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Heartland Village/Todt Hill (taxi zone 118) is Staten Island's Saturday-night zone: its busiest hour of the week is Saturday at 7 p.m., and an average Saturday has more pickups than a weekday. With about 742 pickups a day it ranks 5th on the island, and it has the highest median app pay per trip of Staten Island's 19 zones with more than 1,000 pickups, $15.29.
These figures are TLC trip records (yellow, green, Uber and Lyft), September 2025 to August 2026, totaled by TLC Help. Non-app car service trips are not in them.
Zone 118 at a glance
This large zone touches ten others on TLC's map, more than any Staten Island zone: Bloomfield/Emerson Hill, Westerleigh, Grymes Hill/Clifton, Arrochar/Fort Wadsworth, South Beach/Dongan Hills, New Dorp/Midland Beach, Oakwood, Great Kills, Eltingville/Annadale/Prince's Bay and Freshkills Park. TLC calls it a "Boro Zone", which is only a data label (zones explained).
Afternoons and Saturday evenings
Unlike most of Staten Island, this zone has no big morning pickup peak. Weekday pickups grow through the day to about 58 at 3 p.m. and stay above 50 until 6 p.m. On Saturdays they keep climbing into the evening, to about 66 at 7 p.m., and an average Saturday totals about 830 pickups (weekdays about 747, Sundays about 626). Drop-offs do have a morning peak: about 56 an hour at 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. on weekdays.
Month by month
December 2025 was the busiest month, with 25,439 app pickups, well above the 19,685 of September 2025. March 2026 (23,965) and May 2026 (24,130) were the next highest. Yellow taxis made 12–30 pickups a month.
Where trips go
15.6% of pickups stay in the zone and 14.1% go to Bloomfield/Emerson Hill. After that, no zone takes more than 6%: Great Kills and Mariners Harbor 5.7% each, St. George 5.3%, South Beach/Dongan Hills 4.8%. 3.0% of app pickups were charged the Congestion Relief Zone fee, tied with Oakwood for 2nd among Staten Island zones with more than 1,000 pickups (city-wide: 32.9%).
The flow runs both ways with Bloomfield/Emerson Hill: 14.0% of the zone's drop-offs started there, and 14.9% started inside zone 118. With ten neighbors, a drop-off here leaves you one zone away from half of Staten Island's zones. Drop-offs (282,497) slightly outnumber pickups, so riders arriving here are a little more common than riders leaving.
Fares and pay
The median app trip is 3.79 miles and 14.6 minutes, with an $18.59 fare and $15.29 driver pay, the highest per-trip pay of the island's 19 zones with more than 1,000 pickups. Because trips take longer, pay per engaged hour ($68.04) is only 10th. That hourly figure counts time with a rider only. Riders tip 4.5% of the fare, about $1.12 a trip.
Rules for Saturday-night pickups
- App drivers: a busy Saturday evening doesn't change the rule. Only trips dispatched by your base (80-19(c)(1)). A first violation outside Manhattan's core and the airports is $200–$350, and a third within 36 months means revocation (Chapter 80).
- Street hails are open to yellow taxis and green cabs in zone 118, part of TLC's Hail Zone (Chapter 51). See who can pick up where.
- Relief stands: zone 118 has none, and DOT lists none on Staten Island at all (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.
- Heartland Village/Todt Hill: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 118 (Heartland Village/Todt Hill, 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.
- Heartland Village/Todt Hill: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 118, 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.
- Heartland Village/Todt Hill: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 118 (Heartland Village/Todt Hill, Staten Island) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Heartland Village/Todt Hill: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 118, 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 270,757 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Heartland Village/Todt Hill: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 118, 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 282,497 drop-offs.
- Heartland Village/Todt Hill: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 118, 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).
- Heartland Village/Todt Hill: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 118 (Heartland Village/Todt Hill, 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 Heartland Village/Todt Hill busiest?
Saturday evening. The busiest hour of the week is Saturday 7 p.m., with about 66 pickups, and an average Saturday has about 830 pickups against about 747 on a weekday.
Does this zone pay well for Uber and Lyft drivers?
Per trip, it pays the most of Staten Island's 19 zones with more than 1,000 pickups: median driver pay is $15.29 before tips, on a median $18.59 fare. Trips take 14.6 minutes at the median, so pay per engaged hour ($68.04) is only mid-table.
How many pickups are there?
270,757 from September 2025 to August 2026, about 742 a day, 5th of Staten Island's 20 zones. Apps made 270,507 of them.
Where do trips from here go?
15.6% stay in the zone and 14.1% go to Bloomfield/Emerson Hill. No other zone takes more than 6%.
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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