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Stash away those quarters. Switch off the alarm clock. Rest easy in church.

A New York City tradition of free metered parking on Sundays - revoked in many neighborhoods to help ease the city's fiscal crisis three years ago - will be revived under a law that the City Council approved yesterday over a mayoral veto.

Beginning on Nov. 13, about 32,100 parking spaces at the curb and 4,500 in municipal lots will be available to drivers without charge every Sunday. Worshipers had complained that they had had to dash out of services to feed parking meters.

The Council voted overwhelmingly, 42 to 2, to override an August veto by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. The law is expected to cost the city $12 million a year in lost revenue from quarters and parking tickets, in addition to about $1.2 million to change 13,600 parking signs, city officials said.