| 100% | TRADE | 5 | The "T" of WTUL that coordinated a strike by 20,000 women in 1909 in New York's garment district |
| 33% | GIRLS | 5 | Lena Dunham's hit comedy-drama that follows the lives of four young women in New York City |
| 32% | THEJEFFERSONS | 13 | Sitcom set in New York city that was a spin-off of "All in the Family" (2 wds.) |
| 31% | FALLS | 5 | The Niagara ___, located in New York, that is one of America's natural wonders |
| 31% | AGE | 3 | "The ___ of Innocence," novel by Edith Wharton that is set in New York City |
| 30% | DAY | 3 | "The Promise of a New ___," song by Paula Abdul that hit no.1 on the Billboard charts in the '90s |
| 30% | 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 |
| 29% | TALE | 4 | "The Handmaid's ___," Margaret Atwood's 1985 dystopian novel that follows the journey of a woman in a totalitarian state |
| 29% | SWEATSHOPS | 10 | Much of New York's Garment District, once |
| 29% | ROOM | 4 | "The Locked ___," 1986 novel by Paul Auster that is a part of his New York trilogy |
| 29% | TIN | 3 | ___ Pan Alley (nickname of a songwriters' district in New York City) |
| 29% | PAPARAZZI | 9 | Term that comes from the name of a news photographer in Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” |
| 29% | FIVE | 4 | (1/5) Start of a New Year's Eve countdown...or the result of 100 divided by 20 |
| 28% | EVE | 3 | Woman who was tempted by a serpent in the Book of Genesis |
| 28% | NRA | 3 | Org. sued by the State of New York in 2020 |
| 28% | RYE | 3 | "The Catcher in the ___," novel by J.D. Salinger that is set in New York City |
| 28% | YAHOO | 5 | Word coined by Jonathan Swift in "Gulliver's Travels" that's now also the name of a popular email service |
| 28% | TRICKY | 6 | With 21-, 30-, 49-, 61- and 74-Across, end of a Carrie Bradshaw quote that starts "Men in their 40s are like the New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle ..." |
| 28% | GOLD | 4 | Precious metal that the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City has the highest storage of |
| 28% | YANKEE | 6 | Let's turn the clock back a century! ___ Stadium, former baseball arena in the Bronx, New York City that hosted its first game in 1923 |
| 28% | BROOKLYN | 8 | New York City borough that produced all three of the rappers in this puzzle |
| 28% | SCENE | 5 | Anatomy of a ___ (movie-analysis video series by The New York Times) |
| 27% | KIPSBAY | 7 | Site of a 1776 battle that gave New York City to the British |
| 27% | IDASTRAUS | 9 | Wife of a co-owner of Macy’s department store, New York, portrayed on screen by Elsa Raven in 1997 film Titanic |
| 27% | LIBERTY | 7 | The Statue of ___, the iconic monument in New York City that represents Libertas, the Roman goddess |
| 27% | OPED | 4 | Term retired by the New York Times in 2021 in favor of "guest essay" |
| 27% | BIGAPPLE | 8 | Nickname popularized by a New York Morning Telegraph sportswriter in the 1920s, with "the" |
| 27% | ONLY | 4 | "The ___ Living Boy in New York" song by Simon & Garfunkel that originally appeared on the album "Bridge Over Troubled Water" |
| 27% | BROOKLYN | 8 | 2009 novel by 38-Across about an Irish woman who moves to New York in the 1950s (2 wds.) |
| 27% | TIME | 4 | News magazine that runs a "Person of the Year" feature that released its first issue in 1923 |