| 100% | ASTORS | 6 | Family once called the “landlords of New York” |
| 100% | ASTORS | 6 | Family once called "the landlords of New York" |
| 70% | ASTORS | 6 | "The landlords of New York," once |
| 56% | MAE | 3 | West once dubbed the "Queen of New York" in the New Yorker |
| 55% | ANDREWCUOMO | 11 | Governor of New York, whose father was also the governor once: 2 wds. |
| 49% | THEJEFFERSONS | 13 | Sitcom set in New York city that was a spin-off of "All in the Family" (2 wds.) |
| 47% | SWEATSHOPS | 10 | Much of New York's Garment District, once |
| 47% | SALK | 4 | Scientist who was called the "Father of Biophilosophy" in the New York Times in 1966 |
| 47% | METS | 4 | New York rivals of the Yankees |
| 47% | HARLEM | 6 | New York home of the Globetrotters |
| 47% | BRONXZOO | 8 | New York home of the Himalayan Highlands |
| 47% | RYE | 3 | New York home of the Dragon Coaster |
| 47% | PELE | 4 | New York Cosmos star of the '70s |
| 46% | AMARILLO | 8 | Texas city once called the "Helium Capital of the World" |
| 46% | SYRACUSE | 8 | New York city once called Webster's Landing |
| 46% | TISCH | 5 | New York University's ___ School of the Arts |
| 46% | NYACK | 5 | New York home of the painter Edward Hopper |
| 46% | ERIE | 4 | Canal that spans the state of New York |
| 46% | PLAZAHOTEL | 10 | New York City setting of the "Eloise" books |
| 46% | CITI | 4 | New York's ___ Field (home of the Mets) |
| 45% | BEAME | 5 | Abraham who served as mayor of New York in the seventies |
| 45% | UTICA | 5 | City in the state of New York |
| 45% | NEON | 4 | Flasher on the streets of New York |
| 45% | BRONX | 5 | The —, borough of New York City |
| 45% | DIMITRI | 7 | New York Philharmonic conductor for most of the fifties, ____ Mitropoulos |
| 45% | STPAT | 5 | Patron of the Archdiocese of New York, briefly |
| 45% | GIANTSCLIENTS | 13 | People using the services of New York players? |
| 45% | RURU | 4 | Owl of New Zealand also called the morepork |
| 44% | OTSEGO | 6 | New York lake that's the source of the Susquehanna River |
| 44% | BROOKLYN | 8 | New York City borough that is the birthplace of Vinny Testaverde |