N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1211 (2026)

§ 1211. Limitations on backing. (a) The driver of a vehicle shall not
back the same unless such movement can be made with safety and without
interfering with other traffic.
  (b) The driver of a vehicle shall not back the same upon any shoulder
or roadway of any controlled-access highway.
  (c) the driver of a motor vehicle engaged in retail sales of frozen
desserts as that term is defined in subdivision thirty-seven of section
three hundred seventy-five of this chapter directly to pedestrians shall
not back the same to make or attempt to make a sale.