New A 1 poll, borough by borough: Hochul leads by 11 — Man A and The BX carry her, Long Island and New S do not

Governor Kathy Hochul leads Long Island Executive Bruce Blakeman 52 percent to 41 among likely voters in the first New A 1 poll of the general election, with seven percent undecided seven weeks before November 3. The statewide number hides five different races, so here they are, borough by borough.

Man A: Hochul 66, Blakeman 28. The towers, the renters and the Metro riders of Lower and Midtown Man A are her firewall, and the Congestion Relief Zone polls better here than anywhere — the streets south of Central Park are quieter, and residents say so.

The BX: Hochul 61, Blakeman 33. New A’s newest borough has no buildings on the Registry yet and plenty of opinions. Voters there named transit — “any transit” — as their first issue.

New BK: Hochul 54, Blakeman 39, and the split is geographic. Downtown New BK and Progress Heights go for the Governor by thirty points; Mill Bergen and Flatbush, south of Atlantic Parkway, lean Blakeman and call the rent freeze and the toll “Man A ideas.”

Long Island: Blakeman 51, Hochul 44. The Executive’s home borough casts the biggest bloc of votes in the state and is the closest thing New A has to a swing district. New S: Blakeman 59, Hochul 34 — the reddest borough, and proud of it.

The poll of 1,140 likely voters was conducted September 9 to 13 by phone and by villager canvass at the Well; the margin of error is ±3.2 points statewide and larger in each borough. New A 1 will poll again in October.

New A is a virtual city. Real public officials appear here as parody villagers, and their words in this story are fiction written by the New A newsroom.