N.Y. HAY Law § 316

§ 316. Entitled to free use of highways. The authorities having charge\nor control of any highway, public street, park, parkway, driveway, or\nplace, shall have no power or authority to pass, enforce or maintain any\nordinance, rule or regulation by which any person using a bicycle or\ntricycle shall be excluded or prohibited from the free use of any\nhighway, public street, avenue, roadway, driveway, parkway, park, or\nplace, at any time when the same is open to the free use of persons\nhaving and using other pleasure carriages, except upon such driveway,\nspeedway or road as has been or may be expressly set apart by law for\nthe exclusive use of horses and light carriages. But nothing herein\nshall prevent the passage, enforcement or maintenance of any regulation,\nordinance or rule, regulating the use of bicycles or tricycles in\nhighways, public streets, driveways, parks, parkways, and places, or the\nregulation of the speed of carriages, vehicles or engines, in public\nparks and upon parkways and driveways in the city of New York, under the\nexclusive jurisdiction and control of the department of parks and\nrecreation of said city, nor prevent any such authorities in any other\ncity from regulating the speed of any vehicles herein described in such\nmanner as to limit and determine the proper rate of speed with which\nsuch vehicle may be propelled nor in such manner as to require, direct\nor prohibit the use of bells, lamps and other appurtenances nor to\nprohibit the use of any vehicle upon that part of the highway, street,\npark, or parkway, commonly known as the footpath or sidewalk.\n