Overview
- The Department of Sanitation began placing 8.5-by-11-inch neon‑green violation stickers on cars that block scheduled street sweepers on Tuesday, with Council Member Gale Brewer and DSNY Commissioner Gregory Anderson joining the first placements on the Upper West Side.
- The sticker law was restored after the City Council passed the bill in late June and Mayor Zohran Mamdani allowed it to become law by neither signing nor vetoing it during the 30‑day window.
- Officials say the decals are an enforcement tool to get drivers to move for alternate‑side cleaning so mechanical sweepers can complete routes and collect curbside debris; DSNY noted a single mechanical broom can pick up large amounts of trash on a route.
- The stickers revive a practice banned in 2011 over complaints that earlier adhesives damaged glass, and city officials say the new stickers use a milder adhesive; the existing penalty for failing to move a vehicle for street cleaning remains $65.
- City lawmakers are separately pursuing state legislation to allow automated camera enforcement for street‑cleaning violations, a step that would require approval in Albany before cameras could be used.