Yonkers Alternate Side Parking: Rules, Fines & Suspensions

Yonkers alternate side parking requires you to move your car off one side of the street during posted 90-minute windows so city sweepers can reach the curb. The rules live in Chapter 109 of the Yonkers City Code. A standard ticket is $50, and it doubles to $100 if you don’t pay on time. Let tickets sit long enough and the city can boot your car, tow it, or ask the New York DMV to suspend your registration.

How the Rules Work on Your Block

Posted signs on each block tell you which side is off-limits and when. During those windows, sweepers run the curb line, and a car in the way gets a ticket whether it’s five minutes late or five hours late. The restricted periods usually run 90 minutes, often something like 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM or 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM, but the exact times vary block by block.

Trust the signs, nothing else. Check both ends of your block, because adjacent blocks can have different days and hours. If a metered space sits inside a sweeping zone, the sweeping schedule overrides the meter. You cannot park at that meter during sweeping hours, no matter how much time you’ve fed into it.

When Alternate Side Parking Is Suspended

Yonkers suspends alternate side parking on a long list of holidays each year, published by the Parking Violations Bureau on its PVB Alerts page. For 2026, suspended dates include New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Lincoln’s Birthday, Presidents’ Day, Passover, Good Friday, Easter, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Columbus Day, Election Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.¹

Meters are handled separately. On some holidays, meters stay in effect even though sweeping is suspended, and the PVB Alerts page spells out which rule applies to each date.

The city can also suspend alternate side parking during severe weather, typically major snowstorms when plows take over from sweepers. Those temporary suspensions are announced on the city website, on its social media accounts, and through the Mayor’s 24-hour hotline at 377-HELP. If a storm is in the forecast, check before assuming the regular schedule applies.

What a Ticket Costs

A street sweeping violation falls into the “no parking” category and carries a $50 fine.²

Ignore it and the real cost shows up. If you don’t pay or enter a plea within the required timeframe, the late penalty equals the original fine, turning a $50 ticket into $100.² The doubling applies to every unpaid violation on your plate, so the balance climbs quickly if you’ve collected more than one.

When the City Can Boot, Tow, or Suspend Your Registration

If you fail to respond to one or more parking violations within 30 days and the total balance tied to your plate reaches $300 or more, your vehicle becomes eligible for booting or towing.³ Enforcement officers scan plates and can immobilize the car wherever they find it parked.

If your car is booted but not yet towed, you’ll owe a $75 boot release fee on top of your outstanding tickets and penalties. Don’t touch the boot yourself. Damaging or removing it triggers a $475 replacement fee, and even returning it undamaged still runs $175 plus $20 per day from the impound date.³

Getting a booted or towed vehicle released is an in-person process. The registered owner or title holder has to appear at the Parking Violations Bureau at 20 South Broadway, 10th Floor, before 3:00 PM, with a valid physical driver’s license and the vehicle registration. You cannot handle this online. Expect to pay every outstanding ticket on every vehicle registered or titled in your name, plus any judgment fees and registration suspension clearance fees. The PVB accepts cash, credit cards, debit cards, money orders, and certified bank checks, but not personal checks. If the car was towed, the PVB issues a release form to bring to the tow company.³

The worst outcome is registration suspension. Under New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law, Yonkers can certify your plates to the DMV Commissioner for suspension if you fail to answer, attend a hearing, or pay a final decision on even a single parking ticket after multiple notifications. The last warning is a Notice of Impending Registration Suspension. Clearing a suspension requires paying every outstanding violation plus a $20 clearance fee per suspension.⁴ Driving on a suspended registration is a separate offense, so the problem compounds.

How to Pay a Yonkers Parking Ticket

You can pay online, by mail, or in person at the PVB office at 20 South Broadway, 10th Floor.⁵ Have the summons number and your license plate ready before you start.

The online portal lives on the city’s ticket payment page at yonkersny.gov. Electronic check carries no convenience fee; credit card payments add a processing fee that scales with the transaction.⁶ One catch: if your plate is boot-and-tow eligible, has a suspended registration, or has a credit card chargeback on file, the online system won’t accept payment at all, and you’ll have to deal with the PVB directly.⁷

For mail, send a check to the Parking Violations Bureau, 20 South Broadway, 10th Floor, Yonkers, NY 10701. A returned check adds $35 to your account.⁸ In person, keep the physical receipt as proof.

How to Fight a Ticket

If you think the ticket was wrong, Yonkers offers two routes: an in-person hearing or an ex-parte hearing by mail. There is no online dispute option.⁹

For an in-person hearing, either mail the back of your ticket with the “I request a hearing in person” box checked, or go to the PVB at 20 South Broadway, 10th Floor, to fill out a hearing request form. Come to the hearing ready to settle every ticket in your name. If you can’t make it, request an adjournment before your case is called; you get one postponement of up to 14 days, and no more except in extraordinary circumstances. If the judge rules against you, payment is due within seven days.⁹

For an ex-parte hearing, mail the signed ticket with a written explanation and any supporting evidence (photos, witness statements, registration documents, receipts) to the PVB at 20 South Broadway, 10th Floor, Yonkers, NY 10701. An Administrative Law Judge reviews the materials and mails back a decision.⁹

If a judge rules against you, you have 30 calendar days from the decision date to appeal. You must have entered a not-guilty plea at the original hearing to qualify, and you have to pay the hearing decision or post a bond for it by the original due date, because filing an appeal does not pause enforcement on its own. The filing fee is a non-refundable $10. A panel of three Administrative Law Judges who weren’t involved in your original case reviews the appeal, and their decision is your last administrative remedy.⁶

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Yonkers, NY. PVB Alerts
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City of Yonkers, NY. City of Yonkers Code 109-160 – Penalties for Offenses; Towing and Storage Fees
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City of Yonkers, NY. Boot and Tow Information / Policy
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City of Yonkers, NY. Suspended Registration Information
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City of Yonkers, NY. Parking Violations Bureau
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City of Yonkers, NY. PVB General Information
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City of Yonkers. Tickets
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City of Yonkers, NY. Tickets
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City of Yonkers. Pleading Not Guilty to a Ticket