No more than seven rounds in your gun-—so YOUR CAR IS YOUR WEAPON.
Use it.
Good advice! There’s no way I’m getting out of my car if I’m ever in similar circumstances. If they surround the car and start beating on it, I’m going to punch something—the accelerator. If one or more of them happen to be in the way, so be it. I’d call it a classic case of self defense. If the legal system disagreed, I’d rather deal with that after the fact than have my wife and I beat up or killed.
Before anyone says deadly force isn’t justified to avoid a mob that only wants to rough someone up, not kill them, there’s no way of knowing that beforehand. Your best bet is to get out of that situation as safely and quickly as possible, and that means not giving up your best self defense weapon—your car.
Use it.
No gun at all outside your abode or place of business; this is NYC. Drive, hit it; reverse, hit it. Repeat as needed until threat is neutralized.