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East New York/Pennsylvania Avenue (TLC zone 77) is a weekday-morning zone with short, local trips. From September 2025 to August 2026, 747,083 trips started here (about 2,047 a day), and the busiest hour of the whole week is 8 a.m. on weekdays. More than one trip in five goes to the larger East New York zone next door. Apps did 98.2% of pickups.
The numbers are TLC trip records for yellow taxis, green cabs and high-volume app services (Uber, Lyft), aggregated by TLC Help. Black car and livery trips not dispatched by an app are not counted.
Zone 77 at a glance
TLC lists zone 77 in Brooklyn with the "Boro Zone" label. The label is a data category in the lookup table, not a legal boundary. On TLC's zone map it touches only four zones: Brownsville, Cypress Hills, East New York and Ocean Hill.
It ranks 38th of 61 Brooklyn zones by pickups. Pickups (747,083) and drop-offs (753,142) are almost equal, which fits a zone where most trips are short back-and-forth rides between neighbors.
When rides start
The weekday morning is the key period. Pickups jump from about 78 an hour at 6 a.m. to about 120 at 7 a.m. and 145 at 8 a.m., then fall back to about 80 by late morning. A smaller afternoon rise peaks at about 121 in the 5 p.m. hour.
Weekends are only a little busier than weekdays: about 2,279 pickups on a Saturday and 2,033 on a Sunday, against 2,003 on a weekday. Saturdays are unusually flat. From 2 p.m. to 11 p.m., every hour averages between about 114 and 119 pickups. Sunday's busiest hours are 2 p.m. and midnight (about 109 and 108).
Month by month
Pickups ranged from 54,849 in September 2025 to 69,304 in March 2026. App trips were fairly steady at about 59,000 to 68,000 a month from October on.
Yellow pickups were small but steady, about 1,100 to 1,600 a month, until May 2026 (1,453). In June they fell to 440 and stayed near 400 through August, a drop of about 70%. Several east Brooklyn zones show the same sudden June drop. The trip records don't give a reason.
Where trips go
This zone's trips are about as local as it gets. All ten top destinations are in Brooklyn and take 62.6% of pickups:
- East New York (76): 21.6%
- Brownsville: 9.3%
- Zone 77 itself: 6.7%
- Canarsie: 4.4%
- Ocean Hill: 4.1%
- Crown Heights North: 4.0%
- Starrett City: 3.5%
Arrivals come from the same places. East New York is the top origin of trips ending here (21.0% of drop-offs), then Brownsville (10.6%).
Fares, trip length and driver pay
The median app trip is just 2.25 miles and 13.8 minutes, with a $14.47 fare (45th of 61 in Brooklyn). The median driver pay is $12.41 before tips and tolls. Tips are rare: 1.1% of fares, an average of $0.21 per trip.
Long trips are uncommon. 2.6% of app pickups go to an airport, and only 1.8% enter the Manhattan congestion zone, among the lowest shares in Brooklyn. Yellow trips are longer (median 5.2 miles, $27.08 on the meter), but recorded card tips are near zero (0.1% of fares).
Pickup rules here
Like the rest of Brooklyn, zone 77 is in TLC's Hail Zone. A yellow or green cab may pick up a street hail here. An app or other for-hire driver may only pick up a rider dispatched by the base. Picking up anyone else risks a summons under rule 80-19(c)(1): $200–$350 for a first violation, and revocation for a third within 36 months (Chapter 80). See who can pick up where. This is general information, not legal advice.
Stands: DOT's relief-stand data and current sign records list no relief stand, taxi stand or taxi/FHV pickup zone in zone 77 (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.
- East New York/Pennsylvania Avenue: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 77 (East New York/Pennsylvania Avenue, 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/Pennsylvania Avenue: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 77, 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/Pennsylvania Avenue: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 77 (East New York/Pennsylvania Avenue, 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/Pennsylvania Avenue: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 77, 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 747,083 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- East New York/Pennsylvania Avenue: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 77, 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 753,142 drop-offs.
- East New York/Pennsylvania Avenue: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 77, 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/Pennsylvania Avenue: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 77 (East New York/Pennsylvania Avenue, 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
When is the busiest time in East New York/Pennsylvania Avenue?
Weekday mornings. The 8 a.m. hour averages about 145 pickups, the busiest hour of the week. On Saturdays pickups hold at about 114 to 119 an hour from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m., with no sharp peak.
Where do trips from zone 77 go?
Mostly next door. East New York (zone 76) takes 21.6% of pickups, Brownsville 9.3%, and 6.7% stay inside zone 77. The top ten destinations, all in Brooklyn, take 62.6% of trips.
Do riders tip on app trips here?
Very little. App tips equal 1.1% of fares, 60th of 61 Brooklyn zones, and the average tip is $0.21. The Brooklyn zone median is 3.7%.
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: 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 Rules Chapter 80: Rules Applicable to All Drivers (PDF) nyc.gov
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