ChangeLog | drivers.nyc

Upcoming Changes

Many features have been disabled temporarily for stability reasons. If you needed this data, contact me

Search a plate straight from the address bar: drivers.nyc/ABC1234 for a New York plate, or drivers.nyc/NJ/ABC1234 for another state
Can I park here? shows driveways that are suggested by property records as a dashed orange line

New domain: drivers.nyc (licenseplates.nyc now redirects here)
New "Can I park here?" page: enter an address or use your location to see driveways (curb cuts), fire hydrants, bus stops and parking signs on a map
Can I park here? shows the tickets written on the block in the past year, the hours they're usually written, and a ticket risk for the time you're parking

Rebuilt the site: faster pages, no more Google Sites
Violations are now looked up directly from NYC Open Data, all years at once
Added violations from fiscal year 2024 onward, and new years are picked up automatically
Partial plate searches are back, and a space can also stand for a missing character
Partial plate results are grouped by plate, and each plate can be expanded
State selection now filters results, and "Any state" matches a plate regardless of state
Lists every vehicle seen on a plate, with the dates it was ticketed
Shows fine and amount due, with totals for each plate
Map showing where each violation happened

No longer self hosted
Upgraded our processing server from a Raspberry PI 4B to 3rd party shared hosting
New domain - licenseplates.nyc
Fixed bug where some records may have been omitted
Ticket image is temporarily disabled
VIN matching temporarily disabled
Partial plate searches temporarily disabled