You can check this website^[1] to find out if you can find BTC atm's around New York.
It depends, probably if you are on a vacation and you are not with all your devices and there is no way you can purchase BTC at that time, then a BTC ATM is a good option if there is one near you, and if you really need the coins. However, BTC ATM's charge very high fees, and while it may be a good option to buy BTC without kyc, some machines require kyc either before you even trade or if you want to make a tx above a certain amount, or if they have any reason to suspect you.

[1] https://coinatmradar.com/

I have never seen a Bitcoin ATM for real and I think it to be a waste of money, due to fees' costs. Nowadays every transactions can be done virtually, especially in a city like NY, so there isn't really a good point to use ATMs when you have exchanges and banking apps connected with each other. ATMs must be a good deal only for its owner who is going to profit from transactions, and that is only in case he doesn't have to pay a huge rent price to let his machine somewhere in the city.

In every cases, the best alternative is always P2P transactions. The issue is that hardly ever you are going to find someone willing to negotiate. Maybe if there was a shop where P2P traders could meet would be a nice idea to be introduced in a cosmopolitan city like NY.

General Bytes (Major Crypto ATM Manufacturer) About a year ago, there was a security gap in the devices and that gap of Zero-Day Vulnerarability, which led to the withdrawal of dozens of devices from the market, and the ATM fees are high compared to many places that enable you to buy bitcoin at the cheapest price of all these reasons It led to the ATMS number compared to the past years, but it is still good tools if you want to spend 100 to 1000 dollars.

Although the Bitcoin ATM in my country is not functional again, and I would not have even used a Bitcoin ATM because of the high transaction fee, according to the experience of Nwada001 on this thread, https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/5441922.msg61845469#msg61845469

New York City is not the only country that has a Bitcoin ATM; other countries include Poland, Australia, Spain, Canada, Switzerland, the United States, have a Bitcoin ATM, and I believe it's still very functional in some of those countries. 

Haven't used them there, but I did use them in several Europe countries and up until ~2019-2020 it was my prefered way of buying/selling bitcoin, despite the high fees.

At some point already high fees went up even more and they introduced KYC for higher amounts which turned me way from BATM completely as I (luckily) have much cheaper ways to buy and sell bitcoin. I am not saying that say I won't use them ever again, but at the moment they are my last option.

Actually as long as we do have good options for p2p, spending such a huge fee for bitcoin ATM makes no sense, unless its like that you need cash very quickly or need to buy it so quick.

I’ve heard of a friend who received bitcoin from a friend in the United States and I was told that it was charged a huge fee for a $700 transaction and I guess that’s a huge turn off for bitcoin atms.
I’ve seen several replies and I’m also interested in knowing if there are also bitcoin atms in the New York and the United Kingdom in general as I think I could remember someone asking me about the possibility of sending money from the uk to my country through cash and all I told him was to locate a bitcoin atm but I don’t know if it was later sent as the guy that asked me about this was a random guy at the restaurant that claimed his cousin had cash and needed to send it across to him.

Bitcoin ATMs are one of the easiest ways to send bitcoins but I’ve heard a lot of stories about the charges which I think are discouraging.

Totally on point on which i could say that this is something the word that i do have in my mind on the time that i do make out such comparison when it comes to fees.

When you use a Bitcoin ATM to buy or sell Bitcoin (BTC), expect to encounter fees in the range of 10% to 23%. These fees can vary greatly, influenced by factors like your geographical location, the total value of the transaction, and the specific Bitcoin ATM provider you're dealing with.
Source: https://www.cryptodispensers.com/blog/bitcoin-atm-fees

Who would be on their right minds that would be paying up with those % if you could be able to have that much less
on doing P2P on exchangers? For sure no one on their right minds would be doing so not unless if you are in a rush or just simply on what you have said.

I'll be wary of what privacy information they collect and what they do with those information.

I have used https://coinatmradar.com/bitcoin-atm-map/ for a long time now and it works fine to the best of my knowledge. To know how well it works, I'll have to compare it with other ATM tracking services and check for discrepancies, but without that I'll recommend them.

Bitcoin ATM was very popular in the past when the one in my country came on board, the excitement was too much. Unfortunately,  it stopped working and the news about Bitcoin ATM started fading away. I don't know if it will be fair to conclude that that technological innovation is phasing away with the news because should it still be fashionable, we would have been seeing posts about it even in this forum. People would have been dropping their experiences with the machine regularly