Manhattan Beach Taxi Zone (150): Trips, Hours & Fares

Manhattan Beach (TLC zone 150) is a small Brooklyn zone, not part of Manhattan, and its busiest time is late at night. In the 12 months to August 2026, 281,105 trips started here, about 770 a day, and 322,695 ended here, about 15% more. The single busiest pickup hour of the week is midnight at the end of Saturday. Most riders who leave go to Sheepshead Bay or Brighton Beach.

These 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 that are not high-volume are not part of the count.

Manhattan Beach at a glance

In TLC's zone lookup, zone 150 is a Brooklyn "Boro Zone". That is a data label, not a legal boundary. It has only three neighbors on TLC's zone map: Brighton Beach, Marine Park/Floyd Bennett Field and Sheepshead Bay.

It ranks 55th of 61 Brooklyn zones by pickups. Its drop-off-to-pickup ratio (1.15) is the 4th-highest in Brooklyn. Green cabs show the same pattern: 446 drop-offs against 202 pickups.

When rides start and end

The weekend night is the main event. Saturday pickups build through the evening, from about 48 at 6 p.m. to 58 at 10 p.m. and 67 at 11 p.m. The midnight hour that opens Sunday averages about 71, and 1 a.m. about 59. About 24% of Sunday's pickups happen between midnight and 5 a.m. Over the whole week, about 10% of pickups are in those hours, above the Brooklyn zone median of about 9%.

Saturday drop-offs peak earlier, at 6–7 p.m. (about 80–83). Riders arrive in the evening and leave late.

Weekdays are calmer, about 758 pickups, with small peaks at 8 a.m. (about 56) and 5 p.m. (about 51). Weekday drop-offs peak at 8 a.m. (about 81).

Month by month

Manhattan Beach is steadier through the year than most Brooklyn zones. March 2026 was the top month (25,342 pickups) and May was close (25,237). September 2025 was the low (20,985). Every month from December onward had at least 22,000. Summer did not bring a big rise or fall.

Yellow pickups were about 310 to 395 a month until May 2026, then 61–80 a month from June to August. App trips did not drop with them, and the records give no reason.

Where trips go

• Sheepshead Bay: 17.0%
• Brighton Beach: 11.9%
• Coney Island: 7.6%
• Manhattan Beach itself: 7.1%
• Homecrest: 6.5%
• Madison: 5.2%

Trips ending here start in the same zones: Sheepshead Bay (18.5% of drop-offs) and Brighton Beach (12.7%) lead.

Fares, trip length and driver pay

The median app trip is 2.51 miles and 12.1 minutes, with a $15.17 fare and $11.90 driver pay before tips and tolls (48th in Brooklyn). Pay per engaged hour is $63.89, 5th in Brooklyn. It measures only time with a passenger, so it is higher than real hourly pay. Tips are 3.7% of fares, $0.81 on average.

Despite the name, trips to Manhattan are rare: only 2.6% of app pickups and 1.4% of yellow pickups were charged the Congestion Relief Zone fee. 1.8% of app pickups went to an airport. Yellow trips have a $30.50 median fare over 6.5 miles.

Pickup rules and the nearest stand

Manhattan Beach is in TLC's Hail Zone, like the rest of Brooklyn. Yellow and green cabs may take street hails here. App drivers may only pick up riders their base dispatched (80-19(c)(1)). For trips into Manhattan at or below 60th Street, the rider pays $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 shows no relief stand and no taxi-stand sign in zone 150 (checked October 12, 2026; vqu8-xef9, nfid-uabd). The nearest signed taxi stand is about 600 feet away, on Sheepshead Bay Road between East 14th Street and Voorhies Avenue in Sheepshead Bay. App drivers may not pick up at a taxi stand (80-19(d)(2)).