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Ocean Hill (TLC zone 177) is a mid-sized neighborhood zone, almost entirely served by apps, with short trips and a strong Saturday night. From September 2025 to August 2026, 1,130,403 trips started here (about 3,097 a day) and 1,105,646 ended here. Uber and Lyft did 97.5% of pickups. Most rides stay close: the top destinations are Crown Heights North, Brownsville and Ocean Hill itself.
All figures on this page come from TLC trip records for yellow taxis, green cabs and high-volume app services (Uber, Lyft), aggregated by TLC Help. Black car and livery trips that are not app-dispatched are not in the data.
Ocean Hill at a glance
TLC places zone 177 in Brooklyn with the service_zone label "Boro Zone". That label is only a category in TLC's zone lookup table; it is not a legal boundary. TLC's zone map gives it seven neighbors: Brownsville, Bushwick South, Crown Heights North, Cypress Hills, East New York, East New York/Pennsylvania Avenue and Stuyvesant Heights.
By pickups, Ocean Hill ranks 26th of 61 Brooklyn zones. Its yellow share (2.5%) is a little above the Brooklyn zone median of 2.0%, but that still means only about 76 yellow pickups a day.
When rides start
The week has two shapes here. Weekdays start early: the 8 a.m. hour is the busiest, with about 198 pickups, and a second, flatter peak runs from 5 to 7 p.m. at about 163 an hour. Saturdays build all day and keep rising into the night, reaching about 221 pickups in the 11 p.m. hour. That Saturday night carries over: the midnight hour on Sunday is the busiest hour of Sunday (about 211).
A typical Saturday has about 3,755 pickups, against about 2,935 on a weekday. The quietest time of the week is around 3 a.m. on weekdays, with about 38 pickups an hour.
Month by month
App pickups grew over the year, from 78,432 in September 2025 to 98,367 in August 2026. The busiest month overall was May 2026 (100,654 pickups).
Yellow pickups moved the other way. They held between about 2,300 and 3,100 a month until May 2026, then fell to about 1,300 a month from June. Many Brooklyn zones show the same June drop in yellow pickups. The trip records do not say why, so treat recent yellow counts with care.
Where trips go
Ocean Hill trips are local. All ten top destinations are Brooklyn zones, and together they take 55.4% of pickups:
- Crown Heights North: 10.1%
- Brownsville: 8.1%
- Ocean Hill itself: 7.9%
- East New York: 6.8%
- Bushwick South: 5.3%
- Stuyvesant Heights: 5.0%
Arrivals mirror this list. Crown Heights North is also the top origin of trips that end here (9.9% of drop-offs), followed by Brownsville (8.9%).
Fares, trip length and driver pay
Short trips mean modest pay per trip. The median app trip from Ocean Hill is 2.42 miles and 14.8 minutes, with a $15.55 fare. The median driver pay is $13.44 per trip, before tips and tolls. App riders here tip little: tips equal 2.0% of fares, against a Brooklyn zone median of 3.7%, and the average tip is $0.40.
Only 2.6% of app pickups head to an airport, the same as the Brooklyn zone median. Yellow trips that start here are longer (median 4.6 miles, $27.50 on the meter), but recorded card tips are only 0.3% of fares. Cash tips are not in the data.
Pickup rules and curb signs
Ocean Hill is in TLC's Hail Zone, like all of Brooklyn. Yellow and green cabs may take street hails here. App and other for-hire drivers may only pick up riders booked through their base (rule 80-19(c)(1)). The Brooklyn page and who can pick up where explain the rules and fines. This is general information, not legal advice.
Few trips from here reach the MTA's Congestion Relief Zone (Manhattan at and below 60th Street). When one does, the passenger pays the per-trip charge: $1.50 on an app trip and $0.75 on a taxi trip, as of 2026-10-12 (MTA).
Stands: DOT's relief-stand data lists no relief stand in zone 177, and the current sign data shows no taxi stand (checked October 12, 2026). It does show one "TAXI/FHV PICK-UP/DROP-OFF ONLY" location on Truxton Street between Sackman Street and Van Sinderen Avenue (NYC Open Data, nfid-uabd). The posted sign on the street is what counts.
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.
- Ocean Hill: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 177 (Ocean Hill, 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.
- Ocean Hill: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 177, 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.
- Ocean Hill: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 177 (Ocean Hill, Brooklyn) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Ocean Hill: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 177, 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 1,130,403 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Ocean Hill: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 177, 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 1,105,646 drop-offs.
- Ocean Hill: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 177, 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).
- Ocean Hill: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 177 (Ocean Hill, 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
How busy is Ocean Hill for Uber and Lyft?
In the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026, 1,130,403 trips started in zone 177, about 3,097 a day. Uber and Lyft did 1,102,161 of them (97.5%). That puts Ocean Hill 26th of 61 Brooklyn zones by pickups.
When are the most pickups in Ocean Hill?
Saturday night. Pickups climb all day on Saturdays and peak at about 221 an hour in the 11 p.m. hour; the midnight hour on Sunday is almost as busy (about 211). On weekdays the top hour is 8 a.m., with about 198 pickups.
Where do trips from Ocean Hill go?
Mostly to nearby Brooklyn zones. Crown Heights North takes 10.1% of pickups, Brownsville 8.1%, and 7.9% stay inside Ocean Hill. Only 3.1% of app pickups were charged the Manhattan congestion fee.
Is there a taxi stand or relief stand in Ocean Hill?
Not in DOT's open data as of October 12, 2026. The sign data shows one 'TAXI/FHV PICK-UP/DROP-OFF ONLY' location on Truxton Street between Sackman Street and Van Sinderen Avenue. Always follow the posted sign.
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 Open Data: Parking Regulation Locations and Signs (DOT, nfid-uabd) 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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