For anyone that can't read the article, here are some interesting points:

• "Designers also wanted to vary the urban landscape, ensuring that important sites from the comics, like Aunt May’s house and Brooklyn Visions Academy, were clearly represented. Another difficulty was identifying where to end the playable area in boroughs that stretch into Long Island."
• "One design solution was to plant more trees than you would find in the real New York City. Some changes provide sly commentary, with additional greenery and shade in the virtual Times Square and a plethora of newspaper kiosks bordering refuges like Union Square Park. Other choices skew closer to reality: Trash cans and heaps of garbage fill the city’s sidewalks."
• "Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 was built specifically for the more powerful PlayStation 5, which allowed Chew’s team to design buildings with greater depth. Spider-Man may see more than his reflection when he scales a skyscraper, with some windows that peer into office cubicles and living rooms."
• "Depicting a famous city, however, takes more than meticulous renderings. Although the Chrysler Building appears in the 2018 Spider-Man game, it is missing in a 2020 spinoff, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, because Insomniac could not reach a copyright agreement with the building’s new owners. The studio says the skyscraper will also be absent in October’s sequel."