| 100% | LONG | 4 | ___ Island (part of New York) |
| 97% | STATEN | 6 | ___ Island (part of New York City) |
| 91% | LONGISLAND | 10 | Part of New York (2 wds.) |
| 90% | TROY | 4 | Part of New York's Capital District |
| 88% | UPSTATE | 7 | Non-city part of New York |
| 86% | MET | 3 | Part of New York City's Museum Mile, with "the" |
| 85% | UPSTATE | 7 | Word referring to the northern part of New York |
| 80% | STATEN | 6 | Part of a New York borough name |
| 79% | BROOKLYN | 8 | Borough of New York City; westernmost county on Long Island |
| 75% | SIANO | 5 | Nicky ___, DJ and music producer who was an integral part of New York's disco clubs in the 1970s |
| 74% | RYE | 3 | New York city on Long Island Sound...and a homophone of 11 Across |
| 71% | ONEIDAS | 7 | Native Americans of New York |
| 71% | CUOMO | 5 | Governor Andrew of New York |
| 71% | JOHNJAY | 7 | Second governor of New York |
| 71% | ROSE | 4 | State flower of New York |
| 71% | CUOMO | 5 | Former governor of New York |
| 71% | ETAT | 4 | State north of New York |
| 70% | ADMIRALTY | 9 | Group of islands, part of Papua New Guinea |
| 70% | RIKER | 5 | Eponym of a New York island |
| 69% | ROCKEFELLER | 11 | "center" of new york |
| 69% | CONN | 4 | Part of New Eng. |
| 69% | MAINE | 5 | Part of New England |
| 69% | LONG | 4 | ___ Island (home of the New York Islanders NHL team) |
| 68% | ROOM | 4 | "The Locked ___," 1986 novel by Paul Auster that is a part of his New York trilogy |
| 68% | ISLAND | 6 | Long ___ Iced Tea, cocktail that shares part of its name with a New York metropolitan region |
| 68% | EGAN | 4 | Edward ___, cardinal of New York |
| 68% | ICI | 3 | Here, north of New York |
| 68% | MTA | 3 | Underground org. of New York |
| 68% | GANGS | 5 | "____ of New York" movie |
| 67% | HUMANS | 6 | ___ of New York (popular photoblog) |