Yonkers, NY Home Business: Signage Rules (2026)

Subsection G(4) of § 43-41 is a flat two-part ban rather than a size or placement limit. First, it prohibits any display of products visible in any manner from outside the dwelling, meaning inventory or merchandise cannot be shown in a window, on a porch or anywhere else a passerby could see it. Second, it bars any advertising display or identification sign for the home occupation, full stop, unlike Chapter 47's general sign rules that set dimensions and permit paths for commercial signage elsewhere in the city.

There is no size threshold or exemption written into G(4); a home occupation gets zero sign allowance rather than a reduced one. This sits alongside the rest of § 43-41G's home-occupation conditions, including the (2) requirement that there be no visible evidence of the business and no change in the dwelling's appearance, and the (9) restriction on using newspaper, radio or television advertising to publicize the occupation's location. Together they mean a Yonkers home business must be identifiable only from the inside; nothing about the exterior of the house, yard or window can announce that a business operates there.

Property owners who want an actual identification sign for a business need a use classified and located as a commercial or mixed-use property, governed by Chapter 47, rather than a home occupation under § 43-41G.