---
title: "New York City Made $545 Million in Parking Ticket Fines in 2016"
description: "Or to put it another way, that's $63.74 for every man, woman and child in NYC."
date: "2017-05-04"
modified: "2017-05-04"
authors:
  - name: "Will Sabel Courtney"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/will-sabel-courtney"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/9954/new-york-city-made-545-million-in-parking-ticket-fines-in-2016"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "fines"
  - "New York"
  - "NYC"
  - "parking"
  - "tickets"
---

# New York City Made $545 Million in Parking Ticket Fines in 2016

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New York, New York, it's a hell of a town...when it comes to soaking people for improper parking jobs. [New York City](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/9912/nyc-drug-dealers-disguised-their-cars-as-ubers-to-avoid-suspicion-police-say>) pulled in a whopping $545 million in parking tickets in 2016, [according to the *New York Daily News*](<https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-collected-record-993-million-fines-year-data-shows-article-1.3134591>). Considering New York City has a population of around 8.6 million, according to the 2015 U.S. Census, that means NYC pulled in about $64 in tickets for every man, woman, and child in the five boroughs.

The $545 million figure was an increase of $32 million—roughly a 6 percent increase—over 2012's parking ticket fines, according to the *Daily News*.

All told, fines brought in $993 million in [revenue for the City of New York](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/3270/three-things-you-didnt-know-about-new-york-citys-troubled-highways>) last year, according to the report. The rise in parking ticket fines over the last few years is actually below the average for such charges; overall, fines rose 16 percent between 2012 and 2016, the report said.

[New York City is notorious for the difficulty of street parking](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/3874/watch-this-range-rover-smash-up-a-new-york-city-block-while-fleeing-the-cops>), due to factors such as frequent street sweeping and often-byzantine rules and regulations governing what vehicles can use a spot and at what times.

City officials said the monetary penalties were a key way of keeping New Yorkers acting responsibly in line with the city's initiatives, such as [the "Vision Zero" plan that aims to eliminate all traffic fatalities and injuries](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/7021/the-unimaginable-grief-of-distracted-driving-deaths>).

"Fines are an important tool to discourage behavior that can be harmful to others,” city controller Scott Stringer said, according to the *Daily News*.

## Author
Will is the former managing editor of *RIDES Magazine* and the former online editor for *0-60 Magazine*. He has worked for *Time Out New York* and *Rolling Stone*, and was the creator of *College Cars Online*, the first automotive blog specifically targeted at college students and young professionals.

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