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Sunset Park East (TLC zone 227) is almost entirely an app zone. From September 2025 to August 2026, 669,672 trips started here (about 1,835 a day), 41st of 61 Brooklyn zones, and 98.9% were Uber or Lyft trips. Yellow cabs had just 1.1%, one of the lowest shares in the borough. Trips are short and go mostly to Sunset Park West, Borough Park and Bay Ridge. The busiest hour is 8 a.m. on weekdays.
The numbers are TLC trip records for yellow, green and high-volume app trips, aggregated by TLC Help. Black car and livery trips not dispatched by an app are not included.
Sunset Park East at a glance
Zone 227 is labelled "Boro Zone" in TLC's lookup table. That is a data category, not a legal boundary. Its five neighbors on TLC's map are Bay Ridge, Borough Park, Dyker Heights, Green-Wood Cemetery and Sunset Park West.
More trips end here (718,216) than start here. Yellow cabs show the biggest gap: 15,740 yellow drop-offs against 7,582 pickups, about two to one. Green cabs had only 124 pickups.
When rides start
Weekdays peak in the morning: about 123 pickups in the 8 a.m. hour, with about 107 at 7 a.m. and 109 at 9 a.m. The rest of the weekday is flat, at about 85 to 103 an hour until 6 p.m.
Weekends add little. Saturday averages about 2,008 pickups and Sunday about 1,818, against about 1,803 on a weekday. Saturday evenings are the steadiest weekend stretch, at about 112 to 116 an hour from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday's busiest hour is 10 a.m. (about 98).
Month by month
December 2025 was the busiest month (62,150 pickups), and January 2026 was close (59,079). September 2025 was the quietest (47,348). From December on, every month had between about 53,000 and 62,000.
Yellow pickups were small all year, about 600 to 870 a month until May 2026, then about 250 to 330 a month from June. Green cab months often had fewer than 10 trips, so those cells are blank.
Where trips go
Most trips stay in southwest Brooklyn:
- Sunset Park West: 17.0%
- Sunset Park East itself: 10.7%
- Borough Park: 9.2%
- Bay Ridge: 8.6%
- Dyker Heights: 4.9%
- Park Slope: 4.4%
- Bensonhurst West: 4.1%
The top ten take 65.3% of pickups. Arrivals come from the same zones, led by Sunset Park West (16.2% of drop-offs).
Fares, trip length and driver pay
The median app trip is 2.19 miles and 13.6 minutes, with a $14.43 fare. The median driver pay is $12.29 before tips and tolls, 44th of 61 in Brooklyn. Tips equal 3.6% of fares, about $0.76 a trip.
Long trips are uncommon: 1.6% of app pickups go to an airport (52nd of 61 in Brooklyn), and 5.1% enter the Manhattan congestion zone. Yellow trips from here are a median 5.5 miles and $28.50 on the meter.
Pickup rules here
Sunset Park East is in TLC's Hail Zone, which TLC defines as all of NYC except Manhattan south of East 96th and West 110th Streets and the airports (Chapter 51). Yellow and green cabs may take hails here. Almost every pickup here is an app trip, and an app driver may only pick up a rider dispatched by the base (80-19(c)(1), Chapter 80). See who can pick up where. This is general information, not legal advice.
Stands: DOT's open data lists no relief stand, taxi stand or taxi/FHV pickup zone in zone 227 (checked October 12, 2026).
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.
- Sunset Park East: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 227 (Sunset Park East, Brooklyn) 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.
- Sunset Park East: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 227, 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.
- Sunset Park East: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 227 (Sunset Park East, Brooklyn) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Sunset Park East: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 227, 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 669,672 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Sunset Park East: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 227, 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 718,216 drop-offs.
- Sunset Park East: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 227, 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).
- Sunset Park East: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 227 (Sunset Park East, Brooklyn) 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
Do yellow taxis pick up in Sunset Park East?
Rarely. Yellow cabs had 7,582 pickups in the 12 months to August 2026, about 21 a day and only 1.1% of the zone's pickups, one of the lowest yellow shares in Brooklyn. Apps did 98.9%.
Where do trips from Sunset Park East go?
Mostly west and south. Sunset Park West takes 17.0% of pickups, 10.7% stay in the zone, Borough Park takes 9.2% and Bay Ridge 8.6%.
When is Sunset Park East busiest?
Weekday mornings at 8 a.m. (about 123 pickups). Saturday evenings run at about 112 to 116 an hour from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. On Sundays the top hour is 10 a.m.
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
- NYC Open Data: Parking Regulation Locations and Signs (DOT, nfid-uabd) data.cityofnewyork.us
- TLC Rules Chapter 80: Rules Applicable to All Drivers (PDF) nyc.gov
- TLC Rules Chapter 51: Definitions (PDF) nyc.gov
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