List of television shows set in New York City

This page provides a partial list of television shows set in New York City.

Shows set primarily in the five boroughs

1940s–1960s

Tom's Restaurant, at West 112th Street and Broadway, was used as the establishing shot for "Monk's Cafe" on Seinfeld, a program that satirized life on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Title	Start	End	Comment
Mary Kay and Johnny	1947	1950
The Goldbergs	1949	1956	The Bronx, moved to fictional Haverville, New York in final season.
I Love Lucy	1951	1957	Upper East Side, moved to Connecticut in final season.
My Little Margie	1952		Upper Fifth Avenue
Meet Millie		1956	Jackson Heights, Queens
Today		present	Rockefeller Center
Make Room for Daddy	1953	1954
Willy	1954	1955	Early episodes set in fictional Renfrew, New Hampshire
The Honeymooners	1955	1956	Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
It's Always Jan			Manhattan
Hey, Jeannie!	1956	1957	Brooklyn
The Thin Man	1957	1959
The Jeannie Carson Show	1958
Love That Jill			Manhattan
Man with a Camera	1958	1960
Naked City		1963
Johnny Staccato	1959	1960
My Sister Eileen	1960	1961
The Investigators	1961		Manhattan
Top Cat		1962
Car 54, Where are You?		1963
The Joey Bishop Show		1965
The Dick Van Dyke Show		1966	Workplace scenes in Manhattan; (see below)
Dr. Kildare
The Patty Duke Show	1963		Brooklyn Heights
Bewitched	1964	1972	Workplace scenes in Manhattan; (see below)
That Girl	1966	1971	Some episodes/scenes also set in Brewster in Putnam County
Family Affair
Sesame Street	1969	present

1970s

Title	Start	End	Comment
The Trouble with Tracy	1970	1971	Taped in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Odd Couple		1975	Park Avenue, Manhattan
McCloud		1977
All in the Family	1971	1979	Astoria, Queens
The Electric Company		1977
Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve	1972	present	Times Square, Manhattan
The Super	1972
Bridget Loves Bernie	1972	1973
Madigan
Kojak	1973	1978
Needles and Pins	1973		Garment District (Manhattan)
Rhoda	1974	1978
Baretta	1975
Barney Miller		1982
Ellery Queen		1976
The Jeffersons		1985	Upper East Side
Ryan's Hope		1989
Welcome Back, Kotter		1979	Brooklyn
Saturday Night Live		present
Busting Loose	1977
Fish	1977	1978
Diff'rent Strokes	1978	1986
Taxi		1983	Manhattan
The Ted Knight Show		1978
Archie Bunker's Place	1979	1983	Astoria, Queens
Eischied		1980
Flatbush	1979		Flatbush (Brooklyn)

1980s

Title	Start	End	Comment
Bosom Buddies	1980	1982
Checking In	1981		Manhattan
Gimme a Break	1981	1987	final season only, all prior seasons set in fictional Glenlawn, California
Love, Sidney		1983
Cagney & Lacey	1982	1988
Fame		1987
Live with Kelly and Ryan	1983	present
The Cosby Show	1984	1992	Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
Double Trouble		1985	second season only; first season set in Des Moines, Iowa
Kate and Allie		1989	Greenwich Village
Night Court		1992	Manhattan
The Equalizer	1985	1989
Foley Square		1986	Manhattan (Foley Square and Upper West Side)
The Real Ghostbusters (Animated)	1986	1991	New York City
The Bronx Zoo	1987	1988	the Bronx
Beauty and the Beast		1990
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles		1996
Dear John	1988	1992	Rego Park, Queens

