Sunset Park West Taxi Zone (228): Trips, Hours & Fares

Sunset Park West (TLC zone 228) is a busy zone with two distinct sides: a weekday morning when riders arrive, and weekend nights that run until 4 a.m. From September 2025 to August 2026, 1,363,439 trips started here (about 3,735 a day), 20th of 61 Brooklyn zones, and 1,427,690 ended here. Trips mostly run along south and west Brooklyn, to Bay Ridge, Sunset Park East and Park Slope.

The data is TLC trip records for yellow, green and high-volume app (Uber, Lyft) trips, aggregated by TLC Help. Black car and livery trips that aren't app-dispatched are not counted.

Sunset Park West at a glance

Zone 228 is labelled "Boro Zone" in TLC's lookup table, a data category with no legal effect. It is a long zone with eight neighbors on TLC's map: Bay Ridge, Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, Green-Wood Cemetery, Park Slope, Red Hook, Sunset Park East and Windsor Terrace.

Apps did 98.4% of pickups. The yellow share (1.6%) is below the Brooklyn zone median of 2.0%. Yellow cabs bring in far more riders than they take out: 40,447 drop-offs against 22,143 pickups.

When rides start (and end)

Weekend nights stay busy. On Saturdays, pickups peak at about 281 in the 10 p.m. hour and are still about 148 to 161 an hour from 1 a.m. to 4 a.m. Saturday night into Sunday is stronger still: about 243 pickups in the midnight hour, and still 171 at 4 a.m. Then pickups drop sharply at 5 a.m. Neighboring Park Slope is almost twice as busy overall, yet it has fewer pickups at 3 a.m. on Sundays (about 121 against 182 here).

Weekday mornings are about arrivals. Weekday drop-offs peak at about 350 in the 8 a.m. hour, while pickups in that hour are only about 208. Weekday pickups peak later, at about 245 in the 5 p.m. hour. A weekday averages about 3,490 pickups, a Saturday 4,693 and a Sunday 4,010.

Month by month

Early summer was the busy season here, unlike neighboring Park Slope and Windsor Terrace, where December was busiest. June 2026 was the top month (124,712 pickups), with May (122,694) close behind. September 2025 was the quietest (100,410). Yellow pickups were fairly steady at about 1,400 to 2,100 a month.

Where trips go

Trips stay mostly in south and west Brooklyn:

• Sunset Park West itself: 13.6%
• Bay Ridge: 10.6%
• Sunset Park East: 8.5%
• Park Slope: 7.4%
• Borough Park: 3.2%
• Flatbush/Ditmas Park: 2.7%
• Dyker Heights: 2.4%

The origins of trips that end here are nearly the same list in the same order.

Fares, trip length and driver pay

The median app trip is 2.87 miles and 15.3 minutes, with a $17.71 fare. The median driver pay is $14.65 before tips and tolls, 24th of 61 in Brooklyn. Tips equal 4.6% of fares ($1.12 on average). Airport trips are uncommon (1.9% of app pickups), and 8.4% of app pickups were charged the Manhattan congestion fee.

Yellow trips that start here are long: median 6.58 miles and $31.51 on the meter, and 22.3% were charged the congestion fee.

Pickup rules here

Zone 228 is in TLC's Hail Zone, so yellow and green cabs may take street hails. App drivers may only pick up base-dispatched riders (80-19(c)(1)). Taking a street hail in an FHV can lead to fines, a suspension and, for a third violation in 36 months, revocation (Chapter 80). See who can pick up where. This is general information, not legal advice.

Stands and curb signs: DOT's open data lists no relief stand and no taxi stand in zone 228 (checked October 12, 2026). The current sign data does show an "FHV (SYMBOL) FOR-HIRE VEHICLES ONLY PICK-UP / DROP-OFF ONLY" sign on the east side of 4th Avenue between 36th and 37th Streets, with an order completed on October 6, 2026 (nfid-uabd). The sign reads for-hire vehicles only, so it is not a taxi stand. A pickup there still has to be dispatched by your base. Follow the sign on the pole, which is what counts.