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SoHo (TLC zone 211) is busiest in daylight at the weekend, unlike the zones around it. On Saturdays, riders arrive around noon and leave around 6 p.m.; the top Saturday pickup hour is 6 p.m., not midnight. Over the 12 months to August 2026, SoHo had 1,708,254 pickups (about 4,680 a day, 40th in Manhattan), and 78% of them were Uber or Lyft trips.
SoHo at a glance (zone 211)
The TLC lookup table calls zone 211 a "Yellow Zone". That only labels the data; it isn't a legal boundary. SoHo touches four zones: Greenwich Village South, Hudson Sq, Little Italy/NoLiTa and TriBeCa/Civic Center. Canal Street runs along its southern edge.
When rides start and end here
Look at the drop-off chart first. On Saturday, trips ending in SoHo peak at noon (407) and 1 p.m. (400); on Sunday they peak between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Pickups follow a few hours later. Saturday pickups are highest from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. (about 450 to 463 an hour).
Weeknights are earlier than in the Village zones to the north: weekday pickups peak at 7 p.m. (367), and only 6.7% of weekday pickups are between midnight and 5 a.m. Saturday has about 45% more pickups than a weekday (6,298 against 4,342).
The busiest month was September 2025 (154,853 pickups) and the quietest February 2026 (129,955).
Where trips from here go
"Outside NYC" tops the list at 4.5% of pickups, then TriBeCa/Civic Center (4.3%), East Village (4.2%) and West Village (4.0%). The biggest sources of incoming riders are TriBeCa/Civic Center (5.0% of drop-offs), East Village and West Village (4.5% each) and Union Sq (4.2%).
Yellow, green and app
App: 1,328,696 pickups. Yellow: 379,550 (22.2%). Green pickups were between 1 and 9 for the whole year, so the dataset hides the exact number; 409 green trips ended here.
Fares and driver pay
Yellow trips from SoHo move slowly: the median was 1.89 miles but 14.3 minutes, with a $15.60 meter fare ($14.20 is the Manhattan Yellow Zone middle). App trips had a median fare of $27.14 and median driver pay of $18.41. App riders tipped 4.6% of the fare on average ($1.61), below the 5.7% Manhattan middle.
Legal lines
SoHo is entirely inside the MTA Congestion Relief Zone (99.6% of app pickups and 98.8% of yellow pickups were charged). As of 2026-10-12 the rider pays $1.50 per app trip and $0.75 per taxi trip. It is also in the Hail Exclusionary Zone and the 96th Street congestion-surcharge area. Across Canal Street to the south, NYC DOT's Lower Manhattan Regional Slow Zone sets a 20 mph limit; SoHo itself is north of that line.
Stands and practical notes
DOT lists one relief stand in SoHo (checked 2026-10-12): Thompson Street between Grand Street and Avenue of the Americas, west side, 4 spaces, taxis only, 1-hour limit. Because it is signed for taxis, app drivers must look elsewhere; TLC Rule 80-19(d)(7) requires drivers to obey the posted vehicle type. There are no taxi-stand signs in the zone in DOT's sign file. See can Uber drivers use taxi relief stands? and the relief stand finder.
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.
- SoHo: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 211 (SoHo, Manhattan) 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.
- SoHo: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 211, 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.
- SoHo: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 211 (SoHo, Manhattan) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- SoHo: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 211, 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 1,708,254 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- SoHo: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 211, 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 1,582,236 drop-offs.
- SoHo: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 211, 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).
- SoHo: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 211 (SoHo, Manhattan) 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
When is SoHo busiest for pickups?
Saturday late afternoon and early evening. Saturday pickups peak at 6 p.m. (about 463), with 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. close behind. On weekdays the peak is 7 p.m. (about 367).
When do riders arrive in SoHo on weekends?
Around midday. Saturday drop-offs peak at noon and 1 p.m. (about 407 and 400), and Sunday drop-offs peak between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. In all four neighbouring zones, Saturday drop-offs peak at 7 p.m. instead.
Is there a relief stand in SoHo?
DOT lists one (checked 2026-10-12): Thompson Street between Grand Street and Avenue of the Americas, west side, 4 spaces, taxis only, 1-hour limit. App drivers can't use it.
How much do app drivers make per trip from SoHo?
The median driver pay on Uber/Lyft trips starting in SoHo was $18.41 (before tips and tolls), slightly above the $18.14 middle value for Manhattan's Yellow Zone zones. Tips averaged $1.61.
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
- NYC Open Data: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands (DOT, vqu8-xef9) data.cityofnewyork.us
- NYC DOT: Taxi and For-Hire Vehicle Relief Stands nyc.gov
- NYC DOT: Speed limit reductions and Lower Manhattan Regional Slow Zone (Oct 2024) nyc.gov
- TLC Rules, Chapter 80 (Drivers) nyc.gov
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