Having lived both there and away I would say things are typically better on NY county and town roads than even in nearby PA. In NY they know that you need to actually plow the road before the snow gets beaten down to ice. (Or, perhaps more fairly, they know from long experience that you need to have enough equipment and crews to do that.)
Watch out for the sign "seasonal limited use highway" though, or for the bump at the end of the road where that sign used to be
that means "not plowed or sanded" in NY bureaucratic speak.
Drifting snow can sometimes get ahead of the road crews even in NY, watch out for roads wide open to the northwest or west.