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Know where you can park, and when.

An iPhone app for Manhattan. The map below is not a picture of it — it is the real thing: seventeen blocks of the Upper East Side, every curb a verdict.

LEGAL RESTRICTION WITHIN THE HOUR RESTRICTED UNKNOWN · NO CLAIM
Thu · 7:00 AM
drag through the week · snaps to the minutes the rules change fifth–third ave · e 79–96 st · one frozen week · generated · not live
01
THE POSE

Four signs on one pole, hazards on, doing math you're not sure about.

Every driver in Manhattan knows the position. The signs are all true at once; the question is what they add up to, right now.

02
THE ANSWER

One verdict, with a deadline.

Street cleaning, hydrants, school-day rules, meters — resolved together into a single answer: whether you can park here, and the exact hour you'd have to move.

03
THE RECEIPT

Check it against the pole.

Every verdict shows the posted sign it came from, so you can check it against the pole. And because the map is reconciled against enforcement — what officers actually ticket, not just what's posted — it knows when the pole isn't the whole story.

E 91 ST · NORTH SIDE · MADISON–PARK
Not now — legal again at 12:30 PM.
Street cleaning on this curb, Monday and Thursday mornings.
POSTED
NO PARKING
MONDAY · THURSDAY
11 AM – 12:30 PM
(sanitation broom symbol)
04
THE PROOF

Checked against millions of New York parking tickets.

Every ticket records an officer's real-world enforcement decision on a specific block at a specific time. The map is reconciled against millions of them — that is how it finds the blocks where the city's published rules aren't the whole truth. And where the data still can't be trusted, the app says unknown instead of guessing.

05
COVERAGE

Manhattan, neighborhood by neighborhood.

30 of 32 neighborhoods are published — very nearly the island. The two that aren't ready read unknown in the app until they are.

Manhattan silhouette with nearly the whole island filled in as published. Two small gray areas are held; parks are pale green.
PUBLISHED · 30
HELD · 2 Lincoln Square · Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village
PARKS · EXCLUDED

parks and other non-parkable areas — central park among them — are excluded

Park with evidence, not a guess.

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