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Williamsburg (North Side) is TLC taxi zone 255, and it is a night-time zone. It had 2,594,734 pickups from September 2025 to August 2026 (about 7,109 a day, 5th in Brooklyn), and its single busiest hour is Sunday at midnight. It is also where yellow taxis do best in Brooklyn: 105,825 yellow pickups, more than any other zone in the borough.
More rides start here than end here (2.59 million pickups against 2.41 million drop-offs). Only four Brooklyn zones have a higher ratio of pickups to drop-offs.
Williamsburg (North Side) at a glance (zone 255)
The TLC lookup table lists zone 255 as Brooklyn, "Boro Zone". "Boro Zone" is a label used in the trip data, not a legal area. The zone touches three others on the TLC map: Greenpoint to the north, Williamsburg (South Side) to the south and East Williamsburg to the east.
When rides start and end here
Weekend nights drive this zone. An average Saturday has about 11,870 pickups, more than twice an average weekday (about 5,640). Only East Williamsburg and Prospect Park have a bigger weekend jump in Brooklyn. Saturday pickups peak at 11 p.m. (967 an hour), and Sunday's first hour, midnight, is even busier at about 998. On Sunday, 35.9% of pickups happen between midnight and 5 a.m.
Weekday mornings are quiet. Only 9.4% of weekday pickups start between 7 and 10 a.m., and the weekday peak comes late, at 10 p.m.
Drop-offs peak earlier, at 7 p.m. on weekdays and Saturdays: people arrive in the evening and leave late at night. Month to month, May 2026 was busiest (234,871 pickups) and February 2026 the quietest (204,249).
Where trips from here go
The top destination is Greenpoint (10.2% of pickups), then Williamsburg (South Side) (7.5%) and East Williamsburg (5.4%). Only 4.6% of trips stay inside the zone. LaGuardia (3.0%) and JFK (2.6%) are both in the top ten. On the arrival side, the Lower East Side and Long Island City/Hunters Point each send more than 2% of drop-offs.
Yellow, green and app: who serves this zone
App services did 2,486,702 pickups (95.8%). Yellow taxis did 105,825, a 4.1% share, 4th-highest in Brooklyn. Yellow drop-offs (142,285) are only about a third higher than yellow pickups. In most Brooklyn zones taxis drop off far more riders than they pick up. Green cabs did 2,207 pickups, 6th in the borough.
Fares, trip length and driver pay
App trips from here had a median fare of $22.63 (4th in Brooklyn) and median driver pay of $18.36 per trip, before tips and tolls. App riders tipped an average of $1.26. The median yellow trip was 4.1 miles, for $26.18. Pay per engaged hour ($61.36) leaves out time spent waiting and driving to pickups, so it is higher than real hourly earnings.
Rules, the relief stand and legal lines
Zone 255 is in TLC's Hail Zone, so taxis and green cabs can take hails anywhere here; app drivers need a booking through their base (80-19(c)(1)). The zone is outside the Congestion Relief Zone, but 21.3% of app pickups paid the CRZ charge because they went into or through Manhattan south of 60th Street. As of 2026-10-12 that is $1.50 per app trip, paid by the rider.
DOT lists one relief stand here. A relief stand lets you park and leave the car for up to one hour (NYC DOT). Rule 80-19(d)(7) says you must obey its posted vehicle types and time limit.
With one space, it fills fast. Find others with the relief stand finder, or read who can pick up where.
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.
- Williamsburg (North Side): trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 255 (Williamsburg (North Side), Brooklyn) 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.
- Williamsburg (North Side): when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 255, 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.
- Williamsburg (North Side): pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 255 (Williamsburg (North Side), Brooklyn) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Williamsburg (North Side): where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 255, 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 2,594,734 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Williamsburg (North Side): where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 255, 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 2,410,800 drop-offs.
- Williamsburg (North Side): when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 255, 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).
- Williamsburg (North Side): drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 255 (Williamsburg (North Side), Brooklyn) 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 Williamsburg (North Side) for taxi and app pickups?
TLC trip records show 2,594,734 pickups in zone 255 from September 2025 to August 2026, about 7,109 a day. That was 5th of Brooklyn's 61 zones. It had 105,825 yellow-taxi pickups, the most of any Brooklyn zone.
What is the busiest hour in Williamsburg (North Side)?
Sunday at midnight, with about 998 pickups on an average Sunday. That is the tail of Saturday night. More than a third of all Sunday pickups (35.9%) happen between midnight and 5 a.m.
Is there a relief stand in Williamsburg (North Side)?
Yes. NYC DOT's relief-stand list (checked 2026-10-12) has one in this zone: North 6th Street between Berry Street and Wythe Avenue, north side, 1 space, for taxis and FHVs, with a 1-hour limit. It is one of only 3 relief stands DOT lists in all of Brooklyn.
Do taxi riders tip well in Williamsburg (North Side)?
Card-paying yellow-taxi riders who started here tipped 17.1% of the fare, the highest rate of any Brooklyn zone. Cash tips are not recorded, so the real tip rate on all trips is unknown.
Sources
Last reviewed against the official sources on .
- NYC TLC Trip Record Data nyc.gov
- TLC Taxi Zone Lookup Table d37ci6vzurychx.cloudfront.net
- NYC Open Data: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands (DOT, vqu8-xef9) data.cityofnewyork.us
- NYC DOT: Taxi and For-Hire Vehicle Relief Stands nyc.gov
- NYC Open Data: Parking Regulation Locations and Signs (DOT, nfid-uabd) data.cityofnewyork.us
- TLC Rules, Chapter 80 (Drivers) nyc.gov
- TLC Rules, Chapter 51 (Definitions) nyc.gov
- MTA: Congestion Relief Zone taxi and FHV tolls mta.info
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