Both answers, side by side, for every parking violation New York publishes: the New York traffic fines the Department of Finance charges, and the share of drivers who contested and paid nothing.
The city records the outcome of every contested ticket. These are the rates for every violation type with at least 1,000 decided hearings — 80 types, ranked by how often the driver walks away paying nothing.
Ask for a hearing within 30 days of the date on the ticket and late penalties never start. An unanswered ticket goes into judgment about 100 days after it was issued, and once judgment debt on your plates reaches $350 the car can be booted, then towed if that is unpaid 48 hours later. Reading this table tonight costs you nothing and puts you well inside the window. (nyc.gov — Dispute a ticket, and Booting and towing, checked September 4, 2026.)
A hearing costs you time, not money — contesting is free. So the question is only whether the charge on your ticket is one the city routinely fails to sustain. Above the citywide 26.2% dismissal rate, contesting is a reasonable use of an hour. Below it, contest only if you hold something specific — a required-element defect on the ticket, a timestamped receipt, or a photograph of the sign — because on those charges a general argument has nothing to bite on.
That is a rule of thumb drawn from the spread in this table, not a prediction. These are historical shares of decided hearings; nobody can tell you what will happen to your ticket.
Pay inside 30 days (nyc.gov — Dispute a ticket) and the amount stays exactly what the table says. The city takes payment on its own system, CityPay — Parking and Camera Violations, where you search by plate or summons number, and on the Pay or Dispute app. We never take ticket payments and never take a cut of a fine — there is no payment page anywhere on this site.
Free, three ways, all decided by the same hearing officers: online at nyc.gov — Dispute a ticket, on the Pay or Dispute app, or by mail — fill in the back of the ticket, attach copies (never originals) of your evidence, and send it to the address printed on it. DOF says an in-person hearing is no more likely to end in a dismissal, so mail and online are not the lesser routes.
Ask for the hearing within 30 days of the date on the ticket and late penalties never start. Leave it and it goes into judgment about 100 days after issue. (nyc.gov — Dispute a ticket, checked September 4, 2026.)
Don't know which of these you have? Enter your plate and state → and we'll pull your open violations live from the city's records with these rates stamped on each one, plus what's owed, the judgment clock and your distance from the $350 boot threshold. Nothing stored.
<img src="https://nycticketfacts.com/embed/dismissal-rates-by-violation.svg" alt="Dismissal rates for NYC's 15 highest-volume parking and camera violation types, computed from decided hearings in NYC Open Data" width="800">
Showing all 80 violation types.
| Violation (as printed on tickets) | Fine | Dismissed outright | Dismissed or reduced | Decided hearings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO STOP/STANDNG EXCEPT PAS P/U | $515 | 89.8% | 92% | 2,040 |
| FAILURE TO DISPLAY BUS PERMIT | $515 | 88.3% | 88.7% | 2,848 |
| NO PARKING-TAXI STAND | — | 87.6% | 89.1% | 16,184 |
| UNAUTHORIZED PASSENGER PICK-UP | $515 | 86% | 86% | 2,427 |
| NO PARKING-EXC. AUTH. VEHICLE | — | 84.4% | 87% | 43,047 |
| NIGHTTIME STD/ PKG IN A PARK | $95 | 83.5% | 84.1% | 2,945 |
| OTHER | — | 79.9% | 81.4% | 7,148 |
