List of television shows set in New York City explained
This page provides a partial list of television shows set in New York City.
Shows set primarily in the five boroughs
1940s–1960s
1970s
1980s
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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2000s
| Title | Start | End | Comment |
|---|
| The $treet | 2000 | | |
| The 10th Kingdom | | |
| Seven Little Monsters | 2003 | |
| Welcome to New York | 2001 | |
| 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 | |
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| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | 2003 | 2009 | |
| Tru Calling | 2005 | |
| The Apprentice | 2004 | 2017 | all seasons (except season 6) |
| The Jury | 2004 | |
| 2004 | 2013 | |
| Rescue Me | 2011 | |
| Project Runway | present | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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[2] | 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
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
See also
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987). TV.Com. December 25, 2015. October 6, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141006202845/http://www.tv.com/shows/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-1987/episodes/. dead.
- Web site: 'The Jim Gaffigan Show' Done: No Season 3 for TV Land Comedy Series . deadline.com . August 22, 2016. February 2, 2020.
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1280586/?ref_=ttep_ep12, reviewed February 7, 2020
