What Spider-Man Gets Right (and Wrong) About New York City

[@eewolfs2165]

what i noticed, as a difference, was, in the game, there are people with like super powers and stuff, but in real life new york, u just dont see that. pretty big oversight on their part imo.

[@polygon]

that's a really good point. we'll look into it.

[@mp3holder94]

Yeah! So weird right ?

[@turdferguson9452]

You’ve never seen a NYC crackhead

[@nyanko8972]

Haven’t you ever been to Times Square?

[@yoneezy123]

Yea i live in new york and when i go to manhattan i dont really see a guy in a costume fighting crime

[@Hannah-xh2cc]

this video feels like I’m Simone’s friend from college who happens to be in town for the weekend and she took a half day to show me around NYC and talk about spiderman. thank you for showing me the sights Simone

[@kleinegerd4358]

@@samybenslimanewhat is cringe about something positive?

[@DarthArachnious]

Are the heights of the building accurate? The windows are Spider-Man height and they said they raised the trees in central park. But they seem smaller than previous Spidey games.

[@TimothyHuangSongs]

I had the exact same thought. What a lovely feeling this is.

[@muzegames]

More like Simone moved here two days ago and is already calling herself a New Yorker, while quickly Google Mapping everything because she doesn't know where anything is.

[@theguyyouregoingtoban6709]

@@kleinegerd4358 i enjoyed the video but his comment was kinda corny

[@TigerBears11]

How accurate are the horrifying boat people?

[@macafromthewired]

Tiger Bears insanely accurate

[@natemcnate9699]

1 to 1

[@MangoTurtlenova]

As a native new yorker, very

[@eastsiderage5532]

@@MangoTurtlenova Word

[@chaoticdrawer1885]

As someone who was raised and born in nyc, its accurate af

[@rowboatcop4451]

But why cant i go to the Polygon office? What are they hiding???

[@N0rlight]

Why can't I go to the Nintendo Store. D:(

[@moredetonation3755]

You walk in and get sucked into the eldritch vortex Sonic put Brian Gilbert in

[@popsiclesmelt2096]

MoreDetonation I can confirm

[@britishwatermelon680]

@@N0rlight cause you’ll get copyright striked out of real life

[@wweRamz]

This is the most accurate version of nyc we ever got in a video game. Its not 1 to 1. But its very close to the real deal

[@frankieyamz]

Ramz woahhhh lets not forget GTA IV , Liberty City was great

[@frankieyamz]

but i can’t stop exploring in Spider Man , it’s amazing

[@wweRamz]

@@frankieyamz liberty city was very good too. But in my opinion Spider-Man is very close to the real ny then gta was. Not saying gta is bad. Just saying spiderman more accurately represents nyc in terms of how it looks

[@frankieyamz]

Ramz yeah i see what you mean, i’ve never been but my cousin who lived there was in awe over this game lol

[@JJoeMartin]

Yeah, super dig the accuracy of much of it. The only part I'm particularly disappointed with is the Freedom Tower. I don't mind the changes in some of the streets, the grid patterns, I love Lockjaw instead of the Bull, but the Freedom Tower is what gets me. I lived there for 5 years, I enjoy seeing my old apartment and my old office. They're not identical buildings but the style and assets used are entirely similar. Like my old office had a roll up door off the street, an awning above the main entrance and a discreet grey side entrance, and they used similar assets at the same location. (25th and 10th, though they refer to 10th as Amsterdam, even though 10th doesn't turn into Amsterdam until further north).

[@jassykat]

I almost forgot that they can't make real buildings designs for some Copyright things. Only historical estructures

[@touisbetterthanpi]

Yassir Rossel that feels insane. Like, do you have to get licensing to take a picture or paint a painting of a non historical building?

[@skotmatthews8940]

Yea I'm an idiot I was wondering why they didnt do a 1 for 1 building of NY...money duh

[@allenbro9900]

@@touisbetterthanpi lol sometimes you do actually especially if you are going to make money of it

[@teogonzalez7957]

@@touisbetterthanpi this is pretty interesting, since sometimes you have. Since the lights in the Eiffel tower were installed relatively recently taking any pictures of the tower at night and using them commercially requires licensing.

