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The West Village (TLC zone 249) is where Manhattan's weekend nights show up most clearly in the trip data. The zone had 3,097,320 pickups from September 2025 to August 2026, about 8,486 a day, but an average Saturday had 83% more pickups than a weekday. On Sunday, 40% of all pickups happen between midnight and 5 a.m.
It also sends out more rides than it receives: about 514,000 more pickups than drop-offs over the year.
West Village at a glance (zone 249)
In the TLC lookup table, zone 249 has the service-zone label "Yellow Zone". That is a data category, not a legal boundary (what service zones mean). It borders seven zones: Meatpacking/West Village West, Hudson Sq, Greenwich Village South, Greenwich Village North, Union Sq, Flatiron and East Chelsea.
When rides start and end here
The weekly rhythm is the main story. Weekday pickups peak at 10 p.m. (about 707 an hour). Saturday reaches 1,178 pickups in the 11 p.m. hour, and the night keeps going: Sunday opens with its two biggest hours, midnight (1,155) and 1 a.m. (1,090).
Drop-offs come earlier. On weekdays, 28.4% of trips ending here arrive between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m., with the peak at 7 p.m. Saturday drop-offs also peak at 7 p.m. So riders arrive for the evening and leave late, and many more leave by car than arrive by car.
Month to month, the zone was steady: between 238,298 pickups (February 2026) and 273,306 (May 2026).
Where trips from here go
The top destination is East Village (4.9% of pickups), then "Outside NYC" (4.6%), TriBeCa/Civic Center (4.2%) and Union Sq (3.7%). Incoming riders most often start in East Village (5.4% of drop-offs), Union Sq or TriBeCa (4.7% each). Many trips are short hops between downtown neighbourhoods.
Yellow, green and app
App: 2,101,302 pickups. Yellow: 995,962 (32.2%, close to the Manhattan Yellow Zone middle of 31.6%). Green: 56 pickups and 787 drop-offs. Under TLC's Chapter 51 definitions, Manhattan south of East 96th and West 110th Streets is the Hail Exclusionary Zone, where green cabs may not take hails (hail exclusionary zone).
Fares and driver pay
A typical yellow trip from here was 1.7 miles and 12.7 minutes, with a $14.20 meter fare; card riders tipped 23.7% of the fare. App trips had a median fare of $24.23 and median driver pay of $17.02, below the $18.14 Yellow Zone middle. App tips averaged $1.55 a trip, 4.8% of the fare.
Legal lines
The whole zone is inside the MTA Congestion Relief Zone (south of 60th Street) and the 96th Street congestion-surcharge area. 99.6% of app pickups and 98.7% of yellow pickups were charged the CRZ fee. Riders pay it: $1.50 per Uber/Lyft trip and $0.75 per taxi trip as of 2026-10-12. No part of the zone is south of Canal Street.
Stands and practical notes
There is no relief stand and no taxi-stand sign inside zone 249 in DOT's data (checked 2026-10-12). For a one-hour break, the nearest relief stand in DOT's list is on West 16th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues (about 570 feet from the zone edge by our map check), and it is open to taxis and FHVs. The relief stand finder lists every stand by street. Rules for double-parking and loading zones are in curb rules for pickups and drop-offs.
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.
- West Village: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 249 (West Village, 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.
- West Village: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 249, 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.
- West Village: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 249 (West Village, Manhattan) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- West Village: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 249, 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 3,097,320 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- West Village: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 249, 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 2,583,304 drop-offs.
- West Village: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 249, 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).
- West Village: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 249 (West Village, 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 many rides start in the West Village taxi zone?
Zone 249 had 3,097,320 pickups from September 2025 to August 2026, about 8,486 a day. That ranked 14th of Manhattan's 69 taxi zones.
What is the busiest time in the West Village?
Saturday night. An average Saturday had about 13,360 pickups, 83% more than a weekday, with the top hour at 11 p.m. (about 1,180 pickups). Sunday's busiest hours are midnight and 1 a.m.
Are there relief stands in the West Village zone?
DOT's relief-stand list (checked 2026-10-12) shows none inside zone 249, and the sign file shows no taxi-stand signs. The nearest one in DOT's list is on West 16th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, about 570 feet outside the zone, open to taxis and FHVs.
Do many West Village riders go to the airport?
Fewer than in most of Manhattan. 5.1% of app pickups and 0.5% of yellow pickups went to an airport, against a middle value of 7.9% for app trips across Manhattan's Yellow Zone zones.
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 taxi and FHV tolls mta.info
- 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 51 (Definitions) nyc.gov
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