Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The Department of Sanitation has started slapping stickers on cars violating alternate side parking rules that read, “This vehicle violated street cleaning rules. As a result, this street could not be properly cleaned.”

Are these "badge of shame" parking stickers effective? WNYC/Gothamist producer Elizabeth Shwe went to Dyker Heights to find out.

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