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Homecrest (TLC zone 123) means many short app trips. In the 12 months to August 2026, 801,963 trips started here, about 2,197 a day. The median app trip is only 1.76 miles, and median driver pay of $10.05 is second-lowest in Brooklyn. Weekdays and winter are busy; Saturdays and summer are much quieter.
Trip figures are TLC trip records for yellow taxis, green cabs and high-volume app services (Uber, Lyft), September 2025 to August 2026, added up by TLC Help. Black car and livery trips outside the high-volume services are not included.
Homecrest at a glance
TLC's zone lookup lists zone 123 as a Brooklyn "Boro Zone", which is a data label and not a legal line. On TLC's zone map it has seven neighbors: Bensonhurst East, Brighton Beach, Gravesend, Madison, Midwood, Ocean Parkway South and Sheepshead Bay.
It is 36th of 61 Brooklyn zones by pickups. About 25,000 more trips end here than start here (827,040 drop-offs).
When rides start
Weekdays average about 2,361 pickups. Mornings lead, with about 183 at 8 a.m. and 170 at 9 a.m. There is a strong second peak at 5 p.m. (about 166).
Saturday averages about 1,634 pickups, 69% of a weekday and the 5th-lowest ratio in Brooklyn. It is quiet in the morning and busiest from 6 to 9 p.m. (about 111–113 an hour). Sunday (about 1,939) is flat from noon to 7 p.m. at about 107–114 an hour.
Weekday drop-offs peak in the morning too, at 8 a.m. (about 212), so morning drivers can expect riders coming in as well as going out.
Month by month
The winter peak is sharp. February 2026 had 85,908 pickups, the top month, and December to March all passed 76,000. July 2026 was the low (52,337), about 39% below February. Only six Brooklyn zones swing more from their best month to their worst.
Yellow pickups ran at about 590 to 990 a month until May 2026, then 112–125 a month from June to August. App trips did not fall the same way, and the records do not explain it.
Where trips go
- Homecrest itself: 15.5%
- Madison: 8.2%
- Midwood: 7.4%
- Bensonhurst East: 7.4%
- Sheepshead Bay: 7.3%
- Brighton Beach: 6.3%
- Ocean Parkway South: 4.9%
Every top destination is a neighbor or one zone further. Trips ending here come from the same list, led by Homecrest (15.1%) and Midwood (7.8%).
Fares, trip length and driver pay
The median app trip is 1.76 miles and 11.1 minutes, with a $12.67 fare and $10.05 driver pay before tips and tolls. Both figures are 60th of 61 in Brooklyn. Pay per engaged hour is $58.78, near the Brooklyn middle, because trips are so short. That number leaves out time between trips, so it overstates hourly earnings. Tips are 2.9% of fares, $0.53 on average.
1.5% of app pickups went to an airport and 2.7% were charged the Manhattan toll-zone fee. Yellow trips have a $24.50 median fare over 4.1 miles.
Pickup rules and nearby stands
Homecrest is in TLC's Hail Zone. Yellow and green cabs may take street hails; app drivers may pick up only riders sent by their base (80-19(c)(1)). Trips into Manhattan at or below 60th Street carry a rider charge of $1.50 per app trip or $0.75 per taxi trip as of 2026-10-12 (MTA). See who can pick up where. This is general information, not legal advice.
DOT's open data has no relief stand and no taxi-stand sign inside zone 123 (checked October 12, 2026; vqu8-xef9, nfid-uabd). Two signed stands sit just over its edges:
- Avenue P between East 2nd Street and McDonald Avenue, in Ocean Parkway South, about 30 feet from the Homecrest line.
- East 16th Street between Avenue P and Kings Highway, and between Kings Highway and Quentin Road, in Madison, about 250 feet from the line.
App drivers may not pick up at any taxi stand (80-19(d)(2)).
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.
- Homecrest: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 123 (Homecrest, Brooklyn) 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.
- Homecrest: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 123, 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.
- Homecrest: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 123 (Homecrest, Brooklyn) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Homecrest: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 123, 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 801,963 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Homecrest: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 123, 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 827,040 drop-offs.
- Homecrest: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 123, 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).
- Homecrest: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 123 (Homecrest, Brooklyn) 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 Homecrest for Uber and Lyft?
About 2,176 app pickups a day. In the 12 months to August 2026, 801,963 trips started in zone 123: 794,339 by app, 7,445 by yellow taxi and 179 by green cab. It ranks 36th of 61 Brooklyn zones.
What does an app trip from Homecrest pay?
The median is $10.05 driver pay before tips and tolls, on a $12.67 fare. Both are 60th of 61 Brooklyn zones. The median trip is 1.76 miles and 11.1 minutes.
Is Homecrest busy on Saturday?
Less than on other days. A Saturday averages about 1,634 pickups, against 2,361 on a weekday and 1,939 on a Sunday. Saturday is busiest from 6 to 9 p.m.
Where is the nearest taxi stand to Homecrest?
DOT's sign data (checked October 12, 2026) shows none inside zone 123. Signed taxi stands sit just over its edges: on Avenue P near McDonald Avenue (Ocean Parkway South) and on East 16th Street at Kings Highway (Madison).
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: Parking Regulation Locations and Signs (DOT, nfid-uabd) data.cityofnewyork.us
- NYC Open Data: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands (DOT, vqu8-xef9) data.cityofnewyork.us
- TLC Rules Chapter 80: Rules Applicable to All Drivers (PDF) nyc.gov
- MTA: Congestion Relief Zone taxi and FHV tolls mta.info
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