RE: Cougars in new york State??????
 

Not a very good picture but from what I can tell, not a cat track... they have five toes, and this looks like it has only four toes, and nails; cats don't show there nails unless they are chasing something, then there stride is a lot longer I am talking up to twelve feet, when the are chasing it is usually just toes and nails as well no back pad its hard to tell from this picture..
trail camera will tell you for sure... it takes a cat up to a month to round his hole territory so its hard to say how long it will take it if it is a cat.