Is Alternate Side Parking Suspended Today in NYC?

How Alternate Side Parking Works in NYC

Alternate side parking rules exist to clear parked cars from the curb so DSNY street sweepers can clean the roadway. The NYC Department of Sanitation maintains approximately 6,500 miles of city streets; ASP rules are actively enforced on nearly 2,300 of those miles.

When ASP is in effect on your block, you must move your car off that side of the street during the posted hours. Enforcement windows are typically 90 minutes or 3 hours and vary by block — most fall mid-morning (common examples include 7:00–8:30am, 9:00–10:30am, and 11:00am–12:30pm), though some blocks run overnight windows instead, such as 3:00–6:00am. Your posted sign is the only authoritative source for your specific street. NYPD Traffic Enforcement Agents ticket vehicles that remain at the curb during enforcement windows.

When ASP Is Suspended

Alternate side parking is suspended 42 times in 2026. Suspensions fall into two categories: scheduled and unscheduled.

Scheduled suspensions follow the annual NYC DOT ASP calendar and cover major legal holidays as well as specific cultural and community holidays recognized by the city. The full 2026 ASP suspension calendar is published by NYC DOT and lists every scheduled suspension date for the year.

Suspension doesn't always mean meters are off, too. Parking meters are suspended only on the six major legal holidays — New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. On the other 35 ASP suspension dates, only street cleaning is paused; meters remain in effect and expired meters can still be ticketed.

Unscheduled suspensions are declared by the mayoral administration during snow emergencies, severe weather, or other citywide emergencies, and announced through NYC DOT. These are issued with little advance notice — checking this page on the morning you need to move your car is the most reliable way to confirm same-day status.

The current status shown above reflects today's ruling. For the full year's schedule, see the 2026 ASP Suspension Calendar.

About This Data — Source & Update Frequency

TodayIn surfaces alternate side parking status from the New York City Department of Transportation's official ASP suspension calendar. Live status is checked through NYC311, the City's real-time parking-status service, and refreshes every 30 minutes — this also reflects same-day emergency suspensions, such as snow operations, that fall outside the scheduled annual calendar. If the live City service is unavailable, TodayIn falls back to DOT's published 2026 ASP Suspension Calendar, last verified Thursday, May 14, so scheduled-holiday status stays accurate during an outage. Which holidays carry an ASP suspension is set through New York City Council legislation; NYC DOT then publishes the specific date for each one in its annual calendar, since holidays like Lunar New Year and Diwali shift dates year to year. Unscheduled suspensions — for snow emergencies or severe weather — are announced separately by the City, outside the legislated calendar. TodayIn surfaces the City's own data and does not set or interpret the rules. This page reflects citywide status only, not block-level schedules.