Whether you’re passing through in your RV and looking for a great parking spot, you’re in town on business and don’t have the energy to find a hotel for the night, or any number of other reasons, you might have found yourself considering sleeping in your vehicle on the streets of NYC.
As there is no law against sleeping in your car, you are not inherently breaking the law by sleeping in your car in a parking lot.
It’s all well and good being permitted to park in a specific spot, but you won’t get a very good night’s sleep if you have to move on within the next hour.
You see, while you might not be breaking any laws by sleeping in your car on an NYC street, residents are also not breaking any laws by calling the police to report a “suspicious” vehicle in their neighborhood.