West Concourse Taxi Zone (247): Trips, Hours & Fares

West Concourse (TLC zone 247) is the second-busiest taxi zone in the Bronx, with 1,383,631 pickups in the 12 months to August 2026, about 3,791 a day. It behaves differently from its neighbors. Saturdays are busier than weekdays, July and August were the busiest months, and it has the most green cab pickups in the Bronx and the second-most yellow taxi pickups. Yankee Stadium is inside the zone, and DOT records several taxi stand signs here.

The pickups break down as 1,362,428 app trips, 19,506 yellow taxi trips and 1,697 green cab trips. They are TLC Help's totals of TLC trip records; rides from black car and livery bases outside the apps are not in those records.

West Concourse at a glance

Zone 247 touches five zones on TLC's map: East Concourse/Concourse Village (69), Highbridge (119), Mott Haven/Port Morris (168), Mount Hope (169) and University Heights/Morris Heights (235). Our point check against TLC's shapefile puts Yankee Stadium inside it. TLC's lookup table calls it a "Boro Zone", a label for data only.

When rides start

On weekdays the top hour is 8 a.m. (about 244 pickups), but evenings stay strong: 5 p.m. has about 216 and 10 p.m. about 218, a late weekday high point few Bronx zones show. Saturday is the busiest day: pickups average about 4,366, and the top hours are 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. (about 264 and 266). On Sundays, midnight (213) and 4–5 p.m. (about 210 each) lead.

A summer zone, with seasonal green cabs

Most Bronx zones peaked in March 2026. West Concourse peaked in July 2026 (124,772 pickups) and August (124,574). The low was September 2025 (101,583).

Taxis held up here, too. Yellow pickups were 1,861 in May 2026 and still 1,645 in July and 1,701 in August, while yellow pickups across the Bronx fell by more than half that summer. Green cabs have a strong season: 188 to 283 pickups a month in April–October, against 41 to 51 a month from November to March. Highbridge next door shows the same pattern. The data has no event field, so it cannot prove why.

Where trips go

Highbridge leads (6.8%), then East Concourse/Concourse Village (6.6%), trips inside the zone (6.0%) and Mott Haven/Port Morris (5.1%). Central Harlem North (4.4%) is the Manhattan zone in the top ten, and 3.6% of trips end outside NYC.

Fares, pay and tips

The median app trip is 2.36 miles, 13.7 minutes and $15.24, with $13.27 median driver pay. App riders tip a bit more than in most of the Bronx: 2.3% of the fare, $0.47 a trip. Taxi trips go further downtown: 14.4% of yellow and 23.1% of green pickups paid the MTA Congestion Relief Zone fee. As of 2026-10-12 that fee is $0.75 per taxi or green cab trip and $1.50 per app trip (MTA). Card-paying green riders tipped 15.1% of the fare.

Taxi stands and pickup signs

DOT's current parking-sign records (nfid-uabd, checked October 2026) show these signs inside zone 247. Signs are not the same as stands, and one stand usually has several signs.

What the rules say about these stands:

• Yellow taxis may take any open place at a taxi stand. The first two cars must stay in the driver's seat (80-19(d)(6)).
• Green cabs may use stands in the Hail Zone, which covers all of the Bronx (80-19(d)(1)(i)), but must not cruise within 100 feet of one.
• FHV and app drivers must not pick up at a taxi stand (80-19(d)(2): $350 first violation). See taxi stand rules.

DOT lists no relief stand inside zone 247. The taxi-only relief stands on Park Avenue at East 135th–138th Streets, in Mott Haven, are about 0.06 miles from the zone's edge.