@Nev4tax. Putting a move date on a part-year return is not in itself a motive to make your return more likely to be audited. If it were audited, the likely point they would be looking for is proof of move, which shouldn't be that hard to do (registration with the post office, new driver's license, sale of old residence/new lease or new home, etc.) If you don't have documentation such as this, that would be your only concern.
If you do claim full-year to New York, you don't have to fill out any NY tax forms next per se, but New York could still send you a notice asking why you didn't. And, again, if you claim full-year resident, you will pay tax on 100% of your income, instead of around 33% of it. With what you stated as your income, it's a significant amount.
To sum up:
2021. You must file a New York return. It is overwhelmingly better to file a part-year return for the reasons I mentioned earlier, but you must file.
2022. You do not need to file a return for New York if you neither live in New York nor earn money from New York sources. But if you file a 2021 New York full resident return, New York could question why you are not filing a 2022 return of some kind.
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