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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

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2012 Alternate Side Parking Suspension Calendar
DateHoliday
Sunday, January 1New Year’s Day*
Monday, January 2New Year’s Day (Observed)*
Monday, January 16Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday
Monday, January 23Asian Lunar New Year
Monday, February 13Lincoln's Birthday (Observed)
Monday, February 20Washington's Birthday
Wednesday, February 22Ash Wednesday
Thursday, March 8Purim
Thursday, April 5Holy Thursday
Friday, April 6Good Friday
Saturday, April 7Passover (First Day)
Thursday, April 12Holy Thursday (Orthodox)
Friday, April 13Good Friday (Orthodox)/Passover (Seventh Day)
Saturday, April 14Passover (Eighth Day)
Thursday, May 17Solemnity of the Ascension
Sunday, May 27Shavuot
Monday, May 28Memorial Day*/Shavuot
Wednesday, July 4Independence Day*
Wednesday, August 15Feast of the Assumption
Sunday, August 19Idul-Fitr
Monday, August 20Idul-Fitr
Tuesday, August 21Idul-Fitr
Monday, September 3Labor Day*
Monday, September 17Rosh Hashanah
Tuesday, September 18Rosh Hashanah
Wednesday, September 26Yom Kippur
Monday, October 1Succoth
Tuesday, October 2Succoth
Monday, October 8Columbus Day/Shemini Atzereth
Tuesday, October 9Simchas Torah
Friday, October 26Idul-Adha
Saturday, October 27Idul-Adha
Sunday, October 28Idul-Adha
Thursday, November 1All Saints Day
Tuesday, November 6Election Day
Monday, November 12Veterans Day (Observed)
Tuesday, November 13Diwali
Thursday, November 22Thanksgiving Day*
Saturday, December 8Immaculate Conception
Tuesday, December 25Christmas*

* 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.



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