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Grymes Hill/Clifton (taxi zone 115) averages about 595 pickups a day, 8th of Staten Island's 20 zones, and it has one of the island's sharpest morning rushes: about 62 pickups in the 8 a.m. hour on weekdays, double the mid-morning level. Most trips are short app rides down to St. George and Stapleton. The few yellow taxi trips that start here are long, with a $33.32 median metered fare.
The numbers are TLC trip records (yellow taxis, green cabs, Uber and Lyft) for September 2025 to August 2026, counted by TLC Help. Non-app car service trips are not in the records.
Zone 115 at a glance
Grymes Hill/Clifton borders Stapleton (221), West Brighton (245), Westerleigh (251), Heartland Village/Todt Hill (118) and Arrochar/Fort Wadsworth (6) on TLC's map. TLC's "Boro Zone" tag is a data category, not a rule (NYC taxi zones explained).
A morning spike, an evening return
Weekday pickups build fast: about 33 at 6 a.m., 43 at 7 a.m. and 62 at 8 a.m. By 10 a.m. they are back to about 30, and the afternoon never gets near the morning high. Drop-offs run the other way, peaking at 5 p.m. (about 44). Riders leave in the morning and come back in the evening. Weekends have no rush at all: Saturday holds at about 30–36 pickups an hour from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Month by month
App pickups ran from 16,307 in September 2025 to 19,598 in March 2026. Yellow taxi pickups were highest in winter (45 in January and 46 in February 2026) and fell to 13 in August 2026.
Where trips go
The top destinations are Saint George/New Brighton (19.6%) and Stapleton (14.1%). Then come Grymes Hill/Clifton itself (9.3%), Arrochar/Fort Wadsworth (7.2%), Bloomfield/Emerson Hill (6.2%) and South Beach/Dongan Hills (6.0%). All ten top destinations are on Staten Island.
The same two neighbors supply most of the riders who arrive here: 18.0% of drop-offs start in Stapleton and 17.4% in St. George, with 10.2% starting inside the zone. Put together with the 5 p.m. drop-off peak, the pattern is a two-way flow between this zone and the north shore zones next to it, out in the morning and back in the evening.
Fares and pay
App trips are short: 2.58 miles and 11.6 minutes at the median, with a $14.34 fare and $11.63 driver pay (15th of the island's 19 zones with more than 1,000 pickups). Tips are low at 3.1% of the fare, about $0.62. Pay per engaged hour is $66.24, a figure that leaves out time between trips.
Yellow taxi trips are a different kind of ride. Their median is 7.18 miles, 25.2 minutes and a $33.32 metered fare, before tolls, tips and surcharges. With only 346 pickups in a year, they are too few to plan a shift around.
Rules for drivers here
- App and FHV drivers: only base-dispatched pickups (80-19(c)(1)).
- Yellow taxis and green cabs may take street hails; the zone is in TLC's Hail Zone (Chapter 51). See who can pick up where.
- Taxi trips over the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge: TLC's taxi fare page lists them among trips where the passenger pays tolls. How that works by direction is in the Verrazzano toll page.
- No DOT relief stand in Grymes Hill/Clifton; the city's list has no Staten Island entries (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.
- Grymes Hill/Clifton: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 115 (Grymes Hill/Clifton, 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.
- Grymes Hill/Clifton: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 115, 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.
- Grymes Hill/Clifton: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 115 (Grymes Hill/Clifton, Staten Island) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Grymes Hill/Clifton: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 115, 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 217,021 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Grymes Hill/Clifton: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 115, 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 196,052 drop-offs.
- Grymes Hill/Clifton: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 115, 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).
- Grymes Hill/Clifton: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 115 (Grymes Hill/Clifton, 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
When is Grymes Hill/Clifton busiest?
Weekday mornings. Pickups jump to about 62 in the 8 a.m. hour, about twice the level at 10 a.m. Drop-offs peak at 5 p.m. On weekends pickups stay flat at about 30–36 an hour from mid-morning to evening.
Do yellow taxis work in Grymes Hill/Clifton?
More than in most Staten Island zones. Yellow taxis made 346 pickups here in a year, 0.2% of the total. Their median trip was long: 7.18 miles, 25.2 minutes and a $33.32 metered fare.
What does an Uber or Lyft trip from here pay?
The median app trip is 2.58 miles and 11.6 minutes, with a $14.34 fare and $11.63 driver pay before tips. Riders tipped 3.1% of the fare, about $0.62 a trip.
Where do trips from Grymes Hill/Clifton go?
Mostly to the north shore: 19.6% to Saint George/New Brighton and 14.1% to Stapleton. 9.3% stay in the zone and 7.2% go to Arrochar/Fort Wadsworth.
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: Taxi Fare nyc.gov
- NYC Open Data: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands (DOT, vqu8-xef9) data.cityofnewyork.us
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