I doubt that New York would even still be there...
You could travel there in a dlc along with a brotherhood of steel squad in search of a powerful great war tech?
It's all gloomy, dark, and the steers are quiet with trash and ash everywhere.
I see your point though. With the amount of nukes that hit it, it probably is gone.
However, it may just be lots of knock down buildings creating rather riggidy paths and settlements. Like travel through a toppled hotel to reach a street or something.
Idk. Tbh, I want an area that's city like, yet isn't to cow boyish, features a desert or so, the mwbos, and somewhat civilize in some areas, and all hell at others.