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Soundview/Castle Hill (TLC zone 213) is the hub of the southeast Bronx. It is the top destination for trips from four nearby zones, and with 1,303,029 pickups in the 12 months to August 2026 (about 3,570 a day) it ranks 5th of 43 Bronx zones. Weekends here are a daytime business, and late-night trips are less common than in most of the borough.
Uber and Lyft accounted for 1,287,102 pickups, yellow taxis 15,577 and green cabs 350, in TLC Help's totals of TLC trip records. The records do not include black car and livery trips that no high-volume app dispatched.
Soundview/Castle Hill at a glance
On TLC's map, zone 213 has five neighbors: Crotona Park East (60), Hunts Point (126), Schuylerville/Edgewater Park (208), Soundview/Bruckner (212) and Westchester Village/Unionport (250). Only four Bronx zones had more pickups (Bronx ranking). TLC calls it a "Boro Zone"; the label is for data only.
The hub of the southeast Bronx
Look at the zones around it. Soundview/Castle Hill is the number one destination for trips starting in Soundview/Bruckner (12.4% of their pickups), Westchester Village/Unionport (10.5%), Hunts Point (8.7%) and West Farms/Bronx River (7.0%). The trip records show this pattern but not its cause.
From here, 13.2% of trips stay in the zone. Then come Hunts Point (7.1%), Soundview/Bruckner (7.0%), Westchester Village/Unionport (5.8%) and Schuylerville/Edgewater Park (4.7%). The top ten destinations hold 52.6% of pickups, a tight local pattern.
Daytime weekends
Weekdays peak at 8 a.m. (about 276 pickups), and weekday drop-offs peak at 5 p.m. (about 243): people leave in the morning and come back in the afternoon.
Weekends are different from most Bronx zones. Saturday pickups are about level at 3 p.m., 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. (about 225 each). Sunday's top hour is 3 p.m. (189). Only 12.3% of Sunday pickups start between midnight and 5 a.m., against 17.2% in the middle Bronx zone. Only seven Bronx zones have a lower share.
Month by month
Pickups ranged from 90,500 in September 2025 to 124,103 in March 2026. December 2025 was also strong (115,684). In summer 2026 they held near 108,000 to 109,000 a month. Yellow taxis made 15,577 pickups in the year, the 5th-most in the Bronx, but only about 570 to 590 a month from June to August.
Fares and pay
App trips from here go a bit further than in the west Bronx: a median of 3.3 miles in 13.2 minutes, with a $15.48 fare and $13.73 median driver pay, slightly above the Bronx middle ($13.50). App riders tip 1.5% of the fare. The median yellow trip is 6.9 miles and $30.50. Just 2.6% of app pickups paid the MTA Congestion Relief Zone fee, lower than in most Bronx zones.
Pickup rules and breaks
- Hail Zone: zone 213 is in TLC's Hail Zone (Chapter 51). Yellow and green cabs may take hails.
- App drivers must take only trips dispatched through their base (80-19(c)(1)).
- Relief stands: DOT lists none in the zone (checked October 2026). The closest are the 2-space taxi/FHV stand on Metropolitan Avenue (Parkchester) and the 2-space taxi-only stand on Bronx River Avenue (West Farms), each just under a mile from the zone's edge in a straight line. Follow the vehicle type on the sign (80-19(d)(7)).
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.
- Soundview/Castle Hill: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 213 (Soundview/Castle Hill, Bronx) 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.
- Soundview/Castle Hill: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 213, 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.
- Soundview/Castle Hill: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 213 (Soundview/Castle Hill, Bronx) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Soundview/Castle Hill: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 213, 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 1,303,029 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Soundview/Castle Hill: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 213, 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 1,269,613 drop-offs.
- Soundview/Castle Hill: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 213, 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).
- Soundview/Castle Hill: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 213 (Soundview/Castle Hill, Bronx) 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 busy is Soundview/Castle Hill?
Very busy. TLC trip records show 1,303,029 pickups in zone 213 from September 2025 to August 2026, about 3,570 a day, 5th of 43 Bronx zones. 1,287,102 were app trips.
Why do so many trips from nearby zones end here?
The data shows it, but not the reason. Soundview/Castle Hill is the single most common destination for trips from Soundview/Bruckner, Westchester Village/Unionport, West Farms/Bronx River and Hunts Point. 13.2% of its own pickups also end inside the zone.
When are weekends busiest here?
In the daytime. Saturday pickups are highest at 3, 4 and 8 p.m. (about 225 each), and Sunday's top hour is 3 p.m. (about 189). Only 12.3% of Sunday pickups start between midnight and 5 a.m., against 17.2% in the middle Bronx zone.
Is there a relief stand in Soundview/Castle Hill?
Not according to NYC DOT's relief-stand data, checked in October 2026. The closest listed stands are on Metropolitan Avenue in Parkchester (taxi/FHV) and Bronx River Avenue in West Farms (taxi only), each a little under a mile from the zone's edge.
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
- TLC Rules Chapter 51: Definitions (PDF) nyc.gov
- TLC Rules Chapter 80: Rules Applicable to All Drivers (PDF) nyc.gov
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