Adblock does not allow you to dodge the paywall, from personal experience.

There is an easy way to escape the paywall: After a new page opens, wait for the text to load, then after the text is loaded but the rest of the site's infrastructure is still loading, hit Escape to stop loading. Whatever code is responsible for summoning the paywall GUI never finishes loading.

This solution does not work well when trying to open multiple NYT tabs, however.