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Highbridge Park (TLC zone 120) is one of the smallest pickup zones in Manhattan, and it receives far more riders than it sends. From September 2025 to August 2026 it had 24,678 pickups (about 68 a day) and 36,724 drop-offs, roughly 1.5 drop-offs for every pickup. The most common trips are short hops to and from Washington Heights and Harlem.
All numbers are from TLC trip records (yellow, green and Uber/Lyft trips), aggregated by TLC Help. With so few trips, some medians in the table below are blank.
Highbridge Park at a glance
On TLC's zone map, zone 120 touches five zones: Washington Heights South (244), Washington Heights North (243), Inwood (127), Hamilton Heights (116) and Central Harlem North (42). TLC labels it "Boro Zone", a data category, not a legal line.
The city's street centerline file places three Harlem River crossings in this zone: the Alexander Hamilton Bridge, the Washington Bridge and the High Bridge. So a driver may pass through zone 120 on the way to or from the Bronx without stopping in it.
When rides start and end
With about 65 to 75 pickups a day, no hour is very busy. On weekdays the peak is the 8 a.m. hour (about 4 to 5 pickups), with a second bump around 2 p.m. On Sundays the busiest pickup hour is noon.
Drop-offs show the zone's one clear spike: Sunday at 10 a.m., when about 15 trips end here, about twice as many as in any other Sunday hour. Weekday drop-offs peak at 8 a.m. (about 9). The data can't tell us where in the zone these riders go.
Busier in summer
This zone was busier in the warm months. January 2026 had the fewest pickups (1,726) and July 2026 the most (2,413). Every month from March to August had more than 2,100.
Where trips go and come from
The top destinations are its neighbors. Washington Heights South (11.1%) and Washington Heights North (8.4%) lead, then Central Harlem North (5.4%). Highbridge in the Bronx takes 3.5% and 3.6% of trips leave the city. Riders arriving here come mainly from Washington Heights South (12.4%) and Central Harlem North (9.1%). LaGuardia Airport is the 8th most common origin, at 2.6% of drop-offs.
Fares and pay
The median app trip from here is 3.28 miles and 14.2 minutes, with a $16.48 fare before tips, tolls and fees. The median app driver pay is $14.51 and tips average $0.66 a trip. Yellow taxis pick up only about 3 riders a day here, but those trips are long: a median of 6.42 miles and $28.18 on the meter, the 5th-highest median yellow fare in Manhattan. There were too few yellow card trips to report a tip rate.
Pickup rules here
- Green cabs: zone 120 is in the Hail Zone. The Hail Exclusionary Zone covers only Manhattan south of East 96th and West 110th Streets and the airports (Chapter 51). Green cabs may accept hails here.
- For-hire drivers (including Uber and Lyft): take only pre-arranged trips through your base (80-19(c)(1)).
- Stands: neither DOT dataset shows a relief stand or taxi-stand sign in zone 120. Nearby, DOT lists relief stands in Washington Heights South (West 181st and West 163rd Streets) and Washington Heights North (Dyckman Street and Wadsworth Avenue). See taxi relief stands.
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.
- Highbridge Park: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 120 (Highbridge Park, Manhattan) 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.
- Highbridge Park: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 120, 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.
- Highbridge Park: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 120 (Highbridge Park, Manhattan) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Highbridge Park: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 120, 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 24,678 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Highbridge Park: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 120, 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 36,724 drop-offs.
- Highbridge Park: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 120, 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).
- Highbridge Park: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 120 (Highbridge Park, Manhattan) 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 Highbridge Park zone?
24,678 in the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026, about 68 a day. It ranks 66th of Manhattan's 69 zones. 95% were app trips; yellow taxis had 1,048 pickups and green cabs 93.
Why are there more drop-offs than pickups?
The data does not say. It shows 36,724 drop-offs against 24,678 pickups, about 1.5 drop-offs for every pickup. The biggest single spike is on Sunday mornings: about 15 trips end in the 10 a.m. hour, roughly twice any other Sunday hour.
Which bridges are in this zone?
In the city's street centerline file, segments of the Alexander Hamilton Bridge, the Washington Bridge and the High Bridge fall inside zone 120. These cross the Harlem River to the Bronx.
Is there a taxi stand or relief stand in the zone?
No. DOT's relief-stand data (October 1, 2026) and parking-sign data (October 11, 2026) list none inside zone 120. Washington Heights North and South, next door, have relief stands.
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: Street Centerline (CSCL, inkn-q76z) data.cityofnewyork.us
- 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
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