{"id":313894,"date":"2026-08-05T00:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T00:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313894\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T00:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T00:14:14","slug":"nyc-starts-slapping-giant-neon-green-shame-stickers-on-cars-running-afoul-of-parking-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313894\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC starts slapping giant, neon-green ‘shame stickers’ on cars running afoul of parking rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

City officials Tuesday began slapping giant neon-green \u201cshame stickers\u201d on the cars<\/a> of drivers who failed to follow alternate-side-parking rules.<\/p>\n

The quirky crackdown, featuring 8.5 x 11-inch adhesives, was resurrected in the city by Manhattan Councilwoman Gale Brewer, who sponsored a bill that repealed a decade-long bill on the practice and allows street sweepers to again stick it to scofflaws.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s just not enough cops,\u201d Brewer said of enforcing the parking rule.<\/p>\n

\"ANew York City has again started placing giant, neon-green \u201cshame stickers\u201d on cars running afoul of parking rules. Spectrum News NY1<\/p>\n

The stickers are being distributed by the city Department of Sanitation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019m hoping that, you know, the sticker thing will resonate with people and say, \u2018You gotta move your car, \u201d the pol said.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t know what else to do,\u201d <\/p>\n

Video posted to social media showed Brewer gleefully anointing the first unlucky vehicles with stickers on the Upper West Side\u2019s 90th Street \u2013 which she claimed was about halfway lined with cars parked illegally.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis vehicle violates NYC parking regulations, as a result, this street could not be properly cleaned,\u201d the stickers state, according to the clip posted by a New York Times reporter.<\/p>\n

Brewer\u2019s bill passed earlier this summer in a 41-10 vote.<\/p>\n

The New York City Council banned these parking stickers of shame in 2012 and Gale Brewer sponsored a bill to bring them back.
Lots of drivers on this block on the Upper West Side didn\u2019t move their cars this morning and will return to a ticket and a bright green sticker. pic.twitter.com\/WwXRpoG2eu<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Emma G. Fitzsimmons (@emmagf) August 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani allowed the legislation, Intro-92, to go into effect after 30 days, declining to sign or veto it.<\/p>\n

But some New Yorkers and lawmakers were peeved by the unsightly stickers.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor 14 blissful years, these stickers were illegal in NYC because I banned them when I served in the (city council),\u201d said former city Councilman David Greenfield in a post to X.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of the drivers getting stickered were innocent and the glue wrecked their cars. A ticket is a penalty. Gluing trash to someone\u2019s windshield is vandalism,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The fine print at the bottom of the sticker notes vehicle owners should use \u201cwarm water and a scraper\u201d to remove the placard.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Brewer said the new stickers are easier to remove than the old ones.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to the Sanitation Department , this one is easier to get off. It does need a remover and some water as I understand it, but it\u2019s easier to get off,\u201d she said, although she acknowledged she hadn\u2019t tried to remove one herself.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

During an unrelated press conference Tuesday, Mamdani said he \u201cfully supported\u201d the measure.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is critically important that the Sanitation Department be able to conduct street cleaning,\u201d Hizzoner told reporters. \u201cWhenever I meet the hardworking members of DSNY, the question is always how we can make their jobs easier. If this measure accomplishes that, I fully support it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The practice was banned by the council in 2011 after complaints that the adhesive used on the stickers was too difficult to take off and sometimes damaged windows.<\/p>\n

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