Short-term-rental rules
Can you Airbnb in Village of Bronxville, NY?
Researched and reviewed by Jake Lee, FounderCurrent as of July 2026How this atlas is maintained
Bronxville has no short-term-rental law, no rental registration, and no STR permit anywhere in its village code, so rentals under 30 nights are legal by default. Caveat: zoning is permissive (uses not expressly listed are prohibited), and the only transient-occupancy use the code recognizes is a "hotel" (transient occupancy on a daily basis, 24-hour desk), allowed only in the C multiple-residence district with 20+ sleeping rooms, so running a home as a de facto hotel (constant daily-basis turnover or room-by-room rentals) risks being treated as an unpermitted use.
The operator's read
Can I run a short-term rental in Village of Bronxville, NY?
Go, with conditions
The rule that decides it: 'Family' means 'one or more persons occupying a dwelling unit as a nonprofit housekeeping unit' with a cap of five unrelated persons unless functioning as a family equivalent (sec. 310-3); there is no transiency or minimum-duration language, so a short whole-home rental to a single family group is not expressly barred.
- What does Village of Bronxville actually require?
- No STR-specific law, registration, permit, or minimum-stay requirement exists anywhere in the Village Code (full chapter index and Building Department permit list checked, July 2026). One-Family Residence AAA/AA/A districts permit only one-family dwellings, places of worship, parks, and limited accessory uses (home occupations with no nonresident employees); no lodging or tourist use is listed (secs. 310-8 to 310-10). The governing text is Village of Bronxville Code Ch. 310 (Zoning), secs. 310-3, 310-7, 310-8, 310-12; Ch. 192 (Multiple Dwelling Maintenance); no STR-specific ordinance exists.
- What stands in the way in Village of Bronxville?
- Beyond the cap above, nothing further is recorded for Village of Bronxville.
- What does it cost to get permitted in Village of Bronxville?
- Village of Bronxville's ordinance does not publish a fee schedule in the sources we hold. We confirm current fees with the municipality before you budget for them.
- How long does approval take in Village of Bronxville?
- Village of Bronxville's ordinance sets no published processing time, which is true of most towns in this region. We confirm the clerk's current turnaround before you commit to a date, because an unbooked opening season costs more than the permit does.
What would you do with a property in Village of Bronxville?
Workable. Confirm the current permit position with the municipality before you commit, then treat compliance as the first operating task rather than an afterthought. Most of the risk in Village of Bronxville is administrative, not structural.
What the rules say in Village of Bronxville
- No STR-specific law, registration, permit, or minimum-stay requirement exists anywhere in the Village Code (full chapter index and Building Department permit list checked, July 2026).
- Zoning is permissive: in every district, 'no building or premises shall be used... for any purpose except the following' listed uses (e.g. Zoning sec. 310-8A), so any use not listed is prohibited.
- One-Family Residence AAA/AA/A districts permit only one-family dwellings, places of worship, parks, and limited accessory uses (home occupations with no nonresident employees); no lodging or tourist use is listed (secs. 310-8 to 310-10).
- 'Hotel' is defined by 'transient occupancy on a daily basis... twenty-four-hour desk service' (sec. 310-3) and is permitted only in the Three-Story Multiple Residence C District with not less than 20 sleeping rooms accessed through a common lobby (sec. 310-12A); business districts allow no lodging use (sec. 310-14A).
- 'Family' means 'one or more persons occupying a dwelling unit as a nonprofit housekeeping unit' with a cap of five unrelated persons unless functioning as a family equivalent (sec. 310-3); there is no transiency or minimum-duration language, so a short whole-home rental to a single family group is not expressly barred.
- The code has no definitions of transient, boardinghouse, rooming house, tourist home, or bed-and-breakfast, and no provision on renting rooms, boarders, or lodgers (checked secs. 310-3 and 310-22).
- Chapter 192 (Multiple Dwelling Maintenance) sets maintenance standards for buildings of 3+ units and requires the code to be attached to each new tenant lease (sec. 192-7), but imposes no rental registration or occupancy-duration rules.
- Practical risk: because only listed uses are legal and the sole transient-occupancy use is a hotel confined to the C District, the Building Department could treat a dwelling operated with frequent daily-basis transient stays or room-by-room rentals as an unpermitted hotel-type use; whole-home rentals to one household at a time are on the safest footing.
- Condo/co-op and HOA rules commonly restrict subletting in Bronxville's many multiple dwellings; check building documents separately (not a village-code rule).
Sources: Village of Bronxville Code, full chapter index (eCode360 BR1468); Bronxville Zoning, Chapter 310 (table of contents and full text); Zoning sec. 310-3 Definitions (dwelling unit, family, hotel; no transient/B&B/boardinghouse terms); Zoning sec. 310-12 Three-Story Multiple Residence C District (hotels with 20+ sleeping rooms); Zoning sec. 310-14 Central Business A District (dwellings above street level; no lodging use); Zoning sec. 310-22 Supplementary regulations (no room-rental/boarder provisions); Chapter 192 Multiple Dwelling Maintenance (maintenance standards only; no rental registration); Village Building Department permit information (no rental or STR permit type offered). Last reviewed 2026-07.
How short-term rentals are regulated in New York
- New York has no single statewide short-term-rental ban. Towns, villages, and cities set their own rules through local ordinances and zoning, so rules can differ sharply between neighboring municipalities in the same county.
- Short stays in New York are generally subject to state and local sales tax, and many counties add a local occupancy (hotel/motel) tax, often collected by the booking platform on the host's behalf.
- Common local controls include permits or registration, primary-residence requirements, and zoning limits on which districts allow short-term use. In New York, a town and a village inside it can each have their own rule.
- Rules change. An ordinance can be added or amended at any time. Always confirm the current rule with the municipality before listing.
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