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East Tremont (TLC zone 78) is one of the Bronx's busiest app zones, and one of the few with a relief stand that Uber and Lyft drivers may use. In the 12 months to August 2026, 1,167,206 trips started here, about 3,198 a day, 9th of 43 Bronx zones. The weekday 8 a.m. hour is the peak. Trips are short and spread over many nearby zones.
Yellow taxis made 10,829 of those pickups, green cabs 338, and Uber and Lyft the other 1,156,039, according to TLC trip records that TLC Help added up. Rides from black car and livery bases outside the big apps do not appear in that data.
East Tremont at a glance
Zone 78 has six neighbors on TLC's map: Belmont (20), Bronx Park (31), Claremont/Bathgate (47), Crotona Park (59), Crotona Park East (60) and Van Nest/Morris Park (242). In TLC's lookup table it is a "Boro Zone", a data label only.
The relief stand on Southern Boulevard
NYC DOT's relief-stand dataset (vqu8-xef9, checked October 2026) puts one stand in zone 78:
- Southern Boulevard, east side, from East Tremont Avenue to East 178th Street: 6 spaces, taxi/FHV, 1 hour limit. DOT's sign records (nfid-uabd) show the matching signs, with a sign order completed in October 2021.
Six spaces is the largest taxi/FHV relief stand DOT lists in the Bronx. (The two bigger Bronx stands, on Park Avenue in Mott Haven, are for taxis only.) A relief stand lets you park and leave the car for up to one hour (DOT). You must follow what the sign says about vehicle type and time (80-19(d)(7), $50). It is not a taxi stand: you may not wait there for passengers. See can Uber drivers use relief stands?
When rides start
On an average weekday, pickups climb from about 199 at 7 a.m. to 254 at 8 a.m., then ease to 206 at 9 a.m. The 6–10 a.m. window holds 24.1% of weekday pickups. Saturday has no single peak: 7 p.m., 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. each average about 182. On Sundays, midnight is the top hour (about 168), and there is a second, smaller rise around 3 p.m.
Seasons and sectors
March 2026 was the busiest month (110,459 pickups) and September 2025 the quietest (82,307). App pickups held steady from June to August 2026 at about 97,000 to 98,000 a month. Yellow taxis are a tiny part of the picture, and they shrank further: about 870 to 1,270 a month through May, then 350 to 418 a month in the summer.
Where trips go
Trips from East Tremont are local but scattered. 7.6% end inside the zone, then Mount Hope (5.2%), Belmont (4.0%), Crotona Park East (3.6%) and Claremont/Bathgate (3.6%). The top ten add up to only 39.3% of pickups. "Outside NYC" takes 2.9%.
Fares and pay
A typical app trip from here is 2.53 miles and 14 minutes, with a median fare of $15.22 and median driver pay of $13.39, just under the middle Bronx zone ($13.50). App riders tip 1.2% of the fare, about $0.22 a trip. Yellow trips are much longer: a median of 6.48 miles and $29.50. Only 0.7% of app pickups go to an airport.
Pickup rules
East Tremont is in TLC's Hail Zone, like the rest of the Bronx (Chapter 51), so green cabs may take street hails. App and other FHV drivers may only take base-dispatched trips (80-19(c)(1)). The zone is far from the MTA Congestion Relief Zone; the 2.7% of app pickups that paid that fee were trips into Manhattan at or below 60th Street.
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 Tremont: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 78 (East Tremont, Bronx) 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 Tremont: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 78, 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 Tremont: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 78 (East Tremont, Bronx) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- East Tremont: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 78, 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 1,167,206 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- East Tremont: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 78, 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 1,113,468 drop-offs.
- East Tremont: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 78, 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 Tremont: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 78 (East Tremont, Bronx) 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
Is there a relief stand in East Tremont?
Yes. NYC DOT lists a taxi/FHV relief stand with 6 spaces on the east side of Southern Boulevard between East Tremont Avenue and East 178th Street. The sign says 1 hour limit. Both taxis and FHVs (including Uber and Lyft cars) may use it. Always follow the posted sign.
How many trips start in East Tremont?
1,167,206 in the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026, about 3,198 a day. That is the 9th-highest of 43 Bronx taxi zones. 1,156,039 of them were app trips.
When is East Tremont busiest?
Weekday mornings. The 8 a.m. hour averages about 254 pickups on a weekday. On Saturdays the late evening (7 p.m. to 11 p.m.) is busiest, and on Sundays it is midnight, followed by mid-afternoon.
Where do trips from East Tremont go?
Mostly nearby. 7.6% stay inside East Tremont, 5.2% go to Mount Hope and 4.0% to Belmont. The top ten destinations take 39.3% of pickups, so trips are spread over many zones.
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
- NYC DOT: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands nyc.gov
- TLC Rules Chapter 80: Rules Applicable to All Drivers (PDF) nyc.gov
- TLC Rules Chapter 51: Definitions (PDF) nyc.gov
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