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Springfield Gardens North, TLC taxi zone 218, is a middle-sized Queens zone with a strong pull toward JFK. Riders started 567,710 trips here from September 2025 to August 2026, about 1,555 a day, which puts it exactly in the middle of Queens' 69 zones. JFK takes 9.7% of all pickups, second only to Saint Albans, and 10.4% of app pickups went to an airport, 3rd-highest in Queens.
Springfield Gardens North at a glance (zone 218)
TLC's lookup table lists zone 218 as a Queens "Boro Zone", a label used to group trip data and not a legal area. Its four neighbours are Saint Albans, Laurelton, Springfield Gardens South and Baisley Park. It does not touch the JFK zone; Springfield Gardens South lies between them. 475,247 trips ended here, about 92,000 fewer than started.
When rides start here
Weekday mornings lead: about 131 pickups at 8 a.m., with 22.2% of weekday pickups between 7 and 10 a.m. Weekends start late morning and stay flat. Saturday peaks at 3 p.m. (about 88) and Sunday at 10 a.m. (about 79). Saturday and weekdays are about equally busy (roughly 1,600 pickups a day); Sunday is lower (about 1,377).
Where trips go
The top destinations are Saint Albans (10.7%), JFK (9.7%), trips that stay in the zone (9%), Jamaica (8.9%) and places outside New York City (8.8%). Baisley Park (6.5%) and Springfield Gardens South (4.6%) follow. JFK also sends 7.5% of the trips that end here, behind Saint Albans (11.5%), the zone itself (10.8%), Jamaica (9%) and Baisley Park (8.4%). Drop-offs peak at 8 a.m. on weekdays too, and late at night on weekends: 11 p.m. on Saturday and midnight on Sunday. Only 1.1% of app pickups paid the Congestion Relief Zone charge.
Sectors, pay and the yellow drop
Of 557,535 app pickups (98.2%; yellow 9,826, green 349), the median ride was 3.02 miles and 13.2 minutes, for a $16.35 fare and $13.21 to the driver before tips. Pay per engaged hour was $62.57, not counting time between trips. The median app trip here (3.02 miles) is longer than in nearby Laurelton (2.53) or Saint Albans (2.57), and median pay sits above both ($11.47 and $12.40). App riders tipped 1.7% of the fare ($0.36 on average), 67th of 69 Queens zones.
Yellow pickups were 879–1,168 a month from September 2025 to May 2026, then 217, 244 and 199 in June, July and August. Yellow drop-offs here fell much less. The trip records alone don't explain the change; TLC's yellow files also gained a new field in June 2026. The median yellow trip from here is 10.12 miles and 43.4 minutes.
Rules for pickups and airport runs
The zone is in TLC's Hail Zone (Chapter 51): yellow and green cabs may take hails. Uber, Lyft and other FHV drivers need a booking through their base (80-19(c)(1)). Since about one trip in ten from here goes to an airport, remember §80-18(a): right after a trip to JFK, LaGuardia or Newark, check the passenger area and the trunk for anything left behind (Chapter 80; $25 fine). See lost property rules and JFK for drivers. No relief stand or taxi-stand sign was inside zone 218 in DOT data on 2026-10-12.
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.
- Springfield Gardens North: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 218 (Springfield Gardens North, 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.
- Springfield Gardens North: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 218, 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.
- Springfield Gardens North: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 218 (Springfield Gardens North, Queens) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Springfield Gardens North: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 218, 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 567,710 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Springfield Gardens North: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 218, 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 475,247 drop-offs.
- Springfield Gardens North: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 218, 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).
- Springfield Gardens North: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 218 (Springfield Gardens North, 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
How many rides start in Springfield Gardens North?
TLC trip records show 567,710 pickups in zone 218 from September 2025 to August 2026, about 1,555 a day. That is 35th of Queens' 69 zones, exactly the middle.
How many trips go to JFK?
JFK took 9.7% of all pickups, second only to Saint Albans (10.7%). Counting all airports, 10.4% of app pickups went to an airport, 3rd-highest in Queens.
When is Springfield Gardens North busiest?
8 a.m. on weekdays, with about 131 pickups; 22.2% of weekday pickups start between 7 and 10 a.m. Saturday peaks at 3 p.m. and Sunday at 10 a.m.
Do I have to check my car after an airport trip?
Yes. TLC rule 80-18(a) says that right after a trip to JFK, LaGuardia or Newark, the driver must check the passenger area and the trunk (if used) for left items. The fine is $25.
Sources
Last reviewed against the official sources on .
- NYC TLC Trip Record Data nyc.gov
- TLC Taxi Zone Lookup Table d37ci6vzurychx.cloudfront.net
- TLC Rules, Chapter 80 (Drivers) nyc.gov
- TLC Rules, Chapter 51 (Definitions) nyc.gov
- NYC Open Data: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands (DOT, vqu8-xef9) data.cityofnewyork.us
- NYC Open Data: Parking Regulation Locations and Signs (DOT, nfid-uabd) data.cityofnewyork.us
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