Last Updated on August 10, 2021 by Lawrence Berezin
Fascinating facts about NYC parking tickets
Renthop recently published an informative article sharing NYC parking tickets facts and trends. Did you know:
- What percentage of NY households have access to a car?
- What percentage of Manhattan households have access to a car?
- What is the highest ticketed neighborhood in NYC?
- What NYC borough has the highest number of cars per household and the lowest number of tickets per household? Why?
- What are the lowest ticketed neighborhoods?
- Is enforcement down or are people simply parking better?
- …and much more
I highly recommend reading this wonderful article.
In the meantime, here are some of the findings on display in the report.
The NY Yankees of NYC parking tickets
Here are the 5 highest-ticketed neighborhoods, with the Upper East Side winning again.
The least ticketed neighborhoods were in Staten Island and Eastern Queens
These neighborhoods received much less parking tickets than last year:
- Queens Village Rosedale, Queens (Precinct 105) – 49,372 Tickets/$3.46 million (-35.1% from 2015 | 17.6% better than city average)
- Fresh Meadows / Jamaica Hills, Queens (Precinct 107) – 72,063 Tickets/$4.55 million (-32.2% from 2015 | 14.7% better than city average)
- St. Alban’s / S. Jamaica / JFK, Queens (Precinct 113) – 24,029 Tickets/$1.74 million (-31.5% from 2015 | 14% better than city average)
- Washington Heights South, Manhattan (Precinct 33) – 52,854 Tickets/$4.17 million (-29.3% from 2015 | 11.8% better than city average)
- Midtown North / Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan (Precinct 18) – 131,149 Tickets/$12.9 million (-29.1% from 2015 | 11.6% better than city average)
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These neighborhoods received more tickets, or saw a decrease much less than the average of 17.5%:
- Stuyvesant Heights, Brooklyn (Precinct 81) – 26,809 Tickets/$1.93 million (+5% from 2015 | 22.5% worse than city average)
- North Shore / Stapleton, Staten Island (Precinct 120) – 36,461 Tickets/$2.55 million (+2% from 2015 | 19.5% worse than city average)
- TriBeCa / SoHo, Manhattan (Precinct 1) – 142,419 Tickets/$13 million (-1.5% from 2015 | 16% worse than city average)
- Bayside, Queens (Precinct 111) – 38,758 Tickets/$2.49 million (-3.8% from 2015 | 13.7% worse than city average)
- Flatiron / Stuy-town / Gramercy, Manhattan (Precinct 13) – 141,003 Tickets/$12.4 million (-5% from 2015 | 12.5% worse than city average)
Commentary
Our thanks to Renthop for sharing this informative report about NYC parking tickets.
Everyone seems to agree that a New York City parking ticket that has the wrong license plate — two of the three letters transposed, say they wrote “NFL-1234” rather than “NLF-1234” — and no VIN and no operator’s name even though the operator was present is not valid. (As is common, the officer just handed it to the operator, in violation of the law, though we know that judges ignore that provision of the law.)
But there is disagreement on how to deal with it.
Lawyer X told me to ignore it because there is no way to connect it with my car.
Lawyer Y told me that I cannot ignore it because, well, you can’t ignore a legal document (and someone in the DOF with time on his hands may run a check for similar plate numbers in the locality with the same indicated body type, make and year), but that if I send it in it will surely be dismissed.
To that, Lawyer X responded that that may be true in principle, but that if I send it in or go online or appear in person, the DOF will then know who I am and will take my participation as an admission that I got the ticket, and may enforce it, especially if they think that the erroneous three-letter combination was a common one (as in “NFL”) so the officer’s error should be excused.
Is there a definitive right answer to this?
Hi Robert,
Good morning. Your question has two parts.
First, there is no definitive answer about whether you should ignore a parking ticket with a misdescribed plate. Remember, a ticket lives for 8 years and 3 months. Who knows what the Evil Empire will have available to connect you and the misdescribed plate. But, you can only defend a ticket for one year until it goes into default judgment (100 days). Afterward, you have only one year from the entry of judgment to request a hearing after judgment to vacate the judgment and defend. These applications are rarely granted
Second, a misdescribed plate number, regardless of the number of elements entered incorrectly, is a winning defense. Period. You win, as long as you present the proper proof, properly. Proof consists of:
-Your registration
-I add photographs of the car, the plate, and a close up of the plate
Good luck.
Regards,
Larry
Hi Larry,
I received a parking ticket for a front covered plate – clear plastic. Back clear plastic had been removed but I saw no reason to remove front as it does not get photographed. Not really why I’m writing, I just thought it to be bogus. In any event, under “Complainant’s Comments is written: “No driver no permit no plaque on dash front plate cover Plastic Cover on Plate” What does no driver, no permit, no plaque on dash mean?? Thanks!
Hi LB,
Good morning.
Oftentimes, warriors enter comments to make a parking ticket more difficult to dismiss. The particular comment you referred to is fairly common. The significance of “No driver” is to block the defense that you stopped temporarily to drop off or pick up a passenger to the curb, and left the area immediately. The significance of no permit no plaque is to block the defense that you had a permit to park in a particular parking area. I trust you were issued a parking ticket for improper display of plate(s). A warrior is required to enter the reason the plate(s) were displayed improperly.
Good luck.
Park safely.
Larry
Is it illegal for me to accept a parking receipt from a stranger and use the remaining time for my parking needs? Do I need to know the person prior?
Nice chatting with you, Michael. Regards, Larry