Traffic & Transit
NYC Alternate Side Parking Suspended, Again, Because Of Air Quality
New Yorkers don't have to move their cars Thursday or Friday. They also shouldn't go outside.
NEW YORK CITY — Here's one silver lining to New York City's orange-tinged wildfire smoke-filled skies: no alternate side parking.
Alternate side parking will be suspended citywide Thursday and Friday because of air quality, officials said.
The city's air quality, as a refresher (no pun intended), was the worst in the world Wednesday, according to the monitoring site IQAir.
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City officials have urged New Yorkers to stay inside as long as the wildfire smoke from Canada lingers, which could be for a while.
And although alternate side parking will be paused, payment at parking meters will remain in effect, officials said.
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