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Morrisania/Melrose (TLC zone 167) is a busy south Bronx zone with a strong early-morning rush and slow, short trips. In the 12 months to August 2026, 978,242 trips started here (about 2,680 a day), 15th of 43 Bronx zones. Because trips are slow for their length, app pay per engaged hour was the lowest in the Bronx, even though pay per trip is about average. Melrose South is the top destination.
Uber and Lyft pickups numbered 965,887, yellow taxi pickups 12,046 and green cab pickups 309 (TLC trip records, totaled by TLC Help). Non-app livery and black car trips do not show up in these files.
Morrisania/Melrose at a glance
Zone 167 has seven neighbors on TLC's map: Claremont/Bathgate (47), Crotona Park (59), Crotona Park East (60), East Concourse/Concourse Village (69), Hunts Point (126), Longwood (147) and Melrose South (159). TLC's lookup table labels it a "Boro Zone". That is only a data label.
An early, strong morning rush
Weekday pickups climb to about 215 at 7 a.m. and 236 at 8 a.m., then 177 at 9 a.m. In all, 27.5% of weekday pickups start between 6 and 10 a.m.; only two Bronx zones have a higher share. Weekday drop-offs peak at 8 a.m. too (about 177), with a second peak at 5 p.m. (164).
Saturday turns late. Pickups are highest at 11 p.m. (about 162) and 10 p.m. (157), and drop-offs reach about 191 an hour at 10 and 11 p.m. On Sundays the top pickup hour is midnight (138), with a smaller rise at 2–3 p.m.
Month by month
The busiest month was March 2026 (92,561 pickups) and the quietest September 2025 (70,027). Pickups held at about 81,000 to 82,000 a month in summer 2026. Yellow pickups ran 970 to 1,390 a month until May 2026, then dropped to about 400 to 480.
Where trips go
Melrose South leads with 8.9% of pickups. Then come East Concourse/Concourse Village (5.7%), Mott Haven/Port Morris (5.2%), trips inside the zone (5.2%), West Concourse (4.7%) and Hunts Point (4.3%). Every top-ten destination is in the Bronx. Melrose South is also the top origin of trips ending here (7.4%).
Fares and pay: average per trip, low per hour
The median app trip is 2.23 miles and 14.6 minutes, with a $15.20 fare. Median driver pay is $13.33 per trip, a little under the Bronx middle ($13.50). But pay per engaged hour is $58.02, the lowest of 42 Bronx zones, because trips take long for their distance. App riders tip 1.1% of the fare, about $0.21 a trip, also near the bottom. Remember that engaged hours exclude waiting and driving to pickups, so real hourly earnings are lower. To see how TLC's minimum pay rules work, try the pay estimator.
The median yellow trip is 5.1 miles and $27.06. Only 0.9% of app pickups went to an airport.
Pickup rules and the nearest stand
- Hail Zone: zone 167 is in TLC's Hail Zone (Chapter 51). A yellow taxi or green cab may stop for a street hail anywhere in zone 167.
- App drivers must take only trips dispatched through their base (80-19(c)(1)).
- Relief stand next door: DOT lists no stand inside the zone (checked October 2026), but a 2-space taxi/FHV relief stand on Third Avenue between East 157th and East 158th Streets (Melrose South) is under 0.1 miles from the zone's edge. You may park there for up to one hour (DOT), following the sign (80-19(d)(7)).
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.
- Morrisania/Melrose: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 167 (Morrisania/Melrose, Bronx) 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.
- Morrisania/Melrose: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 167, 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.
- Morrisania/Melrose: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 167 (Morrisania/Melrose, Bronx) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Morrisania/Melrose: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 167, 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 978,242 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Morrisania/Melrose: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 167, 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 943,241 drop-offs.
- Morrisania/Melrose: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 167, 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).
- Morrisania/Melrose: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 167 (Morrisania/Melrose, Bronx) 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 busy is Morrisania/Melrose?
TLC trip records show 978,242 pickups in zone 167 from September 2025 to August 2026, about 2,680 a day. It ranks 15th of 43 Bronx zones. 965,887 were app trips, 12,046 yellow taxi trips and 309 green cab trips.
Why is app pay per hour low in Morrisania/Melrose?
App trips from here are short and slow: a median of 2.23 miles in 14.6 minutes. Pay per engaged hour was $58.02, the lowest of the 42 Bronx zones with enough trips. Median pay per trip ($13.33) is close to the Bronx middle. Engaged hours count passenger time only.
When do most rides start?
Weekday mornings. The 8 a.m. hour averages about 236 pickups and 7 a.m. about 215. 27.5% of weekday pickups start between 6 and 10 a.m., one of the highest shares in the Bronx.
Where is the closest relief stand?
Just outside the zone: a 2-space taxi/FHV relief stand on the west side of Third Avenue between East 157th and East 158th Streets, in Melrose South, under 0.1 miles from zone 167's edge, per NYC DOT data checked in October 2026.
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: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands (DOT, vqu8-xef9) data.cityofnewyork.us
- NYC DOT: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands nyc.gov
- TLC Rules Chapter 51: Definitions (PDF) nyc.gov
- TLC Rules Chapter 80: Rules Applicable to All Drivers (PDF) nyc.gov
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