This page provides a partial list of television shows set in New York City .
Shows set primarily in the five boroughs [ edit ] 1940s–1960s [ 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. 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
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
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 [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
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 ] See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] External links [ edit ]