{"id":314712,"date":"2026-08-05T22:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314712\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T22:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:48:07","slug":"nyc-revives-green-shame-stickers-for-alternate-side-parking-scofflaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314712\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC revives green \u2018shame stickers\u2019 for alternate-side parking scofflaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Gotham\u2019s street-sweeper scofflaws might return to their parked car to find a bright green sticker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis vehicle violated NYC street cleaning rules,\u201d reads the neon-green tag. \u201cAs a result, this street could not be properly cleaned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The so-called \u201cshame stickers\u201d are back in the city after a 15-year hiatus, stuck by Department of Sanitation workers on the car windows of drivers who refuse to follow the city\u2019s alternate-side parking rule and make way for street sweepers.<\/p>\n<p>Violating the alternate-side rules \u2014 which vary by neighborhood and can see the streets swept anywhere from one to three times a week \u2014 already nets New Yorkers a $65 fine.<\/p>\n<p>But too many of the Big Apple\u2019s drivers have apparently decided the fine is an acceptable cost to stay parked on a city street \u2014 cheaper, at least, than many of the city\u2019s private parking lots.<\/p>\n<p>The stickers were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2012\/02\/09\/new-yorkers-like-stickers-slapped-on-illegally-parked-cars-according-to-a-new-poll\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a mainstay of parking enforcement<\/a> for decades in the city before the City Council nixed them in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>But in June, the Council passed <a href=\"https:\/\/legistar.council.nyc.gov\/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7861508&amp;GUID=28E55AEE-2E14-4EC7-9B19-E72F4D99F33F&amp;Options=ID%7CText%7C&amp;Search=0092\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a bill by Manhattan Democrat Gale Brewer<\/a> re-authorizing the Sanitation Department to once again start slapping the overstaying cars with stickers.<\/p>\n<p>Sanitation Commissioner Gregory Anderson lauded the law at the time, saying it reversed \u201ca grave mistake made by a prior City Council and gives us an additional tool to help us effectively clean the city\u2019s streets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSelfish car owners who prioritize their convenience over clean neighborhoods will soon be peeling stickers off their cars, while also paying for a summons,\u201d Anderson said in a statement. \u201cOur goal is neither writing summonses nor using stickers. We want people to simply comply with the law, so we can clean streets across New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A department spokesman said Thursday that the tags are not meant for every vehicle that violates the rules, but rather as a tool to motivate persistent violators, or those on streets where too many drivers refuse to move their cars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ordered 10,000 stickers to start, a small amount compared to the roughly 500,000 cars that do not move for alternate-side parking rules every week,\u201d DSNY spokesman Vincent Gragnani told the Daily News. \u201cWe used a few dozen of those stickers yesterday across the city, and will continue using them on blocks where multiple cars prevent our sweepers from picking up litter and debris.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe purpose of these stickers is to get cars to move,\u201d Gragnani added, \u201cso that we can deliver the clean streets all New Yorkers deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week, Gotham\u2019s street-sweeper scofflaws might return to their parked car to find a bright green sticker. \u201cThis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4248,118808,9,56,63,40388,65,64,118809,118807,67237,58698],"class_list":["post-314712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-alternate-side-parking","tag-green-stickers","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-department-of-sanitation","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-parking-scofflaws","tag-shame-stickers","tag-street-cleaning","tag-street-sweepers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314712","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=314712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}