, about 3,443 a day. It is also one of the few Brooklyn zones with taxi-stand signs on the street.
Downtown Brooklyn/MetroTech at a glance (zone 65)
TLC's lookup table assigns zone 65 to Brooklyn with the tag "Boro Zone". In the trip data that is just a category; it does not mark a legal line. The zone borders Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO/Vinegar Hill and Fort Greene on the TLC map.
When rides start and end here
The weekday pattern follows the working day. Drop-offs are strong in the morning (17.8% of weekday drop-offs land between 7 and 10 a.m.), and pickups peak at 6 p.m. (about 228). Saturday also peaks at 6 p.m. (about 290 pickups) and is the busiest day, with about 4,400. Sunday is busiest right at midnight. More rides start here than end here: 1.10 pickups per drop-off, the highest ratio in Brooklyn. In plain terms, for every 10 riders a car brings into the zone, about 11 are waiting to leave. TLC trip records cannot show how the extra riders got here.
The year's high came in October 2025 (114,760 pickups); the low in February 2026 (89,703).
Where trips go, and the airport link
Riders from here spread across Brooklyn: Fort Greene (4.6%), Clinton Hill (3.7%), Crown Heights North (3.5%) and Park Slope (3.3%). LaGuardia is the 3rd-biggest destination (3.6%), and JFK takes another 2.7%. Airports feed the zone too: LaGuardia is the 2nd-biggest source of drop-offs here (4.1%), and JFK sends 2.9%.
Yellow, green and app: who serves the zone
Uber and Lyft trips made up 1,182,823 pickups; yellow taxis 57,901 (a 4.6% share, 3rd in Brooklyn). Green cabs did 16,124 pickups but only 2,142 drop-offs. Green trips here are short neighbourhood rides: a median of 1.95 miles, 15.4 minutes and a $14.90 fare. Together, Downtown Brooklyn, Fort Greene and DUMBO had 41,209 of Brooklyn's 83,237 green pickups, about half.
Fares and driver pay
The median app trip was 3.45 miles with a $22.21 fare and $18.38 driver pay before tips and tolls. Tips on app trips averaged $1.40. Yellow trips had a median $25.50 fare, and 40.7% paid the Congestion Relief Zone charge. App pay per engaged hour was $62.48, which leaves out waiting time.
Taxi stands, a relief sign and pickup rules
DOT's current parking-sign records (checked 2026-10-12) show these in zone 65:
What the rules say (Chapter 80):
- App and for-hire drivers must not pick up passengers at any taxi stand (80-19(d)(2)): $350 for a first violation.
- Yellow taxis and green cabs may use these stands, since Brooklyn is in TLC's Hail Zone (80-19(d)(1)). They must not cruise for fares within 100 feet of a stand (80-19(a)(4)(ii)).
- The first two cars on a stand must keep their drivers in the seat (80-19(d)(6)).
OATH's Brooklyn hearing office at 9 Bond Street maps just outside this zone, in Boerum Hill. More in taxi stand rules.
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.
- Downtown Brooklyn/MetroTech: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 65 (Downtown Brooklyn/MetroTech, 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.
- Downtown Brooklyn/MetroTech: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 65, 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.
- Downtown Brooklyn/MetroTech: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 65 (Downtown Brooklyn/MetroTech, Brooklyn) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Downtown Brooklyn/MetroTech: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 65, 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 1,256,848 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Downtown Brooklyn/MetroTech: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 65, 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 1,138,924 drop-offs.
- Downtown Brooklyn/MetroTech: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 65, 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).
- Downtown Brooklyn/MetroTech: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 65 (Downtown Brooklyn/MetroTech, 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 Downtown Brooklyn/MetroTech?
TLC trip records show 1,256,848 pickups in zone 65 from September 2025 to August 2026, about 3,443 a day, 24th of Brooklyn's 61 zones. Only 1,138,924 trips ended here, so it has the biggest surplus of pickups over drop-offs, relative to its size, of any Brooklyn zone.
Are there taxi stands in Downtown Brooklyn?
DOT parking-sign records (checked 2026-10-12) show current taxi-stand signs on Myrtle Avenue between Duffield and Gold Streets and on Flatbush Avenue Extension between Willoughby and Fleet Streets. App and other for-hire drivers must not pick up at any taxi stand (TLC rule 80-19(d)(2)).
Do green cabs pick up in Downtown Brooklyn?
More than anywhere else in Brooklyn: 16,124 green-cab pickups in 12 months. Downtown Brooklyn, Fort Greene and DUMBO together had about half of all green pickups in the borough. Green trips from here are short, with a median of 1.95 miles.
How many trips from Downtown Brooklyn go to the airport?
7.6% of app pickups here went to an airport, the highest share of any Brooklyn zone. LaGuardia alone took 3.6% of all pickups and JFK 2.7%.
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: Parking Regulation Locations and Signs (DOT, nfid-uabd) data.cityofnewyork.us
- NYC Open Data: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands (DOT, vqu8-xef9) data.cityofnewyork.us
- TLC Rules, Chapter 80 (Drivers) nyc.gov
- TLC Rules, Chapter 51 (Definitions) nyc.gov
- NYC DOT: Taxi and For-Hire Vehicle Relief Stands nyc.gov
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