| SELLING/OFFERING MCHNDSE-METER | $35–$65 | 77.2% | 79% | 8,285 |
| NO PARKING-EXC. HNDICAP PERMIT | — | 75.6% | 76.8% | 5,209 |
| UNAUTHORIZED BUS LAYOVER | $115 | 71.9% | 74.6% | 19,344 |
| PEDESTRIAN RAMP | $165 | 70.5% | 73.4% | 25,015 |
| IMPROPER REGISTRATION | $65 | 68.8% | 74.4% | 16,825 |
| OVERNIGHT TRACTOR TRAILER PKG | from $250 | 68% | 69.3% | 6,898 |
| NO PARKING-EXC. DSBLTY PERMIT | $180 | 67.1% | 68% | 7,552 |
| DETACHED TRAILER | $45–$65 | 64.8% | 77% | 29,204 |
| MISSING EQUIPMENT | $45–$60 | 59.8% | 65.1% | 5,857 |
| PARKED BUS-EXC. DESIG. AREA | $45–$65 | 55.5% | 56.4% | 31,685 |
| NO STD(EXC TRKS/GMTDST NO-TRK) | $115 | 53.6% | 76.1% | 9,483 |
| OBSTRUCTING DRIVEWAY | $95 | 53.3% | 54.6% | 100,564 |
| PCKP DSCHRGE IN PRHBTD ZONE | $115 | 51.5% | 51.8% | 10,250 |
| EXPIRED MUNI METER → | $35–$65 | 51.1% | 63.4% | 740,127 |
| MISUSE PARKING PERMIT | $65 | 50.9% | 51.4% | 13,776 |
| NO STANDING-EXC. TRUCK LOADING → | $95 | 49.5% | 50.1% | 390,194 |
| FAIL TO DSPLY MUNI METER RECPT → | $35–$65 | 47.2% | 73.4% | 3,453,925 |
| NO MATCH-PLATE/STICKER | $65 | 46.6% | 49.2% | 42,947 |
| FRONT OR BACK PLATE MISSING → | $65 | 46.5% | 65% | 621,784 |
| WRONG WAY | $45–$65 | 45.3% | 60.7% | 50,661 |
| FRAUDULENT USE PARKING PERMIT | $65 | 45.1% | 46.3% | 7,615 |
| BEYOND MARKED SPACE | $45–$65 | 44.9% | 59.6% | 11,970 |
| IDLING | $115 | 41% | 68.3% | 9,001 |
| NGHT PKG ON RESID STR-COMM VEH → | $65 | 40.8% | 73.3% | 177,961 |
| OVERTIME PKG-TIME LIMIT POSTED | $60–$65 | 40.5% | 49.2% | 4,817 |
| NO STANDING-TAXI STAND | $115 | 38.3% | 71.1% | 101,261 |
| UNKNOWN | — | 38.1% | 38.5% | 1,337 |
| INTERSECTION | $115 | 37.5% | 52.8% | 4,008 |
| DOUBLE PARKING → | $115 | 36.2% | 72.8% | 1,846,187 |
| NON-COMPLIANCE W/ POSTED SIGN | $60–$65 | 34.5% | 49.5% | 56,105 |
| INSP STICKER-MUTILATED/C'FEIT | $65 | 34% | 44.5% | 36,751 |
| OBSTRUCTING TRAFFIC/INTERSECT | $115 | 33.4% | 44.7% | 66,592 |
| NO PARKING-DAY/TIME LIMITS → | $60–$65 | 32.9% | 70.5% | 1,842,098 |
| COMML PLATES-UNALTERED VEHICLE → | $115 | 31.4% | 62.5% | 116,323 |
| NO STANDING-FOR HIRE VEH STOP | — | 30.5% | 85.2% | 1,485 |
| ANGLE PARKING | $45–$65 | 30.1% | 38.8% | 11,662 |
| REG STICKER-MUTILATED/C'FEIT | $65 | 30.1% | 64.6% | 23,747 |
| DIVIDED HIGHWAY | $115 | 29.6% | 32.9% | 1,952 |
| BUS PARKING IN LOWER MANHATTAN | $115 | 28% | 61.5% | 3,383 |
| NO STANDING-EXC. AUTH. VEHICLE | $95 | 27.8% | 57.7% | 299,382 |
| TRAFFIC LANE | $115 | 27.5% | 79.1% | 43,464 |
| VIN OBSCURED | $65 | 26.4% | 47.8% | 23,243 |
| NO PARKING-STREET CLEANING → | $65 | 25.8% | 38.7% | 1,783,452 |
| NO STANDING EXCP D/S | $95 | 25.3% | 71.5% | 44,392 |
| STORAGE-3HR COMMERCIAL | $65 | 24.7% | 58.4% | 44,036 |
| NO STANDING-COMM METER ZONE | $115 | 24.6% | 29.1% | 307,226 |
| REG. STICKER-EXPIRED/MISSING → | $65 | 23.7% | 28% | 904,234 |
| EXCAVATION-VEHICLE OBSTR TRAFF | $95 | 22.7% | 58.4% | 2,922 |
| EXPIRED MUNI MTR-COMM MTR ZN → | $35–$65 | 21.6% | 81.9% | 317,863 |
| PLTFRM LFTS LWRD POS COMM VEH → | $45–$65 | 21.5% | 53.4% | 678,709 |
| NO STAND TAXI/FHV RELIEF STAND | $115 | 20.9% | 46.6% | 16,826 |
| BUS LANE VIOLATION → | from $50 | 19.3% | 38.6% | 435,825 |
| CROSSWALK → | $115 | 19.3% | 43.5% | 247,475 |
| SIDEWALK → | $115 | 17.6% | 50% | 190,735 |
| NO STANDING-HOTEL LOADING | $115 | 15.9% | 57.2% | 36,628 |
| EXPIRED METER-COMM METER ZONE | from $50 | 15.7% | 55.3% | 51,275 |
| NO STANDING-DAY/TIME LIMITS → | $115 | 15.2% | 62.3% | 3,502,560 |
| FAIL TO DISP. MUNI METER RECPT → | $35–$65 | 14.7% | 78.9% | 1,722,126 |
| NO STANDING-BUS STOP → | $115 | 14% | 57.6% | 1,090,359 |
