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East New York (TLC zone 76) is a huge app market made of short, local trips. From September 2025 to August 2026, 3,006,883 trips started here (about 8,238 a day), 2nd in Brooklyn. Its 2,954,607 app pickups were the 4th-most of any zone in New York City, after LaGuardia, JFK and Crown Heights North. But 32.7% of trips end inside the zone, and the median app trip is barely over 2 miles.
The data covers yellow, green and high-volume app (Uber, Lyft) trips from TLC trip records, aggregated by TLC Help. Black car and livery trips not dispatched by an app are not included.
East New York at a glance
TLC's lookup table labels zone 76 a "Boro Zone", which is only a data category. It is a large zone with eight neighbors on TLC's map: Brownsville, Canarsie, Cypress Hills, East Flatbush/Remsen Village, East New York/Pennsylvania Avenue, Ocean Hill, Starrett City and, across the borough line, Howard Beach in Queens.
Pickups (3,006,883) and drop-offs (3,002,022) are almost exactly equal. Apps had 98.3% of pickups. Yellow cabs had 51,040 and green cabs 1,236.
When rides start
East New York has the biggest weekday morning rush in Brooklyn. Its 8 a.m. hour is busier than any other Brooklyn zone's, and 2nd in the city after the Upper East Side North. Pickups jump from about 219 an hour at 5 a.m. to about 553 at 7 a.m. and 595 at 8 a.m., the busiest hour of the week. After a midday dip to about 335, they climb again to about 499 at 5 p.m., then fall through the evening.
Saturday is the biggest day (about 8,926 pickups) and holds near 500 an hour from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. A weekday averages about 8,238 and a Sunday about 7,550, with Sunday peaking mid-afternoon (about 412 at 3 p.m.). Even at 3 a.m. there are close to 90 pickups an hour on weekdays.
Month by month
Pickups rose from 211,033 in September 2025 to a high of 284,751 in March 2026, then settled around 250,000 a month.
The yellow series broke in June 2026. Yellow pickups ran at 4,261 to 6,188 a month until May, then fell to 1,679 in June and 1,301 by August. App trips show no matching drop. The records do not explain it. TLC also added a new field to yellow trip files that month, so be careful drawing conclusions.
Where trips go
A third of trips stay put. After that, the destinations are the neighboring zones:
- East New York itself: 32.7%
- Brownsville: 5.7%
- Canarsie: 5.4%
- East New York/Pennsylvania Avenue: 5.3%
- Cypress Hills: 5.0%
- Starrett City: 2.7%
- JFK Airport: 2.5%
On the arrivals side, Howard Beach in Queens sends 1.7% of the trips that end here.
Fares, trip length and driver pay
Short rides mean low pay per trip. The median app trip is 2.18 miles and 12.4 minutes, with a $13.69 fare (52nd of 61 in Brooklyn). The median driver pay is $11.49 before tips and tolls. Recorded tips are small: 1.2% of fares, $0.22 a trip on average.
Only 1.2% of app pickups enter the Manhattan congestion zone, the lowest share in Brooklyn (Canarsie also rounds to 1.2% but is slightly higher). Airport trips are 2.8% of app pickups. Yellow trips are longer (median 5.1 miles and $26.50), and just 1.5% of them reached the congestion zone.
Pickup rules and curb signs
East New York is in TLC's Hail Zone. Yellow and green cabs may take hails; app and other for-hire drivers need a base dispatch for every pickup (80-19(c)(1), Chapter 80). A green cab that takes a hail here and drops off in Manhattan below East 96th or West 110th Street may not take a hail there. This is general information, not legal advice. See who can pick up where.
Curb signs: DOT's sign data shows a "TAXI/FHV PICK-UP/DROP-OFF ONLY" location on Livonia Avenue between New Lots Avenue and Warwick Street (nfid-uabd). There is no relief stand or taxi stand in the data for zone 76 (checked October 12, 2026). Obey the sign on the street, which can differ from the data.
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.
- East New York: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 76 (East New York, 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.
- East New York: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 76, 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.
- East New York: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 76 (East New York, Brooklyn) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- East New York: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 76, 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 3,006,883 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- East New York: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 76, 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 3,002,022 drop-offs.
- East New York: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 76, 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).
- East New York: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 76 (East New York, 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 busy is East New York for app drivers?
Extremely busy. From September 2025 to August 2026, 3,006,883 trips started in zone 76, about 8,238 a day, 2nd in Brooklyn. Its 2,954,607 app pickups were the 4th-most of any NYC zone, after LaGuardia, JFK and Crown Heights North.
Why are East New York trips so short?
Because a third of them stay in the zone: 32.7% of pickups end inside East New York, the 2nd-highest share in Brooklyn. The median app trip is 2.18 miles and 12.4 minutes, and the median driver pay is $11.49 before tips and tolls.
When is East New York busiest?
Weekday mornings. The 8 a.m. hour averages about 595 pickups and 7 a.m. about 553. On Saturdays, pickups stay near 500 an hour from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Do many trips from East New York go into Manhattan's congestion zone?
Very few. Only 1.2% of app pickups were charged the Congestion Relief Zone fee, the lowest share of any Brooklyn 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: 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: Rules Applicable to All Drivers (PDF) nyc.gov
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