While congestion pricing is making it more expensive for everyone to drive into Manhattan, some local businesses say it is also raising costs for their customers.
That includes Jan Lee, who started home contracting company, Sinotique, over 30 years ago.
The business specializes in making and repairing cabinets for families in both Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Lee says that he has no choice but to raise his prices.
The issue is more than just the commute from his home in Chinatown to the shop in Carroll Gardens, but also things like screws and lumber, which also have to get moved between boroughs.
"Every raw material that I buy now is going to cost me more money," he says.
While Lee works in the shop by himself, he usually has to hire multiple outside contractors for his jobs.
He says each of them will now need to pay the extra tolls as well for every day they go back and forth between certain sites, so "the next really big job that I have that goes for two or three months, I have to start thinking about my other vendors, and what they're going to tag on."
While the vendors may send those costs to Lee, he says on his end, "all of those costs are going to get passed on to my clients."
His worry is that eventually, it will no longer be worth it for smaller businesses like his to book certain jobs, predicting that "there's going be fewer people willing to come into the city."
If that happens, he says the lack of competition will be a lose-lose situation that leads customers to the same place, since "those guys that remain are going to be charging whatever they want to charge."
If repairs cost more, Lee warns it could create a bigger issue.
"What is dangerous is that people don't do repairs," he says. "When you keep raising the costs of all the goods coming in, and you raise labor costs of everything that needs to be done, something's going to give."
While supporters of congestion pricing have argued that the time saved getting around could offset some of the costs, Lee says it will take a while to figure out if it is enough to matter.