Start date for NYC congestion pricing: what to know NBC New York [Video]

June 30.

That’s when car drivers will be charged an additional $15 to enter Manhattan at 61st Street and below, while trucks could be charged between $24 and $36, depending on size.

The long-awaited congestion pricing model set to make history in the United States will begin in New York City one second after 12 a.m. on the final Sunday in June, MTA officials announced. The date is two weeks later than the transit agency had initially targeted.

“We are finally doing something about it and joining world cities like London and Stockholm that have implemented congestion pricing,” MTA Chairman Janno Lieber said.

Most of the cars likely to get full exemptions will be government vehicles. Get details on the planned exemption list here — like school buses, commuter buses and essential government vehicles owned by the city.

Not exempt? New Jersey drivers, though lawsuits could change theoretically change that. Though the MTA did not seem …