Two-way Verrazzano Bridge tolls return Tuesday for first time in 35 years

For the first time in 35 years, drivers will be tolled in both directions on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge starting Tuesday.

Cars with an E-ZPass will be charged $6.12 in either the Staten Island or Brooklyn directions, the MTA announced earlier this month — half the current Staten Island-bound toll.

Most other drivers will pay $9.50, compared to the existing one-way toll of $19. Staten Island residents will only be charged $2.75 to cross the bridge in either direction.

Brooklyn-bound vehicles have been exempt from paying since 1986 federal legislation made the span the only one in the country with mandatory one-direction tolls.

The highest-in-the-nation toll encouraged some 7,000 daily drivers to opt for a toll-free route through Manhattan, clogging up the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and Manhattan’s Canal Street.

President Trump and Congress repealed the statute in 2019 with the support of outgoing Congressman Max Rose (D-Staten Island) and other New York City officials.