Parking in Winter

Snow Priority Parking Enforcement

Parking compliance is an important factor in ensuring plows are able to clear roads after a snow event. If plows, City or private, are unable to move through a street because of illegally parked cars, both the quality and the efficiency of snow clearance will be negatively impacted.

The City takes the following measures to enforce parking:

  • Police patrol high priority areas to ticket and, if necessary, tow illegally parked vehicles. Those areas include routes around hospitals and public safety buildings, steep hills, and streets with high rates of illegal parking in winter.
  • Ticketing and towing illegally parked cars that block plows on narrow roads.

Residents are reminded to:

  • Observe the odd/even parking restrictions on their street to make way for plows.
  • Move vehicles from the street whenever possible during a significant snowfall. 

 

View the list of priority parking enforcement streets below. 

Northeast

Street Block(s)
Beecher Street 100, 300
Boyden Street 300
Briggs Street 100
Cook Avenue 100
Gertrude Street 200, 300
Green Street 100, 200, 300
Grumbach Avenue 100, 200
Hastings Place 100
Helen Street 100, 200
Hickory Street 600, 700
Hier Avenue 100, 200
Highland Street 800, 900
Mariposa Street 100
Melrose Avenue 100, 200, 300
Mooney Avenue 100
North Collingwood Avenue 100
North Edwards Avenue 100
Rigi Avenue 100
Woodruff Avenue 100, 200, 300

 

Northwest

Street Block(s)
Butternut Street 1600, 1700, 1800
Apple Street 300
Bear Street 400, 500
Bryant Avenue 100, 200, 300, 400, 500
Carbon Street 100, 200, 300, 400, 500
First North Street 200, 300
Kenwood Avenue 100, 200, 300
Kuhl Avenue 100
Lilac Street 100, 200
Lodi Street 2000
Malverne Drive 100
Nelson Street 100
Park Avenue 500, 600, 700, 800
Steuben Street 100
Tennyson Avenue 100, 200, 300, 400, 500
Whittier Avenue 100, 200, 300, 400, 500
Willis Avenue 600

 

Southeast

Street Block(s)
Ackerman Avenue 700, 800, 900, 1000
Ashworth Place 100, 200
Avondale Place 100
Clarendon Street 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700
Clarke Street 100
Comstock Avenue 100, 200, 300 , 400
Dell Street 100
Ellis Street 200, 300, 400
Janet Drive 100
Lancaster Avenue 600, 700
Lexington Avenue 200, 300
Livingston Avenue 600
Lorraine Avenue 100
North Lorraine Avenue 100
Madison Street 1300, 1400
Maryland Avenue 600, 700
Redfield Place 100
Roosevelt Avenue 100
Sumner Avenue 600
Trinity Place 100
Westcott Street 800, 900, 1000, 1100
Westmoreland Avenue 500, 600, 700, 800

 

Southwest

Street Block(s)
Columbia Avenue 100, 200
Craddock Street 100, 200, 300, 400
Gordon Avenue 100, 200
Grant Avenue 100, 200, 300, 400, 500
Page Avenue 100
Reed Avenue 100
Rider Avenue 100
Stinard Avenue 300
Stolp Avenue 400, 500
Summit Avenue 600, 700
West Borden Avenue 100, 200
West Colvin Street 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700
West Colvin Street 1600, 1700, 1800
Will Avenue 100
Wolcott Avenue 100, 200

 

*This list is subject to updates

Downtown Parking Restrictions

Seasonal odd and even parking restrictions in parts of downtown Syracuse are in effect between Nov 1 and April 1. On blocks marked with special signage, overnight on-street parking will alternate and be limited to one side at certain hours. This allows snow plows to effectively clear the streets unobstructed by parked cars between the hours of 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. and creates easier and safer access routes for vehicles and pedestrians throughout the business district during the winter season.

Signage marking the parking changes and listing the hours for alternate parking is in place in the following areas:

100 & 200 blocks Erie Blvd. E.
100 & 200 blocks E. Water St.
100 & 200 blocks S. Warren St.
300 & 400 blocks S. Warren St.
300 block of Montgomery St.
100 & 200 blocks Madison St.
100 & 200 blocks E. Jefferson St.
100 block of W. Jefferson St.

Registered vehicle owners found in violation of the restrictions will be subject to ticketing and towing. For more information on downtown parking options, including options for overnight parking, please see the Downtown Parking brochure or contact the Downtown Committee at 315-422-8284 or mail@downtownsyracuse.com.

 

 

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