1901/04/02 - 2020/04/01
Old
Front Plate Required: Yes
Area Codes: 212, 315, 332, 347, 516, 518, 585, 607, 631, 646, 716, 718, 845, 914, 917, 929
License Plates:
Windshield Stickers:
Road and Highway Signs:
County Roads:
Highways:
Highway Adoption:
Historical:
Until about 2020, New York had one of the most identifyable orange license plates. Later coverage has the newer white plate, but all vehicles registered in New York still have the double regulation/inspection windshield sticker.
Pre-2020 license plate
Post-2020 license plate
Regulation and inspection stickers
Small green square plates with three rows of numbers are fairly common both here and in Vermont. In New York, the numbers on these plates will tell you exactly where you are if you know how to read it. The top number is the number of the state or US routes you are on. In the second row, the first digit is the region you are in, and the second digit is the county numbered in an alphabetical list. In the third row, the first digit represents the city and the rest of the digits are the distance you are away from that city.
Green marker
New York region codes
"State", "Town", or other specific types of speed limits are unique to New York. Brown and yellow is the standard color palette in the Adirondacks.
Speed limit sign variations
Brown and Yellow in Adirondacks
Tollroad marker
Mile marker on crossover
Adirondack crossover mile marker
Bollard combinations
New York and Vermont both use green square plates with white numbers.
New York
New York's blue and yellow historical marker have a similar color pattern to Pennsylvania's keystone markers.
New York historical marker
Pennsylvania keystone marker