1990s

Title	Start	End	Comment
Working Girl	1990
Seinfeld	1989	1998	Upper West Side, Manhattan
Law & Order	1990	present
Dream On		1996	Manhattan
Brooklyn Bridge	1991	1993	Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
Herman's Head	1991	1994
Ghostwriter	1992	1995	Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Love & War
Mad About You		1999 (new episodes 2019)	Manhattan
The Real World	1992		1992 and 2001 in Manhattan; 2009 in Brooklyn
Living Single	1993	1998	Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
The Nanny		1999	Upper East Side
NYPD Blue		2005
704 Hauser	1994		Astoria, Queens
The George Carlin Show	1994	1995
New York Undercover
The Cosby Mysteries
The Critic
Gargoyles		1997	Critically acclaimed Disney animated series
Spider-Man: The Animated Series		1998
Friends		2004	Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist	1995	2002
Can't Hurry Love	1995
Double Rush
High Society
New York News
Caroline in the City	1995	1999
NewsRadio			Manhattan
The Parent 'Hood
The Wayans Bros.
Central Park West	1996
Love and Marriage			Manhattan
Waynehead	1996	1997
Cosby		2000	Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Spin City		2002
Brooklyn South	1997	1998	Brooklyn
Fired Up
Just Shoot Me!		2003
Sex and the City		2004	Manhattan
Veronica's Closet		2000
City Guys		2001
Felicity	1998	2002
Total Request Live		2008	Times Square
Cousin Skeeter		2003
Becker		2004	The Bronx
Sports Night		2000	Manhattan
That's Life	1998
Will & Grace	1998	2020	First run-1998-2006; Second run-2017–2020
The King of Queens		2007	in Rego Park, Queens
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	1999	present
Futurama			Set a thousand years in the future in New New York, built above the ruins of the old.
Mike, Lu & Og		2002	Mike was born in Manhattan
Downtown	1999
Station Zero
Third Watch	1999	2005
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart		2015
Where I Live	1993		Harlem, Manhattan

2000s

Title	Start	End	Comment
The $treet	2000
The 10th Kingdom
Seven Little Monsters		2003
Welcome to New York		2001
Law & Order: Criminal Intent	2001	2011
Grounded for Life		2005	on Staten Island
The Job		2002
Animal Precinct		2008
24		2010	only season 8 was set in N.Y.
Family Affair	2002	2003
Less Than Perfect		2006	Manhattan and Brooklyn
What I Like About You
Without a Trace		2009
America's Next Top Model	2003	present	seasons 1–3, 10, 12 and 14
Tarzan	2003
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	2003	2009
Tru Calling		2005
The Apprentice	2004	2017	all seasons (except season 6)
The Jury	2004
CSI: NY	2004	2013
Rescue Me		2011
Project Runway		present
Law & Order: Trial by Jury	2005	2006
Blind Justice	2005
Everybody Hates Chris	2005	2009	Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
How I Met Your Mother		2014	Upper West Side
Jake in Progress		2006
American Dragon: Jake Long		2007
Related		2006
The Colbert Report		2014
The Bedford Diaries	2006
Conviction
30 Rock	2006	2013
Ugly Betty		2010	Manhattan and Jackson Heights, Queens
America's Got Talent		present	seasons 8–10
Heroes		2010
Gossip Girl	2007	2012	Upper East Side
Rules of Engagement		2013
Fast Money		present	NASDAQ, Times Square
Dirty Sexy Money		2009
Flight of the Conchords
Damages		2012
Mad Men		2015	Filmed in Los Angeles
Wizards of Waverly Place		2012	Filmed in Hollywood, California, set in Greenwich Village
The Naked Brothers Band		2009
The Return of Jezebel James	2008
New Amsterdam
Canterbury's Law
Cashmere Mafia
Life on Mars	2008	2009
Three Delivery
The Spectacular Spider-Man
Lipstick Jungle
True Jackson, VP		2011
Fringe		2013	Set in our universe and a parallel universe
The Real Housewives of New York City	2008	present
Castle (TV series)	2009	2016
Sherri	2009
Nurse Jackie	2009	2015
The Electric Company		2011
White Collar		2014	Mostly Midtown, and upper West side, Manhattan
Glee		2015	Half of the series 4 storyline is set in New York
Bored to Death		2011
Archer		2023	With the exception of S7 in Los Angeles and S8-10 fictional places

