I graduated from NYU couple years ago and now run a clinic.
I'm sure you already know that NYU tends to be a little bit weaker on the basic sciences, but is pretty intense in clinical training.
My opinion is that they are very focused on producing an all-around General practitioner. Pretty extensive clinical curriculum in all specialties for the undergrad students.
Clinic chair time - I wouldn't be able to tell you for sure since I've never worked in clinics at other school
One thing I can tell you though, is that the clinics at NYU are HUGE. 6 Floors of undergraduate clinics with 60 chairs on each floor and 30 on one floor (cant remember exact number of chairs, but somewhere around there). Some sessions like 10:45am or 2pm slots do tend to fill up much quicker than other times (e.g. 8:30am) but I feel that it would be the same for any other schools.
Specialties - If you are looking to specialize, NYU might not be the best choice for you. I feel that, if you want to specialize, you need a fair amount of attention from the faculty, dean etc. for good rec letters and etc. and just simply, the class size is enormous, which makes your odds of standing out a little bit more difficult, in my opinion. But we do have a handful of students who go on to touch specialties like OS (in my class, I think 3?) and ortho (3?) and those students, just like any other schools, did very well in school and the faculty loved them. The rate between graduates who specialize and who go into GP may be pretty small compare to other schools, but this could be because 1) size of class 2) NYU in general doesn't seem to really promote specializing to the undergrads.
**additional comment on specializing - NYU offers Honors in Research where they pair you up with a faculty researcher at school do research together. This would be a great help if you do want to specialize in things like OS. So my point here is - that no one will come to you and tell you "Oh, you should specialize" at NYU. But if you are informed, and passionate about doing so, good opportunities are there.
Faculty - A lot of faculty members. Not all of them great. Some that really stands out as awesome mentors - but these are the ones all the other students are lined up after. Sometimes I felt that they were just really overwhelmed and couldn't find a time to get their help. I did a lot of things trial-and-error during my clinic sessions
** as someone mentioned above, some of the students do struggle in the clinics and sometimes, due to the size of the class, they don't get the faculty attention they need. There's a lot of survival of the fittest at play in NYU.
Reputation - We have a good reputation as a school that produces great GPs. And in my opinion, reputation of which school does matter. A lot of my classmates seem to be doing pretty well being hired, running a clinic, etc. When I was interviewing around for a job, a lot of them told me that they like NYU students. Yes, our class size is huge, makes comparatively easier school to get into, but we come out as fearless, well-round clinicians!
The city life is great and on weekends a lot of students did get together to have fun in the great NYC nightlife.
I got a bike during my 3rd year here and travelled around the city when the weather is nice and absolutely loved it!
Some people do stress out a little bit and say "you don't have time to go around the city!" but thats really up for you to split up your time
