List of television shows set in New York City

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

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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. Tom's Restaurant, NYC.jpg
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.
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Mary Kay and Johnny 19471950
The Goldbergs 19491956 The Bronx, moved to fictional Haverville, New York in final season.
I Love Lucy 19511957 Upper East Side, moved to Connecticut in final season.
My Little Margie 1952Upper Fifth Avenue
Meet Millie 1956 Jackson Heights, Queens
Today present Rockefeller Center
Make Room for Daddy 19531954
Willy 19541955Early episodes set in fictional Renfrew, New Hampshire
The Honeymooners 19551956 Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
It's Always Jan Manhattan
Hey, Jeannie! 19561957 Brooklyn
The Thin Man 19571959
The Jeannie Carson Show 1958
Love That Jill Manhattan
Man with a Camera 19581960
Naked City 1963
Johnny Staccato 19591960
My Sister Eileen 19601961
The Investigators 1961 Manhattan
Top Cat 1962
Car 54, Where are You? 1963
The Joey Bishop Show 1965
The Dick Van Dyke Show 1966Workplace scenes in Manhattan; (see below)
Dr. Kildare
The Patty Duke Show 1963 Brooklyn Heights
Bewitched 19641972Workplace scenes in Manhattan; (see below)
That Girl 19661971Some episodes/scenes also set in Brewster in Putnam County
Family Affair
Sesame Street 1969present

1970s

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The Trouble with Tracy 19701971Taped in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Odd Couple 1975 Park Avenue, Manhattan
McCloud 1977
All in the Family 19711979 Astoria, Queens
The Electric Company 1977
Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve 1972present Times Square, Manhattan
The Super 1972
Bridget Loves Bernie 19721973
Madigan
Kojak 19731978
Needles and Pins 1973 Garment District (Manhattan)
Rhoda 19741978
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 19771978
Diff'rent Strokes 19781986
Taxi 1983 Manhattan
The Ted Knight Show 1978
Archie Bunker's Place 19791983 Astoria, Queens
Eischied 1980
Flatbush 1979 Flatbush (Brooklyn)

1980s

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Bosom Buddies 19801982
Checking In 1981Manhattan
Gimme a Break 19811987final season only, all prior seasons set in fictional Glenlawn, California
Love, Sidney 1983
Cagney & Lacey 19821988
Fame 1987
Live with Kelly and Ryan 1983present
The Cosby Show 19841992 Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
Double Trouble 1985second season only; first season set in Des Moines, Iowa
Kate and Allie 1989 Greenwich Village
Night Court 1992 Manhattan
The Equalizer 19851989
Foley Square 1986 Manhattan (Foley Square and Upper West Side)
The Real Ghostbusters (Animated)19861991 New York City
The Bronx Zoo 19871988 the Bronx
Beauty and the Beast 1990
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1996 [1]
Dear John 19881992 Rego Park, Queens

1990s

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Working Girl 1990
Seinfeld 19891998 Upper West Side, Manhattan
Law & Order 1990present
Dream On 1996 Manhattan
Brooklyn Bridge 19911993 Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
Herman's Head 19911994
Ghostwriter 19921995 Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Love & War
Mad About You 1999 (new episodes 2019) Manhattan
The Real World 19921992 and 2001 in Manhattan; 2009 in Brooklyn
Living Single 19931998 Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
The Nanny 1999 Upper East Side
NYPD Blue 2005
704 Hauser 1994 Astoria, Queens
The George Carlin Show 19941995
New York Undercover
The Cosby Mysteries
The Critic
Gargoyles 1997Critically acclaimed Disney animated series
Spider-Man: The Animated Series 1998
Friends 2004 Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist 19952002
Can't Hurry Love 1995
Double Rush
High Society
New York News
Caroline in the City 19951999
NewsRadio Manhattan
The Parent 'Hood
The Wayans Bros.
Central Park West 1996
Love and Marriage Manhattan
Waynehead 19961997
Cosby 2000 Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Spin City 2002
Brooklyn South 19971998 Brooklyn
Fired Up
Just Shoot Me! 2003
Sex and the City 2004 Manhattan
Veronica's Closet 2000
City Guys 2001
Felicity 19982002
Total Request Live 2008 Times Square
Cousin Skeeter 2003
Becker 2004 The Bronx
Sports Night 2000 Manhattan
That's Life 1998
Will & Grace 19982020First run-1998-2006; Second run-2017–2020
The King of Queens 2007in Rego Park, Queens
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 1999present
Futurama Set a thousand years in the future in New New York,
built above the ruins of the old.
Mike, Lu & Og 2002Mike was born in Manhattan
Downtown 1999
Station Zero
Third Watch 19992005
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart 2015
Where I Live 1993 Harlem, Manhattan

