Look at the map upthread.
The eclipse will be going over northern New York State—hundreds of miles from New York City.
The biggest problems come when idiots from metro New York City clog the highways going upstate.
That’s the path of totality.
Most of the 48 contiguous might get enough if a partial to affect solar production.
But that is predictable and can be figured in.
Unless something else happens.
New York City will be able to see the Moon cover up to 90 percent of the Sun at 3:20pm, per the American Museum of Natural History.