Election Day in New York City: Alternate Side Parking Is Suspended on Tuesday
You do not have to move the car for street cleaning on Election Day. Alternate side parking rules are suspended on Tuesday, November 3, on the city's Department of Transportation calendar — the curb's small part in a day of polls, remote school and a 9 p.m. line.
Election Day changes the curb rules in New York City. Alternate side parking regulations are suspended on Tuesday, November 3, for Election Day, according to the city Department of Transportation's 2026 alternate side parking calendar — which means the street-cleaning move-the-car routine that structures so many New York mornings does not apply on Tuesday.
The suspension is one piece of the day's citywide rearrangement. Polls are open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., and anyone in line by 9 p.m. can stay in line and vote. Public schools — many of them poll sites — hold classes remotely for all students for the first time. City voters will also find ballot questions on the back of the ballot when they get there.
Monday, by contrast, is a normal parking day with a deadline inside it: November 2 is the last day to apply in person for an absentee or early mail ballot at a Board of Elections office, and alternate side parking is in effect as usual.
So the week's driving rhythm is simple: Monday, park by the book and, if you still need one, get the mail ballot application in. Tuesday, the brooms rest, the polls are open for fifteen hours, and the only line you have to worry about standing in is the one at your poll site.
