"Parking is already very much an issue. We have nine hospitals in our district, and many of them are north of 60th Street," said Upper East Sider Valerie Mason. Hospital workers and visitors already eat up the majority of the nabe's street parking, she added.
"We're also very concerned that [the toll] will cause a huge amount of traffic and more cars trying to park north of the [59th Street Bridge]," Mason said.
East Harlem is already plagued by congestion from out-of-town traffic taking up parking spots before heading south in the borough - because it's faster than using the FDR Drive, said Xavier Santiago.
The outer boroughs are also panicking. Communities such as Long Island City in Queens, the South Bronx, and ritzy Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill and Park Slope in Brooklyn are fearing their quality of life will be uprooted."
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