A disabled motorist receives help along Fountain Street in New Haven Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026.
NEW HAVEN — As city crews have worked since last weekend to remove more than 10 inches of snow from the streets, they’ve also moved some cars in order to do it — 432 of them.
A New Haven city spokesman said Thursday morning that, during a citywide parking ban between Sunday and Monday and a downtown and select narrow street parking ban through the night of Tuesday, 432 vehicles were towed and 573 tickets were issued for violations. 
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The figure is almost triple the roughly 160 vehicles towed in Bridgeport during a similar parking ban, and a little more than triple the 143 vehicles towed in Danbury during its ban.
New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker said the city “(doesn’t) want to tow anyone, but we’re receiving a number of complaints about streets not being cleared.”
Although the number of vehicles towed in the city is high, Elicker said New Haven had some limitations that prevented it from towing even more.
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“There’s only so much space in the tow yards,” he said. 
Elicker said that the city used multiple avenues to tell residents about the parking ban, during which parking was prohibited downtown and on odd-numbered sides of residential streets.
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During the ban, the city made parking in six Yale University-owned lots free and the fee for downtown garages — usually $4 an hour — was $3 for the day.
In addition to parking enforcement, Elicker said that over 100 property owners have been warned about unshoveled driveways and one citation has been issued. Elicker said the enforcement around shoveling sidewalks is different, as 24 hours of notice once the snow stops is necessary, but city crews are soon to begin enforcement of sidewalks being cleared from snow.
Brian Zahn is a reporter with the New Haven Register. Brian covers all things West Haven. Since September 2015, he has worked for the Register, where he has spent most of his time writing about schools and education.
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