{"id":353106,"date":"2026-09-22T03:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T03:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353106\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T03:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T03:14:09","slug":"disgruntled-car-owner-slaps-shame-sticker-on-nyc-sanitation-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353106\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Disgruntled’ car owner slaps \u2018shame sticker\u2019 on NYC sanitation car"},"content":{"rendered":"

A \u201cdisgruntled\u201d car owner slapped a \u201cshame sticker\u201d<\/a> on a New York City Department of Sanitation vehicle in apparent protest over the alternate side parking punishment.<\/p>\n

The giant neon-green sticker \u2014 meant to shame drivers who repeatedly fail to follow the parking rules \u2013 was affixed to the window of a DSNY vehicle parked on a sidewalk beside rows of townhouses, Catherina Gioino, a news editor for Fortune, posted on X Monday<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The nagging adhesive appears to have been placed on the city agency\u2019s car by a \u201cdisgruntled car owner\u201d who peeled off their own, a DSNY spokesperson told The Post.<\/p>\n

\"AA disgruntled car owner slaps a \u201cshame sticker\u201d on a New York City sanitation car. Catherina Gioino\/X<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was not affixed by a DSNY employee. It appears to be a case of a disgruntled car owner peeling off their own sticker and putting it on a DSNY vehicle,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

City officials began using the \u201cshame stickers\u201d in August, after Manhattan Councilwoman Gale Brewer sponsored a bill to repeal a decade-long ban on the practice and let street sweepers humiliate the scofflaws.<\/p>\n

\"ACity officials began slapping the \u201cshame stickers\u201d in August, after Manhattan Councilwoman Gale Brewer sponsored a bill to repeal a decade-long ban on the practice. Catherina Gioino\/X<\/p>\n

The unsightly placards have generated backlash from New Yorkers and lawmakers, who argue placing the sticky note on car window constitutes vandalism, and removing them is a nuisance.<\/p>\n

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

\u201cWe remind all car owners that these stickers are a tool to encourage people to move their cars in accordance with the law so that our street sweepers can deliver the clean curblines that all New Yorkers deserve,\u201d the DSNY spokesperson added about Monday\u2019s incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur hope remains that Albany will pass a bill that allows automated camera enforcement so that we do not have to use these stickers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Assembly Member Steven Raga and state Sen. Julia Salazar\u00a0have both sponsored a bil<\/a>l to crackdown on parking violations using automated camera enforcement. <\/p>\n

ACE is already used through cameras mounted on MTA buses to issue violations to vehicles occupying bus lanes, double parked vehicles along bus routes, and vehicles blocking bus stops.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A \u201cdisgruntled\u201d car owner slapped a \u201cshame sticker\u201d on a New York City Department of Sanitation vehicle in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[301,8991,2710,57,9,56,63,65,64,13896,131708,58],"class_list":["post-353106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-city-council","tag-department-of-sanitation","tag-law","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-parking","tag-parking-placard","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353106","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=353106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}