Heres the priciest block to drive in NYC thanks to new congestion toll: Ridiculous!

The Big Apple’s new congestion pricing mandate has turned one city block into a pricey proposition.A single one-block stretch of First Avenue between 60th and 61st streets will now cost drivers $9 as they come off the Queensboro Bridge — even though they’re driving north and away from the zone.“I’m shocked,” Clement Foster, a 42-year-old Bronx resident, said as he sat in his black BMW on the corner of First Avenue and 60th Street on Sunday, the first day of the controversial new toll.“I didn’t think I’d get charged here,” the Con Ed worker said.“I don’t even have E-ZPass so I’m guessing I’m paying the most.

This sucks.I probably won’t come into the city for work.

I’ll stay in the Bronx.“I’ll request it,” he said.“I’ll ask my boss not to send me into Manhattan.” Cabbie Ilias Karanikolis, 41, called the whole thing “ridiculous.”“I feel bad for all the people this will hurt,” the Astoria resident said.

“It will hurt all the poor people here.We don’t have business now.

This will kill us.The city does whatever they want to do.”Meanwhile, the bridge has undergone an overnight transformation thanks to Albany’s new tax on driving into Midtown — it is no longer the only free ride into Manhattan from Queens and Brooklyn.

Drivers motoring into Manhattan on the bridge, also known as the 59th Street Bridge, will get hit with the $9 toll regardless of whether they’re heading to the heart of Midtown or north to the Bronx and upstate.The Post on Sunday spotted one possible way around it — the 62nd Street exit off the upper deck.“How many times will they charge me,” complained Uber driver Ali Mohammed of Queens.

“I don’t know how I’m going to do this, how I’m going to charge people for the additional toll today.“I’m not ready.I’m not set up for this yet,” he complained.

“I saw the sign yesterday but I didn’t know it would start this morning.What will they make, a million dollars a day? ...