I dont live in Ny, but I live in the mountains close to Lake Tahoe. I was already told by my breeder to buy my Yorkie a sweater/coat for the wintertime so I plan on purchasing one soon for the upcoming cold weather! We get quite a bit of snow and cold here so she'll hate it, Im sure! LOL!! I dont know about the lil' paw covers because I think that would be more of a pain in the butt to me to have to keep putting them on and taking them off everytime she had to go potty. I will probably just dig her out a small place to go potty in close to our backdoor so she wont have to worry too much about her feetsies getting wet or cold.