2010s

Title	Start	End	Comment
Blue Bloods	2010	present	Staten Island, Manhattan
How to Make It in America		2011
Scrappers	2010
Oddities	2010	2014
Boardwalk Empire
Mad Love	2011
Impractical Jokers	2011	present
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes	2010	2013
Suits	2011	2019	Filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2 Broke Girls		2017	Williamsburg, Brooklyn
A Gifted Man		2012
Louie		2015	Manhattan
Jessie			Manhattan
Person of Interest		2016
Unforgettable		2014
Smash	2012	2013
I Just Want My Pants Back	2011	2012
Girls	2012	2017	Marnie and Hannah live in Greenpoint, Brooklyn; Jessa and Shoshanna live in NoLita; Adam lives in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Breakout Kings	2011	2012	Brooklyn
Ultimate Spider-Man	2012	2017
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23		2013
Elementary		2019
The Mindy Project		2017
666 Park Ave.		2013
Baby Daddy		2017
Made in Jersey	2012
The Following	2013	2015
The Carrie Diaries		2014
Deception	2013
Golden Boy
Inside Amy Schumer	2013	2016
Orange Is the New Black		2019
Hostages		2014
The Michael J. Fox Show		2014
Brooklyn Nine-Nine		2021
Sleepy Hollow		2017	Takes place in Sleepy Hollow, New York, present and Revolutionary war era
Ironside	2013
Alpha House	2013	2014	Amazon Web Series
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver	2014	present
Believe	2014
The Knick	2014	2017
Mozart in the Jungle		2018
Taxi Brooklyn	2014
Power	2014	2020
Broad City		2019	Astoria, Queens (Abbi's Apartment), Gowanus, Brooklyn (Ilana's Apartment), Manhattan
Girl Meets World		2017	Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Manhattan Love Story		2014
Forever		2015
Jackson Heights
The Mysteries of Laura		2016
The Affair		2019
The Jim Gaffigan Show	2015	2016	Greenwich Village
Quantico		2018
The Slap	2015
Empire	2015	2020
Allegiance	2015
The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore	2015	2016
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt		2019
Mr. Robot
Limitless		2016
Agent Carter		2016
Game Shakers		2019
Master of None		2017
Blindspot		present
Daredevil		2018	Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan
Jessica Jones		2019	Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan
3AM	2015
Horace and Pete	2016		Brooklyn
Animals	2016	2018
Kevin Can Wait		2018	Massapequa, Long Island
The Night Of	2016
Conviction	2016	2017
The Get Down			Bronx
Feed the Beast	2016		The Bronx
Luke Cage	2016	2018	Harlem
High Maintenance	2016	present	Brooklyn
Iron Fist	2017	2018	Manhattan
The Defenders	2017
The Punisher	2017	2019	Queens
Marvel's Spider-Man		present
Friends from College		2019	Manhattan
The Deuce
Crashing
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel		present	Upper West Side, Manhattan in 1958.
The Bold Type		2021
Banana Fish	2018		Japanese anime series based on the manga by Akimi Yoshida
Pose	2018	present
The Last O.G.			Brooklyn
You			Only season 1 was set in N.Y.; location changed to Los Angeles in Season 2
Succession		2023
El Barón	2019
The Boys	2019	present
The Morning Show
Sunnyside	2019		Sunnyside, Queens
Almost Family	2019	present
Russian Doll			Alphabet City, Manhattan
What We Do In the Shadows	2019	2024	Staten Island

2020s

Title	Start	End	Comment
High Fidelity	2020		Crown Heights, Brooklyn
Katy Keene			Alphabet City, Manhattan
Awkwafina is Nora from Queens			2020	present	Queens
Love Life
Central Park	2022
The Undoing	2020
How To with John Wilson	2020	present
Betty
Grand Army	2020
Dash & Lily	2020	present
The Equalizer	2021
I Heart Arlo
Gossip Girl
Only Murders in the Building
How I Met Your Father	2022
The Gilded Age
The Boys Presents: Diabolical
Barbie: It Takes Two
Uncoupled
Partner Track
The Walking Dead: Dead City	2023
The Horror of Dolores Roach
The Other Black Girl
Daredevil: Born Again	2025		Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan

