This page provides a partial list of television shows set in New York City .
Shows set primarily in the five boroughs [ edit ]
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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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
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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
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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 [ 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, Set to return to NYC for its 5th and Final Season
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
Shows set primarily in other parts of the New York metropolitan area [ edit ]
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[ edit ]