Some business owners worry NYC's new congestion pricing plan, which the MTA board is expected to vote on next week, will end up costing them more.

City’s congestion pricing plan is back and set to kick in on Jan. 5, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thursday. But the daily toll — which Hochul put on indefinite hiatus this past June, three weeks before it was supposed to go into effect — will be $9 rather than the original planned toll of $15 for at least three years,

Congestion pricing is officially back in New York City, with Gov. Kathy Hochul promising the tolling scanners will be turned on in January before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in. Trump has promised to kill the program to toll drivers entering Manhattan below 60th Street.

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican President-elect Donald Trump nominated former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton to serve as Manhattan's top federal prosecutor on Thursday.

Firefighters are very busy battling several wildfires in Manhattan, Queens and New Jersey as dry conditions, brush and falling leaves continue to fuel them.

The FDNY is fighting two stubborn wildfires in upper Manhattan and Queens tonight, as dangerously dry conditions endure across the region.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy declared a drought warning statewide Wednesday, as the state deals with the driest conditions it’s seen in nearly 120 years.