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The Freshkills Park zone (taxi zone 99) sees only about 22 pickups a day, the second-lowest on Staten Island. What stands out is when they happen: on Saturdays and Sundays, more than half of the day's pickups start between midnight and 5 a.m., with the busiest hour at 3 a.m. Monthly pickups also rose about 70%, from 485 in September 2025 to 823 in May 2026. Small numbers, though: a few rides a night can change these figures.
Numbers come from TLC trip records (yellow, green, Uber and Lyft) for September 2025 to August 2026, counted by TLC Help. Non-app car service trips are not part of the data.
Zone 99 at a glance
Zone 99 borders seven zones on TLC's map: Bloomfield/Emerson Hill (23), Heartland Village/Todt Hill (118), Great Kills (109), Eltingville/Annadale/Prince's Bay (84), Arden Heights (5), Rossville/Woodrow (204) and Charleston/Tottenville (44). Like every Staten Island zone it carries TLC's "Boro Zone" label, a data category only (zones explained).
The late-night weekend pattern
On weekdays the zone gets about one pickup an hour, all day and night, around 19 a day. Weekends look completely different. On Saturdays pickups rise to about 5 in the 3 a.m. hour, and 55% of Saturday pickups start between midnight and 5 a.m. Sunday is similar (58%). After sunrise on weekends it drops back to about one an hour. Drop-offs show a smaller version of the same pattern. The trip records don't say what draws these rides, so treat them as a pattern in past data, not a reason to wait here.
Month by month
Pickups climbed most of the year: 485 in September 2025, 689 in December, 813 in March 2026 and 823 in May 2026, then 685–750 a month over the summer. Only 9 yellow taxi pickups were recorded all year, and none by green cabs.
Where trips go
Trips leave for the surrounding zones: Arden Heights (15.0%), Great Kills (12.4%), Eltingville/Annadale/Prince's Bay (11.9%), Bloomfield/Emerson Hill (10.2%) and Charleston/Tottenville (9.4%). Unlike most zones, the zone itself is not in its own top 10. Outside NYC (TLC zone 265) takes 2.4%, and only 0.6% of app pickups go to an airport, the lowest share on the island.
Fares and pay
The median app trip is 3.53 miles and 11.2 minutes, with a $17.05 fare and $12.88 driver pay. Pay per engaged hour is $75.61, third-highest on the island, but with so few rides that figure says little about a shift: engaged time leaves out the wait between trips, and here the waits could be long. Tips are 5.2% of the fare, about $1.26.
Rules here
- App drivers take only base-dispatched trips (80-19(c)(1)), late at night as at any other time.
- Yellow and green cabs may take hails; zone 99 is inside TLC's Hail Zone (Chapter 51). See who can pick up where.
- No relief stands are listed on Staten Island (vqu8-xef9, checked October 12, 2026), so plan breaks around posted parking rules.
- Hours limit: late-night trips count like any others toward TLC's daily limit of 10 hours carrying passengers in any 24-hour period. The count resets after 8 hours in a row with no passengers (80-14(f)(2)).
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.
- Freshkills Park: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 99 (Freshkills Park, Staten Island) 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.
- Freshkills Park: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 99, 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.
- Freshkills Park: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 99 (Freshkills Park, Staten Island) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Freshkills Park: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 99, 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 8,131 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Freshkills Park: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 99, 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 7,986 drop-offs.
- Freshkills Park: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 99, 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).
- Freshkills Park: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 99 (Freshkills Park, Staten Island) 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 the Freshkills Park zone?
Very few: 8,131 pickups from September 2025 to August 2026, about 22 a day, the second-lowest of Staten Island's 20 zones. Almost all were app trips.
Why are weekend nights busiest here?
The trip records show it but don't explain it. On Saturdays and Sundays, more than half of the day's pickups start between midnight and 5 a.m.; the busiest hour is 3 a.m. On weekdays pickups are spread evenly, about one an hour.
Where do trips from Freshkills Park go?
To the surrounding south shore and central zones: Arden Heights (15.0%), Great Kills (12.4%), Eltingville/Annadale/Prince's Bay (11.9%) and Bloomfield/Emerson Hill (10.2%). Outside NYC (TLC zone 265) takes 2.4%.
Is it worth waiting in Freshkills Park for a ride?
The data can't promise that. With about 22 pickups a day spread over seven bordering zones, rides here are rare. The numbers describe past trips only.
Sources
Last reviewed against the official sources on .
- NYC TLC Trip Record Data nyc.gov
- TLC Taxi Zone Lookup Table d37ci6vzurychx.cloudfront.net
- TLC Rules Chapter 51: Definitions (PDF) nyc.gov
- TLC Rules Chapter 80: Rules Applicable to All Drivers (PDF) nyc.gov
- NYC Open Data: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands (DOT, vqu8-xef9) data.cityofnewyork.us
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