Soundview/Bruckner Taxi Zone (212): Trips, Hours & Fares

Soundview/Bruckner (TLC zone 212) is tied to its southern neighbor: one in eight trips from here (12.4%) ends in Soundview/Castle Hill. About 2,010 trips a day start here (733,798 in the 12 months to August 2026), 25th of 43 Bronx zones. Trips are quick and cheap: the median app fare is $14.39, one of the lowest in the Bronx. DOT's records show a taxi stand sign at Hugh Grant Circle, from a sign order completed in 2026.

App trips were 725,425 of the pickups, yellow taxis 8,202 and green cabs 171, by TLC Help's count of TLC trip records. Livery and black car trips booked outside Uber and Lyft are not part of that data.

Soundview/Bruckner at a glance

Zone 212 has six neighbors on TLC's map: Crotona Park East (60), Hunts Point (126), Parkchester (182), Soundview/Castle Hill (213), West Farms/Bronx River (248) and Westchester Village/Unionport (250). The "Boro Zone" label in TLC's lookup table is just a data category.

When rides start and end

Weekday pickups peak at 8 a.m. (about 145) and 9 a.m. (124). Weekday drop-offs are spread through the afternoon, with the most at 5 p.m. (about 105). On Saturdays, pickups are highest at 7 and 8 p.m. (about 126 each), and drop-offs at 10 p.m. (140).

Late Sunday is busy for arrivals. The top Sunday drop-off hour is midnight (about 142), followed by 1 a.m. (105), and 22.7% of Sunday drop-offs happen between midnight and 5 a.m. Sunday pickups also peak at midnight (106).

A big gap between fall and spring

Pickups were lowest in September 2025 (49,684) and highest in March 2026 (69,176), 1.39 times as many. Only three Bronx zones swung more over the year. From June to August 2026, pickups settled near 60,000 to 62,000 a month. Yellow taxis made about 400 pickups a month that summer, down from 700 to 950 earlier.

Where trips go

Soundview/Castle Hill takes 12.4% of pickups and supplies 13.4% of drop-offs. After that the list is flat: trips inside the zone and Hunts Point (5.1% each), then Westchester Village/Unionport and West Farms/Bronx River (4.1% each).

Fares and pay

App trips here are 3.02 miles in 12.3 minutes, quick for the Bronx. That keeps the median fare low ($14.39) and median driver pay at $12.76, 37th of 42 Bronx zones. Measured per engaged hour, though, pay is $62.94, near the Bronx middle, because each trip takes less time. (Engaged hours leave out waiting and driving to pickups.) App riders tip 1.4% of the fare. Yellow trips have a median of 6.1 miles and $28.12, and 8.0% of them paid the MTA Congestion Relief Zone fee.

The Hugh Grant Circle taxi stand and pickup rules

DOT's current sign records (nfid-uabd, checked October 2026) show two "taxi hailing (symbol) taxi stand" signs on the north side of Hugh Grant Circle, recorded as running from Westchester Square to Westchester Avenue. The sign order was completed on March 28, 2026. Check the signs on the street before you rely on them.

• Yellow taxis and green cabs may use a taxi stand in the Hail Zone. The first two cars must stay in the driver's seat (80-19(d)(6)). Green cabs must not cruise within 100 feet of a stand (80-19(b)(2)(ii)).
• App and FHV drivers may not pick up at a taxi stand (80-19(d)(2)) and may only take base-dispatched trips (80-19(c)(1)).
• The whole zone is in TLC's Hail Zone (Chapter 51).

DOT lists no relief stand in zone 212. The nearest is the 2-space taxi/FHV stand on Metropolitan Avenue in Parkchester, about half a mile from the zone's edge. Details: taxi stand rules.