# 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

| 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 | 1957 | Upper Fifth Avenue |
| Meet Millie | 1952 | 1956 | Jackson Heights, Queens |
| Today | 1952 | 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 | 1955 | 1956 | Manhattan |
| Hey, Jeannie! | 1956 | 1957 | Brooklyn |
| The Thin Man | 1957 | 1959 | |
| The Jeannie Carson Show | 1958 | 1958 | |
| Love That Jill | 1958 | 1958 | Manhattan |
| Man with a Camera | 1958 | 1960 | |
| Naked City | 1958 | 1963 | |
| Johnny Staccato | 1959 | 1960 | |
| My Sister Eileen | 1960 | 1961 | |
| The Investigators | 1961 | 1961 | Manhattan |
| Top Cat | 1961 | 1962 | |
| Car 54, Where are You? | 1961 | 1963 | |
| The Joey Bishop Show | 1961 | 1965 | |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | 1961 | 1966 | Workplace scenes in Manhattan; (see below) |
| Dr. Kildare | 1961 | 1966 | |
| The Patty Duke Show | 1963 | 1966 | 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 | 1966 | 1971 | |
| Sesame Street | 1969 | present | |

### 1970s

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

### 1980s

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

### 1990s

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

### 2000s

| Title | Start | End | Comment |
| The $treet | 2000 | | |
| The 10th Kingdom | 2000 | | |
| Seven Little Monsters | 2000 | 2003 | |
| Welcome to New York | 2000 | 2001 | |
| Law & Order: Criminal Intent | 2001 | 2011 | |
| Grounded for Life | 2001 | 2005 | on Staten Island |
| The Job | 2001 | 2002 | |
| Animal Precinct | 2001 | 2008 | |
| 24 | 2001 | 2010 | only season 8 was set in N.Y. |
| Family Affair | 2002 | 2003 | |
| Less Than Perfect | 2002 | 2006 | Manhattan and Brooklyn |
| What I Like About You | 2002 | 2006 | |
| Without a Trace | 2002 | 2009 | |
| America's Next Top Model | 2003 | present | seasons 1–3, 10, 12 and 14 |
| Tarzan | 2003 | 2003 | |
| Spider-Man: The New Animated Series | 2003 | 2003 | |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | 2003 | 2009 | |
| Tru Calling | 2003 | 2005 | |
| The Apprentice | 2004 | 2017 | all seasons (except season 6) |
| The Jury | 2004 | 2004 | |
| CSI: NY | 2004 | 2013 | |
| Rescue Me | 2004 | 2011 | |
| Project Runway | 2004 | present | |
| Law & Order: Trial by Jury | 2005 | 2006 | |
| Blind Justice | 2005 | 2005 | |
| Everybody Hates Chris | 2005 | 2009 | Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn |
| How I Met Your Mother | 2005 | 2014 | Upper West Side |
| Jake in Progress | 2005 | 2006 | |
| American Dragon: Jake Long | 2005 | 2007 | |
| Related | 2005 | 2006 | |
| The Colbert Report | 2005 | 2014 | |
| The Bedford Diaries | 2006 | 2006 | |
| Conviction | 2006 | 2006 | |
| 30 Rock | 2006 | 2013 | |
| Ugly Betty | 2006 | 2010 | Manhattan and Jackson Heights, Queens |
| America's Got Talent | 2006 | present | seasons 8–10 |
| Heroes | 2006 | 2010 | |
| Gossip Girl | 2007 | 2012 | Upper East Side |
| Rules of Engagement | 2007 | 2013 | |
| Fast Money | 2007 | present | NASDAQ, Times Square |
| Dirty Sexy Money | 2007 | 2009 | |
| Flight of the Conchords | 2007 | 2009 | |
| Damages | 2007 | 2012 | |
| Mad Men | 2007 | 2015 | Filmed in Los Angeles |
| Wizards of Waverly Place | 2007 | 2012 | Filmed in Hollywood, California, set in Greenwich Village |
| The Naked Brothers Band | 2007 | 2009 | |
| The Return of Jezebel James | 2008 | 2008 | |
| New Amsterdam | 2008 | 2008 | |
| Canterbury's Law | 2008 | 2008 | |
| Cashmere Mafia | 2008 | 2008 | |
| Life on Mars | 2008 | 2009 | |
| Three Delivery | 2008 | 2009 | |
| The Spectacular Spider-Man | 2008 | 2009 | |
| Lipstick Jungle | 2008 | 2009 | |
| True Jackson, VP | 2008 | 2011 | |
| Fringe | 2008 | 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 | 2009 | |
| Nurse Jackie | 2009 | 2015 | |
| The Electric Company | 2009 | 2011 | |
| White Collar | 2009 | 2014 | Mostly Midtown, and upper West side, Manhattan |
| Glee | 2009 | 2015 | Half of the series 4 storyline is set in New York |
| Bored to Death | 2009 | 2011 | |
| Archer | 2009 | 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 | 2010 | 2011 | |
| Scrappers | 2010 | 2010 | |
| Oddities | 2010 | 2014 | |
| Boardwalk Empire | 2010 | 2014 | |
| Mad Love | 2011 | 2011 | |
| Impractical Jokers | 2011 | present | |
| The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes | 2010 | 2013 | |
| Suits | 2011 | 2019 | Filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| 2 Broke Girls | 2011 | 2017 | Williamsburg, Brooklyn |
| A Gifted Man | 2011 | 2012 | |
| Louie | 2011 | 2015 | Manhattan |
| Jessie | 2011 | 2015 | Manhattan |
| Person of Interest | 2011 | 2016 | |
| Unforgettable | 2011 | 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 | 2012 | 2017 | |
| Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 | 2012 | 2013 | |
| Elementary | 2012 | 2019 | |
| The Mindy Project | 2012 | 2017 | |
| 666 Park Ave. | 2012 | 2013 | |
| Baby Daddy | 2012 | 2017 | |
| Made in Jersey | 2012 | 2012 | |
| The Following | 2013 | 2015 | |
| The Carrie Diaries | 2013 | 2014 | |
| Deception | 2013 | 2013 | |
| Golden Boy | 2013 | 2013 | |
| Inside Amy Schumer | 2013 | 2016 | |
| Orange Is the New Black | 2013 | 2019 | |
| Hostages | 2013 | 2014 | |
| The Michael J. Fox Show | 2013 | 2014 | |
| Brooklyn Nine-Nine | 2013 | 2021 | |
| Sleepy Hollow | 2013 | 2017 | Takes place in Sleepy Hollow, New York, present and Revolutionary war era |
| Ironside | 2013 | 2013 | |
| Alpha House | 2013 | 2014 | Amazon Web Series |
| Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | 2014 | present | |
| Believe | 2014 | 2014 | |
| The Knick | 2014 | 2017 | |
| Mozart in the Jungle | 2014 | 2018 | |
| Taxi Brooklyn | 2014 | 2014 | |
| Power | 2014 | 2020 | |
| Broad City | 2014 | 2019 | Astoria, Queens (Abbi's Apartment), Gowanus, Brooklyn (Ilana's Apartment), Manhattan |
| Girl Meets World | 2014 | 2017 | Greenwich Village, Manhattan |
| Manhattan Love Story | 2014 | 2014 | |
| Forever | 2014 | 2015 | |
| Jackson Heights | 2014 | 2015 | |
| The Mysteries of Laura | 2014 | 2016 | |
| The Affair | 2014 | 2019 | |
| The Jim Gaffigan Show | 2015 | 2016 | Greenwich Village |
| Quantico | 2015 | 2018 | |
| Younger | 2015 | 2019 |
| The Slap | 2015 | 2015 | |
| Empire | 2015 | 2020 | |
| Allegiance | 2015 | 2015 | |
| The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore | 2015 | 2016 | |
| Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt | 2015 | 2019 | |
| Mr. Robot | 2015 | 2019 | |
| Limitless | 2015 | 2016 | |
| Agent Carter | 2015 | 2016 | |
| Game Shakers | 2015 | 2019 | |
| Master of None | 2015 | 2017 | |
| Blindspot | 2015 | present | |
| Daredevil | 2015 | 2018 | Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan |
| Jessica Jones | 2015 | 2019 | Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan |
| 3AM | 2015 | 2015 | |
| Horace and Pete | 2016 | 2016 | Brooklyn |
| Animals | 2016 | 2018 | |
| Kevin Can Wait | 2016 | 2018 | Massapequa, Long Island |
| The Night Of | 2016 | 2016 | |
| Conviction | 2016 | 2017 | |
| The Get Down | 2016 | 2017 | Bronx |
| Feed the Beast | 2016 | 2016 | The Bronx |
| Luke Cage | 2016 | 2018 | Harlem |
| High Maintenance | 2016 | present | Brooklyn |
| Iron Fist | 2017 | 2018 | Manhattan |
| The Defenders | 2017 | 2017 | |
| The Punisher | 2017 | 2019 | Queens |
| Marvel's Spider-Man | 2017 | present | |
| Friends from College | 2017 | 2019 | Manhattan |
| The Deuce | 2017 | 2019 | |
| Crashing | 2017 | 2019 | |
| The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel | 2017 | present | Upper West Side, Manhattan in 1958. |
| The Bold Type | 2017 | 2021 | |
| Banana Fish | 2018 | 2018 | Japanese anime series based on the manga by Akimi Yoshida |
| Pose | 2018 | present | |
| The Last O.G. | 2018 | present | Brooklyn |
| You | 2018 | present | 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 | 2018 | 2023 | |
| El Barón | 2019 | 2019 | |
| The Boys | 2019 | present | |
| The Morning Show | 2019 | present | |
| Sunnyside | 2019 | 2019 | Sunnyside, Queens |
| Almost Family | 2019 | present | |
| Russian Doll | 2019 | present | Alphabet City, Manhattan |
| What We Do In the Shadows | 2019 | 2024 | Staten Island |

