Open Parking and Camera Violations — NYC Open Data

The Open Parking and Camera Violations dataset was initially loaded with all violations contained in the mainframe database as of May 2016. Subsequent new violation issuance and updates to existing violations are applied to this data set on the following schedule: New or open violations will be updated weekly (Sunday). This Actor returns it as one flat JSON row per record, with 19 declared fields — typed, named and documented in the dataset schema, so a spreadsheet or an agent can use it without guessing.

What you get

Field	Type	Meaning
violation_time	string	Violation Time
judgment_entry_date	string	Judgment Entry Date
violation	string	Violation
license_type	string	License Type
issue_date	string	Issue Date
county	string	County
precinct	number	Precinct
payment_amount	number	Payment Amount
interest_amount	number	Interest Amount
fine_amount	number	Fine Amount
state	string	State
issuing_agency	string	Issuing Agency
violation_status	string	Violation Status
summons_image	string	Summons Image
reduction_amount	number	Reduction Amount
plate	string	Plate
amount_due	number	Amount Due
penalty_amount	number	Penalty Amount
summons_number	number	Summons Number

Every row also carries sourceRowId, sourceUpdatedAt and scrapedAt, so a pipeline can tell one record from another and know exactly when it was read.

{
  "violation_time": "11:50A",
  "judgment_entry_date": "05/16/2019",
  "violation": "SIDEWALK",
  "license_type": "PAS",
  "issue_date": "12/23/2018",
  "county": "Q",
  "precinct": 109,
  "payment_amount": 175.61
}

Inputs

Field	What it does
Filter (SoQL)	Applied at the source, so a narrow question fetches a narrow page instead of downloading everything.
Order	Empty keeps the publisher's own order; set a column to sort, for example amount DESC.
Maximum rows	Hard cap. The source is paged 1,000 rows at a time.
Time budget	Stops cleanly and reports how far it got.
Pause between pages	Keeps the run inside the publisher's rate limits.

Limitations

• This is one dataset, from one publisher. It is the Open Parking and Camera Violations dataset as Department of Finance (DOF) publishes it — not a national or cross-city equivalent, and not a merge with other sources.
• The publisher can change it. Columns are added, renamed and retired upstream; the field list here is the schema the Actor was generated from. A renamed column arrives as a new field only after the Actor is updated.
• Fields are typed from live records. A column that was empty in the sample is declared as text; a value that does not fit the declared type comes back null rather than being coerced into a wrong number.
• Records are what the publisher publishes. No geocoding, no de-duplication across datasets, no enrichment.
• Freshness is the publisher's. The data was last changed upstream on 2026-10-25. Where the publisher supplies a row timestamp it appears as sourceUpdatedAt; scrapedAt records when this Actor read the row.

Why this is different

• Open Parking and Camera Violations — NYC Open Data declares all 19 of its output fields in the dataset schema, each with a type, a description and an example.
• The Actor reads the Open Parking and Camera Violations dataset directly from NYC Open Data; no key, login or account is needed.
• Filters run at the source with SoQL, so a narrow request returns a narrow page rather than a full download.
• Every row is flat JSON: nested location objects become latitude and longitude, and no field holds a nested object.
• The row id is stable, so the same request de-duplicates instead of returning the same record twice.

FAQ

Do I need an API key? No. NYC Open Data publishes this dataset openly.

How fresh is it? The Actor reads the dataset live. scrapedAt records when each row was read, and sourceUpdatedAt carries the publisher's own row timestamp where it supplies one.

Can I filter by date or status? Yes — use the Filter field with SoQL, for example status = 'Active'.

What happens if my filter is wrong? The run stops with the portal's own message and the hint to check SoQL, rather than returning an empty dataset that looks like "no data".

Is this the whole dataset? Up to your row cap, paged 1,000 at a time. Raise the cap to read more.

What is sourceRowId? The publisher's own row id when it supplies one, otherwise a stable hash of the row. Either way it is what makes de-duplication and joins possible.

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.0005 per row. Each stored dataset row is billed, including any diagnostic row returned instead of results.

An Actor-start event is also charged at $0.0001 per GB of allocated memory (minimum one event), even if no rows are returned. At 1 GB or less, 1,000 result rows cost $0.5001 before any applicable Store discount.

Data source

NYC Open Data — Open Parking and Camera Violations, published by Department of Finance (DOF). Public data under the portal's open-data terms.