Leave your 'no friggin way' t-shirt in the car, and deal with it!
Restaurant's full of patrons, fancy hotel lobbies, casinos of gamblers, and they are all getting machine guns fired over their heads and having to trip over bad guy bodies while they flee into the streets. The cops that do show up are just as likely to join in on the carnage cus they are all corrupt and in on it. If I decided to go cruising through NYC at eighty miles an hour ( saying I could make it faster than 30 with the traffic), I would have four police cruisers ramming me off the road. WHERES THE COPS? This would be a huge event, this would be unprecedented stuff. Mass murders all over town by the crime syndicates with hundreds of witnesses and civilians getting gunned down just cus the herd doesnt evacuate fast enough. WTF! That being said, for the sheer entertainment of those who appreciate such ultra violence, it serves it up in big spoonfulls of squib hits. Realistic? New York City may have its moments, but none as over the top as this. Still worth the ride.
"Pffft, my suspension of disbelief has higher standards than that"