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Yorkville West (TLC zone 263) is the Upper East Side's Saturday-night zone. It had 2,114,429 pickups in the 12 months to August 2026 (about 5,793 a day), and Saturdays are about a quarter busier than weekdays, peaking at 7 p.m. Yellow taxis carried 40.2% of pickups. The zone also has two DOT relief stands, on East 87th and East 89th Streets.
We used TLC's yellow, green and Uber/Lyft trip records, totalled by TLC Help. Hourly figures are averages for a typical weekday, Saturday or Sunday.
Yorkville West at a glance
On TLC's map the zone borders Yorkville East (262), Upper East Side North (236), East Harlem South (75), Lenox Hill West (141) and Lenox Hill East (140). TLC calls it a "Yellow Zone"; that is a data label, not a legal line. By our check against the city's street centerline file, the whole zone is south of 96th Street and east of Fifth Avenue.
When rides start and end
Weekdays have a classic double peak: 8 a.m. (about 373) and 6 p.m. (about 365). Saturdays are different. Pickups climb all afternoon to 7 p.m. (about 448) and stay high at 10 p.m. (about 410); 12.7% of Saturday pickups start between midnight and 5 a.m. On Sundays the single busiest hour is midnight (about 348).
Drop-offs peak even later on weekends: about 483 trips end here in the Saturday 10 p.m. hour and 471 at 11 p.m.
Through the year
December 2025 was the busiest month (193,024 pickups) and August 2026 the quietest (157,162). August was about 7% below September 2025, a smaller drop than Manhattan's 9%.
Where trips go
The most common destinations are on the East Side. Upper East Side North (6.0%), Upper East Side South (5.4%) and Lenox Hill West (5.3%) lead, with East Harlem South (4.4%) to the north. LaGuardia Airport is 6th, with 3.5% of all pickups, and 9.1% of app pickups went to an airport. 39.1% of app pickups and 36.2% of yellow pickups were charged the MTA Congestion Relief Zone fee.
Fares, tips and pay
Yellow taxi trips are very short: a median of 1.7 miles, 10.8 minutes and $12.10, one of the lowest median yellow fares in Manhattan, with a 23.7% card tip rate. App trips go further (3.61 miles, $22.93 fare), and median app driver pay is $18.58 (tips and tolls excluded), above the median for Manhattan's "Yellow Zone" zones.
Relief stands and rules
The East 87th Street stand is posted for taxis only. TLC rules let any driver take a vacant relief-stand spot but require you to obey the posted vehicle types and time limits (Chapter 80, §80-19(d)(7)). For-hire drivers can look to the East 89th Street stand, which is posted for taxis and FHVs; check its hours on the sign. See can Uber drivers use taxi relief stands?
The zone is inside the Hail Exclusionary Zone, so green cabs may not take hails here; they had 671 pickups, against 67,573 in East Harlem South just north of 96th Street. Trips starting here that stay in New York State pay the NYS congestion surcharge.
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.
- Yorkville West: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 263 (Yorkville West, 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.
- Yorkville West: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 263, 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.
- Yorkville West: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 263 (Yorkville West, Manhattan) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Yorkville West: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 263, 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 2,114,429 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Yorkville West: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 263, 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 2,072,288 drop-offs.
- Yorkville West: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 263, 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).
- Yorkville West: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 263 (Yorkville West, 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 busy is Yorkville West?
It had 2,114,429 pickups from September 2025 to August 2026, about 5,793 a day. Yellow taxis had 850,951 of them (40.2%) and apps 1,262,807. Saturdays average about 6,965 pickups, 24% more than a weekday.
Where are the relief stands in Yorkville West?
DOT lists two on the south side of streets between First and Second Avenues: East 87th Street (taxi only, 4 spaces, 1-hour limit, 10:30AM-7PM all days) and East 89th Street (taxi and FHV, 3 spaces, 1-hour limit, Monday-Friday 8AM-6PM).
Do many trips from Yorkville West go to the airport?
More than in most of Manhattan. 9.1% of app pickups went to an airport, against a median of 7.9% for Manhattan's 'Yellow Zone' zones. LaGuardia Airport is the 6th most common destination, with 3.5% of all pickups.
Does the NYS congestion surcharge apply here?
Yes. By our check of TLC's zone map, the whole zone is south of 96th Street, inside the surcharge area. As of October 12, 2026 the surcharge is $2.50 per yellow taxi trip and $2.75 per app trip, for trips that begin and end in New York State.
Sources
Last reviewed against the official sources on .
- NYC TLC Trip Record Data nyc.gov
- TLC Taxi Zone Lookup Table d37ci6vzurychx.cloudfront.net
- TLC Rules Chapter 51: Definitions (PDF) nyc.gov
- TLC Rules Chapter 80: Rules Applicable to All Drivers (PDF) nyc.gov
- NYS Department of Taxation and Finance: Congestion surcharge tax.ny.gov
- NYC DOT: Taxi and For-Hire Vehicle Relief Stands 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
- NYC Open Data: Street Centerline (CSCL, inkn-q76z) data.cityofnewyork.us
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