What this site can and cannot tell you about New York
It can tell you which stations serve the market, which is a public fact, and it is listed above. It cannot tell you whether any of them is in the lineup, because per-market carriage is not something this service publishes. The channel list enumerates 231 US networks by name and every one of them is national — the local broadcast category is deliberately counted at zero rather than padded with an implication.
That is an unusual thing for a provider to put on a page with a city in the title, and it is the point. Local broadcast is licensed market by market, so any service claiming blanket local coverage across all 210 US markets is describing something that is not sold that way. Ask for your own call signs by name before you pay, here or anywhere else.
Half of this is free, and almost nobody says so
Every station in the table above transmits free over the air. In New York the main transmitters sit on One World Trade Center, and across most of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the near suburbs an indoor antenna costing about thirty dollars will pull them in. That is the local news, the network prime-time schedule, and the NFL games carried on CBS and FOX, at no monthly cost and at a picture quality that is generally better than a compressed stream.
Tall buildings are the complication rather than distance — a window facing the wrong way in Midtown can matter more than being twenty miles out in Nassau County. The practical approach is to buy an antenna that can be returned, try it in two rooms, and treat it as the first thing to settle rather than the last.
Regional sports are the part no antenna solves
This is where New York gets genuinely awkward, and it has nothing to do with technology. Four of the city's biggest draws sit across three different networks: the Yankees and Nets on YES, the Mets on SNY, and the Knicks, Rangers, Islanders and Devils on MSG. A household following a baseball team and a basketball team can easily need two of the three.
None of them is available over the air, and all of them are licensed regionally, which is why they are the most common reason a cord-cutting plan falls apart in this market. If a specific team is the reason you are subscribing to anything, settle that before the rest of the decision — it is the constraint, and the channel count is not.
Blackouts are a licensing rule, not a fault
When a game is unavailable in New York it is usually because the rights are held locally and a national feed is required to black it out inside the market. That is the system working as written, and it applies identically to cable, satellite and every licensed streaming service.
It is worth knowing because it is the single most common thing an unlicensed reseller advertises around. A service promising that blackouts do not apply to it is not offering a better product; it is telling you it has no licensing arrangement to honour.