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Ocean Parkway South (TLC zone 178) is a small zone whose riders mostly cross into the zones beside it. In the 12 months to August 2026, 266,909 trips started here, about 731 a day, and more of them ended in Homecrest (15.3%) than inside the zone (5.6%). Trips are short, Saturdays are very quiet, and winter months are far busier than summer.
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 outside the high-volume services are not included.
Ocean Parkway South at a glance
TLC's zone lookup calls zone 178 a Brooklyn "Boro Zone", a label for data, not a legal line. Its five neighbors on TLC's zone map are Bensonhurst East, Borough Park, Flatbush/Ditmas Park, Homecrest and Midwood.
Apps carried 99.0% of pickups. Yellow taxis had 2,641 pickups but more than twice as many drop-offs (5,702). Green cabs had 38 pickups, so every green monthly count is too small to publish.
When rides start
Weekdays average about 801 pickups. The 8 a.m. hour is the peak (about 72), then 9 a.m. (about 64). After that the day is flat, about 41–52 an hour until 6 p.m.
Saturday averages about 432 pickups, 54% of a weekday. Only Borough Park has a lower Saturday ratio in Brooklyn. Saturday's busiest hour is 8 p.m. (about 35).
Sunday (about 683 pickups) is steady from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., near 37–41 an hour.
The zone is also quiet at night: about 5.3% of the week's pickups happen between midnight and 5 a.m., second-lowest in Brooklyn.
Month by month
The seasonal swing is one of the widest in Brooklyn. February 2026 was the top month (28,884 pickups), and December to March all passed 26,000. July 2026 was the low (15,851), a little over half of February's count. Peak to low, only two Brooklyn zones swing more.
Yellow pickups were about 190 to 345 a month through May 2026, then 45–64 a month from June to August. The trip records do not explain that drop.
Where trips go
- Homecrest: 15.3%
- Midwood: 12.1%
- Borough Park: 10.5%
- Ocean Parkway South itself: 5.6%
- Madison: 5.5%
- Bensonhurst East: 5.4%
The three big neighbors take 38% of pickups. Trips ending here come from them too: Homecrest 15.3%, Midwood 12.4%, Borough Park 10.6%.
Fares, trip length and driver pay
The median app trip is just 1.81 miles and 11.9 minutes, with a $13.46 fare. Median driver pay is $10.72 before tips and tolls, 57th of 61 in Brooklyn. Tips are 2.8% of the fare, $0.55 on average.
2.1% of app pickups went to an airport and 4.1% were charged the Manhattan toll-zone fee. Yellow taxi trips from here had a $23.50 median fare over 3.64 miles, tied with Borough Park for the lowest in Brooklyn.
The Avenue P taxi stand and pickup rules
DOT's sign data shows a TAXI STAND sign on the north side of Avenue P between East 2nd Street and McDonald Avenue (nfid-uabd, checked October 12, 2026). By TLC's zone map it sits right on the edge of zone 178, next to Homecrest. DOT lists no relief stand here (vqu8-xef9).
At a taxi stand, yellow taxis, and green cabs in the Hail Zone, may take any open spot (80-19(d)(1)). App and other for-hire drivers must not pick up there (80-19(d)(2)). Taxi drivers must not cruise for hails within 100 feet of it (80-19(a)(4)(ii)) (Chapter 80).
The whole zone is in TLC's Hail Zone: yellow and green cabs can take street hails, while app drivers need a base dispatch for every rider. On trips into Manhattan at or below 60th Street, riders 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.
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 Parkway South: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 178 (Ocean Parkway South, 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 Parkway South: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 178, 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 Parkway South: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 178 (Ocean Parkway South, Brooklyn) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Ocean Parkway South: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 178, 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 266,909 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Ocean Parkway South: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 178, 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 256,690 drop-offs.
- Ocean Parkway South: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 178, 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 Parkway South: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 178 (Ocean Parkway South, 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 the Ocean Parkway South zone?
It is one of Brooklyn's smaller zones: about 731 pickups a day, 56th of 61. In the 12 months to August 2026, 266,909 trips started in zone 178, and apps did 264,230 of them.
Where do trips from Ocean Parkway South go?
Mostly next door. Homecrest takes 15.3% of pickups, Midwood 12.1% and Borough Park 10.5%. Only 5.6% end inside the zone itself.
Is there a taxi stand in zone 178?
DOT's sign data (checked October 12, 2026) shows a TAXI STAND sign on Avenue P between East 2nd Street and McDonald Avenue. It sits right at the zone's edge next to Homecrest.
When is it busiest?
Weekday mornings, led by the 8 a.m. hour (about 72 pickups). Saturdays are quiet: about 432 pickups against 801 on a weekday, the second-lowest Saturday ratio in Brooklyn.
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: Parking Regulation Locations and Signs (DOT, nfid-uabd) data.cityofnewyork.us
- NYC Open Data: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands (DOT, vqu8-xef9) 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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