NYC Alternate Side Parking To Resume For Weeklong 'Clean Sweep'

NEW YORK CITY — Get ready to move the car, alternate side parking is coming back next week for a mass-citywide cleanup, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday.

Alternate side parking will resume from May 18 to May 24 so that the Sanitation Department can conduct a "clean sweep" of city streets that have become riddled with trash in recent weeks, de Blasio said.

"We've said from the start we have to keep an eye on how our neighborhood's are looking," de Blasio said. "We want to keep them clean."

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Suspension will resume again for two weeks from May 25 to June 7, during which time the Sanitation Department will reassess whether another clean sweep is needed.

The mayor said he reinstated alternate side parking after the Sanitation Department reported increasing litter in the streets, but did not provide specifics as to where.

"Sanitation Department kept confirming they were satisfied with the standards," de Blasio said. "Only in the last few days have they said they were concerned."

De Blasio said he would consider changes to alternate side parking once the stay-in-place lifted, but warned New York City would not be returning to its normal pace, "for quite a while."

New York has begun to see progress in its fight against novel coronavirus, the global pandemic that brought the city's economy, and cars, to a screeching halt.

The mayor's office's three tracking indicators showed progress Saturday with hospitalizations, ICU admittances and the percentage of New Yorkers testing positive for COVID-19 all decreasing, de Blasio said.

Hospitalizations dropped to 55 from 69 the day before, ICU admittances dropped to 537 from 540, and positive test percentages dropped to 13 percent from 17 percent, NYC Health + Hospital data show.

The Health Department reported a total 178,766 COVID-19 cases, 44,812 hospitalizations, 14,753 confirmed deaths and 5,178 probable deaths reported as of May 10, data show.

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