Overview
- The Department of Sanitation began placing neon-green stickers up to 8.5 by 11 inches on cars that block scheduled street cleaning on Tuesday, starting on the Upper West Side with Council Member Gale Brewer and Commissioner Gregory Anderson present.
- The City Council passed legislation this summer that repealed a 2011 ban and the bill became law after Mayor Zohran Mamdani let it take effect without signing or vetoing it.
- Sanitation officials say the new stickers use a less aggressive adhesive than the version discontinued in 2012 and are intended to prompt drivers to move rather than replace existing fines.
- Drivers can still receive the standard $65 summons for failing to move their car and the sticker is an additional visible enforcement tool, not a substitute for tickets.
- City lawmakers and state legislators are pursuing separate authorization in Albany for automated camera enforcement to identify blocking vehicles, a step that would expand enforcement beyond manual stickering and ticketing and could change how compliance is monitored.