Shows set primarily in other parts of the New York metropolitan area

• The Goldbergs (see above: moved to Haverville, New York, in final season)
• I Love Lucy (see above: moved to Westport, Connecticut, in 1957 season)
• The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966, New Rochelle in Westchester County, with workplace scenes in Manhattan)
• The Facts of Life 1979–1988, Peekskill, New York
• Bewitched (1964–1972, Westport, Connecticut, with workplace scenes in Manhattan)
• The Don Rickles Show (1972, Long Island)
• Maude (1972–1978, Tuckahoe in Westchester County)
• Who's the Boss? (1984–1992, Connecticut)
• Growing Pains (1985–1992, Huntington in Long Island)
• Dear John (1988–1992, New Rochelle in Westchester County)
• Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–2005, Lynbrook on Long Island)
• The Sopranos (1999–2007, North Caldwell, New Jersey, with occasional scenes in Manhattan)
• Gilmore Girls (2000–2007); in Western Connecticut, some episodes in New York City
• That's Life (2000–2002, fictional Bellefield, New Jersey, ostensibly Belleville or Bloomfield)
• My Wife and Kids (2001–2005, Stamford, Connecticut)
• Megas XLR (2004–2005, New Jersey)
• House (2004–2012, fictional "Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital" in New Jersey; Princeton and Plainsboro are two adjacent towns within the New York metropolitan area.)
• Animal House (2005–2006 in Port Washington, part of Long Island)
• The Book of Daniel (2006), fictional Newbury in Westchester

See: The Five Boroughs, New York metropolitan area, Tri-State Region

Miniseries, specials or individual episodes

• Xiaolin Showdown
  • "My Homey Omi"
• Ben 10
  • "Kevin 11"
• Doctor Who
  • "Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks"
  • "The Angels Take Manhattan"
  • "The Return of Doctor Mysterio"
• Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything
  • "The Big City"
• iCarly
  • "iShock America"
• Modern Family
  • "A Tale of Three Cities"
• Pretty Little Liars
  • "'A' Is for Answers"
  • "Escape from New York"
• Totally Spies!
  • "Green with N.V."
  • "Dog Show Showdown"
  • "Zooney World"
• James Bond Jr.
  • "The Eiffel Missile"
  • "A Deranged Mind"
• Suits
  • "Pilot"
• The Office (U.S. TV series)
  • "Valentine's Day (The Office)"
  • "Night Out (The Office)"
  • "The Deposition (The Office)"
  • "Crime Aid"
• Leah Remini: It's All Relative
  • New York City Part 1
  • New York City Part 2
• Transformers: The Headmasters
  • "Terror! The Six Shadows"
• Postcards from Buster
  • "Postcards from Buster" (Arthur Episode)
  • "A City View"
  • "A Bridge Back Home"
• SpongeBob SquarePants
  • "Goons on the Moon"
• Transformers: Super-God Masterforce
  • "BlackZarak – Destroyer from Space"
• The Simpsons
  • The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson
• Danger Rangers
  • "Wild Wheels"
  • "Fires and Liars"
• Entourage
  • "Return to Queens Blvd."
• The Orville
  • "Old Wounds" aka Pilot (Set 400 years into future)
• We Bare Bears
  • "Baby Orphan Ninja Bears"
• Courage the Cowardly Dog
  • "Courage in the Big Stinkin' City"
  • "Mega Muriel the Magnificent"
• "The Grand Tour"
  • "The Falls Guys"
• Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
  • "The New York Underground!"
• Doki
  • "The Sky's the Limit"
• World of Winx
  • "The Legend of the Crocodile Man"
• Planet Earth II
  • "Cities"
• Planet Earth III
  • "Human"
• Liberty's Kids
  • "New York, New York"
  • "The Turtle"
  • "Going Home"
• DMZ
• Full Circle
• The Continental: From the World of John Wick
• The Crowded Room

See also

• List of television shows filmed in New York City
• List of movies set in New York City
• List of television shows set in Los Angeles
• List of television shows set in Washington, D.C.
• List of television shows set in Chicago
• List of television shows set in San Francisco
• List of television shows set in Miami

External links

• Fun City: TV's Urban Situation Comedies of the 1990s