New York City Parking Violations for Fiscal Year 2019

Over 30 detailed columns capture parking tickets issued across New York City from July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019. The dataset, published by the City of New York's Department of Finance, records violations at the moment of issuance, not their final adjudication status. It is part of a collection of fiscal year parking violation data available since 2014.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatial patterns of enforcement by mapping violations using Violation Precinct, Violation County, and Street Name.
• Predict high-violation times or locations using features like Violation Time, Days Parking In Effect, and Vehicle Body Type.
• Examine correlations between vehicle attributes like Registration State, Vehicle Year, Vehicle Color and specific Violation Codes.
• Identify common violation types and their legal basis by analyzing Violation Description and Law Section frequencies.

Strengths

• Contains over 30 columns providing granular detail on each violation, including location, vehicle, issuer, and law.
• Covers a full fiscal year (12 months) of enforcement activity across all five boroughs of New York City.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, preventing assessment of statistical significance for analysis.
• Data reflects only the issuance status; violation outcomes (paid, dismissed) are not updated, requiring joins with other datasets for current status.
• Sample data is unavailable for preliminary inspection of data quality and formatting.

Provenance

Source

City of New York, Department of Finance, published via data.cityofnewyork.us.

Collection Method

Records of parking violation summonses issued by enforcement officers.

Time Range

July 1, — 2018 to June 30, 2019.

Freshness

Data covers fiscal year 2019; metadata was last updated in January 2026, but the underlying records are static for that period.

Geography

New York City, New York, USA.