When was the last time a Hurricane hit New York City?

Answer 1

Tropical Storm Charley in August 2004.

1991 - Hurricane Bob brushes just east, but area got 90 mph winds

1985 Hurricane G-L-O-R-I-A :)

Answer 2

A hurricane with hurricane force winds has never directly hit New Yprk City. However, NYC has been on the western side (the less severe side) of the eyes of many storms and experienced gale force winds as full fledged hurricane storms crossed Long Island. The last such storm was Gloria in 1985 I think.

There was another storm - the B storm - in the early 90s but it had subsided to tropical storm intensity just before reaching Long Island.

NYC doomsayers to the contrary, the chance of it suffering a Katrina or even a Hugo severity storm are next to nil. For a cataclysmic hurricane in NYC a category 3 or higher would have to take a track from the Gulf Stream going NNW with the eye
making landfall on the northeastern New Jersey shore, thus pushing the storm surge up the Hudson canyon and NY Harbor. However, there has never been such an instance of a tropical system that has tracked NNW from the Gulf Stream into the USA above the latitude of Virginia, although some have so recurved once reaching the latitude of the Canadian Maritimes (in fact, Nova Scotia has been hit by many more hurricanes than has New England, but that is never mentioned on the American The Weather Channel).