CECM publishes four sizes. The application is due 14, 30, 45, or as many as 60 days out. The organization needs at least $1 million of insurance before SAPO will issue.
CECM defines a street event as an activity on a curb lane, public sidewalk, or public street that interferes with ordinary use. The fee and the deadline depend on the size. Selling tickets does not file the application.
If you are using the curb lane only, the same page tells you to read the production-events rules before you apply as a street event. This page does not restate that other permit.
The fee table and the lead times are on that page.
SAPO waits for police, buildings, health, fire, and transportation permits.
A second block is a second fee, not a note on the first.
Impact and closure decide it, not the name of the show.
Each published price is per location, per day.
Police, buildings, health, fire, and transportation as the page lists them.
14, 30, 45, or up to 60 days. Not a single citywide number.
$3,100, $11,000, $25,000, and $66,000, each per location.
Minimum insurance for the organization. More can be required.
14, 30, 45, and up to 60 days. The first sentence of the page omits the last.
Small is $3,100 per location per day, due 14 days before the event. CECM describes it as short, with low impact on pedestrian or vehicle traffic and little coordination. The examples are a curb lane or sidewalk used for promotional material, a red carpet, tents, or a vehicle display, and a commercial or promotional event.
Medium is $11,000 per location per day, due 30 days before. It is a commercial, promotional, or charitable event that affects traffic, needs a substantial setup on the sidewalk and curb lane, or includes a tent, canopy, stage, bleacher, reviewing stand, bandstand, or similar structure that may need a Department of Buildings permit.
Large is $25,000 per location per day, due 45 days before. CECM reserves it for extensive impact, a full closure of one block, and significant setup. Extra large is $66,000 per location per day. The deadline depends on plaza levels and can be up to 60 days. It covers multiple locations, a mix of plazas and full closures, or both.
The page’s opening line, “45 days, 30 days or 14 days,” does not include the extra-large case. That case is stated separately and can reach 60 days.
The organization must be insured for a minimum of $1 million. CECM says additional insurance may be required. A site plan and a run of show go with the application. The office does not recommend locations. It asks you to scout them first.
SAPO will not grant its permit until the other agency permits are in hand. Food vendors need the Department of Consumer Affairs. Food giveaways need the Department of Health. No-parking signs and amplified sound, including background music, a performance, or a speaker program, need the Police Department. Tents, canopies, stages, bleachers, or inflatables over 10 feet need the Department of Buildings. A vehicle longer than 55 feet needs an over-dimensional permit from the Department of Transportation. Generators need a Fire Department certificate, and generators over 40 kW also need the Department of Environmental Protection.
The dollar figures are per location and per day. Two locations are not one fee. A multi-day closure is not the one-day price.
The page is about street events as CECM defines them. It does not quote a processing fee separate from these four prices, and it does not set the rule for a park permit. An event in Brooklyn uses the same published schedule as one in Manhattan only when it is this kind of street event. The size, not the borough name, picks the row.
CECM’s large category is the full closure of one block, at $25,000 per day.
The small examples include a curb lane or sidewalk with tents or a red carpet.
Extra large covers multiple locations. The deadline can reach 60 days.
Tickean sells the ticket. The SAPO street-event fee is paid to New York City, at the per-location daily rate for that size.
See pricing and fees →No. $3,100 is the small event, per location per day. Medium is $11,000, large is $25,000, and extra large is $66,000, on the same per-location, per-day basis.
No. Fourteen days is the small-event deadline. A large event, which includes a full closure of one block, is due 45 days before.
No. Tickean sells the ticket. The street-event application, the insurance, and the other agency permits are filed by the organizer.
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Last updated: October 24, 2026