The NY Department of Sanitation has started affixing adhesive stickers to cars violating street cleaning parking rules again, bringing back a practice that had been prohibited since 2011 before a City Council vote in June 2026 allowed the Department of Sanitation to resume the practice starting in August. ( Photo: DSNY) Shame Stickers for Cars Blocking Street Sweepers Make Controversial Comeback UWS Council Member Gale Brewer, the lead sponsor of Intro 92 which restored warning parking stickers, and Gregory Anderson,... News 07 Aug 2026 | 06:03
ParkSignal NYC detects open street parking spots. Eighteen-year-old Theo Darringer holds his phone in front of the free spot the app says is open. ( Photo: Sarah Gassel) Teen Creates App That Could Solve The City’s Street Parking Issue When teenager Theo Darringer’s family got a car two years ago, it quickly became his prized possession. He loved driving... News 30 Jul 2026 | 05:48
Bridle path or parking lot? Hard to know. ( Photo: Jack Ahern) Traffic Jam on Central Park Bridle Path, Latest UWS Parking Uproar Upper West Siders are in an uproar over the veritable traffic jam of cars parked on the bridle path in Central Park in recent... News 03 Nov 2025 | 05:40
Signs for a new app-controlled parking system went up in the dead of night on the UWS (76th Street and Columbus Avenue shown above). The new metering system abolishes the all-day parking allowed under the city’s traditional alternate-side-of-the-street parking rules. ( Photo: Hudson Burrows) New UWS Parking System Installed in Dead of Night Residents off Columbus Avenue went to sleep in rowhouses lining meterless streets on Sunday night, Aug. 10. But on Monday... News 15 Aug 2025 | 03:35
