NYC parking ticket guides

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Plain-English help with NYC parking and camera tickets. These guides are for everyone, whether or not you ever use nyfinepay. Facts come from the City of New York’s own pages, which we link at the end of each guide, and each guide shows when we last reviewed it.

• How to pay an NYC parking ticketEvery way to pay an NYC parking or camera ticket: the city's site and app, mail, a business center or a private service, with what each costs.
• How to find your NYC summons numberWhere the 10-digit number is on an NYC parking ticket and on a camera Notice of Liability, and what to do if you do not have the ticket.
• NYC parking ticket deadlines and late penaltiesThe 30-day deadline for NYC parking and camera tickets, the late penalties the city lists, and what judgment, boots and tows mean, in plain English.
• Types of NYC parking violationsA plain-English tour of common NYC parking violations, such as meters, street cleaning, hydrants and double parking, and why fines differ by code and place.
• NYC camera tickets vs parking ticketsHow NYC speed, red light and bus lane camera tickets differ from parking tickets: who gets them, how they arrive, how to see the evidence and the deadlines.
• Parking ticket vs moving violation in NYCThe difference between NYC parking and camera tickets and moving violations, who handles each, and which kind nyfinepay can and cannot pay.
• How to contest an NYC parking ticketHow to dispute an NYC parking or camera ticket with the city: the 30-day window, hearing options, evidence, decisions and appeals. nyfinepay does not handle disputes.
• How long until your payment shows as paidHow long it usually takes for a parking or camera ticket payment to appear in the city's system, by payment method, and what to keep as proof meanwhile.
• Payment not showing, or paid twice?What to do if an NYC ticket payment has not posted, you were charged twice, or you still get notices after paying: steps, what to gather and who to contact.

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The city’s own information is at its tickets page. nyfinepay is a private service and is not part of the City of New York.