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

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.

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

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, 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, obstensibly 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 (television series) (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"
• iCarly
  • "iShock America"
• Modern Family
  • "A Tale of Three Cities"

See also

• List of television shows filmed in New York City
• List of movies set in New York City
• List of television shows set in Los Angeles
• List of television shows set in Washington, D.C.
• List of television shows set in Chicago
• List of television shows set in San Francisco
• List of television shows set in Miami

References

External links

• Fun City: TV's Urban Situation Comedies of the 1990s