Marine Park/Floyd Bennett Field Zone (154): Trip Data

Marine Park/Floyd Bennett Field (TLC zone 154) is one of the quietest zones in Brooklyn, but the trips it has are long. In the 12 months to August 2026, only 22,307 trips started here, about 61 a day, 60th of 61 Brooklyn zones. The median app trip pays $18.22, 6th-highest in the borough. It is busiest on summer weekend afternoons, and JFK Airport is the top origin of trips ending here.

Numbers come from 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 them. With so few trips, hourly averages here are small and can swing a lot.

Zone 154 at a glance

TLC's zone lookup names zone 154 "Marine Park/Floyd Bennett Field" and labels it a Brooklyn "Boro Zone". The label is a data category, not a legal line. TLC's zone map gives it four neighbors: Madison, Manhattan Beach, Marine Park/Mill Basin and Sheepshead Bay.

Drop-offs outnumber pickups by 45% (32,279 against 22,307), the biggest gap in Brooklyn. Yellow taxis explain much of it: 5,588 yellow drop-offs against just 599 yellow pickups.

When rides start and end

Weekdays are slow, about 53 pickups a day, with most between 2 and 7 p.m. (about 4 an hour). Saturdays and Sundays are busier, about 84 and 80 pickups, peaking from 3 to 7 p.m. at roughly 6–8 an hour. The single busiest hour of the week is Saturday at 5 p.m.

Drop-offs come earlier in the day. On weekdays they peak at 6 a.m. (about 6), and on weekends from late morning to early afternoon (about 8–9 an hour from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.). Riders arrive in the morning and midday, and leave in the afternoon.

Month by month: a summer zone

Unlike its four neighbors, which all peak between December and March, summer clearly beats winter here. June 2026 was the top month (2,567 pickups), and May to August 2026 all passed 2,200. February 2026 was the low (1,181), and December to February were all under 1,300. The swing from best to worst month is the widest in Brooklyn.

Yellow pickups stayed small all year, about 34 to 72 a month, with only a small dip in summer (37–41 a month from June to August). Green cab counts are 0–9 every month, so they are hidden or zero.

Where trips go, and where they come from

Trips leaving the zone spread across southeast Brooklyn. No trips inside the zone make the top ten.

• Marine Park/Mill Basin: 10.0%
• Sheepshead Bay: 7.0%
• Madison: 6.9%
• Flatlands: 5.8%
• Flatbush/Ditmas Park: 5.6%

Trips arriving are different. JFK Airport is the top origin, 16% of drop-offs (5,152 trips). The origins dataset does not split these trips by sector; for context, yellow taxis made 5,588 of the zone's 32,279 drop-offs. The data shows where trips started and ended, not why riders came here from the airport.

Fares, trip length and driver pay

The median app trip is 4.63 miles and 17.2 minutes, with a $22.39 fare and $18.22 driver pay before tips and tolls. Pay per engaged hour is $64.88, 2nd in Brooklyn, though it counts only passenger time and not the long wait for a request in a zone this quiet. App tips are 4.1% of fares, $1.27 on average.

Yellow taxis had 599 pickups, enough for medians: 5.9 miles, 20.3 minutes and $28.50. On card-paid yellow trips, tips were 12.5% of fares, 7th-highest in Brooklyn. 4.4% of app pickups and 5.2% of yellow pickups were charged the Manhattan toll-zone fee.

Pickup rules and stands

The zone is in TLC's Hail Zone. Yellow and green cabs may take street hails here, and app drivers may pick up only riders their base dispatched (80-19(c)(1)). If a rider goes into Manhattan at or below 60th Street, they 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.

DOT's open data lists no relief stand and no taxi-stand sign in zone 154 (checked October 12, 2026; vqu8-xef9, nfid-uabd). The nearest signed taxi stands are about a mile away, on East 16th Street near Kings Highway in Madison. For rules on JFK trips, see the JFK Airport page.