2021 New York Laws
VAT - Vehicle and Traffic
Title 7 - Rules of the Road
Article 25 - Driving on Right Side of Roadway, Overtaking and Passing, Etc.
1131 - Driving on Shoulders and Slopes.

§ 1131. Driving on shoulders and slopes. Except for bicycles and those
  classes  of vehicles required to travel on shoulders or slopes, no motor
  vehicle shall be driven over, across, along, or within any  shoulder  or
  slope  of  any  state  controlled-access  highway  except  at a location
  specifically authorized and posted by the department of  transportation.
  The  foregoing  limitation  shall  not  prevent  tow  trucks  from using
  shoulders or slopes in as limited and incidental a manner as practicable
  when dispatched to the scene of an accident by a law enforcement  agency
  or  an  authority,  department  or  agency having jurisdiction over such
  controlled-access highway and  all  lanes  are  obstructed  by  traffic,
  provided,  however, that the foregoing shall not relieve the driver of a
  tow truck from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety  of  all
  persons  nor  shall such provision protect the tow truck driver from the
  consequences of his or her reckless disregard for the safety  of  others
  and  shall  at  all  times operate such tow truck in compliance with all
  standards of care imposed  to  prevent  those  injuries  or  damages  to
  persons  or  property  of  another  which may result from the operator's
  negligence, recklessness or intentional misconduct, nor shall it prevent
  motor vehicles from using shoulders or slopes when  directed  by  police
  officers  or  flagpersons,  nor  does  it  prevent  motor  vehicles from
  stopping, standing,  or  parking  on  shoulders  or  slopes  where  such
  stopping, standing, or parking is lawful.