| 100% | CARDI | 5 | ___ B, "Bodak Yellow" rapper who found her start on the VH1 reality show "Love & Hip Hop: New York" |
| 57% | CARDI | 5 | ___ B, "Bodak Yellow" rapper who was cast in the reality show "Love & Hip Hop: New York" in 2015 |
| 32% | EVE | 3 | Rapper who hosted the 2016 VH1 Hip Hop Honors |
| 27% | CENT | 4 | Rapper 50 ___ who appeared on the reality show "Party Monsters Cabo" |
| 27% | GREELEY | 7 | Horace who founded the New York Tribune |
| 27% | RAVEN | 5 | ___-Symoné (actress who got her start as a kid on The Cosby Show") |
| 26% | CARDI | 5 | ___ B, hip hop star who became the first female rapper to win a Grammy for Best Rap Album |
| 26% | ICET | 4 | Rapper who plays a New York City detective on TV: Hyph. |
| 26% | ERICA | 5 | Mena of "Love & Hip Hop: New York" |
| 26% | TIMMARA | 7 | New York Giants founder who's in the Pro Football Hall of Fame |
| 25% | BILLBRADLEY | 11 | New York Knicks forward who wrote the basketball memoir "Life on the Run" (2 wds.) |
| 25% | LEWIS | 5 | Leona ___, "Bleeding Love" singer whose career started on the reality show "The X Factor" |
| 25% | AMISH | 5 | “Breaking ___” (TLC reality show about five Anabaptists who move to New York City) |
| 25% | SNL | 3 | New York sketch-comedy show that premièred in 1975 (and is still on the air), briefly |
| 25% | YANKEES | 7 | New York ___ vs Boston Red Sox, legendary rivalry on the baseball field that started in 1903 |
| 25% | PAPP | 4 | Joseph —, American theatre producer-director who founded the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1954 |
| 24% | SCHENECTADY | 11 | City in eastern New York State founded on the south side of the Mohawk River |
| 24% | PAPP | 4 | Joseph —, American theatre producer and director who founded the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1954 |
| 23% | NAS | 3 | Rapper who founded the record label Mass Appeal |
| 23% | NYE | 3 | Bill who got his television start on the sketch show “Almost Live!” |
| 23% | AYO | 3 | ___ the Producer, hip hop producer who worked on "Invasion of Privacy" |
| 23% | IGGYAZALEA | 10 | The New Classic rapper whose pseudonym is her childhood pet's name plus the street she grew up on |
| 22% | TORIKELLY | 9 | "Nobody Love" singer who first started posting videos on YouTube at the age of 14: 2 wds. |
| 22% | CARDIB | 6 | New York rapper who married Offset |
| 22% | ONEONTA | 7 | New York city on the Susquehanna |
| 22% | UTICA | 5 | New York city on the Mohawk |
| 22% | NYACK | 5 | New York town on the Hudson |
| 22% | OLEAN | 5 | New York city on the Allegheny |
| 22% | NYACK | 5 | New York village on the Hudson |
| 22% | ERIE | 4 | New York county on the Canadian border |