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Two Bridges/Seward Park (TLC zone 232) is an app zone: Uber and Lyft did 87.8% of its 1,147,721 pickups from September 2025 to August 2026 (about 3,144 a day). Among Manhattan's Yellow Zone zones, only Randalls Island had a lower yellow-cab share. Its busiest weekday pickup hour is 9 a.m., and trips from here are long for Manhattan.
Zone 232 at a glance
The TLC lookup table labels zone 232 "Yellow Zone". That is a category in the trip data, not a legal area, and it says nothing about how many yellow cabs work here. The zone borders Lower East Side, East Village, Alphabet City and Chinatown. The FDR Drive runs through it along the East River, per the city's street centerline map.
When rides start and end here
Weekday pickups peak in the morning: 9 a.m. (188) and 8 a.m. (172). A second, smaller peak comes in the early evening (7 p.m., 168). Weekday drop-offs stay near their high from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. (about 204 to 212 an hour), when people come home.
Saturdays are busier (4,289 pickups against 2,872 on a weekday) and peak at 10 p.m. On Sunday the top hour is midnight (218), but late nights are smaller here than in the Lower East Side next door.
The year was steady. The range ran from 89,538 pickups (February 2026) to 105,591 (May 2026).
Where trips from here go
East Village is the top destination (4.2% of pickups), then Lower East Side (3.3%), TriBeCa/Civic Center (2.8%) and trips that stay inside the zone (2.6%). LaGuardia Airport is 9th (1.9%). Riders arriving here most often start in East Village (5.2% of drop-offs) or the Lower East Side (3.8%).
Fares, pay and tips
This zone has some of the longest typical trips in Manhattan's Yellow Zone. The median yellow trip is 3.35 miles, 17.1 minutes and $21.20 on the meter. The median app trip is 3.56 miles, with a $22.35 fare and $17.71 driver pay. Tips are low: 14.2% on yellow card trips and $1.21 on average for app trips (4.4% of the fare).
Legal lines
- Congestion Relief Zone: the zone is south of 60th Street, but the MTA zone excludes the FDR Drive, which runs through it. The fee was on 99.0% of app pickups but only 90.7% of yellow pickups, the lowest yellow rate in this part of Manhattan; the data doesn't say why. Charged trips cost the rider $1.50 (app) or $0.75 (taxi) as of 2026-10-12. See Congestion Relief Zone toll and is congestion pricing charged on the FDR Drive?
- 20 mph slow zone: NYC DOT describes the Lower Manhattan Regional Slow Zone as the island south of Canal Street. Canal Street ends at the western edge of this zone, so that description doesn't settle where the line runs here. Follow the posted speed limit signs.
- Hail Exclusionary Zone: the whole zone is inside it; green cabs recorded 242 pickups and 718 drop-offs.
Stands and practical notes
DOT lists one relief stand in zone 232 (checked 2026-10-12): East Broadway between Clinton Street and Rutgers Street, north side, 11 spaces, taxis only, 1-hour limit. At 11 spaces it is one of the larger stands downtown, but it is not signed for FHVs, so app drivers can't use it (TLC Rule 80-19(d)(7) requires following the posted vehicle type). The closest relief stand open to FHVs in DOT's list is on Grand Street between Forsyth and Chrystie Streets, in the Lower East Side zone. There are no taxi-stand signs in zone 232.
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.
- Two Bridges/Seward Park: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 232 (Two Bridges/Seward Park, 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.
- Two Bridges/Seward Park: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 232, 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.
- Two Bridges/Seward Park: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 232 (Two Bridges/Seward Park, Manhattan) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Two Bridges/Seward Park: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 232, 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 1,147,721 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Two Bridges/Seward Park: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 232, 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 1,109,971 drop-offs.
- Two Bridges/Seward Park: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 232, 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).
- Two Bridges/Seward Park: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 232 (Two Bridges/Seward Park, 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
Do yellow cabs work Two Bridges/Seward Park?
Not much. Yellow taxis did 12.2% of the 1,147,721 pickups in zone 232 from September 2025 to August 2026. Among Manhattan's Yellow Zone zones, only Randalls Island had a lower yellow share.
When is the busiest time for pickups in zone 232?
Weekday mornings. The top weekday hours are 9 a.m. (about 188 pickups) and 8 a.m. (172). On Saturdays the peak is 10 p.m., and Sunday's top hour is midnight.
Is there a relief stand in Two Bridges/Seward Park?
DOT lists one (checked 2026-10-12): East Broadway between Clinton Street and Rutgers Street, north side, 11 spaces, taxis only, 1-hour limit. FHV drivers are not allowed to use it.
Why were fewer yellow trips here charged the congestion fee?
90.7% of yellow pickups and 99.0% of app pickups in zone 232 carried the MTA Congestion Relief Zone fee. The trip records don't say why the others didn't. The FDR Drive, which runs through this taxi zone, is excluded from the MTA zone.
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 Open Data: NYC Street Centerline (CSCL) data.cityofnewyork.us
- NYC DOT: Speed limit reductions and Lower Manhattan Regional Slow Zone (Oct 2024) nyc.gov
- NYC Open Data: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands (DOT, vqu8-xef9) data.cityofnewyork.us
- TLC Rules, Chapter 80 (Drivers) nyc.gov
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