The NYPD is warning drivers not to fake or cover their license plates before entering the congestion pricing zone in Manhattan. The agency’s Transportation Bureau posted two photos to X on Tuesday of two license plates – both showing tape covering one letter.

With congestion pricing now in effect in New York City, officials announced Tuesday a crackdown on drivers who try to obscure their license plates, or use "ghost plates," to get out of paying the new toll.

City officials said Tuesday they’d proposed new rules to crack down on drivers who obscure their license plates to avoid tolls and traffic cameras—an announcement that came two days after the launch of congestion pricing.

Some Big Apple motorists have been recently spotted with license plates subtly obscured using ultra low-tech DIY methods, which could potentially be used to evade New York's wildly unpopular congestion toll that just went into effect.

New York City drivers who obscure or cover their license plates to skirt automated tolls and tickets are in for a rude awakening, the city transportation department warned on Tuesday. The city published plans to impose new fines on drivers whose plates are covered with anything “including dirt,