2000s

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The $treet 2000
The 10th Kingdom
Seven Little Monsters 2003
Welcome to New York 2001
Law & Order: Criminal Intent 20012011
Grounded for Life 2005on Staten Island
The Job 2002
Animal Precinct 2008
24 2010only season 8 was set in N.Y.
Family Affair 20022003
Less Than Perfect 2006 Manhattan and Brooklyn
What I Like About You
Without a Trace 2009
America's Next Top Model 2003presentseasons 1–3, 10, 12 and 14
Tarzan 2003
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 20032009
Tru Calling 2005
The Apprentice 20042017all seasons (except season 6)
The Jury 2004
CSI: NY 20042013
Rescue Me 2011
Project Runway present
Law & Order: Trial by Jury 20052006
Blind Justice 2005
Everybody Hates Chris 20052009 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 20062013
Ugly Betty 2010 Manhattan and Jackson Heights, Queens
America's Got Talent presentseasons 8–10
Heroes 2010
Gossip Girl 20072012 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 2015Filmed in Los Angeles
Wizards of Waverly Place 2012Filmed 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 20082009
Three Delivery
The Spectacular Spider-Man
Lipstick Jungle
True Jackson, VP 2011
Fringe 2013Set in our universe and a parallel universe
The Real Housewives of New York City 2008present
Castle (TV series) 20092016
Sherri 2009
Nurse Jackie 20092015
The Electric Company 2011
White Collar 2014Mostly Midtown, and upper West side, Manhattan
Glee 2015Half of the series 4 storyline is set in New York
Bored to Death 2011
Archer 2023With the exception of S7 in Los Angeles and S8-10 fictional places

2010s

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Blue Bloods 2010present Staten Island, Manhattan
How to Make It in America 2011
Scrappers 2010
Oddities 20102014
Boardwalk Empire
Mad Love 2011
Impractical Jokers 2011present
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes 20102013
Suits 20112019Filmed 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 20122013
I Just Want My Pants Back 20112012
Girls 20122017Marnie and Hannah live in Greenpoint, Brooklyn;
Jessa and Shoshanna live in NoLita; Adam lives in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Breakout Kings 20112012 Brooklyn
Ultimate Spider-Man 20122017
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 20132015
The Carrie Diaries 2014
Deception 2013
Golden Boy
Inside Amy Schumer 20132016
Orange Is the New Black 2019
Hostages 2014
The Michael J. Fox Show 2014
Brooklyn Nine-Nine 2021
Sleepy Hollow 2017Takes place in Sleepy Hollow, New York, present and Revolutionary war era
Ironside 2013
Alpha House 20132014Amazon Web Series
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 2014present
Believe 2014
The Knick 20142017
Mozart in the Jungle 2018
Taxi Brooklyn 2014
Power 20142020
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] 20152016 Greenwich Village
Quantico 2018
The Slap 2015
Empire 20152020
Allegiance 2015
The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore 20152016
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 20162018
Kevin Can Wait 2018 Massapequa, Long Island
The Night Of 2016
Conviction 20162017
The Get Down Bronx
Feed the Beast 2016 The Bronx
Luke Cage 20162018 Harlem
High Maintenance 2016present Brooklyn
Iron Fist 20172018 Manhattan
The Defenders 2017
The Punisher 20172019 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 2018Japanese anime series based on the manga by Akimi Yoshida
Pose 2018present
The Last O.G. Brooklyn
You Only season 1 was set in N.Y.; location changed to Los Angeles in Season 2, Set to return to NYC for its 5th and Final Season
Succession 2023
El Barón 2019
The Boys 2019present
The Morning Show
Sunnyside 2019 Sunnyside, Queens
Almost Family 2019present
Russian Doll Alphabet City, Manhattan
What We Do In the Shadows 20192024 Staten Island

2020s

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High Fidelity 2020Crown Heights, Brooklyn
Katy Keene Alphabet City, Manhattan
Awkwafina is Nora from Queens 2020present Queens
Love Life
Central Park 2022
The Undoing 2020
How To with John Wilson 2020present
Betty
Grand Army 2020
Dash & Lily 2020present
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

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

Miniseries, specials or individual episodes

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