This question is a matter of opinion, because everyone's aesthetics are different, a thousand readers have a thousand Hamlets,? Everyone's thoughts are different, so this question also has a variety of answers, the author's statement will not necessarily be right, but on this question to give you the author's own views.
"Chinatown Detective 2" shooting locations were in New York Times Square, Madison Avenue, New York Grand Central Terminal, New York Chinatown, New York Fifth Avenue and other New York landmarks in the line of the landscape building locations, "police cars chasing carriages," is in New York Times Square.
New York Times Square (Times Square), formerly known as Longacre Square, New York City, the United States of America, Manhattan, a busy neighborhood, known as the "Crossroads of the World", the original early New York Times headquarters building was built in this, so renamed Times Square. Times Square is not only well known, but also has a high social status. Nearby Times Square are nearly forty shopping malls and theaters, making it a thriving center for shopping and entertainment.
There are Broadway theaters, TV-style promos and colorful neon signs, street performers everywhere, and news and song music videos playing that catch everyone's eye, all of which have become the urban character of Manhattan.
New York Chinatown, residents of the Chinese diaspora-based, located in New York City, Manhattan, the southern tip of the Lower East Side, geographically advantageous location so that he has become an important geographic landmark in New York, has a pivotal position. The Chinese here mainly come from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Fuzhou, so most of their languages are Cantonese and Fuzhou (Minnan). On the south side of Chinatown is Confucius Square, which symbolizes the spiritual leader of the Chinese people, and you need to wait in line for a long time to get there.
New York's Grand Central Terminal, a crystallization of industry and art, was built by the Vanderbilt family, the king of American railroads, and is the world's largest train station, with a style similar to that of the Grand Théatre in Paris, France, and a vaulted ceiling of the Zodiac, with 2,500 stars, full of light.
The above is my personal immature views on this issue, does not represent any reference to the proposal, if not proper not week, I hope to criticize and correct Oh.