New York contains two pavement worlds. In New York City, the hard part is rarely the asphalt — it is access, permits, phasing, staging in a lot with no lay-down area, and getting a truck to the site at all. Two hundred miles upstate, near Buffalo or Watertown, the hard part is a winter that delivers enormous snowfall, hundreds of freeze-thaw events, and a plow fleet that runs from November to April.
This page lists pavement contractors serving New York cities and covers what actually shapes a project here: operational constraints downstate, severe winter deterioration upstate, licensing that is municipal rather than statewide, and stormwater rules that differ if your property drains toward the New York City watershed.