People across New York City are bracing for how congestion pricing will reshape parking patterns in Manhattan.

Some residents have concerns that commuters will ditch their vehicles north of 60th street to avoid the toll and hop on public transportation overwhelming what neighborhood parking spots currently exist.

Many cities have residential permit parking including Jersey City.

“We’ve already faced or many years, people from Upstate New York, other parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, driving here, and then jumping on the ferry or a PATH one stop into Manhattan,” Jersey City Public Safety Director James Shea said.

Permit parking in Jersey City has helped prevent drivers, who aren’t from the area, from taking up residential spots for more than two hours.

Some New Yorkers say Manhattan should follow suit because congestion pricing will make finding residential parking outside the pricing zone even more difficult.

“Residential parking in these types of zones are an important way to try and monitor and have a little control over who’s using those valuable spots,” Shea said.

Shea said spots aren’t guaranteed because there may be more cars than spaces, but it lessens the amount of vehicles competing for spots.

A residential permit in Jersey City costs residents of a neighborhood $20 a year. Non-residents can also get a permit, which costs $500 a year.

“Of course we get pushback from people who don’t live here, but making sure the signage is appropriate and they see it’s not an open parking area, it’s for residents only pretty much solves that,” Shea said.

Shea said Jersey City has already had to increase parking fines so that they’re more expensive than parking in a New York City garage.

The public safety director said he fears the $110 ticket may now have to get hiked up even higher when congestion pricing hits the Manhattan.

“The cost of the summons is less than the cost of parking, so people park in the street ignore our regulations and just move on,” Shea said.