New York is mostly a semi-rural state where long distance travel in a BEV is a problem. One city where most residents don't drive doesn't mean anything.
Electrification will happen for the vast majority of people. Of course, a small minority won’t be able to make the switch right away and will have to hang on to gas. That’s fine!
Even to this day, 98% of houses have refrigerators. According to your logic, we shouldn’t allow businesses to sell refrigerated milk because of this 2%.