[@britishwatermelon680]

How much would it cost to be able to make 1:1 scale of Manhattan 🤔

[@Jiyinz]

Lmao they built a whole city just because of a game xD

[@justbeyondthecornerproduct3540]

God tier memery

[@bin9543]

Ye man videogames have so much influence man since rdr2 was such a hit they made horses real.

[@gacgac]

Spider man was based off of new york they didn’t build a city because of it man I can’t wait to get woooshed

[@rep9303]

@@gacgac r/woooosh’nt

[@AFT_05G]

They just built Manhattan in a 1:5 scale,not entire NYC lol.

[@jaden2040]

Correction, *What Spider-Man Got Right and Got Creative With*

[@EthanBradburyVlogs]

Lmao you guys really cant take criticism

[@jhonyoon9116]

Ok :0

[@jordanwilliams2780]

Nice correction

[@sebastianw.7254]

@@sunnypenumarthy1449 How is pointing out the fact that changing something about a real world location being put in a creative work of fiction not taking criticism? And for that matter, how is pointing out the changes between real life and the version used in the video game criticism?

[@ALC251]

>What Spider-Man Gets Right (and Wrong) About New York City >What Spider-Man Gets Right (and Wrong) >What Spider-Man Gets Wrong *ANGERY GAMER NOISE REEEEEEEEE* bottomtext

[@MercuryChild]

"Life comes at you fast....so does the mob" Love your delivery!

[@katherinehunold1828]

Still an absolute crime that nothing takes place in Queens. Where’s your Forest Hills pride, Peter?!

[@Fruckert]

There's a random line when you do one of the landmark photos about how Queens is where he grew up and he can't afford to live there anymore

[@tonyswag3290]

not sure if true but i heard they are working on DLC to unlock the other boros!

[@katherinehunold1828]

Tony Swag Oh that would be awesome!

[@SomeRamdomAhole]

Brooklyn and Manhattan > Queens and Bronx and Staten island

[@mrniz461]

Fruckert Wait isn’t Manhattan more expensive than Queens though?

[@areebahmad6460]

Life long New Yorker here: in general the game is accurate or close to accurate. There are some buildings missing all together or in the wrong place. Saddest miss though for me is Chelsea Piers! They also added more parks and open spaces than actually exist but that might be to make webslinging slightly more challenging.

[@MrRezRising]

I worked at the Spa there for years. GTA 4 has the Sports Center. I enjoyed visiting with an RPG launcher and discussing my raise. In game, of course.😂

[@maythesciencebewithyou]

Did you find your own house? I wondered if there were really that many parks in NY.

[@ericschroeder3302]

the first thing i noticed was the fisk building being right next to where trump tower is. Me and my roomate had a good laugh about it

[@JJoeMartin]

Technically, that's Trump International nearby there. A hotel. Trump Tower, his place of business, is on the east side. Above Tiffany's, a nightmare of a story in of itself. I think Time Warner owns the building where Fisk would be, also a bit appropriate.

[@treytrent1999]

Jesse Martin it’s cause Time Warner owns Warner Bros which owns DC comics, makes perfect sense that their building isn’t there. Trust me if it was a DC game it’d most likely be there.

[@ericschroeder3302]

Jesse Martin semantics. Trump International is where irl spiderman scaled sixteen stories with suction cups though two years ago. Look that video up it's hilarious. I remember watching him outside of my office window.

[@ultimatewall-crawler5292]

Eric Schroeder I’m pretty sure in the Raimi movies, the Oscorp Tower was in that location. You can even visit it in the Spider-Man 3 game.

[@Metatronio]

@@ultimatewall-crawler5292 I don't remember Oscorp having a office in New York in the Raimi films

[@Stevonicus]

I like that Simone pronounces bagel like Britta from Community.

[@madrid_seu]

Stevonicus im fron New York. I know how to pronounce bagel.

[@whatsthechord2783]

Where's that movie tho 👀

[@jayfuertez1419]

I just finished community and noticed that lol had to double take and rewind when I heard her say bagel

[@giveli101]

Hahaha i was thinking the same thing.

