Motorists

Alternate Side Parking Suspensions

The City suspends alternate side parking (ASP) rules on the legal and religious holidays listed below. On major legal holidays, stopping, standing and parking are permitted except in areas where stopping, standing and parking rules are in effect seven days a week (e.g., “No Standing Anytime”). Parking meter regulations are also suspended on major legal holidays. On all other holidays, only street cleaning rules are suspended, all other regulations remain in effect.

2012 Alternate Side Parking Suspension Calendar

• Download a printable 2012 ASP calendar (pdf).
• Download the calendar in Chinese, Haitian Creole, Italian, Korean, Russian or Spanish (pdf).
• Subscribe to email updates on suspensions.
• Follow the Alternate Side Parking Twitter stream.
• Download a calendar file for Google Calendar, iCal, Microsoft Outlook and other programs (ics).

Read instructions for importing the calendar file into Outlook, Google Calendar or iCal.

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* On major legal holidays, stopping, standing, and parking are permitted, except in areas where stopping, standing, and parking rules are in effect seven days a week (for example, “No Standing Anytime”). Parking meters are not in effect on major legal holidays.

Emergency Suspensions

ASP Regulations may be changed from time to time because of inclement weather conditions or other emergencies. In these circumstances, the information is provided to the news media, and posted on the DOT website. Call 311 to obtain information on emergency suspensions.

DOT and the Department of Sanitation carefully consult weather reports before and during snowfalls in order to determine whether suspension is necessary. As weather patterns can change quickly, this decision must sometimes be made late in the day. After a snowfall, alternate side parking regulations will be restored so that plows can begin removing snow and ice from curbside lanes. Plowing helps to clear parking lanes and catch basins, which reduces the chance of melting snow flooding streets, and also helps return street cleaning operations back to normal.

Temporary Suspensions

Alternate Side Parking regulations may be suspended temporarily in parts of the City in order to post new regulations. When the Department of Sanitation must change street cleaning rules, regulations are suspended temporarily to allow DOT to update signs in the affected area. These suspensions do not affect parking rules other than Alternate Side Parking rules.

When the new signage has been posted, the Department of Sanitation provides a weeklong grace period during which its crews will clean streets according to the newly posted schedule, but will not issue summonses. At the conclusion of the grace period, enforcement of the new rules begins.

Park Slope Alternate Side Parking Suspension Study

During the summer of 2008, DOT suspended ASP in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The study found that the suspension caused minimal impact on traffic and parking conditions in that neighborhood.