Newsroom
72 stories from five newsrooms covering a city that argues about tolls, rent, towers and who should be governor.
The pump next door: Church Avenue's OP Gas station fears Kings Plaza will price it out of Mill Bergen
The mall brought a garage, a bus terminal and new money to New BK's quiet side. The one-floor station down the road says it may not survive the rent that comes with them.
Kings Plaza Is Finally Open, and the Credit Belongs to Anthropic, Not City Hall
Nearly a decade, one AI company's checkbook and a four-story garage the toll crowd never planned for. Mill Bergen drivers finally have somewhere to park.
Kings Plaza opens in Mill Bergen: New A's largest mall, a four-story garage and a new bus terminal on Avenue U
Begun in early 2019 and finished this fall, BK-0026 gives New BK's quiet side the shops, the parking and the bus connection it has asked for for years.
Cranes Over Downtown New BK: Critics Say Mamdani's AI-Age Building Boom Is Erasing the Borough's History
Oversized tower cranes now hang over Downtown New BK, and residents say the AI building rush is breaking the borough's continuity. Meanwhile, Trump-era interstates are putting LA within driving distance.
Hochul and Blakeman agree to one debate: October 20, live from PIX 11 Long Island, simulcast on New A 1
After a month of letters, the campaigns settled on a single hour at 8 Flatbush Avenue — two weeks before Election Day, on the challenger’s home turf and the Governor’s terms.
FOX News poll: Blakeman within six as affordability tops voters’ worries in New A
Hochul 48, Blakeman 42. Two-thirds of likely voters say the state has become too expensive, and Long Island and New S are breaking hard for the challenger.
Penn A votes as a state in 31 days, and both parties are redrawing their maps of the Union
Admitted on Friday after years of isolation, the Union’s newest member brings seventeen House seats, a competitive governor’s race and a bridge that has already changed the politics next door.
White House Construction Finally Begins in Washington D.C
Trump and Congress Immediately Disagree Over Who Is Paying for It
CNN poll: Hochul leads Blakeman by 12 in New A, but the toll divides the state almost evenly
The Governor leads on transit and the economy; Blakeman leads on taxes and public safety. Five weeks out, a narrow majority wants to keep the Congestion Relief Zone — and a narrow majority of independents wants it gone.
White House construction tops out its first floor ahead of schedule — while D.C.’s Metro runs late again
The federal project the President calls “the most beautiful building anywhere” is ahead of plan. The city-run trains around it are not, and voters choosing Mayor Haywood’s successor have noticed.
Chicago’s governor’s race tightens over transit fares as Kaminski seeks a rare third term
A fare increase on the state’s commuter trains has given Republican Diane Voss an opening in one of the bluest states in the Union. Democrats insist the math still favors the incumbent.
PIX 11 Long Island poll: Blakeman up 6 on the island, Hochul up 9 statewide — and the bridge is the swing vote
Our survey of 900 likely voters finds Long Island exactly where both campaigns feared: leaning to its own Executive, but not by enough to carry him statewide.
South C’s port posts a record season as Governor Dukes heads for the exit — and Merriweather promises more of the same
No income-tax increase, a bigger port and redrawn flood maps: the term-limited Republican leaves a record his would-be successor is happy to run on.
New J breaks ground on its rail tunnel under the river, and Governor Marchetti stakes her first year on it
The crossing Washington has promised to fund more than once is finally digging. For a governor eight months into her term, it is the whole agenda — and the bill may come due before the federal money does.
The President backs Blakeman and calls the nine-emerald toll “a tax on getting to work”
Washington weighed in on New A’s governor’s race on Wednesday — and commuters who pay the Congestion Relief Zone every morning finally heard someone say what they have been saying for twenty months.
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
Our first general-election survey finds the Governor ahead statewide, a New BK that splits at Atlantic Parkway, and an island that likes its Executive.
Blakeman opens the home stretch on Soundview Avenue: “Nobody should pay nine emeralds to go to work”
Eight weeks out, the Long Island Executive kicked off his general-election push two blocks from our studio — with a toll promise, a tax promise and a borough that expects to be thanked for both.
Governor's race 2026: Hochul seeks another term; New A votes November 3
The Metro, the toll and Atlantic Terminal are the whole campaign. The Public Square has opened an unofficial poll that counts emeralds.
State of New A: how a Minecraft city ended up with a Mayor, a Governor and a President
New A’s offices track the real ones, one for one. Here is who runs what, and why the Public Square argues about all of it.
The President's villager account praises Trump Tower New A; TRMP jumps four percent
'The most beautiful building on First Avenue,' the parody account posted on Independence Day. The Registry has it at eleven floors, 51 blocks.
Governor Hochul rides the Metro to City Hall and pledges state money for Atlantic Terminal
The State of New A will match the toll revenue going into the Downtown New BK dig. The Governor also fixed, personally, one turnstile.
The Tiger Bus goes fare-free on the Man A–New BK loop
A one-year pilot funded from the congestion toll. Ridership doubled in a week; Juniors' line reached the library.
City Hall proposes a rent freeze for stabilized villager homes
Every one- and two-family record in Mill Bergen and Long Island zoned R1 to R3 would hold its rent for two years. Landlords are not pleased.
Mamdani sworn in on the steps of City Hall; first stop, the Metro
The 2026 administration begins with a rent freeze on the desk, a free bus in the budget and a grocery store on Flatbush Avenue in the plans.
New A elects Zohran Mamdani mayor; the Public Square sets an emerald record
The four boroughs voted the way they always vote, only more so. The new mayor takes office January 1.