Daily record checks
Every registered plate is checked against NYC Open Data records every day: new tickets, payments, penalties, and judgments, the full public record for the plate.
About
About CheckTow
CheckTow is a parking ticket alert service for New York City drivers. The app watches public city records for the vehicles you register and sends you an alert when a parking ticket is issued, when a penalty is coming due, or when your unpaid balance puts your car at risk of a boot or a tow.
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Why we built it
Most drivers find out about a parking ticket from the envelope on the windshield, and some never find that envelope at all. By the time a ticket goes unpaid, penalties grow, and in New York City a vehicle can be booted once its owner owes $350 or more in ticket judgments. CheckTow exists to close that gap: the same information the city publishes, delivered to the driver early enough to act on it.
The same information the city publishes, delivered early enough to act on it.
The idea behind CheckTow
A New York City block at dawn. CheckTow checks the public record for registered plates every day.
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What the service does
Push and email alerts
Alerts go out by push notification and email for new tickets, upcoming penalty dates, judgments, and boot risk, plus a weekly summary. Drivers choose their channels.
Plate scanning
Vehicles are added by scanning a plate with a phone camera, or by typing the number. The first scan is free and does not need an account.
Households covered
More than one vehicle per account, and alert sharing for households, so the person who drives the car hears about its tickets.
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Where things stand
- The app is in preparation for launch on iPhone and Android
- The service runs on NYC Open Data, the city's public parking ticket records
- The company is based in Brooklyn, New York
- No location data is collected: the watch runs on plate numbers, not on where cars are
CheckTow is not part of, or endorsed by, the City of New York. Ticket information comes from public records published by the city. See How It Works on the app site for the details.
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The company
- Legal name
- Checktow Corp
- Business address
- 33 Menahan Street, Brooklyn, NY 11221
- Contact email
- support@checktow.dev
- Product
- CheckTow, a parking ticket, boot, and tow alert app for New York City drivers, in preparation for launch on iPhone and Android.
For support or business inquiries, see the Contact page.