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Madison (TLC zone 149) has three blocks with TAXI STAND signs in DOT's data, the most of any zone in south Brooklyn, yet almost no yellow taxi work. In the 12 months to August 2026, 661,054 trips started here, about 1,811 a day, and only 0.8% were yellow taxis, tied with Borough Park and the two Bensonhurst zones for the lowest share in Brooklyn. DOT's sign data shows TAXI STAND signs on East 16th Street by Kings Highway and on Avenue U.
The trip numbers are TLC trip records (yellow, green and high-volume app trips such as Uber and Lyft), September 2025 to August 2026, added up by TLC Help. Black car and livery trips that are not high-volume are not included.
Madison at a glance
Zone 149 is a Brooklyn "Boro Zone" in TLC's zone lookup. That is a data label, not a legal boundary. TLC's zone map gives it six neighbors: Flatlands, Homecrest, Marine Park/Floyd Bennett Field, Marine Park/Mill Basin, Midwood and Sheepshead Bay.
It is 42nd of 61 Brooklyn zones by pickups. Apps carried 99.2% of them; yellow taxis 5,452 and green cabs 117.
When rides start and end
Weekdays (about 1,906 pickups) peak at 8 a.m. (about 146) and 9 a.m. (about 134), with a second rise at 5 p.m. (about 130). Drop-offs also peak at 8 a.m. on weekdays (about 166), so the morning brings riders in as well as taking them out.
Saturday is lighter, about 1,597 pickups, with the most trips at 6 p.m. (about 105). Sunday (about 1,547) is flat from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., at about 82–89 an hour.
Month by month
February 2026 was the busiest month (63,994 pickups), and December 2025 to March 2026 all topped 60,000. September 2025 (48,364) and August 2026 (49,377) were the quietest.
Yellow pickups were about 440 to 640 a month until May 2026, then 82–126 a month from June to August. App pickups did not show that drop, and the records do not explain it.
Where trips go
- Madison itself: 11.6%
- Sheepshead Bay: 11.2%
- Homecrest: 9.7%
- Marine Park/Mill Basin: 8.2%
- Midwood: 7.3%
- Flatlands: 5.1%
- Brighton Beach: 4.3%
The origins of trips ending here are nearly the same list, led by Madison (11.8%) and Sheepshead Bay (11.5%).
Fares, trip length and driver pay
The median app trip is 1.99 miles and 11.9 minutes, with a $13.48 fare and $10.91 driver pay before tips and tolls, 55th of 61 in Brooklyn. Tips are 3.6% of the fare, $0.67 on average.
Only 1.7% of app pickups went to an airport and 2.2% were charged the Manhattan toll-zone fee, both well below the Brooklyn zone medians (2.6% and 5.9%). The few yellow trips have a $24.50 median fare over 4.2 miles.
The taxi stands and pickup rules
DOT's sign data (checked October 12, 2026; nfid-uabd) lists these current TAXI STAND signs in zone 149:
- East 16th Street between Avenue P and Kings Highway, west side
- East 16th Street between Kings Highway and Quentin Road, east side
- Avenue U between East 15th and East 16th Streets, south side (two signs)
DOT lists no relief stand in the zone (vqu8-xef9). TLC Chapter 80 sets these rules at a taxi stand:
- Yellow taxis may take any open spot, and so may green cabs, because these stands are in the Hail Zone (80-19(d)(1)).
- Join the back of the line and don't overcrowd it (80-19(d)(4)).
- Taxi drivers must not cruise for hails within 100 feet of a stand (80-19(a)(4)(ii)).
- App and other for-hire drivers must not pick up at a taxi stand: $350 for a first violation (80-19(d)(2)).
Madison is in TLC's Hail Zone, and app drivers need a base dispatch for every pickup. On trips into Manhattan at or below 60th Street, riders pay $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.
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.
- Madison: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 149 (Madison, 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.
- Madison: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 149, 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.
- Madison: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 149 (Madison, Brooklyn) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Madison: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 149, 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 661,054 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Madison: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 149, 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 650,531 drop-offs.
- Madison: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 149, 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).
- Madison: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 149 (Madison, 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
Where are the taxi stands in the Madison zone?
DOT's sign data (checked October 12, 2026) shows TAXI STAND signs on East 16th Street between Avenue P and Kings Highway, on East 16th Street between Kings Highway and Quentin Road, and on Avenue U between East 15th and East 16th Streets.
How busy is Madison for app drivers?
About 1,796 app pickups a day. In the 12 months to August 2026, 661,054 trips started in zone 149: 655,485 by app, 5,452 by yellow taxi and 117 by green cab. It ranks 42nd of 61 Brooklyn zones.
Can Uber or Lyft drivers pick up at the Kings Highway taxi stand?
No. TLC rule 80-19(d)(2) says a for-hire driver must not pick up passengers at any taxi stand. The fine is $350 for a first violation.
Where do Madison riders go?
Mostly to nearby zones: Madison itself (11.6%), Sheepshead Bay (11.2%), Homecrest (9.7%) and Marine Park/Mill Basin (8.2%). Only 2.2% of app pickups were charged the Manhattan toll-zone fee.
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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