>>38051798What do you expect? As much as the Japanese like to reference other locales, they always paint things in a very Japanese way. Look at Rsident Evil 3 as an example. This is supposed to be a midwestern American city, however these back alleys look decidedly Japanese.
In short, the artists took a very superficial look at New York in the creation of Unova and only used it to help create designs rather than try to make a complete 1-to-1 emulation of the New York area.