[@Javish]

Hahahahaahaha

[@wweRamz]

For me i noticed how they got the buildings in the right area's but its in the wrong street. Not that far off from where its supposed to be

[@thrawn82]

I was trying to find a particular apartment building i stayed at during my one and only visit to NY, and i noticed something interesting: The streets skip numbers. like it goes 89, 91, 94, etc. That said the neighborhood where the apartment building should have been wasn;t picture perfect, but it 'felt' like the same neighborhood. There was a lot of TLC involved in getting the city ot feel like the city i remember, at least as a visitor and not a resident.

[@TheOraclearchive]

MSG is really South of Times Square. It was 4 streets over to the West, and as North As Central Park.

[@paradoxacres1063]

_"You mess with one of us..you mess with ALL of us!"_

[@irmese06]

He's like some kinda freaky-loo, or somethin wack-a-doo!

[@Jedi_Knigga]

Paradox Acres “Oh yeah, I got somethin’ for yo ass!”

[@MrRezRising]

@Xeino Phonetically, that sounded like a guy from Long Island speaking parseltounge... 👍😂

[@zanetruesdale8336]

Surprised you didn't mention Rockefeller or Central park

[@starpetalarts6668]

Yeah, and what about Strawberry Fields?

[@thisguy1664]

Ah no need to watch the vid then

[@A_29886]

And the Chrysler building

[@NeonDream]

Did she just call it a "baggle"?

[@TIMMUT17]

ugh, britta's the worst

[@calcifer6142]

@@TIMMUT17 hAHAHAHAHA

[@donttakemeseriously3564]

She lives in New York, I think she knows how to say baggle.

[@darkxarth]

Statue of Liberty? Is it there? Does it look like Mysterio? Can you climb onto the torch and make a quip about the "hot view" from there?

[@RonnieBarzel]

The statue is about 1 1/2 miles southwest of the southern tip of Manhattan (i.e. the game world), but it could theoretically be included as part of the skybox/horizon art if you take Spidey down to Battery Park and look.

[@thebaker525]

Huh, a giant brain!

[@wmvnotmp4]

It's there, but you can't go to it. It's in the distance

[@darkxarth]

Olivier.wmv Mega bummer.

[@darkxarth]

DarlingDaily Thank you for this blessed comment.

[@ghostygc7962]

Spidey's NYC is very inacurate. Such a lack of traffic in the game.

[@bichonnation9494]

True. Certainly WAYYYY more traffic when compared to all the other spiderman games. So it wins compared to the others.

[@zaycarnage2780]

GTA 4 has the most accurate NYC ever

[@Mrsplifferdoodle]

@@zaycarnage2780 not even close

[@eefff7224]

@@Mrsplifferdoodle hardware limitations+ traffic was really close tho

[@robert.sec2]

I don't know if you folks will ever see this-- but I just wanted ALL OF Y'ALL to know that your spider-man coverage in particular but ALL of your game-mechanicy stuff and video essays recently have been so so so good. So informative, so interesting. Thank you folks for doing good work.

[@ericschroeder3302]

east harlem is also basically just the chemical factory instead of an actual neighborhood which i guess was done because there are very few buildings in E harlem that are tall enough for spidey to swing on

[@andrewreisman2371]

Weirdly, they do keep the Meer and the Duke Ellington Circle buildings

[@davidb5205]

They have the mosque on 96th street and it looks almost exactly like the area.

[@isaramao]

i knew she wasn’t really from New York by the way she said bagels

[@suburbanindie]

She's from Seattle I think

[@UltimategamerTim]

I'm from queens how tf did she say bagels? its just one way to pronounce it

[@JUSLOFI]

In the Game, Peter doesn't even sound like he's from Queens.

[@mollendinousa]

So many transplants in NYC. Lmao

[@kevinm5940]

vcorr2288 I don't know, research?

[@bsilvaanimation]

The transition from Freedom tower to the Highline was done very well and I love the phrasing Simone went with "Taking a deep breath" it works so well and it was very comforting! Good video Polygoofs!

[@Jonathan1003]

It wouldn’t be New York without pedestrians yelling out “yerrrrrrrrr”

[@chaoticdrawer1885]

Jonathan Pena lmaoo facts

[@TheMallachiv]

Jonathan Pena deadass b😂😂😂

[@gmst9784]

Well this is the MARVEL universe so its not likely that would happen but thats funny😂

[@valenjessy87]

@@chaoticdrawer1885 u hurrrdd

[@greenaesthetic6387]

Jonathan Pena juu hearddd

[@Xxx_EvilSmurf_xxX]

*New Donk City*

[@dpage446]

Johnsvideos reference?

