Yonkers, NY Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

City Code § 109-79, amended as recently as April 25, 2023 by Ordinance No. 6-2023 (earlier amendments run from 2005 through 2022), prohibits parking a commercial vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, house-on-wheels, bus, or school bus on any Yonkers street for any purpose other than the expeditious unloading and delivery or pickup and loading of materials, food, or people, or while the vehicle is actively providing a commercial service. The section specifically reaches "food-delivery vehicles," defined as any vehicle bearing the name or logo of a food establishment, closing a gap that let branded delivery trucks sit curbside between routes.

The restriction sits in Article IX of Chapter 109 alongside the City's general parking-compliance rule, § 109-74A, which separately makes it unlawful to park on any City-owned lot, public street, alley, or highway where parking is prohibited or restricted, or in front of or partially obstructing a private driveway. Read together, a commercial vehicle idle at the curb outside the narrow loading/delivery/service exception is parked unlawfully twice over: once under the general prohibition and again under the vehicle-specific ban in § 109-79. Enforcement runs through the Office overseeing Yonkers parking violations, the Board created under Article IV of the chapter, which under § 109-36B may set monetary penalties for parking violations, capped at $50 per violation unless the City Council raises that cap by resolution. Repeated commercial-vehicle violations at the same location can also support removal under the City's vehicle-towing authority in Article XIII.