Junior permit: no driving 9 PM to 5 AM in NYC or Long Island
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You have a junior permit and live in New York City. Can you practice driving at 10 PM with your parent?
The rule
With a junior permit you may not drive at all between 9 PM and 5 AM in New York City or on Long Island. Upstate, you may drive then only under the supervision of your parent, guardian, person in loco parentis, or driver education or driving school instructor.
With a junior permit you can't drive at all from 9 PM to 5 AM in New York City or on Long Island. Upstate, you may drive then only with a parent, guardian or instructor.
From the New York State Driver's Manual, page 12. This question is our own wording of that rule. The handbook and the DMV have the final word.
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