Home Business in New York (2026)

Cheektowaga requires a temporary, two-year Board of Appeals permit for a home-based business in the R District, capping…

Oyster Bay splits home-based work into two tiers: a home office run solely by the resident is allowed as-of-right if…

Home occupations run by-right as an accessory use inside a Saratoga Springs dwelling, but the city caps them at 15% of…

Yonkers City Code § 43-41G confines a home occupation entirely inside the dwelling: no accessory structures, no outside…

Albany caps home-based businesses at 25% of a dwelling's floor area or 500 square feet, whichever is smaller, limits…

Amherst allows home occupations only as accessory to residential use under Zoning Ordinance § 6-8-6: no outside…

The Town of Babylon lets residents run a private office, Internet business, or phone-only business from home, but caps…

Brookhaven's Zoning Code lets residents run only 'customary home occupations' from their homes, defined in § 85-1 as…

Clarkstown lets residents run a home occupation by right with a Building Inspector permit as long as it stays within…

Glen Cove zoning bars commercial or industrial activity in residential districts unless it qualifies as a home…

Greece caps home-based businesses at 25% of a dwelling's gross floor area or 500 square feet, whichever is smaller…

A Huntington homeowner may run a home occupation, such as a home office for an accountant, architect or dressmaker…

The Town of Islip permits a home occupation only as an accessory office use inside a single-family residence in a…

Mount Vernon allows one home occupation or a professional's home office inside a residence, but City Code § 267-18.A…

New Rochelle Zoning Code § 331-45B lets residents run a customary home occupation inside a dwelling, but caps it at 25%…

New York City zoning caps a home business at 49% of a dwelling unit's floor area, up to 1,000 square feet, and treats…

North Hempstead's Zoning Code lets certain professionals, doctors, lawyers, teachers, architects, engineers…

The City of Oneida, Madison County, New York allows home occupations by right under City of Oneida Code § 190-28C(3)…

Ramapo defines a legal home occupation entirely through its zoning code's definitions section, § 376-5: the business…

Rochester allows home occupations in every residential district as an accessory use, but caps the space they can use at…

Smithtown caps home occupations at 400 square feet of a residence's floor area, limits on-site parking impact to two…

Utica zoning permits home occupations as an accessory use. Each dwelling unit may have one minor, one major, two minor…

Islip strictly limits signage for home businesses. A 'home occupation sign' is defined as one that identifies only the…

Yonkers City Code § 43-41G(4) bars any advertising display or identification sign for a home occupation, and prohibits…

A Type 1 Home Occupation in Amherst may carry no sign at all. A Type 2 Home Occupation, approved by the Zoning Board of…

In the Town of Greece, putting up any identification sign for a home-based business automatically bumps it into the…

Mount Vernon allows a customary home occupation in a dwelling unit but bans it from having any sign at all. Only the…

Home businesses in the City of Oneida's R-1 and R-2 Residential Zones may display no sign visible from outside the…

A home business approved by the Zoning Board of Appeals in Oyster Bay may display exactly one sign, capped at two…

Home occupation signage is banned outright in Rochester's R-1 Low-Density Residential District. Everywhere else, §…

Albany's zoning code lets a home-based business post just one small sign, a single nonilluminated, unanimated flat or…

In the Town of Babylon's Downtown Copiague district, a home-based business sign must be painted wood, no larger than…

A resident professional running an office out of an R District home may post only one wall sign, non-internally…

Colonie ties home-business signage to which home-occupation tier a resident holds. Level I permits, the town's default…

Glen Cove caps signs for a home-based professional office at two square feet under City Code § 280-54C(4), the same…

Huntington allows a single home occupation sign in any zoning district without a sign permit, but the Zoning Code caps…

New Rochelle allows a home professional office one sign under Zoning Code § 331-45C(6), sized to the City's Sign…

A Ramapo home occupation may display only one exterior sign, the 'announcement sign' defined in Town Code § 376-5…

A minor home occupation in Utica is not permitted to have any sign. A major home occupation may have no more than one…

A Brookhaven resident who works from home, such as a doctor, lawyer, or other professional, can post one identification…

Clarkstown lets a home-based business skip the sign permit entirely: a nameplate sign capped at 12 by 24 inches, plus…

A resident running a licensed profession from home in North Hempstead may post one nameplate sign of up to two square…

In the Town of Babylon's A Residence District, a home-based business cannot host clients: no one except the property…

Cheektowaga's home-based business permit lets residents run a small enterprise from a house in the R District, but the…

Yonkers City Code § 43-41G(7) forbids any customer, client, colleague or member of the public from visiting a home in…

A Greece home business that generates extra vehicle traffic or needs off-street parking beyond what a household…

A home business permitted by special permit in Oyster Bay may receive no more than two client, patient, student or…

Rochester does not cap client visits to a home business with a specific number, but § 120-139F lets the city bar or…

Albany caps how much traffic a home-based business can bring to a residential street: a home occupation cannot be run…

Colonie caps the traffic a home-based business can bring to a residential street. Under the town's Level I…

Glen Cove limits home-based teaching to four pupils at a time, and to a single pupil for music lessons, under Housing…

Because a home occupation cannot change the residential character of the property, Islip controls how parking for the…

A licensed home occupation or professional office in a Mount Vernon dwelling may serve only one patient, client…

New Rochelle caps customary home occupations at two client vehicles parked at the property at any one time. Zoning Code…

NYC zoning bars home occupations from letting customers or clients queue or wait for service outside the dwelling unit…

Home businesses in the City of Oneida, Madison County, New York may host no more than five customers, clients, or…

New York lets you sell home-baked and other shelf-stable foods without a food processing license through the Department…

Islip's code does not separately address selling home-baked or canned foods, so New York State's Home Processor…

Saratoga Springs has no separate cottage-food ordinance. Home bakers and jam makers sell under New York's state Home…

New York has no separate city cottage-food rule for Utica. Instead, the state Home Processor Exemption lets you make…

New York Social Services Law preempts municipalities from imposing additional licensing on family or group family day…

Running a family day-care home in a Yonkers residence requires a valid State Department of Social Services permit filed…

Albany allows a family day-care home as an accessory use in a residence, capping it at 10 unrelated children plus…

In Clarkstown's New City Hamlet Districts, a family day-care home may enroll up to six children as an accessory use to…

Islip allows residential day care as an accessory use in its residential districts under Town Code § 68-48A(1)(l), but…

In New York City zoning, any child care service licensed under Health Code Article 47 is legally defined as a "school"…

Oyster Bay treats in-home day care, play care and nursery school as a distinct zoning use under Town Code Chapter 246…

Ramapo's zoning code treats in-home child care as a residential accessory use with hard numeric caps. Under Town Code §…

A family day care in Utica is a dwelling providing day care to children during part of a 24-hour day. Under Utica…

Brookhaven's zoning code only regulates a "day-care facility" once it serves six or more children, seniors, or…

Greece's zoning code lists in-home day care as a permitted accessory use in every single-family residential district…

The City of Oneida, Madison County, New York exempts permitted family day-care homes and adult day-care homes in…

Rochester's Zoning Code lists family and group family day-care homes as an outright permitted use in the R-1…