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Williamsburg (South Side), TLC taxi zone 256, is a busy evening-and-night zone with strong ties to Manhattan. TLC records count 2,182,828 pickups here between September 2025 and August 2026, roughly 5,980 a day, 7th in Brooklyn. Nearly a quarter of app pickups here (23.9%) paid the Congestion Relief Zone charge, the 4th-highest share in the borough.
Few trips arrive here in the morning rush. Only 8.2% of weekday drop-offs land between 7 and 10 a.m., the second-lowest share of any Brooklyn zone.
Williamsburg (South Side) at a glance (zone 256)
In TLC's lookup table, zone 256 is a Brooklyn "Boro Zone"; that name is a trip-data category, not a legal zone. Its four neighbours on the TLC map are Williamsburg (North Side), East Williamsburg, South Williamsburg and the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
When rides start and end here
Pickups build slowly through a weekday and peak at 10 p.m. (about 392). Saturday brings about 9,115 pickups, 1.8 times a weekday, with the top hour at 11 p.m. (about 665). Sunday starts with its busiest hour, midnight (about 662), and 31.5% of Sunday pickups come before 5 a.m.
Drop-offs tell you when people arrive: the peak is 7 p.m. on weekdays and Saturdays. On weekdays, 22.9% of drop-offs land between 5 and 8 p.m.
The busiest month was May 2026 (195,237 pickups) and the quietest September 2025 (167,901). From October onward, every month had more than 175,000.
Where trips go, and the Manhattan link
The top destination is next door: Williamsburg (North Side), with 8.2% of pickups. Then come Greenpoint (6.1%), trips inside the zone (5.0%) and East Williamsburg (4.8%). Look at where arrivals come from, though, and Manhattan appears: the Lower East Side sends 2.8% of drop-offs and the East Village 2.2%. Both are in the top ten.
Yellow, green and app: who serves this zone
App trips made up 2,106,467 of the pickups. Yellow taxis did 75,707, the 2nd-most in Brooklyn, and dropped off 124,799. Green cabs are rare: 654 pickups and 1,463 drop-offs in a whole year. Nearly half of yellow pickups (46.5%) paid the CRZ charge, so yellow rides from here often head to Manhattan below 60th Street.
Fares, trip length and driver pay
The median app trip was 3.0 miles and 17.6 minutes, with a $20.95 fare and $16.99 median driver pay before tips and tolls. The average app tip was $1.09. Yellow trips had a median 3.87 miles and a $26.10 fare. Per engaged hour, app pay was $60.63, but that leaves out time between trips.
Rules and practical notes
Zone 256 sits in TLC's Hail Zone, so yellow taxis and green cabs may take street hails here (Chapter 51). App drivers may not; for-hire pickups must be booked through a licensed base (80-19(c)(1)). The CRZ charge is collected from the rider: as of 2026-10-12, $1.50 per Uber/Lyft trip and $0.75 per taxi trip on every trip to or through the zone (MTA). More on the congestion toll.
We found no relief stand or taxi-stand sign in this zone in DOT data (checked 2026-10-12). For the full Brooklyn picture, see the Brooklyn zone rankings and 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 (South Side): trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 256 (Williamsburg (South 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 (South Side): when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 256, 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 (South Side): pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 256 (Williamsburg (South 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 (South Side): where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 256, 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 2,182,828 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Williamsburg (South Side): where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 256, 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 2,095,575 drop-offs.
- Williamsburg (South Side): when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 256, 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 (South Side): drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 256 (Williamsburg (South 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 many rides start in Williamsburg (South Side)?
TLC trip records show 2,182,828 pickups in zone 256 from September 2025 to August 2026, about 5,980 a day. That was 7th of Brooklyn's 61 taxi zones.
Do many trips from Williamsburg (South Side) go to Manhattan?
More than from most Brooklyn zones. 23.9% of app pickups and 46.5% of yellow pickups paid the MTA Congestion Relief Zone charge, which applies to trips to or through Manhattan south of 60th Street. The app share was 4th-highest in Brooklyn.
When is the busiest time to pick up in Williamsburg (South Side)?
Saturday at 11 p.m. (about 665 pickups an hour on an average Saturday) and Sunday at midnight (about 662). On weekdays the peak is 10 p.m., with about 392 pickups.
Are there taxi stands or relief stands in zone 256?
DOT's relief-stand list and current parking-sign records, checked 2026-10-12, show none inside this zone. The closest relief stand in DOT's list is on North 6th Street in Williamsburg (North Side).
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
- TLC Rules, Chapter 80 (Drivers) nyc.gov
- TLC Rules, Chapter 51 (Definitions) nyc.gov
- 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
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