If you own a car, as of January 5, it will cost $9 every time you enter a “zone” between 60th Street and the lower tip of Manhattan. This will not include driving down West Street (Rt. 9A) or the FDR Drive. You may not have seen them, but New York State has installed cameras recording license plate numbers (or EZPass tags) at every downtown street corner at 60th Street and at every corner where one can turn off of West Street or the FDR Drive into the zone. (Yes, there are cameras at 12th Street, 10th Street, Christopher Street, etc.). If you drive within the zone, say from the Village to 57th Street, there is no toll, so long as you don’t take Rt. 9A.