[@thebigadam7574]

@@dpage446 mario oddessy

[@dpage446]

@@thebigadam7574 oh.im not familiar with those games.

[@zoneswishy]

@@dpage446 how dare you don't play Mario odyssey you have no taste of games

[@dpage446]

@@zoneswishy yes because marvel's Spiderman,assasins creed games and Uncharted games suck.

[@Dr.MantisTobogganMD]

I lived in Hell’s Kitchen, I’ve been mugged 12 times, never saw Daredevil or Spidey once smh.

[@xaayer]

My mom loved that the game was so accurate but was disappointed when she walked the streets to where her apartment was when she lived in NY and found out it (and her nursing school) were some of the blocks cut from the game :(

[@andrewfanelli666]

As a born and raised New Yorker, and player of this game: Thank you. I've been waiting for someone to dig into Spider Man PS4's NYC vs the real thing. This was a lot of fun to watch.

[@BaconNuke]

Honestly that is pretty cool they got so much right..also with the memorial.. I like how they had the tour guide to essentially be like "We may not have gotten license to use it's direct likeness..but it happened, so here 'it' is"

[@Tinybabyfishy]

simone you can't just talk about the mob like that you're a public person, what are you doing?!

[@Anna-xh6fk]

Chris Alderton what Dorothy Kilgallen didn’t live long enough to do

[@themikeydonuts]

They skipped Bleecker Street. There's a Sanctum Sanctorum down in the village but it's not on Bleecker Street where it's supposed to be. They seem to have skipped some streets to compress the island a bit. Dr Strange's place is on what I think they are calling First Street now.

[@khaifrench3323]

Bruh literally was tryimg to find bleeker street. The one street i actually cared to find.

[@DocAlexandrite]

That’s a shame, the name Bleecker Street is almost as iconic as the character of Dr. Strange, moreso even.

[@smorgastarta4205]

Mike Williams They're not from NY. They act like they are but they're not. It's like finding the perfect women until you realise she has lip injection, and breast/butt augmentation.

[@MrRezRising]

If youre not going to recreate Bleeker in fine detail, don't bother. Prob a good idea they skipped it.

[@lillyd589]

When I moved to nyc as a European after high school, I kind of expected police car chases and bank robberies every day - I suspect the spider man movies had something to do with it

[@mayham8215]

Stan Lee born around 98th st then moved to Washighton Heights and they locked it out? huh

[@KellyJoule]

The entire entrance area to the Brooklyn Bridge doesn't look right at all too.

[@Erine120]

Kelly Joule and union square was weak

[@AbzorTCryteK]

That pissed me off. I was looking at it when the game came out and laughed because it just looked..... so..... off.

[@Fruckert]

Out of curiosity, what's supposed to be around Avengers Tower? Obviously not a real thing, but is it in the same place as in the films? What's there in real life?

[@animewatcher102]

From what I heard it replaces the Met Life building

[@JJoeMartin]

AnonEars I'm pretty sure the COLEXCO building is what takes the place of the MetLife building. MetLife is in Midtown. Avengers Tower is Upper East Side

[@luizeduardo._.]

@@JJoeMartin I think he was talking about the movies version

[@texanfan200]

Avengers Tower replaces the MetLife building in the movies. It’s in a different location in the game. Not sure what’s there irl

[@animewatcher102]

@@texanfan200 I see that makes sense

[@whateversusan]

I miss Video Game Theatre.

[@nighthawk7176]

I wonder what buildings are replaced by buildings only in the marvel universe. Like where doctor strange lives or where foggy and Matt Murdock work

[@thatotherguy27]

I saw a Damage Control building, too.

[@diersteinjulien6773]

And there's a Rand building also

[@UltimategamerTim]

bro you realize that not every building in that game exists in real life.

