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Red Hook (TLC zone 195) is a low-volume zone with long, well-paid trips. In the 12 months to August 2026, 525,584 trips started here (about 1,440 a day), 46th of 61 Brooklyn zones. But the median app trip paid the driver $19.78, the highest of any Brooklyn zone, and 17.7% of app pickups were charged the Manhattan congestion fee, three times the Brooklyn zone median.
The figures come from TLC trip records for yellow taxis, green cabs and high-volume app services (Uber, Lyft), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026, aggregated by TLC Help.
Red Hook at a glance
TLC lists zone 195 in Brooklyn as a "Boro Zone". That is a data label from TLC's lookup table, not a legal line. The zone has only four land neighbors in TLC's map: Carroll Gardens, Columbia Street, Gowanus and Sunset Park West.
The sector mix is less one-sided than in most of Brooklyn. Yellow taxis had 3.2% of pickups (10th highest in Brooklyn), and green cabs had 2,165 pickups, 7th in the borough. Apps still did 96.4%.
When rides start
Red Hook is a weekend zone. A Saturday averages about 2,114 pickups, against about 1,250 on a weekday. On Saturdays, pickups stay high from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. (160–172 an hour), with the peak in the 6 p.m. hour.
Sunday has a pattern few Brooklyn zones share: its busiest hour is 9 a.m., with about 119 pickups. Sunday drop-offs peak at 11 a.m., and Saturday drop-offs at 2 p.m., so riders come in during the day and leave later. Weekdays peak at 6 p.m. (about 90 pickups). Nights are quiet: in the 3, 4 and 5 a.m. hours, every day of the week averages fewer than 20 pickups an hour.
Month by month
Demand is seasonal. September to October 2025 and April to May 2026 were the busy stretches (up to 48,793 pickups in May). February 2026 was the quietest month, with 38,569. Green cab pickups shrank through the year, from 318 in September 2025 to 75 in August 2026.
Where trips go
Trips from Red Hook spread out more than in most Brooklyn zones. The top ten destinations take only 38.7% of pickups, and only 3.8% of trips stay inside the zone. The leaders are nearby brownstone zones:
- Carroll Gardens: 7.4%
- Park Slope: 6.2%
- Boerum Hill: 4.4%
- Sunset Park West: 3.8%
- Brooklyn Heights: 3.6%
The rest go farther, including into Manhattan. That is why the congestion-fee share is high. More trips end here (553,643) than start here (525,584).
Fares, trip length and driver pay
The median app trip is 4.34 miles and 20 minutes, with a $23.83 fare (3rd highest in Brooklyn). Driver pay per trip is the borough's best, at $19.78. Tips equal 5.2% of app fares, and the average tip is $1.54.
Yellow trips are long too: a median of 6.43 miles and $33.80 on the meter, with card tips at 11% of fares. Green cab pickups here are the longest of the three sectors (median 7.65 miles), and 13.2% of them went to an airport. That rests on only 2,165 trips.
Congestion charges and pickup rules
The trip itself starts outside every Manhattan pricing line, so the charges depend on where the trip goes:
- MTA Congestion Relief Zone: if the trip enters Manhattan at or below 60th Street, the passenger pays $1.50 per app trip or $0.75 per taxi trip (as of 2026-10-12, MTA). See congestion zone boundaries.
- NYS congestion surcharge: trips that begin, end or pass through Manhattan south of 96th Street add $2.75 per for-hire trip or $2.50 per yellow taxi trip, as of 2026-10-12 (NYS Tax).
Red Hook is in TLC's Hail Zone (Chapter 51), so green cabs may take hails here. They may not take hails after dropping off in Manhattan below East 96th or West 110th Street. App drivers must stick to base-dispatched trips everywhere. See who can pick up where. This is general information, not legal advice.
Stands: DOT's data lists no relief stand or taxi-stand sign in zone 195 (checked October 12, 2026).
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.
- Red Hook: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 195 (Red Hook, 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.
- Red Hook: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 195, 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.
- Red Hook: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 195 (Red Hook, Brooklyn) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Red Hook: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 195, 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 525,584 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Red Hook: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 195, 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 553,643 drop-offs.
- Red Hook: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 195, 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).
- Red Hook: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 195 (Red Hook, 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
Do Uber and Lyft drivers earn more per trip from Red Hook?
Per trip, yes. The median app driver pay on trips starting in zone 195 was $19.78 (before tips and tolls), the highest of Brooklyn's 61 zones; the Brooklyn zone median is $13.90. Trips are longer (median 4.34 miles), and there are fewer of them: about 1,440 pickups a day.
How many trips from Red Hook go into Manhattan's congestion zone?
17.7% of app pickups and 31.9% of yellow pickups were charged the MTA Congestion Relief Zone fee, which applies when a trip enters Manhattan at or below 60th Street. The Brooklyn zone median for app pickups is 5.9%.
Do green cabs work in Red Hook?
Some do. There were 2,165 green cab pickups in 12 months, about 6 a day, which ranks Red Hook 7th of 61 Brooklyn zones for green pickups. Green cab counts fell during the year, from 318 in September 2025 to 75 in August 2026.
When is Red Hook busiest?
Saturday late afternoon and evening, with about 172 pickups in the 6 p.m. hour. Sunday is unusual: its busiest hour is 9 a.m. (about 119 pickups).
Sources
Last reviewed against the official sources on .
- NYC TLC Trip Record Data nyc.gov
- TLC Taxi Zone Lookup Table d37ci6vzurychx.cloudfront.net
- MTA: Congestion Relief Zone taxi and FHV tolls mta.info
- NYS Department of Taxation and Finance: Congestion surcharge tax.ny.gov
- TLC Rules Chapter 51: Definitions (PDF) nyc.gov
- 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
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