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Pelham Bay Park (TLC zone 184) is one of the quietest zones in the Bronx, but it changes with the seasons. Over the year it averaged only about 183 pickups a day (66,829 from September 2025 to August 2026). Monthly pickups more than doubled from January (3,750) to June 2026 (8,609), and weekends are much busier than weekdays. Unlike most Bronx zones, more trips end here than start here.
All counts are from TLC's yellow, green and Uber/Lyft trip files for zone 184; direct car-service bookings are not included.
Zone 184 at a glance
TLC lists the zone in the Bronx with the "Boro Zone" data label (a data label, not a legal line). It borders seven zones on TLC's map: Co-op City, Eastchester, Allerton/Pelham Gardens, Van Nest/Morris Park, Pelham Bay, Schuylerville/Edgewater Park and Country Club.
A summer and weekend zone
From November 2025 to March 2026, monthly pickups stayed between 3,750 and 4,646. They rose to 6,395 in May and 8,609 in June, and stayed above 8,000 in July and August. Drop-offs followed the same curve, peaking at 10,689 in July. App trips drove the rise. Yellow cabs stayed at 26–54 pickups a month all year.
The week has the same tilt. An average Saturday has about 256 pickups and a Sunday 213, against 163 on a weekday. On every type of day, pickups build through the afternoon and peak at about 6 p.m. Night trips are rare: under 12% of pickups start between midnight and 5 a.m. on any day type.
Arrivals come earlier in the day. Weekend drop-offs peak around noon to 1 p.m. (about 25–26 an hour), about five hours before the pickup peak. The trip records do not link a rider's arrival to their return, so this is a pattern, not proof. On weekdays drop-offs peak early, at 6–7 a.m.
Where trips go
Co-op City is the top destination (16.7% of pickups) and also the top origin (18.8% of drop-offs). Next come "Outside NYC" (9.6%, TLC zone 265), Schuylerville/Edgewater Park (5.5%), City Island (5.1%) and Pelham Bay (3.8%). Only 3.9% of trips stay inside the zone.
Fares and pay
The median app trip is 3.55 miles in only 11.5 minutes, with a $15.42 fare and $12.98 driver pay (before tips and tolls). Because trips move quickly, pay per engaged hour is $68.21, third in the Bronx. That figure counts only time with a rider; in a zone this quiet, waiting time between trips can be long, and the data does not measure it. App riders tipped 2.8% of the fare, about $0.60 a trip.
The yellow tip-rate cell is blank because there were too few card-paid yellow trips to publish a rate.
Rules here
- Hails: the Bronx is in TLC's Hail Zone (Chapter 51). Yellow and green cabs may take hails; green cabs recorded fewer than 10 pickups here all year.
- App drivers: pre-arranged trips only, through your base or app (80-19(c)(1), Chapter 80). Accepting a ride from someone who waves you down is a street hail, even at a park.
- Stands: DOT lists no relief stand and no taxi stand sign in zone 184 (checked 2026-10-12).
We do not list park entrances or pickup spots because we found no official TLC or Parks source for them. For the general rules, read who can pick up where.
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.
- Pelham Bay Park: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 184 (Pelham Bay Park, 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.
- Pelham Bay Park: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 184, 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.
- Pelham Bay Park: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 184 (Pelham Bay Park, Bronx) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Pelham Bay Park: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 184, 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 66,829 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Pelham Bay Park: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 184, 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 73,538 drop-offs.
- Pelham Bay Park: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 184, 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).
- Pelham Bay Park: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 184 (Pelham Bay Park, 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 many rides start in the Pelham Bay Park zone?
About 183 a day on average. TLC trip records show 66,829 pickups from September 2025 to August 2026, 40th of the Bronx's 43 zones. Uber and Lyft did 66,328 of them, yellow cabs 494, and green cabs fewer than 10.
When is Pelham Bay Park busiest?
Summer weekends. Pickups rose from 3,750 in January 2026 to 8,609 in June 2026. A Saturday averages about 256 pickups against 163 on a weekday, and pickups peak around 6 p.m. on every day type.
Where do riders from Pelham Bay Park go?
Co-op City is the top destination (16.7% of pickups), then 'Outside NYC' (9.6%), Schuylerville/Edgewater Park (5.5%) and City Island (5.1%). Co-op City is also the top origin of trips ending here (18.8%).
Can green cabs pick up in Pelham Bay Park?
Yes, the Bronx is in TLC's Hail Zone, so green cabs may take hails. But almost none do here: green cabs recorded fewer than 10 pickups in the zone in 12 months.
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
- NYC Open Data: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands (DOT, vqu8-xef9) data.cityofnewyork.us
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