[@UltimategamerTim]

And Im taking about normal buildings and houses they are all made up

[@GM-nv8ct]

@@UltimategamerTim hes talking about what buildings those replaced

[@Nazgull123]

I'm just happy that Battery Park has their signature squirrels in the game

[@sublucky74]

I think overall they did great but the west side around Clinton and Hells Kitchen is wrong. In the game it’s very industrial with power stations. No Javits, no USS Intrepid, no Port Authority, further down no Chelsea Piers. It’s weird how many parts are so well done and that area is not in the least bit recognisable

[@pauldavis5665]

No Daredevil in Hell's Kitchen either, how did they forget that? lol.

[@Metatronio]

@@pauldavis5665 Well there's the Nelson & Murdock lawyers office and some other locations from the Daredevil comics

[@musicbrush9231]

Funny how they don't include the memorial in this game when a reference was there in Spider-Man 2 for the PS2. I wish they included it even if only for players who don't live anywhere near Manhattan Island to at least see it. I'm sure most players would be respectful to such an icon.

[@yumerri1428]

They actually did Columbia really well too. I mean in game the university is the aesthetic and layout of Columbia in a location closer to NYU, but you get the idea. Great video! :)

[@lilyhope432]

"Spiderman is New York's superhero" This is blatant Captain America erasure

[@Evenstar213]

Don't forget the classic : "Stand Clear of the closing doors please" when you go to the Harlem Train

[@illegibleledger]

This game really makes you feel like the empire state building

[@charlescampbell5894]

There are plenty of heroes from NYC that protect it, most notably Daredevil.

[@tech489]

How can you have Harlem without the Apollo theater and 125th street

[@KellyJoule]

3:57 Wait I'm sorry WHAT

[@thesmugwhale9824]

What? Oh, Comic con? its a comic book event!

[@KellyJoule]

@@thesmugwhale9824 no I mean what the building is owned by the mob and costs this city millions?? Ive been attending NYCC for 7 years straight and wondered why the Javits Center wasn't in the game but I had no idea of the mob business stuff.

[@wmvnotmp4]

@@KellyJoule woosh

[@zackbryson4784]

Kelly Joule Actually, I think she said billions. That's okay, though, it's an easy misconception. A billion is simply a million, multiplied by a thousand.

[@governor_explosion]

That side-tracked me as a longtime NYCC goer as well. I figured it'd be in the game, but exclusively decked out in Marvel/Disney/Star Wars stuff, or something.

[@theredeft5319]

I imagine it’s quite expensive to license all of these buildings, so unfortunately that’s probably why they didn’t include many. I really wonder why they didn’t include the freedom tower. Even spiderman 2 had spotlights where the buildings stood. I wonder if it was a money or ethics issue?

[@mrniz461]

The Red Salamander Well they do have an Easter egg for the twin towers in the game. On one of the buildings near where the World Trade Center was you’ll see a reflection of two twin towers but when you look at the location they’re not there

[@Metatronio]

@@mrniz461 Thats just a glitch, and the buildings that are reflected is the one you're standing on and the one next to it

[@MrJordilicious]

I'm surprised how they managed to capture some parts of Central Park so well. Like there's this area where people go on boat rides on the water and there's a bridge over that water and if you walk along the path there you end up at a rock wall... I managed to actually recognize it so well from real life. However the Jaqueline Kennedy pond isn't in the game at all...

[@oldapplekeyboard3689]

Not including the Chrysler building is criminal imo

[@Nestlesnipez93]

If you run alongside one of the buildings surrounding where the Twin Towers would have been you can see the reflection of the Twin Towers

[@h.r.hufnstuf4171]

its a shame we never got to see a live action spidey on the old world trade center

[@mhouse1115]

The streets are all crazy. The mid Manhattan library is not on 5th and the streets jump from 41st to 44th (if I remember correctly). Also the avenues are cut off in some places, like the easternmost part of the east side.

