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Great Kills (taxi zone 109) is a mid-sized, very local zone: about 522 pickups a day, and a quarter of them end inside Great Kills itself. Saturday is its biggest day, and pickups keep coming past midnight into Sunday. December 2025 was its busiest month of the year.
The figures come from TLC trip records for September 2025 to August 2026 (yellow taxis, green cabs, Uber and Lyft), counted by TLC Help. Car service and livery trips outside the app companies are not in these files.
Zone 109 at a glance
Great Kills has five neighbors on TLC's map: Eltingville/Annadale/Prince's Bay (84), Freshkills Park (99), Great Kills Park (110), Heartland Village/Todt Hill (118) and Oakwood (176). Great Kills Park is a separate zone with only 540 pickups all year, so rides from the park side are not counted here. TLC's "Boro Zone" tag on zone 109 is a data label, not a legal line (zones explained).
Saturday, and Saturday night
On weekdays the zone has a clear morning peak: about 38 pickups at 8 a.m., then 28–34 an hour through the afternoon. Saturdays are busier overall (about 591 pickups) and peak at about 35 at 6 p.m. The night stays busy too. Saturday has about 28 pickups an hour from 9 p.m. to midnight. The busiest Sunday hour is 1 a.m., with about 28 pickups. Those are trips from late Saturday night. On Sundays, 22% of the day's pickups start between midnight and 5 a.m.
A December peak
Most Staten Island zones had their busiest month in March 2026. Great Kills is one of only three that peaked in December (with Heartland Village/Todt Hill and New Dorp/Midland Beach). It peaked in December 2025 with 17,147 app pickups, then March 2026 (16,898). The low was September 2025 (13,836). Summer 2026 stayed near 15,500–16,400 a month. Yellow taxis made 116 pickups in the year and 520 drop-offs.
Where trips go
A quarter of trips (25.1%) stay in Great Kills. Only St. George, Charleston/Tottenville and Mariners Harbor keep more of their trips at home. The rest spread across the middle and south of the island: Eltingville/Annadale/Prince's Bay (10.1%), Heartland Village/Todt Hill (8.4%), Bloomfield/Emerson Hill (6.4%), New Dorp/Midland Beach (5.7%) and Oakwood (5.6%). All ten top destinations are on Staten Island. Trips into Great Kills look the same: 26.9% of drop-offs started here.
Fares and pay
The median app trip is 3.24 miles and 12.4 minutes. The fare is $16.82 and driver pay is $13.27 before tips. That is close to the island's middle: 10th of 19 zones. Pay per engaged hour is $68.99, 7th of 19. That figure counts only time with a rider, so real hourly pay is lower. Tips are better than average: 5.6% of the fare, $1.36 a trip. Only 1.9% of app pickups were charged the Congestion Relief Zone fee, and 2.7% went to an airport.
"Of 19" rankings leave out Great Kills Park, which is too small to compare.
Pickup rules in Great Kills
- Hails: yellow taxis and green cabs may accept street hails here. TLC's Hail Zone excludes only Manhattan below East 96th/West 110th Streets and the airports (Chapter 51).
- App drivers: pick up only riders dispatched through your base. A hail pickup in an FHV is a 80-19(c)(1) violation, $200–$350 the first time (Chapter 80). Read who can pick up where.
- Relief stands: none here, and none on Staten Island in DOT's dataset (vqu8-xef9, 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.
- Great Kills: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 109 (Great Kills, 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.
- Great Kills: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 109, 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.
- Great Kills: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 109 (Great Kills, Staten Island) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Great Kills: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 109, 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 190,604 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Great Kills: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 109, 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 177,985 drop-offs.
- Great Kills: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 109, 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).
- Great Kills: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 109 (Great Kills, 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 busy is Great Kills for app drivers?
TLC trip records show 190,604 pickups in Great Kills (zone 109) from September 2025 to August 2026, about 522 a day. That is 11th of Staten Island's 20 zones, close to the island's middle. Nearly all were Uber or Lyft trips.
Which day is busiest in Great Kills?
Saturday. An average Saturday has about 591 pickups, against about 524 on a weekday and 446 on a Sunday. The single busiest hour is weekdays at 8 a.m., with about 38 pickups.
How many trips from Great Kills stay local?
25.1% of pickups end inside Great Kills itself, the 4th-highest share on Staten Island. Eltingville/Annadale/Prince's Bay (10.1%) and Heartland Village/Todt Hill (8.4%) are next.
What does a typical app trip from Great Kills pay?
The median app trip is 3.24 miles and 12.4 minutes, with a $16.82 fare and $13.27 driver pay before tips. Riders tipped 5.6% of the fare, $1.36 a trip on average.
Is Great Kills Park part of this zone?
No. TLC counts Great Kills Park as its own zone (110). It borders zone 109 but had only 540 pickups in the 12 months.
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
- TLC Rules Chapter 51: Definitions (PDF) nyc.gov
- TLC Rules Chapter 80: Rules Applicable to All Drivers (PDF) nyc.gov
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