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Rossville/Woodrow (taxi zone 204) is small, about 197 pickups a day, but it is Staten Island's airport zone. 4.8% of its app pickups go to an airport, the highest share on the island, and Newark Airport alone takes 4.1% of all trips. Trips are fairly quick, so pay per hour with a rider is the 2nd-highest on Staten Island.
These numbers come from TLC trip records (yellow taxis, green cabs, Uber and Lyft) for September 2025 to August 2026, counted by TLC Help. Black car and livery trips not run by an app company are not included.
Zone 204 at a glance
Rossville/Woodrow borders four zones on TLC's map: Arden Heights (5), Charleston/Tottenville (44), Eltingville/Annadale/Prince's Bay (84) and Freshkills Park (99). TLC marks it "Boro Zone". That word is a data label, not a legal boundary (taxi zones explained).
Rankings "of 19" leave out Great Kills Park (zone 110), which had only 540 pickups.
When rides start
The busiest hour is 8 a.m. on weekdays, with about 17 pickups. Weekday afternoons hold at 10–13 an hour. Saturday has more trips overall (about 234, against about 194 on a weekday) and peaks at about 16 at 7 p.m. Sunday is the quietest day, at about 169. Its busiest hour is midnight, the tail of Saturday night.
Steady growth over the year
App pickups rose from 5,145 in September 2025 to a high of 6,553 in June 2026, about 27% more. Most Staten Island zones peaked in March instead. August 2026 was 6,024. Yellow taxis made 24 pickups in the whole year but 286 drop-offs. Green cabs made no pickups at all.
Where trips go: south shore and New Jersey
More trips go to Charleston/Tottenville (18.1%) than stay in Rossville/Woodrow (13.9%). Eltingville/Annadale/Prince's Bay is close behind (13.2%). Then come Arden Heights (6.8%) and Great Kills (6.4%). Two out-of-state lines are high for Staten Island: Newark Airport (4.1%) and other places outside New York City (4.0%). No other Staten Island zone sends a bigger share of its trips to Newark Airport.
Tolls on New Jersey trips
Port Authority bridges and tunnels charge tolls only when entering New York, not when leaving. So on a Newark or New Jersey trip, you meet the toll on the way back. The car toll is $14.79 off-peak or $16.79 peak with a NY/NJ E-ZPass, $19.55 Mid-Tier and $23.30 by mail. Peak is weekdays 6–10 a.m. and 4–8 p.m., and weekends 11 a.m.–9 p.m. (rates as of October 12, 2026; Port Authority). Which bridge you use depends on your route: see the Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge pages, and who pays the return toll from Newark.
Fares and pay
The median app trip is 3.73 miles in 12.0 minutes, with a $17.70 fare and $13.70 driver pay before tips. Because trips move quickly, pay per engaged hour is $78.85, 2nd of 19 on the island after Charleston/Tottenville. Engaged time leaves out the drive to each pickup and time waiting, so this is not your hourly earnings. Riders tipped 5.7% of the fare, and the average tip of $1.65 is the highest of the 19 island zones compared.
Pickup rules
- Street hails are legal here only for yellow taxis and green cabs. The whole island is in TLC's Hail Zone (Chapter 51).
- App and other FHV drivers must take only base-dispatched trips. A first 80-19(c)(1) violation is $200–$350 (Chapter 80). More in who can pick up where.
- Breaks: DOT lists no relief stand on Staten Island (vqu8-xef9, 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.
- Rossville/Woodrow: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 204 (Rossville/Woodrow, Staten Island) 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.
- Rossville/Woodrow: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 204, 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.
- Rossville/Woodrow: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 204 (Rossville/Woodrow, Staten Island) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Rossville/Woodrow: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 204, 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 71,710 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Rossville/Woodrow: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 204, 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 68,277 drop-offs.
- Rossville/Woodrow: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 204, 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).
- Rossville/Woodrow: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 204 (Rossville/Woodrow, Staten Island) 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 Rossville/Woodrow?
TLC trip records show 71,710 pickups in Rossville/Woodrow (zone 204) from September 2025 to August 2026, about 197 a day. Only Freshkills Park and Great Kills Park have fewer on Staten Island. Yellow taxis made 24 pickups and green cabs none.
Do many trips from Rossville/Woodrow go to Newark Airport?
Yes, compared with the rest of Staten Island. 4.8% of app pickups went to an airport, the highest share on the island. Newark Airport alone took 4.1% of all pickups, also the highest share of any Staten Island zone.
Who pays the toll on a trip to New Jersey?
Port Authority bridges charge only on the way into New York, so the toll comes on the drive back. For a car it is $14.79 off-peak or $16.79 peak with a NY/NJ E-ZPass and $23.30 by mail (as of October 12, 2026). How the return toll is handled depends on your license type; see our Newark return-toll question page.
Is Rossville/Woodrow a good zone for pay?
Per hour with a rider, it ranks 2nd of 19 Staten Island zones at $78.85, because trips are fairly quick: 3.73 miles in 12 minutes. That counts only time with a rider, not driving to pickups or waiting. Median pay per trip is $13.70 before tips.
When are pickups busiest here?
Weekdays at 8 a.m. (about 17 pickups). A whole Saturday (about 234 pickups) is busier than a weekday (about 194).
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: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands (DOT, vqu8-xef9) data.cityofnewyork.us
- Port Authority of NY & NJ: Tolls panynj.gov
- TLC Rules Chapter 51: Definitions (PDF) nyc.gov
- TLC Rules Chapter 80: Rules Applicable to All Drivers (PDF) nyc.gov
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