| FIRE HYDRANT → | $115 | 13.9% | 37.6% | 1,105,709 |
| INSP. STICKER-EXPIRED/MISSING → | $65 | 13% | 26.2% | 938,662 |
| NO STANDING-BUS LANE | $115 | 12.9% | 64.2% | 180,871 |
| FAILURE TO STOP AT RED LIGHT → | $50 | 11.8% | 34.5% | 160,092 |
| DOUBLE PARKING-MIDTOWN COMML → | $115 | 11.6% | 61.7% | 802,048 |
| SAFETY ZONE | $115 | 11.6% | 58.2% | 181,613 |
| NO STANDING-FOR HIRE VEH STND | $115 | 10.9% | 68.1% | 5,186 |
| NO STANDING-OFF-STREET LOT | from $50 | 10.2% | 34% | 37,691 |
| MTA CAMERA VIOLATION - PARKING IN A BUS STOP | — | 10.1% | 46.2% | 80,668 |
| PHTO SCHOOL ZN SPEED VIOLATION → | $50 | 10.1% | 32.2% | 944,396 |
| MOBILE BUS LANE VIOLATION → | from $50 | 9.8% | 60.4% | 133,428 |
| NO STOPPING-DAY/TIME LIMITS → | $115 | 9.2% | 64.4% | 414,494 |
| BIKE LANE → | $115 | 9.1% | 66.4% | 398,662 |
| MTA CAMERA VIOLATION - DOUBLE PARKING | — | 4.3% | 27% | 57,370 |
Fine amounts are the New York City Department of Finance schedule, harvested 2026-09-02 from nyc.gov and cross-checked against NYC Open Data ncbg-6agr. Two figures mean the city charges Manhattan at or below 96th Street more than everywhere else; "from" means the fine escalates with each further violation in a rolling 12 months (nyc.gov — camera violation fines, checked 2026-09-04). An em dash means the city publishes no single figure for that code. Every listed amount already includes the $15 New York State Criminal Justice surcharge.
New York City calls the whole set parking and camera tickets, and we publish all three camera charges — each with its own measured dismissal rate in the table above: bus lane camera, red light camera and school zone speed camera. They sit low in that table for a reason: a camera charge is decided on a narrow documentary list — the vehicle was sold, stolen or its plate transferred before the date, the camera captured a different vehicle, or the notice itself is defective. Officer-issued parking tickets are the ones a written argument actually moves.
Camera charges are the only traffic violations this site covers. A moving violation — speeding, a light you went through, a phone in your hand — is heard at the New York State Traffic Violations Bureau, not by the Department of Finance, and nothing on this page applies to it.
The five highest dismissal rates in the city's own hearing records are NO STOP/STANDNG EXCEPT PAS P/U (89.8%), FAILURE TO DISPLAY BUS PERMIT (88.3%), NO PARKING-TAXI STAND (87.6%), UNAUTHORIZED PASSENGER PICK-UP (86%), NO PARKING-EXC. AUTH. VEHICLE (84.4%).
The lowest are MTA CAMERA VIOLATION - DOUBLE PARKING (4.3%), BIKE LANE (9.1%), NO STOPPING-DAY/TIME LIMITS (9.2%), MOBILE BUS LANE VIOLATION (9.8%), PHTO SCHOOL ZN SPEED VIOLATION (10.1%). Camera-issued violations cluster near the bottom because the evidence is photographic and the defenses are narrower.
Rates are shares of decided hearings (guilty, guilty-with-reduction, not guilty). Minimum 1,000 decided hearings per entity.
27,174,101 decided hearings across 80 violation types, each published only where it has at least 1,000 decided hearings. Source: NYC Open Data — Open Parking and Camera Violations (nc67-uf89). Computed 2026-08-31.
No. New York lets you dispute online, by mail, or in person at no charge, with no lawyer required, decided by a hearing officer. Answer before the response deadline printed on your ticket to avoid late penalties.
No. They are historical shares of decided hearings, not probabilities for an individual case. What they show is which charges the city itself most often fails to sustain.
