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Rockaway Park, TLC taxi zone 201, is a summer and weekend zone on the Rockaway Peninsula. Over the 12 months to August 2026 it averaged about 525 pickups a day, 191,535 in all, 60th of Queens' 69 zones. Pickups almost doubled from February (11,853) to July (22,898), and Saturday is by far the busiest day. App trips here pay more than in most of Queens, and two bridges with special TLC toll rules connect the peninsula to the rest of the city.
Rockaway Park at a glance (zone 201)
TLC's lookup table lists zone 201 as a Queens "Boro Zone", a trip-data label and not a legal line. On the TLC map it touches Hammels/Arverne to the east and Breezy Point/Fort Tilden/Riis Beach to the west. Slightly more trips end here (195,764) than start here.
Summer and Saturday night
Pickups ran 11,853–15,661 a month from September 2025 to April 2026, then rose to 17,194 in May, 19,207 in June and 22,898 in July. Drop-offs moved the same way.
Within the week, Saturday leads with about 749 pickups, and its busiest hour is 7 p.m. (about 52). Sunday's busiest hour is midnight, and 27.9% of Sunday pickups start between midnight and 5 a.m., so Saturday nights run late. Weekdays peak at 5 p.m.
Where trips go
27.9% of trips stay in Rockaway Park and 19.3% go to Hammels/Arverne. Far Rockaway (5.9%), Breezy Point (4.8%), JFK (4.1%) and Broad Channel (3%) follow. Two Brooklyn zones reached over the Marine Parkway Bridge make the top ten: Marine Park/Mill Basin (2.1%) and Sheepshead Bay (1.1%). 3.1% of app pickups paid the Congestion Relief Zone charge. Trips into Rockaway Park come from the same places: 27.3% start inside the zone, 22.4% in Hammels/Arverne and 6.3% in Far Rockaway, with JFK sending 3.4%.
Sectors and pay
App rides were 188,664 of the pickups (98.5%), with 2,860 yellow and 11 green. Some rides cross the bridges to Brooklyn and Queens, and the median app ride is 3.46 miles and 13.3 minutes, with a $19.39 fare and $15.67 driver pay before tips, 15th in Queens. Pay per engaged hour was $71.54, 7th in Queens, but it does not count the time it takes to get out to the peninsula. Riders tipped 5.1% ($1.56 on average). The median yellow trip was 10.9 miles and $40.50.
Bridges, tolls and a place to park
Two MTA bridges connect the peninsula to the rest of the city. The Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge has Floyd Bennett Field and Flatbush Avenue on its Brooklyn side (MTA); the Cross Bay Bridge leads to Broad Channel and the rest of Queens. TLC rules (§58-26(f)(1), §59A-23(b)(1)):
- Onto the peninsula (Brooklyn over Marine Parkway, or Queens over Cross Bay): the passenger pays two times the toll.
- Off the peninsula over either bridge: the passenger pays no toll.
No relief stand is inside zone 201, but DOT's data lists a Taxi/FHV relief stand (3 spaces, 1-hour limit) on Rockaway Beach Boulevard at Beach 91st–92nd Street, about 0.1 mile over the line in Hammels/Arverne (checked 2026-10-12). Rockaway Park is in the Hail Zone (Chapter 51); app drivers need a base booking (80-19(c)(1)). More: Marine Parkway Bridge.
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.
- Rockaway Park: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 201 (Rockaway Park, Queens) 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.
- Rockaway Park: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 201, 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.
- Rockaway Park: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 201 (Rockaway Park, Queens) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Rockaway Park: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 201, 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 191,535 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Rockaway Park: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 201, 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 195,764 drop-offs.
- Rockaway Park: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 201, 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).
- Rockaway Park: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 201 (Rockaway Park, Queens) 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 Rockaway Park?
TLC trip records show 191,535 pickups in zone 201 from September 2025 to August 2026, about 525 a day, 60th of Queens' 69 zones. Slightly more trips ended here (195,764).
Is Rockaway Park busier in summer?
Much busier. Pickups went from 11,853 in February 2026 to 22,898 in July 2026, almost double. June to August had 54.7% more pickups than September to November 2025.
What do app trips from Rockaway Park pay?
The median app trip was 3.46 miles with $15.67 driver pay before tips, 15th in Queens. Pay per engaged hour was $71.54 (7th in Queens) and riders tipped 5.1% of the fare, $1.56 on average. Engaged-hour pay leaves out waiting time.
Who pays the toll from Brooklyn to Rockaway Park?
On a taxi or FHV trip from Brooklyn over the Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge to the Rockaway Peninsula, TLC rules say the passenger pays two times the toll. Leaving the peninsula over that bridge, the passenger pays none.
Sources
Last reviewed against the official sources on .
- NYC TLC Trip Record Data nyc.gov
- TLC Taxi Zone Lookup Table d37ci6vzurychx.cloudfront.net
- MTA: Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge mta.info
- MTA: Tolls by vehicle type mta.info
- TLC Rules, Chapter 58 (Taxicab Owners), §58-26 nyc.gov
- TLC Rules, Chapter 59 (For-Hire Vehicles), §59A-23 nyc.gov
- TLC Rules, Chapter 51 (Definitions) nyc.gov
- NYC Open Data: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands (DOT, vqu8-xef9) data.cityofnewyork.us
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