[@Jeathetius]

The east part of the upper east side is all wrong. I used to live on 88th between second and third and I was very excited to see my old apartment only to find my part of the street didn’t even exist and had been turned into what I presume is Carl Schurz Park, and somehow the east river moved over 2 blocks 🙁

[@mhouse1115]

@@Jeathetius haha I used to live on 88th and York and was like..."well.. my old place doesn't exist in the marvel universe"

[@jpedrobr3199]

They make the streets like this to make the map feel more "dense"

[@Dangermaniac206]

Forgot to mention Rikers Island position as being inaccurate to real life

[@lolathelivingdoll]

I quit the video right after she said im walking here

[@datweeb25_96]

I love how she is negative but positive at the same time

[@EfrainQuezada]

I appreciate these comparisons, I remember when gta v came out, my friends and I took pictures of landmarks around LA to compare to their in game counterparts. A lot was missing, maybe budget constraints or just didn't know how to fit it into the game world but all in all it was a good idea of what LA felt like. Are there any landmarks only Manhattan natives would recognize or that need to be in the game to make it feel like home? I remember that was a big thing Sucker Punch focused on in a INFAMOUS Second Son, landmarks that natives would appreciate and not just the generic checklist needed to accommodate tourists.

[@eefff7224]

Its due to hardware limitation

[@harshavardhanvagesan1153]

You forgot the Avengers Tower

[@danieltheghost23]

If gta was to go back to “liberty city”, they would top this. gta iv had the best new work in a video game at that time

[@emoryclaire1477]

DUDE! Okay, I'm from the suburbs 20 minutes north of the city, so I take Metro North into Grand Central all the time. It's the part of the city I know best and I was FLOORED when I saw it in game. The detail is off the charts! They got the marble and granite types of the floor to the detailing of the ticket booths to the LIGHTS. Every detail in Grand Central is perfect. You can even look at the schedule on the boards and find accurate train lines on them. I found the one I take to get home! It was so awesome and made me gush enough to annoy my roommates for an hour. They only left out the Apple store, which I'm happy they did.

[@NOVSinSinga]

So we just going to pretend that they didn't put the Domino sugar factory in Manhattan rather than leave it in Brooklyn. So weird

[@eastsiderage5532]

I didn't even realize that...

[@chaoticdrawer1885]

I've realised that

[@mattbrigidi]

polygon’s spider-man coverage is fantastic! i am so happy to see that insomniac put this much effort into the game. i was on the fence about investing in a ps4...but god of war...and now spider-man...😬🤔

[@nic_rios]

I love exploring real-life cities in games. After living in London for years, exploring London in Assassin's Creed Syndicate was SO FUN, even if there were absolutely liberties taken. Now living in NYC, I'm excited to explore Spider-Man's NYC.

[@UltimategamerTim]

Nicole Rios You a hypebeast leave ny now

[@UltimategamerTim]

I dont fuck with tourists

[@chaoticdrawer1885]

Lmao NYC sucks, and there's a lot of litter here

[@ukrainewarfootage2023]

Freedom Tower was originally in the game but was taken out due to licensing. You can see it in the early gameplay videos.

[@daltonmcdaniel4253]

is the vox media building in the game

[@spiddyman0079]

Great video. We needed this

[@directionaljoy]

A VERY well done and polished video, Polygon. A mini Noclip/Clothmap, if you will... and I mean that as an EXTREME compliment, not an insulting “me too” comparison. I would ❤️ to see more of this style. 😁

[@gamingguy6793]

I noticed they left out W 52nd street where the Ed Sullivan theater is. David letterman did the Late Show there and a common skit would be where he would see how many people in a spider man costume could fit in certain shops around the city at once.

[@marcelolimasouza]

I sincerely adore this woman.

[@AQUAPHREESH193]

Marcelo Souza would u buy her a pumpkin spice latte? Lol

[@KillerTacos54]

All the little changes and alterations they made are really so clever. I’ve been waiting for this type of video weeks now

[@rikkitikitavi12]

wait so what is stark tower replacing?

[@bravobird9435]

Avengers tower*

[@chadchadimus2529]

Taryn Wesley nothing it’s just in a spot over random buildings i live near by where it would be

[@hurrjafri9847]

where is the statue of liberty

[@deadbunny5134]

what about the avengers building? what did that replace?

[@ModestPilgrim1]

your mom

[@justgavin_]

@@ModestPilgrim1 you must be a 2nd grader.

[@chadchadimus2529]

XxDeadBunnyxX nothing it’s just plopped over random buildings would be I live in NYC

[@deadbunny5134]

@Modest Pilgrim I thought 10 y/o weren't supposed to have accounts on youtube

[@maythesciencebewithyou]

@@chadchadimus2529 I would be proud if they plopped it above my house

[@taakotuesdays]

Thus is just a dope video where I learned about New York with some fun spidey swinging scenes. Excellent content

[@UltraPvnk]

Excellent video, thanks!

