A lot of the police cars seen in the film are marked as being from the 3rd Precinct, which was a defunct precinct in lower Manhattan. However, most of the officers are wearing uniforms that indicate they are from the 81st Precinct, which is in the northern Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyversant - and nowhere near the waterfront.
Supposedly an establishing shot of a ship at Pier 85 in New York City, in the right foreground is the Ocean Tow, Inc. ship Alaska Spruce, which was a new, early container ship, built in 1952. It carried vans and trailers from west coast ports to Alaska and back.