Riverdale Taxi Zone 200: Trips, Peak Hours & Driver Pay

Riverdale/North Riverdale/Fieldston (TLC zone 200) is a weekday, commuter-style zone at the north-west corner of the Bronx. From September 2025 to August 2026, 552,665 trips started here (about 1,514 a day) and 526,358 ended here. Uber and Lyft did 99% of pickups. App trips from here are longer and pay more per trip than in almost any other Bronx zone, and 8.5% of app pickups paid the Congestion Relief Zone fee, the highest share in the borough.

Source: TLC trip records (yellow, green, Uber and Lyft), summed by TLC Help. Car-service trips booked directly with a black car or livery base are not in these files, so the real total for Riverdale may be higher.

Riverdale at a glance

TLC's lookup table puts zone 200 in the Bronx with the service_zone label "Boro Zone". That label is only for data; it is not a legal line. TLC's zone map shows two land neighbours: Spuyten Duyvil/Kingsbridge to the south and Van Cortlandt Park to the east. By pickups it is a mid-to-small zone, 34th of the Bronx's 43 zones.

A weekday morning zone

The busiest hour is 8 a.m. on weekdays, with about 137 pickups, and 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. come next (about 114 each). A weekday averages about 1,597 pickups. Saturday drops to about 1,409 and Sunday to 1,205. Only one Bronx zone, Van Nest/Morris Park, loses more of its trips at the weekend. Late nights are quiet: just 3.9% of weekday pickups start between midnight and 5 a.m.

Over the year, May 2026 was the busiest month (50,938 pickups) and July 2026 the quietest (40,697). Yellow pickups fell from 588 in May to 236 in June and stayed near that level through August. The trip files do not say why.

Where trips go

Almost three in ten trips stay very local: 14.8% end inside Riverdale and 14.4% in Spuyten Duyvil/Kingsbridge next door. The third-biggest destination is "Outside NYC" (12.6%). In TLC data this is zone 265, and it does not say which county or state. Van Cortlandt Village is fourth (2.9%), and upper Manhattan follows close behind: Washington Heights South (2.8%), Inwood (2.7%) and Washington Heights North (2.4%). LaGuardia Airport is 10th with 1.4%.

Arrivals mostly come from the same places. Spuyten Duyvil/Kingsbridge is the top origin (16.6% of drop-offs), and 1.8% of drop-offs come from Upper West Side North.

Fares and driver pay from Riverdale

The median app trip from here is 4.51 miles and 14.9 minutes, with a $19.53 fare. The median driver pay is $16.85, second in the Bronx. Pay per engaged hour is $70.31, but that only counts time with a rider on board, so real hourly earnings are lower. App riders here tip more than in most of the Bronx: 5.4% of the fare, against about 1.7% in the middle Bronx zone.

The few yellow trips are long: median 9.6 miles and a $36.50 metered fare. Yellow cabs drop off far more often than they pick up here (19,291 drop-offs against 5,389 pickups).

About 1 in 12 app trips from Riverdale was charged the Congestion Relief Zone fee, the MTA charge for the area of Manhattan at and below 60th Street. Riders pay it per trip: as of 2026-10-12 it is $1.50 on an app trip and $0.75 in a taxi or green cab (MTA). See congestion zone boundaries.

Pickup rules in zone 200

All of the Bronx is in TLC's Hail Zone (Chapter 51 defines it as everywhere in NYC except Manhattan below East 96th/West 110th Street and the airports). So yellow cabs and green cabs may both take street hails here. Uber, Lyft and other FHV drivers may only take trips booked through their base or app (80-19(c)(1)).

Because so many trips leave the city, two rules matter here. Under Chapter 80, a taxi or green cab driver must not refuse a rider going to Westchester or Nassau (80-20(a)(1)). One allowed reason is that you have driven more than 8 hours in a 24-hour period. On those trips the meter stays on, and the part outside the city is charged at twice the meter. Tell the rider when you cross the city line (80-17(f)(2)). Details: taxi trips outside NYC and tolls on trips outside NYC.

DOT's relief-stand dataset lists no relief stand in zone 200, and we found no current taxi-stand sign records here (both checked 2026-10-12). The nearest listed relief stand is on West 231st Street in Spuyten Duyvil/Kingsbridge. For the full list, see relief stands.