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TriBeCa/Civic Center (TLC zone 231) is one of the busiest zones downtown: 3,271,771 pickups in the 12 months to August 2026, about 8,964 a day, 12th in Manhattan. It is mostly an app zone (80.7% of pickups), it pays app drivers more per trip than most of Manhattan ($19.21 median), and it is busy all week rather than only at weekends. It is also where Lower Manhattan's 20 mph slow zone begins.
Zone 231 at a glance
The TLC lookup table labels zone 231 a "Yellow Zone", a data label and not a legal line. Seven zones border it: Hudson Sq, SoHo, Little Italy/NoLiTa, Chinatown, Seaport, World Trade Center and Battery Park City. The city's street centerline map shows West Street (Route 9A) along its Hudson River side and the Holland Tunnel exit roads inside it.
When rides start and end here
TriBeCa has both an office pattern and an evening pattern. On weekdays, drop-offs have a morning peak at 8 a.m. (524) as well as an evening peak at 6 p.m. (564). Pickups build to 7 p.m. (653) and 6 p.m. (649).
The weekend adds less than in the Village zones: an average Saturday had 10,515 pickups, 18% more than a weekday (8,932). Saturday peaks at 7 p.m. and stays high until 11 p.m.; Sunday's top hour is midnight.
The summer drop
October 2025 was the busiest month (304,662 pickups). From there the zone slid, with July 2026 at 251,405 and August 2026 at 225,443, 26% below October. That fall is steeper than in any of the zones next to it that we checked (Hudson Sq, SoHo, Chinatown, Seaport, WTC, Battery Park City, Little Italy). With one year of data, we can't say if it is seasonal.
Where trips from here go
The top code is "Outside NYC" (4.7% of pickups). Next come trips that stay inside TriBeCa/Civic Center (4.2%), then West Village (3.7%), West Chelsea/Hudson Yards (3.3%) and Meatpacking/West Village West (3.0%). The same west-side zones are the top sources of arriving riders.
Fares and driver pay
App trips from zone 231 had a median fare of $27.34 and median driver pay of $19.21, both above the Manhattan Yellow Zone middle ($24.83 and $18.14). App tips averaged $1.85. Yellow trips are long and slow for Manhattan: median 2.37 miles, 15.4 minutes and $17.60 on the meter, with 21.6% card tips.
Legal lines
- Lower Manhattan Regional Slow Zone. NYC DOT set a 20 mph limit for Manhattan south of Canal Street. By our map check, about 99.9% of zone 231 is south of Canal, so treat the whole zone as 20 mph unless signs say otherwise (NYC DOT announcement).
- Congestion Relief Zone. The zone is inside the MTA Congestion Relief Zone, but West Street/Route 9A is excluded from it. The fee appeared on 99.2% of app pickups and 96.8% of yellow pickups. Riders pay $1.50 per app trip and $0.75 per taxi trip (as of 2026-10-12).
- Holland Tunnel. The tunnel's Manhattan exit roads are in this zone (the entrance roads are in Hudson Sq); tolls are on the Holland Tunnel page.
- Hail Exclusionary Zone. Green cabs may not take hails here; they recorded 274 pickups in the year against 1,364 drop-offs.
Stands and practical notes
TriBeCa has two DOT relief stands, and both are open to FHVs (checked 2026-10-12). DOT's sign file also shows two taxi-stand locations on Greenwich Street.
Remember the difference: a relief stand is for parking up to one hour; a taxi stand is a line of cabs waiting for riders, and app drivers may not pick up there (TLC Rule 80-19(d)(2)). See taxi stand rules.
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.
- TriBeCa/Civic Center: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 231 (TriBeCa/Civic Center, Manhattan) 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.
- TriBeCa/Civic Center: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 231, 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.
- TriBeCa/Civic Center: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 231 (TriBeCa/Civic Center, Manhattan) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- TriBeCa/Civic Center: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 231, 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 3,271,771 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- TriBeCa/Civic Center: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 231, 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 2,941,748 drop-offs.
- TriBeCa/Civic Center: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 231, 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).
- TriBeCa/Civic Center: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 231 (TriBeCa/Civic Center, Manhattan) 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 the TriBeCa/Civic Center taxi zone?
Zone 231 had 3,271,771 pickups from September 2025 to August 2026, about 8,964 a day. That was 12th of Manhattan's 69 zones and 15th of the city's 263.
Where can app drivers take a break in TriBeCa?
DOT lists two relief stands open to taxis and FHVs in zone 231 (checked 2026-10-12): Church Street between Franklin and White Streets (6 spaces) and Greenwich Street between Reade and Chambers Streets (3 spaces, 7 a.m.–7 p.m. except Sunday). Both have a 1-hour limit.
Is TriBeCa in the 20 mph slow zone?
By our map check, almost all of zone 231 lies south of Canal Street, the line NYC DOT gave for the Lower Manhattan Regional Slow Zone (20 mph). Follow the posted speed signs.
Did trips in TriBeCa drop in summer 2026?
Yes. August 2026 had 225,443 pickups, 26% fewer than October 2025 (304,662), the steepest fall among the zones in this part of Manhattan we checked. One year of data can't show whether this is seasonal.
Sources
Last reviewed against the official sources on .
- NYC TLC Trip Record Data nyc.gov
- TLC Taxi Zone Lookup Table d37ci6vzurychx.cloudfront.net
- MTA: Congestion Relief Zone tolls mta.info
- NYC DOT: Speed limit reductions and Lower Manhattan Regional Slow Zone (Oct 2024) nyc.gov
- NYC Open Data: NYC Street Centerline (CSCL) data.cityofnewyork.us
- 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 (Drivers) nyc.gov
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