They’re the biggest losers in New York City when it comes to congestion pricing.
The city’s maze of one-way streets — and apparent bad planning by the MTA — is forcing these New Yorkers to pay the controversial $9 toll even for just driving off their block.
Residents and workers who use a parking garage on East 61st Street lamented to The Post about having to pay the hated fee, which launched Sunday, despite it being located one block north of the Manhattan congestion tolling zone .
Because the 615 Garage exits onto Fifth Avenue, a one-way street headed south, drivers who park there have no choice but to enter the costly area — even if they end up immediately turning around to head uptown.
“You have to drive past the congestion pricing to go around the block and to go back uptown for any reason, whether it be to go to work, whether it be to leave the city, whether it be to visit your children, or whether it be to get a haircut or anything else that you do uptown,” said Andrew Heiberger, who lives at East 61st Street and Fifth Avenue.