[@ethanpreslar6186]

About the 911 thing, I think that tower could be one of the World Trade Center towers, because a superhero of some kind stopped the second plane when they saw the first plane hit the first tower.

[@charlie13albert]

You ain’t from NY if you pronounce bagels like how she did. Wtf was that

[@leonardocaicedo1273]

"baagels"

[@QuayNemSorr]

The old World Trade Center can actually be seen in the game, being in a reflection from one of the skyscrapers.

[@RandomU5erName]

MOM

[@paperluigi64]

Confucious Plaza is in the wrong spot, residing next to the wrong bridge. Confucious Plaza is next to the Manhattan bridge but in spiderman its next to the Williamsburg bridge.

[@jomahawk7488]

Didn’t mention the Chrysler Building, Avengers Tower, or the places in real life that had been replaced in game by photograph landmarks. Like the Wakandan Embassy, The Bar With No Name, and the Sanctum Santorum

[@Alex_FRD]

The whole World Trade Center thing is because the Port Authority despises anyone using their "asset". That's the reason why OTWC is not only a different building, it's also completely in the wrong place.

[@louisalectube]

I never knew that NYC has an old railway that was renovated into an elevated park! That's awesome.

[@ismaelSounds]

The church and cemetery actually are at the top of Harlem on 156th street, it’s not representing the cloisters. As soon as I saw it in game I recognized it from the many many times I’ve been passed it since middle school.

[@jpedrobr3199]

The thing is, Freedom Tower was on spider man, until the end of July, when they went gold (finished development of the game). Apparently they took it out and replaced it with that ingame building due to liscensing issues.

[@etexpatriate]

Actually, rather than the Cloisters, that Northern park and church looks much more closely modeled on Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, at 153rd and Broadway on the edge of Harlem (so roughly where they cut off Manhattan in the game). Actually a pretty significant landmark, its got Mayor Koch and James Audubon in it, and other famous tenants.

[@shanithezimhoni]

I like how you try to not be depressed in the near end bit

[@spencerbruce]

They have Columbia University in the game, too, but many of the buildings on campus are resized or are the buildings before massive remodeling. Also, the "sundial" in the center of college walk had its orb removed in 1946, but the orb remains present in the game.

[@davidb5205]

Yep. Lerner Hall still has the same architectural style as Carman/Furnald, before it became a glasshouse monstrosity. There's no incline in front of Butler Library. But still surprisingly detailed for such a small section of the map.

[@ZOB4]

0:10 I live on Long Island and have never heard a single person from New York City say "Bagels" the way you did at the beginning of this. You said it like someone from western New York (ie, Buffalo or Rochester).

[@JosefK2275]

I was just wondering about this, thanks Polygon!

[@sayidkolenovic6284]

I feel like they took a bunch of the lesser known buildings and put them together to make one. Like my building and the building next to mine where put together. Stuyvesant high school tho is freaking spot on.

[@neosentinel]

Another thing I noticed swinging around was large portions of midtown, particularly around Bryant Park. The park was lopped off quite a bit and actually shifted a few streets over.

[@scylla019]

Grand central station and its elevated bridge thingy looks great ingame. Guggenheim museum, Chrysler building, Rockefeller look really good too

[@Dantai]

They did have the Freedom Tower in it if you watch the E3 gameplay videos!

[@KBXband]

I wonder how accurate the apartments and stuff like that are with like those high rises and stuff

[@MrHURRICANE43]

The first thing I noticed is the significantly smaller Union Square Park and the absence of Chelsea piers

[@basedsalvy]

In the the game it goes from 34th Street to 43rd Street. I really wanted to visit where I work at in the game.

[@nathanielleon4163]

0:27 Hey look! Simone is on the billboard in times square!

[@Martinlavell]

No one would be butt hurt about the One World trade Center/Freedom Tower being in the game. That would've been dope to have it in the game. Hell, the Original Trade Towers would've been so cool.

[@tubbycustard8866]

This was a surprisingly funny video, love the script and vibe