East Flatbush/Remsen Village Zone (72): Trips & Fares

East Flatbush/Remsen Village (TLC zone 72) is a morning-heavy zone of short trips that spread in every direction. From September 2025 to August 2026, 1,306,739 trips started here (about 3,580 a day), 21st of 61 Brooklyn zones. The busiest hour of the week is 8 a.m. on weekdays, and four destinations (the zone itself, Crown Heights North, Canarsie and Brownsville) each take 8% to 10% of trips. The zone also has a taxi stand on Utica Avenue in DOT's sign data.

These numbers come from TLC trip records for yellow, green and high-volume app (Uber, Lyft) trips, aggregated by TLC Help. Black car and livery trips not dispatched through an app are not included.

Zone 72 at a glance

In TLC's lookup table, zone 72 is a Brooklyn "Boro Zone". That is a data label only. It is a crossroads zone with eight neighbors on TLC's map: Brownsville, Canarsie, Crown Heights North, Crown Heights South, East Flatbush/Farragut, East New York, Flatlands and Prospect-Lefferts Gardens.

Apps did 98.0% of pickups; yellow cabs had 25,951 (2.0%) and green cabs 803. Pickups are a little higher than drop-offs (1,278,461).

When rides start

The weekday 8 a.m. hour stands out: about 264 pickups, against about 213 at 7 a.m. and 211 at 9 a.m. Weekday afternoons hold at about 186 to 201 an hour from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., then fade.

Saturday (about 3,953 pickups) is busiest in the evening, between about 205 and 220 an hour from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m., with the top at 7 p.m. Sunday peaks in the morning: the 10 a.m. hour (about 193) is Sunday's busiest. A weekday averages about 3,516 pickups and a Sunday about 3,529.

Month by month

March 2026 was the busiest month (118,800 pickups) and September 2025 the quietest (96,576). From December on, every month had about 105,000 to 119,000.

Yellow pickups fell sharply in June 2026: from 2,749 in May to 989, and about 860 by August. The data does not explain the drop. Several east and central Brooklyn zones show the same break.

Where trips go

No single destination dominates. The ten top destinations, all in Brooklyn, take 65.3% of pickups:

• Remsen Village itself: 9.6%
• Crown Heights North: 9.2%
• Canarsie: 8.7%
• Brownsville: 8.4%
• Prospect-Lefferts Gardens: 7.0%
• East New York: 6.1%
• East Flatbush/Farragut: 5.7%

Canarsie is the top origin of trips that end here after the zone itself (9.4% of drop-offs).

Fares, trip length and driver pay

The median app trip is 2.15 miles and 13.3 minutes, with a $14.36 fare. The median driver pay is $11.98 before tips and tolls, 47th of 61 in Brooklyn. Tips are low (1.3% of fares, $0.25 a trip). Only 1.9% of app pickups go to an airport and 1.8% to the Manhattan congestion zone.

Yellow trips here are short for a yellow cab: median 3.9 miles and $24.01 on the meter, one of the three lowest yellow median fares in Brooklyn.

The Utica Avenue taxi stand and pickup rules

DOT's current sign records show a taxi stand on Utica Avenue between Linden Boulevard and Church Avenue (nfid-uabd, checked October 12, 2026). DOT lists no relief stand in the zone. Under TLC Chapter 80:

• A yellow cab may take any vacant spot at a taxi stand, and so may a green cab at a stand in the Hail Zone, which covers all of Brooklyn (80-19(d)(1)).
• An app or other for-hire driver must not pick up at a taxi stand (80-19(d)(2); $350 for a first violation).
• Taxi and green cab drivers must not solicit or cruise within 100 feet of the stand (80-19(a)(4)(ii)), and must join the line at the rear (80-19(d)(4)).

Elsewhere in the zone, yellow and green cabs may take hails, and app drivers need a base dispatch (80-19(c)(1)). See taxi stand rules. This is general information, not legal advice.