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Inwood (TLC zone 127) is a weekend-night zone. Its busiest hour of the whole week is 4 a.m. on Sunday, and almost a third of Sunday pickups start between midnight and 5 a.m. Across the 12 months to August 2026 it had 995,183 pickups (about 2,727 a day), and 98% were Uber or Lyft trips. On weekdays it has a normal morning rush that peaks at 8 a.m.
The data is TLC's trip records for yellow taxis, green cabs and high-volume app trips, aggregated by TLC Help. Black car and livery trips not dispatched by an app company are not included.
Inwood at a glance
Inwood sits near the northern tip of Manhattan. On TLC's zone map it borders Inwood Hill Park (128), Washington Heights North (243) and Highbridge Park (120). Dyckman Street is its border with Washington Heights North. The city's street file puts part of the University Heights Bridge approach in this zone. TLC labels the zone "Boro Zone"; that is a data category, not a legal boundary.
Two rhythms: weekday mornings and weekend nights
On weekdays pickups peak at 8 a.m. (about 190) and 7 a.m. (about 171), then stay steady through the day. Even on weekdays, 12.7% of pickups start between midnight and 5 a.m.; for Manhattan as a whole it is 6.9%.
Weekends are much busier. An average Saturday has about 3,264 pickups and a Sunday about 3,070, against 2,551 on a weekday. The Saturday peak is 4 a.m. (about 183), close to the 11 p.m. hour (about 177). Sunday's 4 a.m. hour has about 218 pickups, the highest of the week. By "Saturday 4 a.m." the data means the early hours of Saturday, after Friday night.
Drop-offs peak a few hours earlier: 11 p.m. on Saturdays (about 303) and midnight on Sundays (about 284). Pickups and drop-offs are almost equal over the year (995,183 against 998,581).
Growing while Manhattan shrank
September 2025 was the quietest month (72,339 pickups) and May 2026 the busiest (92,887). August 2026 was about 16% above September 2025. Over the same two months Manhattan's total fell about 9%.
Where trips go
Most trips are local. Washington Heights North (8.7%) and Washington Heights South (8.0%) are the top destinations, and 6.2% of trips stay inside Inwood. Five Bronx zones in the top ten, led by Spuyten Duyvil/Kingsbridge (4.3%) and Van Cortlandt Village (3.6%), take 16.5% between them, and 5.2% of trips leave the city. Only 7.4% of app pickups were charged the Congestion Relief Zone fee, and 1.7% went to an airport.
Fares and pay
The median app trip is 3.55 miles and 14.8 minutes, with a $17.55 fare before tips, tolls and fees. Median app driver pay is $15.24 per trip, a little above the $14.98 median for Manhattan's 14 "Boro Zone" zones. Tips are low: 3.0% of the fare on app trips and 1.8% on yellow card trips. The few yellow taxi trips (about 60 a day) run long: a median of 7.03 miles and $27.97 on the meter, and a quarter (25.5%) were charged the congestion fee.
Stands and pickup rules
DOT's data shows two curb spots for drivers here:
A relief stand lets you park and leave the car for up to one hour; a taxi stand is for waiting in the car for passengers (NYC DOT). For-hire drivers may not pick up at a taxi stand (80-19(d)(2)). Because Inwood is in the Hail Zone, green cabs may take hails and may use taxi stands here (Chapter 80, §80-19(d)(1)). App drivers still need a pre-arranged trip (80-19(c)(1)). More: relief stands in NYC.
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.
- Inwood: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 127 (Inwood, 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.
- Inwood: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 127, 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.
- Inwood: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 127 (Inwood, Manhattan) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Inwood: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 127, 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 995,183 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Inwood: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 127, 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 998,581 drop-offs.
- Inwood: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 127, 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).
- Inwood: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 127 (Inwood, 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
When is Inwood busiest for pickups?
Weekend nights. The single busiest hour is 4 a.m. on Sundays, with about 218 pickups. On Sundays 30.6% of pickups start between midnight and 5 a.m., compared with 22.2% for Manhattan as a whole. On weekdays the peak is the 8 a.m. hour.
How many rides start in Inwood?
995,183 in the 12 months to August 2026, about 2,727 a day. App trips (Uber and Lyft) were 972,902 of them, yellow taxis 21,711 and green cabs 570.
Is there a taxi relief stand in Inwood?
Yes. DOT lists a 9-space taxi and FHV relief stand with a 1-hour limit on the north side of Dyckman Street between Vermilyea Avenue and Broadway. Its parking-sign data also shows a taxi stand sign on West 207th Street between Broadway and Vermilyea Avenue.
Can green cabs take street hails in Inwood?
Yes. Inwood is north of the Hail Exclusionary Zone (Manhattan south of East 96th Street and West 110th Street), so it is in the Hail Zone.
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 DOT: Taxi and For-Hire Vehicle Relief Stands nyc.gov
- 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
- NYC Open Data: Street Centerline (CSCL, inkn-q76z) data.cityofnewyork.us
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