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Manhattan Valley (TLC zone 151) is a weekday-morning, yellow-cab-friendly zone on the Upper West Side. In the 12 months to August 2026 it had 1,046,593 pickups (about 2,867 a day), and 35.3% were yellow taxis, more than the 30.4% for Manhattan overall. Green cabs dropped off 11,352 riders here but picked up only 391. The zone is inside the area where green cabs may not take hails.
TLC Help built these numbers from TLC's trip records. They cover yellow taxis, green cabs and the Uber/Lyft apps, not other black car or livery work.
Manhattan Valley at a glance
On TLC's map, zone 151 borders Upper West Side North (238), Bloomingdale (24) and Central Park (43). TLC labels it "Yellow Zone" in its lookup table, a data label only.
When rides start and end
This is a morning zone. On weekdays about 209 pickups start at 8 a.m. and 199 at 9 a.m., and the evening peak at 6 p.m. is a little lower (about 188). Saturdays peak at 6 p.m. (about 216) and Sundays around midday. Late nights are quiet: only 4.5% of weekday pickups start between midnight and 5 a.m., against 6.9% for Manhattan as a whole.
Drop-offs peak in the evening instead. About 191 trips end here in the weekday 5 p.m. hour and about 189 at 9 p.m.; on Saturdays the busiest drop-off hour is 10 p.m. Riders arrive most often from Upper West Side South (7.5% of drop-offs) and Upper West Side North (6.9%), and 2.4% come from LaGuardia Airport.
Through the year
December 2025 was the busiest month (96,426 pickups) and February 2026 the quietest (81,426). August 2026 (82,906) was almost level with September 2025. Yellow taxis' share stayed between 33% and 38% every month.
Where trips go: the Upper West Side and Harlem
The top destinations are Upper West Side South (7.3%), Upper West Side North (6.8%) and Morningside Heights (6.6%). Lincoln Square East and Upper East Side North take 3.7% each. 22.4% of app pickups and 24.9% of yellow pickups were charged the Congestion Relief Zone fee, so roughly a quarter of trips go into the zone at 60th Street or below.
Fares, tips and pay
The median yellow taxi trip is 1.98 miles, 12.1 minutes and $14.01 on the meter, with a 22.5% card tip rate. App trips are longer: 2.87 miles and 16.0 minutes, with a $19.03 fare. Median app driver pay is $15.67 per trip (tips and tolls excluded), the second lowest of Manhattan's "Yellow Zone" zones after Bloomingdale. App riders tip 6.2% of the fare, about $1.66 a trip.
Pickup rules here
- Green cabs: no hails and no pre-arranged trips starting here (80-19(b)(1)). You may drop off. See can green cabs pick up in Manhattan?
- For-hire drivers: a pickup without a pre-arranged trip here falls under the higher Manhattan penalties of 80-19(c)(2).
- Yellow taxis: may take street hails here. Rule 80-19(a)(4) lists the places where taxis may not cruise for hails, such as within 100 feet of a taxi stand (80-19(a)(4)(ii)).
- Stands: none of DOT's relief stands or taxi-stand signs fall in this zone.
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.
- Manhattan Valley: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 151 (Manhattan Valley, 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.
- Manhattan Valley: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 151, 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.
- Manhattan Valley: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 151 (Manhattan Valley, Manhattan) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Manhattan Valley: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 151, 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 1,046,593 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Manhattan Valley: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 151, 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 1,011,841 drop-offs.
- Manhattan Valley: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 151, 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).
- Manhattan Valley: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 151 (Manhattan Valley, 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
How many taxi and app pickups are there in Manhattan Valley?
1,046,593 from September 2025 to August 2026, about 2,867 a day. App trips were 677,267 (65%) and yellow taxis 368,935 (35.3%). Green cabs had only 391 pickups.
Why do green cabs drop off here but rarely pick up?
Manhattan Valley is in TLC's Hail Exclusionary Zone (Manhattan south of West 110th Street on the west side), where green cabs may not take hails or begin pre-arranged trips. They may end trips here. The data shows 11,352 green drop-offs against 391 pickups.
Do trips from Manhattan Valley pay the congestion surcharge?
Not if they stay north of 96th Street. By our check, the zone lies entirely north of 96th Street. Trips that end in or pass through Manhattan south of 96th Street pay the NYS surcharge, and trips into the area at or below 60th Street pay the MTA charge. 22.4% of app pickups were charged the MTA fee.
When is the busiest time to drive here?
Weekday mornings: about 209 pickups in the 8 a.m. hour and 199 at 9 a.m. On Saturdays the peak is 6 p.m. (about 216). Late nights are quiet; only 4.5% of weekday pickups start between midnight and 5 a.m.
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
- NYS Department of Taxation and Finance: Congestion surcharge tax.ny.gov
- NYC Open Data: Street Centerline (CSCL, inkn-q76z) data.cityofnewyork.us
- 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
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