2006 New York Code - Limitations On Backing.

 
    § 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.