This made me rewatch Vancouver Never Plays Itself[1] from Every Frame a Painting. It didn’t have as many examples of Vancouver playing New York as I remembered, but it’s still an interesting demonstration of how a city is made to appear not to be itself on screen.

1: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ojm74VGsZBU

And even across the pond in Manchester: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gatx2RLVyj0

I think Cleveland plays NYC a big for the Marvel movies.

Even studios in LA, like Paramount, have fake NYC streets.