NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — A proposed bill will make sure you move that vehicle for street cleaning or risk getting a ticket that’s more difficult to remove.
A New York City Council proposal heading to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s desk would alter a 2012 city code and allow the Department of Sanitation and the Department of Transportation to use stickers to enforce alternate side parking rules.
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The agencies would be able to place a sticker, no larger than 8.5 by 11 inches, on the window of any vehicle to enforce parking rules.
The change to the 2012 city code draws back on a 1987 pilot program that allowed the Department of Sanitation to put large neon stickers on the vehicles of drivers who did not move for street cleaning.
In 2011, officials argued that the stickers were a more effective deterrent to enforce alternate side parking and had contributed to increasing street cleaning ratings from 73% to 94% on average. However, the stickers were also difficult to remove and sometimes damaged vehicle windows.
The new proposal, sponsored by City Council Member Gale Brewer, passed the council in June and has since been sent to the mayor for review.
Dominique Jack is a digital content producer from Brooklyn with more than five years of experience covering news. She joined PIX11 in 2024. More of her work can be found here.