How to Avoid Critique When Writing a Novel

What bothers me is movies like the taking of Pelham 123 or diehard with a vengeance in which they're set in New York City and my friends who live in New York tell me oh that was so wrong they got it all wrong. So how do you avoid this well I guess you can obseagate like we said you can do the put it in the city but in some cases that just doesn't work if you're not gonna anonymize it then write the story you want to write, find an alpha reader who knows that city and be willing to make some corrections.