| 100% | RUTHDRAPER | 10 | New York City-born monologist whose repertoire included The Italian Lesson and Opening a Bazaar |
| 96% | DRAPER | 6 | Ruth —, New York City-born monologist whose repertoire included The Italian Lesson and Opening a Bazaar |
| 35% | METS | 4 | Team whose logo includes the New York City skyline |
| 32% | LADYBUNNY | 9 | Longtime New York night-life presence, and “arguably the city’s reigning drag queen,” per a 2018 Times piece |
| 31% | CENTRALPARK | 11 | New York City tourist attraction, and a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 30% | UTICA | 5 | New York city where the first "Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store" opened in 1879 |
| 30% | EPSTEIN | 7 | Jacob —, New York-born sculptor whose works include a 1911 Oscar Wilde Memorial |
| 30% | NETS | 4 | Brooklyn ___, NBA team from New York City, whose former members include Jason Kidd |
| 29% | ISLANDERS | 9 | New York ___, NHL team whose former members include Mike Bossy and Bryan Trottier |
| 29% | RANGERS | 7 | New York ___, NHL team whose former members include Mark Messier and Adam Graves |
| 29% | GIANTS | 6 | New York ___, NFL team whose former members include Eli Manning and Lawrence Taylor |
| 29% | JETS | 4 | New York ___, NFL team whose former players include Joe Namath and Don Maynard |
| 29% | YANKEES | 7 | New York ___, MLB team whose former members include Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio |
| 29% | METS | 4 | New York ___, MLB team whose former members include Darryl Strawberry and Tom Seaver |
| 29% | KNICKS | 6 | New York ___, NBA team whose former members include Patrick Ewing and Walt Frazier |
| 29% | TRIBECA | 7 | Section of Manhattan, New York City, whose name derives from the phrase ‘Triangle Below Canal St’ |
| 29% | RODMCKUEN | 9 | Late California-born singer-songwriter whose poetry collections include Listen to the Warm and Lonesome Cities |
| 29% | HAAGENDAZS | 10 | New York City-born ice cream brand with a Danish-sounding name |
| 29% | COMO | 4 | Italian city where Pliny the Elder and Younger were born |
| 29% | THERAMONES | 10 | Punk band from New York City whose four unrelated members used the same last name: 2 wds. |
| 28% | THEJEFFERSONS | 13 | Sitcom set in New York city that was a spin-off of "All in the Family" (2 wds.) |
| 28% | SOCHI | 5 | Olympic city whose opening ceremony included a "Swan Lake" performance |
| 28% | GUMMO | 5 | & 18D Stage name of New York City-born entertainer and agent Milton Marx |
| 28% | RYE | 3 | New York city on Long Island Sound...and a homophone of 11 Across |
| 28% | RENO | 4 | Nevada city whose casinos include the Peppermill and the Grand Sierra |
| 28% | ADENINE | 7 | DNA compound whose name includes the letters D, N and A |
| 27% | MERRILL | 7 | Robert —, New York City-born baritone whose Metropolitan Opera debut was in 1945 |
| 27% | ALGONQUIN | 9 | Group of early 20th-century New York City writers and actors depicted in 1994 biopic Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle |