sw18x,
In NY you should find lots of sugar maple.
Telling sugar maple apart from Silver maple is pretty easy, if the look similar but you can't peel of chips of bark you probably have Sugar.
Cutting them is a sure tell, silver is easy and sugar hard.
But in NY you should look for adds that say (dead elm) or elm anything, your in prime Rock elm teritory and once you burn it Sugar maple becomes a very secondary thing
About 1/2 of the elm in your location is Rock elm the other 1/2 american elm.
Rock elm will test your saw, your back, your woodstove and ability to live in tropical temperatures indoors in winter