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barrysloateActually, the whole look of NYC they created was never very realistic. The streets were a series of mom and pop stores that looked more like Anytown USA than Manhattan.
One interesting note that I am proud of- they hired a photographer at some point to take stills of NY scenes that were interspersed throughout episodes. Well, many of them I recognize from my neighborhood. If you can picture a black awning with the purple letters "VIDEO" that I believe was in the episode where Kramer gets his bagel job back, that Video store is just around the corner. In the scene where George visits Elaine's chiropractor friend, the outdoor shot of that building was shot just two blocks away. And the facade of the brownstone which houses the Susan Ross foundation is certainly in this neighborhood, but I haven't spotted it yet. There are many others shots taken in Cobble Hill Brooklyn, but they were only stills.