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Taxi zone 207, "Saint Michaels Cemetery/Woodside", is where TLC's Woodside inspection facility (24-55 BQE West) sits on TLC's zone map. As a place to find rides it is small, about 140 pickups a day. Its numbers are unusual. Pickups spike at the same hours every day of the week, app trips are the shortest and lowest-paid in Queens, and the few yellow taxi trips have a $60 median fare.
The trip numbers come from TLC trip records (yellow taxis, green cabs, and high-volume app trips such as Uber and Lyft), September 2025 to August 2026, totaled by TLC Help. The facility address is from TLC's locations page, placed on TLC's zone map with NYC's address geocoder; it sits near the line with zone 260, so the trips of people visiting the facility may be recorded in either zone.
Zone 207 at a glance
The zone touches Astoria (7), Jackson Heights (129), Steinway (223) and Woodside (260) on TLC's map. Don't mix it up with zone 260, which TLC simply calls "Woodside". Both carry the "Boro Zone" label, a data category rather than a legal line.
If you are going to the facility for an inspection, decals or a hack-up, see the Woodside facility guide for phone numbers, hours and what to bring.
The same spikes every day
On weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays alike, pickups jump to about 16 an hour at 4 a.m., stay high at 5 a.m., then rise again around 10–11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Between the spikes the zone sees only 2–7 pickups an hour. 18.4% of the week's pickups start between midnight and 5 a.m., a high share for Queens.
A pattern this regular, with weekends matching weekdays, looks schedule-driven. The trip records do not say what causes it, so don't plan your shift on a guess about it.
Month by month
Total pickups stayed between about 3,550 and 4,960 a month. Yellow taxis were the moving part: about 200–330 pickups a month until April 2026, then 1,042 in May 2026, falling back to 446–669 over the summer.
Where trips go
Trips scatter into the surrounding neighborhoods: Steinway 13.1%, Woodside and Jackson Heights 10.3% each, Elmhurst 8.7% and Astoria 8.3%. Only 6.2% stay inside the zone. Almost no app trips (0.7%) go to an airport, the lowest share in Queens.
Fares and pay
App trips are tiny: 1.83 miles, 9.5 minutes, a $12.34 fare and $9.01 driver pay at the median, all the lowest in Queens outside the airports. Pay per engaged hour ($61.11) is near the Queens middle, because trips are quick. The hourly figure ignores time spent waiting, so real earnings per hour are lower.
Yellow taxis made 4,751 pickups (9.3%, 3rd-highest share in Queens). Their median trip was 6.01 miles with a $60.00 metered fare, and card riders tipped 17.6%. The data alone cannot explain the high fare.
Rules here
- Zone 207 is in TLC's Hail Zone (Chapter 51). App and other FHV drivers may only pick up trips dispatched by their base (80-19(c)(1); who can pick up where).
- There is no relief stand inside zone 207 in DOT's data, but two are about half a mile from its edge: 28th Avenue in Astoria and 64th Street in Woodside, both open to taxis and FHVs (relief stands guide).
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.
- Saint Michaels Cemetery/Woodside: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 207 (Saint Michaels Cemetery/Woodside, 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.
- Saint Michaels Cemetery/Woodside: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 207, 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.
- Saint Michaels Cemetery/Woodside: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 207 (Saint Michaels Cemetery/Woodside, Queens) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Saint Michaels Cemetery/Woodside: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 207, 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 51,227 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Saint Michaels Cemetery/Woodside: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 207, 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 55,763 drop-offs.
- Saint Michaels Cemetery/Woodside: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 207, 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).
- Saint Michaels Cemetery/Woodside: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 207 (Saint Michaels Cemetery/Woodside, 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
Is TLC's Woodside inspection facility in this zone?
Yes. TLC lists its Woodside facility at 24-55 BQE West, Woodside, NY 11377. Geocoded with NYC's address search, that address falls inside taxi zone 207 on TLC's zone map, close to its border with zone 260 (Woodside).
How many rides start in zone 207?
Few. TLC trip records show 51,227 pickups from September 2025 to August 2026, about 140 a day. That ranks 61st of the 67 Queens zones outside the airports.
Why is app pay so low from this zone?
App trips from here are very short: a median of 1.83 miles and 9.5 minutes. Median driver pay is $9.01 per trip, the lowest of the 67 non-airport Queens zones.
What is unusual about the hours here?
Pickups spike at the same times every day of the week, weekends included: around 4–5 a.m., 10–11 a.m. and 1–2 p.m. The trip data does not say what causes this.
Sources
Last reviewed against the official sources on .
- NYC TLC Trip Record Data nyc.gov
- TLC Taxi Zone Lookup Table d37ci6vzurychx.cloudfront.net
- TLC: TLC Locations nyc.gov
- 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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