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Hollis (TLC zone 122) is a smaller southeast Queens zone where trips run mostly to Jamaica and Saint Albans. About 929 trips a day start here (338,998 in the 12 months to August 2026), with a strong peak at 8 a.m. on weekdays. Tips are among the lowest in Queens: app riders tipped 1.6% of the fare.
The data is from TLC trip records for yellow taxis, green cabs and app trips (Uber, Lyft), totaled by TLC Help.
Hollis at a glance
TLC's map gives Hollis four neighbors: Jamaica (130), Jamaica Estates (131), Queens Village (191) and Saint Albans (205). TLC labels it "Boro Zone", a data category that has no effect on where you may pick up.
When rides start
The weekday morning is the busiest time: 8 a.m. averages about 91 pickups, well above 9 a.m. (about 64) and 7 a.m. (about 62). 27.9% of weekday pickups happen from 6 to 10 a.m. Weekday drop-offs are spread between 8 a.m. (about 59) and 5 p.m. (about 58).
Saturdays are about as busy as weekdays (about 962 pickups against 942), and Sundays a little quieter (831). Saturday peaks at 7 p.m. (about 54), but 9 and 10 a.m. are close behind. Sunday's top hour is 2 p.m. (about 51).
Pickups ranged from 24,222 in September 2025 to 31,429 in March 2026. Yellow pickups fell from 369 to 543 a month before June 2026 to 140 to 189 a month in June to August.
Where trips go
Jamaica takes 14.9% of pickups and Saint Albans 9.4%. Outside NYC (8.5%), trips inside Hollis (8.3%), Queens Village (7.6%) and Jamaica Estates (6.7%) follow. Arrivals come from the same places, led by Jamaica (16.6% of drop-offs) and Saint Albans (11.2%). South Ozone Park and Laurelton also appear among the top origins.
Hollis sends few riders far: 3.2% of app pickups went to an airport and 1.3% paid the Manhattan congestion fee. There were 338,998 pickups and 305,529 drop-offs in the year.
Fares, pay and tips
The median app trip is 2.79 miles in 13.9 minutes, with a $16.11 fare and $13.43 driver pay (41st of 67 in Queens). Pay per engaged hour is $63.80, near the middle; it counts only passenger time, so actual hourly earnings are lower.
Tips are low here. App riders tipped 1.6% of the fare, about $0.35 a trip; only South Jamaica was lower in Queens. Card-paid yellow taxi trips had a tip rate of just 0.1%. TLC's data does not record cash tips on taxi trips. Tips are paid on top of driver pay; to check what TLC's minimum pay rules require for a trip of a given length and time, try the pay estimator.
Yellow taxi trips from Hollis are long: a median 9.3 miles and $35.95. Yellow cabs made 4,630 pickups and 6,499 drop-offs here; green cabs made 210 pickups and 419 drop-offs.
Pickup rules
Hollis is in TLC's Hail Zone (Chapter 51), so yellow and green cabs may take street hails. App drivers may only pick up trips dispatched by their base (80-19(c)(1)). DOT's data shows no relief stand in Hollis; the nearest are about 7 miles away in Jackson Heights (taxi only) and Woodside (taxi/FHV).
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.
- Hollis: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 122 (Hollis, Queens) 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.
- Hollis: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 122, 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.
- Hollis: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 122 (Hollis, Queens) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Hollis: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 122, 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 338,998 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Hollis: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 122, 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 305,529 drop-offs.
- Hollis: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 122, 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).
- Hollis: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 122 (Hollis, Queens) 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 Hollis?
TLC trip records show 338,998 pickups from September 2025 to August 2026, about 929 a day, 48th of the 67 Queens zones outside the airports. There were fewer drop-offs (305,529).
Do riders tip in Hollis?
Not much. App riders tipped 1.6% of the fare, about $0.35 a trip. Only South Jamaica (1.4%) was lower among Queens zones. On card-paid yellow taxi trips the tip rate was 0.1%.
Where do trips from Hollis go?
Jamaica is first (14.9% of pickups), then Saint Albans (9.4%), trips leaving NYC (8.5%), trips inside Hollis (8.3%) and Queens Village (7.6%).
When are pickups busiest in Hollis?
8 a.m. on weekdays, with about 91 pickups. The next-busiest weekday hour, 9 a.m., has about 64.
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
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