### 2020s

| Title | Start | End | Comment |
| High Fidelity | 2020 | 2020 | Crown Heights, Brooklyn |
| Katy Keene | 2020 | 2020 | Alphabet City, Manhattan |
| Awkwafina is Nora from Queens | 2020 | 2020 | 2020 | present | Queens |
| Love Life | | | 2020 | present |
| Central Park | 2022 | | 2020 |
| The Undoing | 2020 | 2020 | |
| How To with John Wilson | 2020 | present | |
| Betty | 2020 | present | |
| Grand Army | 2020 | 2020 | |
| Dash & Lily | 2020 | present | |
| The Equalizer | 2021 | present | |
| I Heart Arlo | 2021 | present | |
| Gossip Girl | 2021 | present | |
| Only Murders in the Building | 2021 | present | |
| How I Met Your Father | 2022 | present | |
| The Gilded Age | 2022 | present | |
| The Boys Presents: Diabolical | 2022 | present | |
| Barbie: It Takes Two | 2022 | present | |
| Uncoupled | 2022 | present | |
| Partner Track | 2022 | present | |
| The Walking Dead: Dead City | 2023 | present | |
| The Horror of Dolores Roach | 2023 | present | |
| The Other Black Girl | 2023 | present | |
| Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man | 2025 | present | |
| 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"
* Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!
** "Worst in Show"
* Heathcliff
** The New York City Sewer System
* DMZ
* Full Circle
* The Continental: From the World of John Wick
* The Crowded Room