Find Taxi Nearby

A Saturday at 23:00 is simpler to call a taxi on the Lower East Side full of nightclubs and bars than at the Grand Central Terminal. The Columbus Circle picks up more passengers than the Port Authority coach terminal. Make sure you're in the right neighborhood: taxis are 25x more likely than in Washington Heights.

Taxis and Limousines Commission hope that the information gathered by Global Positioning System (GPS) can be used to establish useful connections for clients, such as a new smart phone programme that allows mobiles to find the perfect nearby place to call a taxi. However, the dataset also presents a great city profile, the first detail of a fast-paced passage net in bright orange that provides an overview of how New Yorkers move and where they do it.

At the top of the 9 o'clock Monday morning taxi hail schedule are, not unexpectedly, Pennsylvania Station and Grand Central, the big commute portals to the city's main shopping area. Two Manhattan crossings, which seem to be far away from the hustle and bustle, are not far behind: Yorkshire Avenue on 72/nd Street and Tenth Avenue on 43/rd.

Anyone can get as many taxi calls as a place on Vanderbilt Avenue, right next to Grand Central. The Yorkville citizens, long hungry for metro lines, usually take a taxi to Midtown or the finance area. On a Sunday at 3am, on a Sunday, passengers trip in more taxis on Chelsea's Top Ten Avenue and Street 27 than anywhere else in town.

Approximately as many taxi rides start there at this time on avarage as at 9 o'clock in the morning on a day of the week at the Seventh Avenue entry to Penn Station. Taxitours can also provide a more impartial guideline for nightlife trend than Zagat: Nighttime pick-ups in the meat packaging quarter predominate other favourite areas such as Sheridan Square and St. Marks Place.

East Village hardly breaks the top 10 early Sunday morning, but if you need a taxi, try Third Avenue and 11th St. It allows would-be taxi drivers to see a card of nearby road corners, arranged according to the number of taxi yards they are attracting at that particular time of the year.

It says it has designed an algorithms to take into consideration parents, road building and other factor that could distort the numbers. The Columbus Circle with its beloved retail center, its flagship shop selling food and its Central Park entry takes second place. The next are the Port Authority and Grand Central.

Lesser-known locations also appear in the Top 10, such as Lexington Avenue on86th Street (near a highway station) and Avenue of the Americas onrd ( on the CATH train), as well as the southeastern edge of Central Park at Apple Store and F.A.O. Schwarz. According to the stats, the Upper East Side has a more cab-dependent cultural base than its Central Park neighbors: more than two million rides departed last May on the Upper East Side, almost twice as many as on the Upper West Side.

Tuesdays at 5 p.m. Lexington Avenue on 60th Street is the most frequented taxi stop after Penn Station. Why is this place far more loved than the place just a single square northerly on 61st Street, which is getting about a third as much hail at the time?

Mr. Schwartz, himself a former taxi driver, pointed out that at the time, 59th Street was "a bear", suffocated by drivers driving to Queensborough Bridge. Neighborly breakdowns confirm what most New Yorkers already know: it's simpler to get a taxi under Manhattan's #96th Street, and much more difficult somewhere else.

In May last year, the whole calendar met with about 554,000 East Village taxi riders in yellows; in Inwood, at the north end of Manhattan, Sense Networks reported only 860 pick-ups. A two-year taxi driver, Muhammad Ayub, said Friday that he favored Penn Station and the Port Authority in the early mornings.

A Saturday piece about information collected by New York City showing the most favorite places where you can find a taxi at any time of the day wrongly related to Pennsylvania Manhattan Base. It'?s the most congested railway in the United States, not the whole wide open area.