| 100% | SIXSTORY | 8 | Like the maximum-height New York City apartment building that's not required to have a fire evacuation plan |
| 33% | BRONX | 5 | New York City borough that's home to the Yankees |
| 32% | WALLSTREET | 10 | New York City district that's home to the Fearless Girl statue |
| 31% | THEADDRESS | 10 | Novel by 39-Across set in New York City's apartment building The Dakota (2 wds.) |
| 30% | WALDORF | 7 | New York City hotel that lent its name to a well-known salad |
| 29% | KIPSBAY | 7 | Site of a 1776 battle that gave New York City to the British |
| 28% | ITHACA | 6 | New York city that's home to Cornell University |
| 28% | JFK | 3 | New York City airport that's an alternative to LaGuardia: Abbr. |
| 28% | NEIL | 4 | With 44-Down, only playwright to have a New York City theater named after him while still alive |
| 28% | THEJEFFERSONS | 13 | Sitcom set in New York city that was a spin-off of "All in the Family" (2 wds.) |
| 28% | POSTMODERN | 10 | Like New York City's Sony Building |
| 27% | CAREERMOVE | 10 | Life change that might require relocating to a new city |
| 27% | RYE | 3 | New York city with an amusement park that's a National Historic Landmark |
| 27% | CENTRALPARK | 11 | New York City tourist attraction, and a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 27% | ERIE | 4 | New York county that's home to the Buffalo Bills |
| 27% | WII | 3 | Video game console that had the slogan "Experience a new way to play" |
| 26% | NEW | 3 | ___ York City, location for The Hook and Ladder Company 8 Fire Station that served as a filming location for "Ghostbusters" |
| 26% | HANOI | 5 | City that has a low-rise building policy around Hoan Kiem Lake due to public outcry |
| 26% | ORAL | 4 | Like a contract that's said to be "not worth the paper it's written on" |
| 26% | DTRAIN | 6 | New York City transport from the Bronx to Coney Island |
| 25% | DOWNSTATE | 9 | Like New York City, to Albany |
| 25% | TWEETS | 6 | Social media posts like @dril's "awfully bold of you to fly the Good Year blimp on a year that has been extremely bad thus far" |
| 25% | BROOKLYN | 8 | New York City borough that is the birthplace of Vinny Testaverde |
| 25% | RIPE | 4 | Like a fruit that's good to be had |
| 25% | HUMID | 5 | Like New York City in the summer |
| 25% | SHED | 4 | The ___, arts center in New York City that has an outer shell on wheels |
| 25% | ELLIS | 5 | Island over which New York and New Jersey had a long-standing territorial dispute that was settled by the Supreme Court in 1998 |
| 25% | ATL | 3 | City that's home to the NBA's Hawks, on a scoreboard |
| 25% | ARTS | 4 | New York Times section that has the crossword |
| 25% | DUBAI | 5 | City that's home to the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building |