New York is at the northern edge of the species' range and the distribution in the state is very restricted. Despite intensive survey efforts during the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Amphibian and Reptile Atlas project (1990-1999) and thorough inventory on Long Island (J. Feinberg, personal communication), occurrences are reported from just 18 topographic quads. Several of these may represent northern leopard frogs or pickerel frogs (A. Breisch, personal communication). Populations in two of these quads are introduced (Gibbs et al. 2007). There are approximately 7 known occurrences from Long Island (many are very likely extirpated), one on Staten Island, and one in Putnam County. A few occurrences are likely present in Orange County, but the status of all populations in the Lower Hudson is unknown.

Populations at several sites on Long Island appear to have been extirpated since the 1990s. A large-scale survey effort in 2006 and 2007 failed to document any extant populations on Long Island. The viability of populations in the Hudson Valley remains unknown.

Once considered one of the most abundant frogs on Long Island (Overton 1914), the species may now be extirpated from that region. Apparently only a handful of records from the Hudson Valley and Staten Island remain extant. Causes for the decline are unknown and unreplicated elsewhere in the species' range. In addition, declines at the northern edge of a species' range run counter to the expected consequences of climate change.