Got a street cleaning ticket on a Prospect Heights pilot street? It may already be void

The pilot is a joint project of the Department of Sanitation and Council Member Crystal Hudson's office. From Monday, August 3 through Friday, September 25, 2026, on twelve participating Prospect Heights street segments:

• Street sweeping and ASP enforcement happen once a week on each block's designated day — a Thursday or Friday, listed segment by segment on the official pilot page.
• The posted signs do not change. A sign may still show two or more weekly ASP windows, but during the pilot only the designated day is enforced on participating blocks.
• On non-designated days, no ASP ticket should be issued on a pilot street — even though the posted sign says otherwise. That mismatch between sign and rule is exactly what caused the first-week mistakes.

Check the official pilot page for the exact list of participating segments and each block's designated day — don't rely on the posted sign during the pilot window.

On the pilot's first two days, traffic enforcement agents who had not been told about the new schedule ticketed — and in some cases stickered — dozens of legally parked cars on pilot streets (NY Post, August 6, 2026; Hoodline, August 7, 2026).

• The NYPD's statement (via the NY Post): "These summonses were issued in error and have already been voided. We will ensure that the Department of Sanitation creates a formal process for notifying the NYPD about any requests for changes to longstanding parking rules."
• Council Member Hudson's office said it received about a dozen complaints, and that "the City has assured us that any summonses issued on non-designated enforcement days will be dismissed."

The takeaway: the city is on record, twice, that non-designated-day tickets on pilot streets are invalid. That is an unusually strong position to dispute from — if your ticket wasn't already voided.

• 1. Confirm your block and its designated day. Find your street segment on the official pilot page and note its designated enforcement day. If your ticket's violation date is that day, the ticket is a normal street cleaning ticket — the pilot doesn't help you, but the usual defenses might.
• 2. Check the ticket's status by summons number or plate — the first-week batch was voided by the city, so yours may already show as dismissed or simply not appear. Our free lookup guide shows how; note tickets can take a few days to appear in the system.
• 3. If it still shows as due, dispute it within 30 days. State that the summons was issued on a participating pilot street on a non-designated enforcement day, cite the official pilot announcement (council.nyc.gov/crystal-hudson/asppilot/) and the violation date, and mention the NYPD's public acknowledgment that such summonses were issued in error. Photos of your ticket and the street sign help.
• 4. Keep the evidence. Photograph the ticket, the sticker if you got one, and the posted sign before removing anything.

If your facts fit, our free letter generator can draft the dispute statement from what you tell it — free, no signup.

In the same week the pilot launched, DSNY resumed placing bright green warning stickers on cars that block street sweepers citywide — a separate change under Int 0092-2026, which repealed the 2012 sticker ban. Some mistakenly ticketed pilot-street cars were stickered too. The sticker itself adds no extra fine; it accompanies the standard $65 summons. See our full 2026 sticker guide for that story.

Yes, often — even outside the pilot. Across 1,784,003 decided street cleaning hearings in NYC Open Data, 25.8% ended not guilty and another 12.9% ended with a reduced fine. These are historical group statistics, not a prediction for any single case — but they show these tickets are far from unbeatable. See the street cleaning stats page and the full street cleaning guide for the defenses that historically work.