A word on how to read this table. The high rows are not a promise and the low rows are not a verdict — they are what happened to everyone else. If your charge sits near the top, an evening spent writing a statement is a rational use of an evening. If it sits near the bottom, you probably need something specific: a photograph of the sign, a timestamped receipt, or a real defect on the ticket itself. And if you have none of those on a low row, the honest answer is to pay it and get your evening back. I would rather tell you that than sell you something.
Computed 2026-08-31 from NYC Open Data, "Open Parking and Camera Violations" (updated daily by the City of New York). Rates are shares of decided hearings (not guilty, guilty with reduction, guilty). Past outcomes do not guarantee any individual result — but they show which charges the city itself most often fails to sustain.
The questions Google shows beside this page's own search results, answered here in one sentence each. Every answer names the city's or the state's own page and links it.
Parking enforcement on the street is the Police Department's job, as NYC DOT's parking regulations page states, and a non-emergency complaint goes to NYC311's Illegal Parking service, which takes reports of a vehicle double parked, left in the same spot for more than seven days, blocking a hydrant, crosswalk, bike lane, sidewalk, bus stop or a space for people with disabilities, or breaking any other posted regulation.
There is no single city-wide time limit — every regulation posted on the block applies for the whole time the vehicle is there, and the city's rule is that where two signs disagree the more restrictive one governs — but NYC311 treats a vehicle left in the same spot for more than seven days as something a neighbour can report.
Search the plate or the summons number on the city's own CityPay system, or use the free lookup on this site, which asks the city's public Open Parking and Camera Violations file and returns what is open against that plate without keeping the plate.
Parking and camera violations belong to the city and are searchable by plate on CityPay or in the free lookup here; a moving violation written in the five boroughs belongs to the state, and the DMV's Traffic Violations Bureau lets you look up and print your open TVB tickets.
We do not hold that figure and will not guess at it: speeding is a moving violation and is not in the parking-and-camera file this site is computed from, and a moving-violation ticket written in the five boroughs is answerable to the DMV's Traffic Violations Bureau, which states the amount when you plead to or pay it.
Search the plate or the summons number on the city's own CityPay system, or use the free lookup on this site, which asks the city's public Open Parking and Camera Violations file and returns what is open against that plate without keeping the plate.
Yes for both, on the official sites and nowhere else: a New York City parking or camera ticket is paid on the city's CityPay system, and a ticket answerable to the DMV's Traffic Violations Bureau is pleaded to or paid on the DMV's own site — we take no payment and no fee for either.
There is no single price: the amount is set by the violation code printed on the ticket, the Department of Finance publishes a fine for every code, and for meters and some standing rules its schedule sets a different amount for part of Manhattan than for everywhere else.
Search the plate or the summons number on the city's own CityPay system, or use the free lookup on this site, which asks the city's public Open Parking and Camera Violations file and returns what is open against that plate without keeping the plate.
Put the plate into the free lookup here or into the city's own CityPay search: both read the city's records, and neither asks you to make an account.
The city's own Dispute a Ticket page sets out the sequence — late penalties once the window to request a hearing has passed, judgment roughly a hundred days after the ticket was issued, and no hearing at all on a judgment ticket more than a year old — and once the debt is in judgment the vehicle can be booted and then towed.
There is no single price: the amount is set by the violation code printed on the ticket, the Department of Finance publishes a fine for every code, and for meters and some standing rules its schedule sets a different amount for part of Manhattan than for everywhere else.
A camera notice of liability is the registered owner's to answer — the city states that the owner is responsible regardless of who was driving — so it is paid or disputed like any other ticket, and it runs the same judgment clock if it is neither.
Camera violations sit in the same city file as parking tickets, so the plate lookup on this site and the city's CityPay search both return them alongside everything else open on the plate.
The city states that red light camera tickets do not result in any points on your driving record, because the notice is issued to the registered owner rather than to a driver.
A parking ticket is a charge against the registered owner rather than a moving violation against a driver, so it puts no points on a driving record; left unanswered it becomes a judgment debt against the owner instead, which is the thing that leads to booting and towing.
Parking and camera violations belong to the city and are searchable by plate on CityPay or in the free lookup here; a moving violation written in the five boroughs belongs to the state, and the DMV's Traffic Violations Bureau lets you look up and print your open TVB tickets.
Enter the plate in the lookup on this site: it asks the city's public file and returns every open parking and camera violation against that plate, and it stores nothing you type.
City and state pages linked above read September 10, 2026. Rates on this site are computed from the city's public violations file; the amount, the deadline and the outcome printed on your own ticket govern.
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