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New York Car / Permit: Parking & Stopping practice test
Legal and illegal parking, colored curbs, distances from hydrants and crossings, and how to park safely on hills.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
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1. When may you leave your car in a space reserved for people with disabilities?
Correct answer: When you display the permit or special plates and the person it belongs to is riding with you
The space may be used only by a vehicle carrying the proper plates or permit, and only while it is transporting the person named on that document. Lying on the application is a misdemeanor and brings a mandatory revocation. Never stop in the striped area beside such a space either, since that aisle gives room for wheelchairs and lifts.
Source: New York State Driver's Manual — Parking, Stopping and Standing
2. When you park facing downhill next to a curb, which way should you turn your front wheels?
Correct answer: Toward the curb
Facing downhill, turn your wheels toward the curb so the car rolls into the curb if the brakes slip. Facing uphill with a curb, turn them away from the curb. Always set the parking brake.
Source: New York State Driver's Manual — Parking, Stopping and Standing
3. What is the least distance you must keep between a parked vehicle and a railroad crossing?
Correct answer: 50 feet
State rules set a 50-foot buffer around a grade crossing. A vehicle left any nearer blocks the view of drivers who are approaching the tracks.
Source: New York State Driver's Manual — Parking, Stopping and Standing
4. You want to leave your car near a corner that has a STOP sign. How much clearance does the law demand?
Correct answer: At least 30 feet away from it
Parking and standing are prohibited within 30 feet of a stop sign, a yield sign or a traffic light. Stopping any closer would hide that sign or signal from drivers coming up behind you.
Source: New York State Driver's Manual — Parking, Stopping and Standing
5. What does a NO STANDING sign allow a driver to do?
Correct answer: Pause briefly to let people get in or out, staying in your seat
Where standing is banned you may pause only long enough for people to board or get out, and you must stay behind the wheel. A no parking sign is looser, since it also lets you load or unload goods, while a no stopping sign is the strictest of the three.
Source: New York State Driver's Manual — Parking, Stopping and Standing
6. After parallel parking next to a curb, how close to the curb should your tires be?
Correct answer: Within about 12 inches (one foot)
When you finish parallel parking, your tires should sit within about 12 inches of the curb. Parking farther out leaves your car sticking into the traffic lane, where it can be hit or block traffic.
Source: New York State Driver's Manual — Parking, Stopping and Standing
7. In which of these places are you allowed to stop or park?
Correct answer: In a legal parking space along the curb
It is illegal to stop or park on a crosswalk, within an intersection, or on a sidewalk, because doing so blocks pedestrians and traffic. Use a legal, marked parking space instead.
Source: New York State Driver's Manual — Parking, Stopping and Standing
8. You have parked at the curb and are about to get out. What must you check before opening the door on the traffic side?
Correct answer: That the door will not swing into a cyclist or passing traffic
A door flung open into the roadway can knock a rider down or be torn off by a passing vehicle. Look behind you through the glass and the mirror first, and leave by the curb side whenever that is possible.
Source: New York State Driver's Manual — Parking, Stopping and Standing
9. How far from a crosswalk at an intersection must you stay when you park or stand?
Correct answer: 20 feet
Parking and standing are both barred within 20 feet of an intersection crosswalk, so that drivers and people on foot can see one another as they approach.
Source: New York State Driver's Manual — Parking, Stopping and Standing
10. What is 'double parking,' which New York prohibits?
Correct answer: Stopping out in the roadway beside a vehicle that is already parked
Halting beside a vehicle that is already at the curb leaves your car sitting in a travel lane, forcing everyone else to swing around it. That counts as illegal parking, standing or stopping no matter how briefly you do it.
Source: New York State Driver's Manual — Parking, Stopping and Standing
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