{"id":132841,"date":"2026-02-13T20:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/132841\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T20:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:01:07","slug":"new-york-dmv-closure-forces-five-day-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/132841\/","title":{"rendered":"New York DMV Closure Forces Five-Day Halt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, NY\u2014 All New York State Department of Motor Vehicles offices, phone lines, and online services will be closed through Tuesday for a major technology system overhaul. <\/p>\n<p>Services are scheduled to resume on Wednesday with the new platform.<\/p>\n<p>The shutdown will affect in-person transactions, online services and customer support by phone. Customers should prepare for a total disruption of services during the five-day period.<\/p>\n<p>The DMV said the closure is necessary to consolidate 30 million records and replace a 50-year-old legacy system with a new, streamlined technology platform. <\/p>\n<p>Staff warned that lines and service adjustments are likely immediately after reopening as employees adjust to the new system.<\/p>\n<p>Some local offices may follow different schedules. Customers are advised to <a href=\"https:\/\/dmv.ny.gov\/contact-us\/cancellations-closings-and-delays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">check the DMV website <\/a>for the latest information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK, NY\u2014 All New York State Department of Motor Vehicles offices, phone lines, and online services will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-132841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}