New York City has some big problems, including dealing with housing costs and climate change. Somehow, though, we never seem to get very far in fixing those issues.

But a local professor has an idea that he thinks can help with both problems. Make Manhattan bigger.

Professor Jason Barr, an urban economist at Rutgers University - Newark, wants to expand the island of Manhattan further south.

Barr spoke with the PIX11 Morning News to explain his proposed plans and how he thinks it could help the city with both housing and storms due to climate change.

NYC's newest pet concierge service

NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams has asked Mayor Eric Adams for more details about the city's plan to involuntarily hospitalize people with severe mental illness.

Dr. Arun Chopra of NYU Langone’s Hassenfeld Children's Hospital joined PIX11 News to share more on the ‘tridemic.’

The federal Department of Homeland Security’s deadline for REAL ID enforcement has been extended by two years to May 2025, the agency announced Monday.

An alleged serial shooter already wanted in connection to two attacks in Brooklyn and Manhattan — one of them deadly — is now suspected of killing a teen girl late Monday in Crown Heights, police said, intensifying a manhunt to find the “armed and extremely dangerous” man before he strikes again.

A slow-moving front will drift through the area bringing unsettled weather for the next two days. Folks can expect periods of rain Tuesday afternoon, possibly starting as freezing rain well north and west of the city. Temperatures will rise throughout the day with a high of 56 in the city, and in the mid-50s in the suburbs.

For years, commuters, neighbors and officials have discussed the future of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. It is one of the busiest stretches of roadway in New York City for vehicle and freight travel. People gathered at Pratt Institute for a special series that focuses on design equity. The first session focused on transportation equity and the BQE.

Police are looking for the same suspect in connection with a deadly Manhattan shooting and a Brooklyn shooting that left a 96-year-old man in a wheelchair injured.

A Jersey City woman who was homeless as a child is now making it her mission to give back to the shelter that changed her life.

PIX11's Marc Malusis shares his thoughts on Jacob deGrom's departure from the New York Mets, after the two-time Cy Young Award winner agreed to a $185 million, five-year contract with the Texas Rangers.

Richard Cottingham, the jailed serial killer who once claimed he’d killed about 100 women, admitted on Monday to five Long Island murders, four of them from 1972 and 1973.

A 7-year-old boy was grazed and his 32-year-old father shot in the chest when someone with a BB gun opened fire in Staten Island on Sunday afternoon, police said.